plantain

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by plantain 6d ago
Sit on public transport and listen to everyone playing music / watching tiktok without headphones. Shame is dead.
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by plantain 7d ago
Start a SaaS and you'll discover there are a lot of them leading this life.
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by plantain 19d ago
Looking at you Reddit.
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by plantain 1mo ago
>I agree 100%, this is one of the most inequitable government policies Don't forget about the EV subsidies! No fringe benefits tax, no road user charges, discounted registration. Set aside the broader incentives (noble though they
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by plantain 1mo ago
Are you really holding up Snowy 2 as a success story? We're past 20bn on Snowy 2 now. Run those numbers against grid scale BESS, on both capacity and peak generation and get back to me - 10 years ago it looked good, now it's not f
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by plantain 1mo ago
1. The subsidy was fixed per kWh at a level that has always been vastly above utility scale BESS. 2. Power usage is flatlining. There is no reason to need transmission upgrades for BESS. Successful projects are colocated at retiring generat
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by plantain 1mo ago
The program is of course much more complex than can be fit in a HN comment, and it has evolved over time. The simplest answer is the government contributes $252/kWh. Approx. 4x the cost if the government funded a utility scale BESS - n
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by plantain 1mo ago
I've tried to be as charitable on both sides. As you note the real subsidy is higher, but the owner contributions are still high, and the projected cost of the program is now closer to 7.5Bn. It's pure middle-class welfare.
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by plantain 1mo ago
We already have the "power pipes", from the power plants. > Professionals are manufacturing and installing these at scale. A couple of electricians doing 20kWh (average install size) once per day, with an individual inverter,
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by plantain 1mo ago
The program has so far spent $2.5bn, and installed 11GWh. That's just the cost of the subsidy (~30% discount), not the cost of what home owners tipped in. Utility scale batteries are now at ~$66m/GWh, or about ~$726m equivalent. I
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by plantain 1mo ago
How come most package managers suck then? Why did I waste hours of my life debugging portage and yum?
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by plantain 1mo ago
They split it up into multiple smaller cells to do that. Or don't ship by airmail.
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by plantain 1mo ago
Shipping regulations. >20Wh can't go by airpost in the west.
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by plantain 1mo ago
"Because the common denominator between both of these distinct incidents was Firebase, we are taking the additional step of immediately removing it from our tech stack altogether to definitively eliminate the risk of similar vulnerabil
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by plantain 1mo ago
It absolutely does. Money (or what it represents) is finite.
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by plantain 1mo ago
These people are already connected to a grid. We already have the infrastructure.
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by plantain 1mo ago
This is absolutely insane. This is the most inefficient way imaginable to deploy solar power. We could deploy 100x the capacity $/Wh with utility-scale farms. Unfortunately we are just completely failing on basic coordination problems
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by plantain 1mo ago
https://highsight.dev/ should work for that!
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by plantain 1mo ago
Historical weather data is discrete. You need continuous state for weather modelling which is currently achieved through conventional reforecasts using those historical observations.
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by plantain 2mo ago
Substack is unreadable for anyone in Australia, as it forces you unnecessarily through age verification.
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by plantain 2mo ago
It drives me insane when in Europe the link between Google Search and Google Maps is broken and I often have to copy paste an address between the two. Thanks EU, what if I like Google's integrations?
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by plantain 2mo ago
K shaped economy.
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by plantain 2mo ago
Really a check-mate move from Apple. Onerous limitations that apply to everyone except the mega-corps.
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by plantain 2mo ago
Just one wrinkle.
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by plantain 2mo ago
Subsidies make anything possible. Your grandkids will be paying for that fibre. Starlink is revolutionary for long last-mile links that will never be economic.
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by plantain 3mo ago
Australia has the same system. We don't have 25gbit, we have very expensive 1gbit asymmetric, and extremely expensive 1gbit symmetric. What gives?
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by plantain 3mo ago
If only this was applied evenly. Why is every Samsung/LG/literally every non-Pixel device full of uninstallable crapware?
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by plantain 3mo ago
No more foxhole radios for the PoW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxhole_radio
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by plantain 3mo ago
It's an extremely un-European approach. European companies normally ignore their paid customers too from May to August.
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by plantain 3mo ago
Why do I need to age verify to read this?

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