yodelshady

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by yodelshady 2mo ago
Yup, love the adrenaline rush, the simple "get up with this heavy shit on you" on it. After running for a decade without any spectacular performance to speak of and constant weight issues, one year of powerlifting 2x a week - not
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by yodelshady 3mo ago
Batteries cost > $100 / kWh, the industry still considers that a target to brag about: https://about.bnef.com/insights/clean-transport/lithium-ion-... This is WHOLESALE BOM price, which is about as usefu
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by yodelshady 6mo ago
Levelised Cost of Energy is the highest, in the entire developed world , in the UK, which has enough wind and solar installed to entirely meet needs today. It is NOT cheap, it is cheap for sellers , because they account on the basis of a
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by yodelshady 11mo ago
They're absolutely dual use, which is why the greens have always been against them. But that's like trying to prevent cow rearing by outlawing mince. You don't rear a cow for mince, you rear it for steak . The customer will
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by yodelshady 11mo ago
Regulations are paper. Who enforces the behaviour , of whether to take off or not, on a windy night in central Italy? Of course the pilots are the backstop, and the unions are theirs , so they can make necessary calls the money doesn&#x27
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by yodelshady 1y ago
They are doing seasonal storage - i.e. on a timescale of a year! So no, they are not doing 5000 f*king cycles! This is systematic fraud by the renewables industry and should be called out.
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by yodelshady 1y ago
More efficient, but much more expensive. I'm sick of people handwaving $100 per kWh . That is two orders of magnitude off where it needs to be to do anything more than virtue signal. Meanwhile multiple grids are now paying renewable t
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by yodelshady 1y ago
I've received the same PIN from an entirely different gym chain, albeit one using the same door system. As you say, a massive red flag indicating it's not using a lot of sources of entropy.
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by yodelshady 1y ago
I'll name and shame - Fruit of the Loom. They may never have been amazing, but that's the point - they were a representative, middle-of-road brand and you could just assume their clothes would last. I've got a >10 year o
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by yodelshady 1y ago
Aspiration for 20 GW of power by 2040, or in 15 years time. In the period 1980-1990, I repeat in a 50% shorter period commencing forty years ago , France installed 34 GW of nuclear. All I want is for someone advocating renewables over nucl
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by yodelshady 2y ago
If there's a single watt demanded by the grid and NOT supplied by gas, or coal or nuclear, because there sure as shit aren't batteries within three orders of magnitude of competitive at TWh scale, the entire grid fucking stalls
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by yodelshady 2y ago
It certainly leads to less sex. Seems a lot of vaguely-defined experts (economists/demographers/??) are very concerned we're not having enough, so more impulse-regulating drugs seem relevant. Then again, maybe everyone being
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by yodelshady 2y ago
> What do you mean by "metals don't actually withstand temperature"? As in the raw metal would melt were it not for the cooling vanes? They creep. Have you seen, for instance, Blu-tac or glue fail? It doesn't go at on
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by yodelshady 2y ago
And that's why Georgism exists! You can't offshore a plot of land. If you've really managed to generate trillions in profit without using any, including indirectly (mining, showrooms, etc), fair enough. If your economic model
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by yodelshady 2y ago
No it doesn't and it isn't. If you're working for a grid operator tell me how many TWh you need to sustain a 1-in-20 - A 1-in-goddamn-20 - dunkelflaute in a single large European nation, multiplied by cost of storage. Not the
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Yes, I have some numbers. Wholesale electricity costs since 2020 have repeatedly exceeded 700 - SEVEN HUNDRED - Euros per MWh (1). Because it was dark and still, a condition every single European in the last ten thousand years has known to
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by yodelshady 2y ago
The most valuable company in Europe is Louis Vitton. Forgive me, I don't think Putin's quaking in his boots about when they'll weigh in. GDP was a good war metric for an industrial economy, and fucking terrible for a services
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Those transmission components are expected to cost the taxpayer at least £54 bn ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62085297 ). Transmission, of course, doesn't solve storage, which, to quote the article, "ca
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Not the OP but I was on that side - They do work . My best analogy is it's like working at TSA except there are three terrorist attacks per week. As far as privacy goes, by the same analogy, I can guarantee the operators don't ca
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Nobody cares. bryanlarsen has it correct, you need to satisfy demand . Germany is exporting because it produces useless renewable power. It is useless because it does not satisfy the demand. The demand is on dark, cold days, it is for pr
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by yodelshady 2y ago
People use facebook of their own free will. Assuming they're at least a good a judge of what makes them happy as you are, how is this resource not being used for whatever "humanitarian" purposes are? Or are we only allowed
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Interesting, "the Office of Rail and Road ... issued Network Rail with an improvement notice" For the benefit of readers not versed with UK regulation, an improvement notice is a formal instrument under the powers of the Health an
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Right, I think the industry is too self-critical at times. I onboarded a new client recently, and within five minutes of guessing a Wi-Fi password I had sensitive financial data using stock tools. Anyone with physical access to the offi
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by yodelshady 2y ago
That's a lovely saying, although the main issue currently seems to be that, in the West, we are currently not good at making more humans. See various demographic crises.
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by yodelshady 2y ago
There's always the chance of some idiot who thinks they're going to take down society with nmap and metasploit. The hotel's safe, but I'd be worried about some other legitimate customers getting mixed up in it. Though I
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Yes. Because whilst the same pressures exist, there's a short number of engineers licensed to actually sign off on a project, and they're not going to jeopardise that license for you.
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Worth a chuckle from me too. I could and do type that all day, muscle memory. Verbalize it? Not a chance. There's a % in there somewhere. There does seem to be a subset of questions that are really just "have you repeatedly used
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by yodelshady 2y ago
OTOH... I remember an O365 outage in London a few years ago. You're down? Great, so are your competitors, your customers, and your suppliers. Head to the pub. Actually, you'll probably get more real value there, as your competitor
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Jeez. Should they not expect each interview stage to at least whittle down 1 applicant for every 2 that reach that stage? That's 4096 people who got to interview . Or I guess they decided on a "mixture of experts" and put ev
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by yodelshady 2y ago
Oh no, that bit's easy. But you don't ask them "swap the left and right field in each node". You ask them to "invert a binary tree". Why. The Fuck . Does "invert a binary tree" mean "swapping th

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