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by thatsit 1mo ago
https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/direct-... Solar dc data centers are marginally cheaper. However right now the incentives are on buliding data centers (including power sources) the fastes
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by thatsit 2mo ago
Well, i can only be cheaper to shift demand to high production hours then building a battery. Especially as you don’t only need an inverter for the battery but also the charger or MPPT to suck up the peak solar power which is only lasts for
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by thatsit 2mo ago
Australia is in fact primed to go all-in on all-electric. They have an hyperabundance of solar and wind (+land where it can be installed) and have the purchasing power to buy cheap panels and electric cars from China. Even the mining indust
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by thatsit 2mo ago
This is one of the killer use cases of AI, build personalized stuff for your life, that no company does. It is kind of generalized „intelligent stuff“ that one can use. Like minecraft your life
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by thatsit 3mo ago
Seems like a more general solution to a Tesla API Firewall that i was thinking about. My idea was to use some kind of gateway/firewall LLM to check commands that another agent would send to the Tesla API.
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by thatsit 7mo ago
Altman is the startup idea king. He should definitely know his moves. Even worse for antrophic is the renaming from clawd to openclaw. It is almost comical now that Peter had to rename it and now it sounds more like OpenAI
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by thatsit 7mo ago
What is especially annoying is the aistor/minio business model, either get the „free“ version or pay about 100k… How about accepting some small dollars and keeping the core concept? However this seems to be the business type of enshit
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by thatsit 8mo ago
Sales fell 4% in North America last year. EV share is more like 20% globally and seeing a YoY increase every year for at least 10 years now.
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by thatsit 8mo ago
We are slowly getting there, the used EV market takes time to build up a stockpile of good and fast charging cars. Also for total cost of driving you need to factor in cheaper charging than fueling on average, lower maintenance and maybe re
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by thatsit 8mo ago
Toll gates in general are a waste of time. I use bip&go + telepass lanes in Italy to get through them faster.
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by thatsit 8mo ago
And you can buy them and use them right now, as i can go and shop some solar panels, inverters, batteries, some cables put them about anywhere and just have free electricity after the initial expense?
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by thatsit 8mo ago
Solar panels etc. will last decades and can and will be recycled afterwards. Further, most materials needed for renewable energy infrastructure (iron, lithium) are highly abundant on earth. Most of the suppliers work to use cheaper (=more a
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by thatsit 8mo ago
Being used to European style ski maps, I don’t really understand why you would paint a ski map. A ski map is a map and should convey all the information you need without being overwhelming. I don’t get it why it would show different trees o
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by thatsit 9mo ago
Good work, but the headlines are still in „newspaper“ style and not in hacker news style
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by thatsit 1y ago
Imho it’s a good thing to not block other countries approach to clean power from a german perspective. However, there is just no way new nuclear power makes any sense for German grid. Just last week we had negative prices for _every_ day du
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by thatsit 1y ago
I‘m currently visiting Paris for the second time in my life after 2008. I can tell you it’s much cleaner now than it has been back then. There are many electric (cargo) bikes, scooters, cars and buses. The city is much quieter and there is
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by thatsit 1y ago
Right, there is no measurements involved and most decisions are gut-based. In the end most systems will work somehow, it’s just that the pain points in development are different.
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by thatsit 1y ago
Oh well, it’s not just about microservices… The whole damm IT/software world is just like that. Very few well-defined things, very few good standards, very few agreed upon architectures. From an electrical engineering background, it is
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by thatsit 2y ago
The biggest danger is trying to recharge them after they have been stored for a long time. The anode and cathode might short-circuit and then a fire will likely start. If you want to check out an old gadget or battery make sure to watch it
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by thatsit 2y ago
Well, i have to say that is one area where Germany actually shines. We shut off the stupid, power-hungry and slow 3G, but kept 2G as a basic service. That was a very good decision. All data comms can switch to 4G/5G, while voice comm c
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by thatsit 2y ago
Ever heard of „battery storage“?
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by thatsit 2y ago
helicopter pads… are you serious? so the whole freaking country is a helicopter pad? Maybe a warm welcome for the CCP? It’s not that hard putting some solar panels on buildings. Helicopter pads as a general excuse is the dumbest i have ever
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by thatsit 2y ago
„If you just locked yourself out of sshd because you didn't install ssh keys first, STOP HERE. You are not ready for this.“ that one had me chuckling
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by thatsit 2y ago
I‘m not sure if they factored in the massive GPS jamming and spoofing going on in a war zone?
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by thatsit 2y ago
> It is actually not like self driving at all. In the self driving case the nominal situation requires hard AI. I agree with that. One could easily automate aviation like subways. However, you need to push the humans out, at least the co
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by thatsit 3y ago
So, as the nordic countries have experienced a cold winter this year, we are destined for a hot summer in europe?
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by thatsit 3y ago
Few years ago I tried to beat the C/C++ compiler on speed with manual SIMD instructions vs pure C/C++ Didn’t work out… I can only imagine that this is already backed into Numpy now.