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So Germany, a country that is well behind other European countries on renewables, had an over-dependence on Russian gas and was forced to reopen some coal plants when the price spiked. And you came to the conclusion that this was somehow a fault with renewables?

How does that make sense to you?

That's fair enough, but it's very weird to start criticizing people when they actually start to acknowledge the problem. Surely that's the time to start applauding them?

The Soviet Union hasn't existed for nearly 32 years. That's practically a third of a century. It's not a good example country for today.

This isn't a regular warranty. As the website states: "Our 1-year limited warranty allows you to take your computer apart, replace parts, install an upgrade, and use any operating system and even your firmware, all without voiding the warranty."

These actions would normally void the warranty on most laptops.

Nobody. Cares.

Why do you care? You really need to get over the "Linus said something bad about my mother 20 years ago" or whatever your issue is. It's just weird at this point.

Well, I kind of understand your point though it's from a reverse angle. My previous two jobs gave me maxed out macbooks as work machines, but I really hated them.

They were kind of half-close to the Linux servers I work with, but I needed to use homebrew to make them useable. Why can't Apple get a decent cli environment going?

The GUI stuff just pissed me off. I want to arrange some windows the way I want. I don't actually like tiling window managers, but after using macos I thought it was possibly the only way to make it properly useful.

Keyboards: well, everyone knows about how they fucked that up. The new ones are much better. I like the Mx hardware and when Asahi is fully up to speed, my next personal laptop might well be one of those.

The entirety of the poem is literally about the influx of multiple large ethnic groups into England! Read it! https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/true-born-englishman

Another quote:

Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English.

The great invading Norman let us know

What conquerors in after-times might do.

To ev'ry musketeer he brought to town,

He gave the lands which never were his own.

When first the English crown he did obtain,

He did not send his Dutchmen home again.

I, personally, think that the FOSS movement should cede the ground to Apple on the "I'm having a shit and shouting at a device" market.

I genuinely think they're better suited to it.

There was a previous comment about the "native population" that is now marked dead that I wanted to respond to. The commentator really needs to read Defoe's "True Born Englishman". I offer a quote that is a little longer than the usual given:

The silent nations undistinguished fall,

And Englishman's the common name for all.

Fate jumbled them together, God knows how;

Whate'er they were, they're true-born English now.

The wonder which remains is at our pride,

To value that which all wise men deride.

For Englishmen to boast of generation,

Cancels their knowledge, and lampoons the nation.

A true-born Englishman's a contradiction,

In speech an irony, in fact a fiction.

Rishi Sunak - the current Prime Minister - held a US green card until October last year (when he gave it up).

Boris Johnson was born in New York.

I think you're wrong. I suspect most people on HN have an above average interest in physics and would therefore have a reasonable understanding of the Kelvin temperature scale.

Email I got yesterday:

DevOps Engineer

City of London, London, £600 - £700/day

EDIT: Sorry, you did say Software Developer. How about this? https://www.cv-library.co.uk/job/217407072/Senior-Front-End-...

£650 - £750/day Remote

I used to be called sysadmin, then I was DevOps, and now I'm SRE. They're all the same thing. Search for Senior SRE on Google, and you'll quickly find jobs that pay more than $220k.

Far less than the people who actually researched the matter, obviously.

Right...that's what people will use their humanoid robot for - building log cabins. Wouldn't have anything whatsoever to do with "adult mode". Nope, no way!

Except it hasn't and nothing has changed. What's more, this is trivially easy to check.

The 2022 wikipedia entry for Recession says that two consecutive quarters of negative growth is the common definition, says this is not universally accepted, and gives the NBER definition also.

The original 2007 wikipedia entry for Recession says that two consecutive quarters of negative growth is the common definition, says this is not universally accepted, and gives the NBER definition also, which is identical to the 2022 NBER definition.

The prime meridian has actually shifted hundreds of feet from the original line already. It's not really where they show you at the observatory any more.

Long range power cables only cost billions if they're >1000km long.

But this is besides the point. Energy companies spent money on long range power cables because they calculate they can make a profit on the transmitted energy. Nuclear power stations spend taxpayer billions because they can't possibly compete commercially. That's the key difference.

> almost all the batteries are produced for and used in electric cars

I'm not convinced. I tried a back-of-the-envelope calculation, but there were a few too many variables, but I think the 1.5 billion smartphones sold each year edge out EVs (my main difficulty was comparing smartphone battery EV battery)

But heads do have useful meat. You might have heard of smoked tongue? Or sheep's head soup?

Most of the mass of the universe (around 95%) doesn't seem to be normal matter. It seems to be some stuff that doesn't interact with normal matter much other than through gravity, and this stuff is called Dark Matter.

Now with regular old matter, we don't just have a ton of one type of particle; we have a whole bunch of them all interacting in different ways. This is called the Standard Model.

So why should it be different for Dark Matter? What if there are just as many "dark" particles as there are "normal" ones? Then there might be a thing that's like a photon for regular matter, so lets call it a "dark photon". What would its properties be? Is there any way we could detect it? That's what they're after in the article.

Personally, I think it's the answer to the Fermi Paradox: as soon as an alien civilization gets advanced enough, it converts itself into Dark Matter where there's much more interesting stuff going on. Cities the size of galaxies that we don't even notice!

The EU bureaucracy has around 33,000 civil servants, so it's not particularly massive. Compare with the UK government, which has around 475,000 civil servants. In fact, there are English local councils that have bigger bureaucracies.

And, of course, the EU has a bigger population than the USA. Why don't you check out how many Federal government bureaucrats there are, just for fun?

This idea that the EU is a massive bureaucratic entity is seriously, factually wrong.

What war has NASA ever been directly involved in?

> I may not "need" a 60 kW Kohler diesel generator, but I have it.

Those run about $20k don't they? If you'd come on here complaining that generator technology wasn't ready yet because you'd been quoted $20k for your 60kW Kohler, you'd probably get the same response: you don't really need it.

GP clearly doesn't want that 22kW charging station that much, because they've been told how much it costs (same as your generator) and they're unwilling to pay that.

And they don't need it.

> I have to do it, but citation is needed

Volvo have been selling electric trucks for over 2 years now: https://www.volvotrucks.co.uk/en-gb/trucks/alternative-fuels...

> More more people have died from dam collapses in the last fifty years than nuclear accidents.

And vastly more lives have been saved by dams preventing flooding (something nuclear isn't particularly good at) and providing a stable water supply (again, nuclear doesn't do so well here).

People seem to forget that dams aren't just built for electricity generation.

That makes sense. Could well be. Has significantly more gas been added than renewables over that past decade or so?

No evidence for what? I'm genuinely baffled here. They're the nuclear power company; surely they would know the reasons they need a subsidy?!

I suppose you could complain to the grid operators that they're being unfair in buying the cheapest electricity rather than the more expensive stuff, but I'm not sure it will sway them much :)

Is electricity in the US socialized? I thought they were all private companies, but you seem to be talking as though this is a political choice, rather than an economic one. I freely admit I don't know much about how the US operates its grids.