Yeah, new hardware can be wildly more energy efficient than older systems.
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Being unmasked for 50% (?) of the time (while eating, say) you are in an enclosed space is obviously less risky than being unmasked 100% of the time.
Uhm, or you use split horizon DNS? Who in their right mind would leak all their internal DNS names into a public DNS zone?
Just try to find a diff in a JIRA "issue". It's crazy how many clicks that takes.
Wind and solar make total sense. All we need to do is overbuild wind/solar generation + invest in energy storage capacity. This can be done relatively quickly, certainly much more quickly than building new nuclear plants.
Correct. Nuclear reactors can't be turned on/off quickly. They are suitable to handle the base load, in other words, but can't be used as peakers.
> Wind and solar don't even make sense for Germany given their climate/geography.
Uhm, respectfully, that is a load of nonsense. Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Germany
> Germany should ditch the green and use its amazing engineering to build better nuclear reactors, IMO.
Well, if they start that plan today, it may be done in 30 years. Which is way, way, way too late.
Imo, the more sensible path here is to keep the existing nuclear plants running, decommission the that awful lignite power generation asap, while building out energy storage capacity (grid scale batteries - there are many kinds of approaches, e.g. electrical batteries, reservoir storage and some seriously weird ones involving lots of blocks of concrete). That could be done in the space of a decade.
Any new nuclear plants would not even be out of the design stage in 10 years.
* completely open source
* have gone through security audits with public reports, and a favorable outcome
* have reproducable and verifiable builds, and those are the only ones distributed, and the end user can easily verify that their binary copy is an official build?
Right?
Because if not, aren't you just adding another attack vector onto all your employee/contractor laptops when you use 'Drata' to check a policy box on your SOC2 application?
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And closed source, of course. Must be totally free of bugs too, like all software.
> On the Python side I think the movement has started to fix the packaging mess. It's going to take a while me thinks.
I hope you are right, but ... this is the pattern: every year or two someone decides to fix it, goes about 80% of the way to a complete solution (which is maybe 50% of the effort, of course), that becomes 'the thing to use'. But then it is abandoned because that last 20% of functionality is a lot of work, and someone else comes up with a new shiny thing, and the cycle starts again.
Not holding my breath, in other words.
- Python package management (a raging dumpster fire)
Matt Bruenig is not far left, cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Policy_Project, he's a democratic-socialist, maybe at most a socialist.
Far left is quite something else! Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-left_politics.
Just tell Go to use the appropriate cross compilation chain for the C bits, e.g. `apt install gcc-aarch64-linux-gnu` and set the `CC=aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc` environment variable to compile for arm64. Compilation becomes a bit slower, but it's still manageable.
It's that easy thanks to the foundations laid by the distribution that ships a solid cross-compiler setup (in this example, thank you Debian!) and of course the brilliance of the Go design and toolchain.
Moreover, they provided a nice test to see, on a particular installation, if any plugins are affected. Judging by the provided link to their issue tracker (https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-67361?jql=labels%20...), there only seem to be a handful of plugins affected, and none appear to be super widely used.
They are responding really well to this, by the way. That blog post is clear and useful information is being added. Kudos to the Jenkins team!
I'm sure it has nothing to do with a complete lack of competition (cf. how in communities where Google Fiber showed up, the incumbents were suddenly quite capable of getting gigabit fiber to households, and for a price that was competitive with Google Fiber, and a fraction of the price they were charging for inferior service before Google Fiber's arrival).
I'm sure it also has nothing to do with the billions upon billions of subsidies AT&T and Verizon have received to build out broadband and make it available everywhere, which they pocketed and then didn't deliver on. Cf. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
If you really want to blame it on government, do it the right way: the government has not been keeping AT&T and the other giant telcos accountable for effectively stealing all those subsidies, and it has not enforced competition at the local level. Regulatory capture, and all that.
Huh, yeah, sounds like you need a better pediatrician. That's not cool.
Several states in the Northeast also have mandatory testing for lead levels for young children.
If that is correct, then Moderna's booster would still be more vaccine (50 micrograms) than Pfizer's original dose.
Of course more is not necessarily better!
Do you mean 10% of the generation on a typical summer day? Or 10% of the generation of an entire summer?
The problem with this kind of calculation is that battery technology (and cost) is very much a moving target.
LFP would probably be the better choice today. It's cheaper, safer, and can handle far more load cycles. That comes at a cost of a lower energy density, but that hardly matters for utility scale batteries. Tesla's megapacks use LFP already - https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/11/tesla-transitions-to-lf....
Like you say, there are many other energy storage options like pumped hydro, compressed air, etc. My personal favorite is the train full of concrete that goes up and down a hill (https://interestingengineering.com/concrete-gravity-trains-m...).
The median personal income in 2019 was $35,805 (cf. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N). I think you'd be hard pressed to live on that with a family of 3+ people.
And what about the 50% of people who have a personal income less than the median?
edit: that stat was for 2019, not 2020, my bad
I think it's just a case executive incompetence/severe tunnel vision: Toyota has been in hydrogen lala-land for a good long while now. Now they have some serious catching up to do.