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That may be the written goal, but I doubt that's the actual reason the project exists.

That is correct. There are no modern utility scale turbines that are directly coupled to the grid. This was at least initially to allow for variable rotor speed at a constant grid frequency.

Some use doubly-fed induction generators which take about 1/3 of the power through an inverter at variable frequency back through the rotor to create stable 50 or 60 Hz output (Type 3 machines), while others do full scale conversion (Type 4 machines)[1].

FERC 827[2] details the power factor requirements in the US for non-spinning (mostly renewable) generators, most easily summarized as power factors from 0.95 lagging to 0.95 leading at the high side of the transformer in the project substation.

[1]: https://www.esig.energy/wiki-main-page/wind-turbine-technolo...

[2]: https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/RM16-1-000....

Renewables can absolutely provide and consume reactive power through the use of power electronics equipment incorporated into the inverters. All modern utility-scale wind and solar power plants use this type of equipment, and most interconnection requirements in the US require significant reactive power capability as part of the interconnection process. This may require additional reactive power capabilities such as capacitor banks, DVAR units, or reactors at the project substation.

This means if grid voltage drops they will provide VARs to increase voltage, and vice versa. They can similarly react to shifts in grid frequency. Only after they reach certain power factor, voltage, or frequency limits will they disconnect from the grid, similar to other generators.

If in spain renewable energy projects were somehow exempted from needing to provide a wide range of power factor capability then yes this would be a rules problem.

They charge more for inductive loads because of low power factors and significant VAR consumption yes, though you can also do power factor correction on induction motors. And though most wind turbines use induction generators, they are designed to be able to supply power at unity power factor and through a large power factor range.

Also, islanding means operating as a standalone grid, which does not happen when the generators shut down, and systems are designed to shut down after a certain number of cycles without grid. This does not sound like islanding at all.

This comment in this thread explains it fairly clearly. Do not make the mistake of thinking this is just a semantic difference.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247822

Then you haven't tried looking. Women are being arrested and even convicted for having miscarriages, including in the US.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59214544

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/georgia-arrest-miscarri...

https://churchandstate.org.uk/2015/01/conservative-dream-com...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/health/miscarriage-criminal-c...

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/04/02/law-pregnancy-...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-increasing-risk-of-cri...

I don't know that this is really a good idea, but if you insist then LM studio is a good tool for local LLMs and has nicely formatted output. Smaller 4B models will probably run fine (they do on my M2 Pro at least). I prefer it to ollama, and it makes tuning the system prompt and temperature easy.

Others will probably have better model recommendations, I am using Mistral and Gemma myself.

Well, first this should be marked as (2021).

The rest is just a bunch of BS anecdata that definitely does not tell the story the author wants it to tell. The chart is sorted by battery life rather than date which really muddies the picture. Looking at the dates I don't see "the decline of battery life" but rather "battery life is highly variable but devices are getting more efficient as they get more powerful".

Progress in the last 4 years (through mid-2025) shows this post has aged poorly even if the premise had been supported by the data. Many handhelds gaming devices get over 6 hours continuous play, and several like the Odin 2 have larger batteries and can get 10-12 hours easily. And they can be recharged from typical USB chargers.

I live in one of the majority of states that simply made this part of the state ID process years ago, and I'm struggling with the way decades later this is apparently still such a huge ordeal for some.

The article talks about not wanting to give more of your personal data and yet advocates for getting a passport or passport card... So, do the same basic thing and share the same basic data with the same basic government? What principle is being upheld again?

"Just use your passport", sure if you have one. That's fine. Passports are the gold standard. But not all Americans have them, they need to be renewed, they are anything but free, and they take time and effort to obtain.

And the end of the article, with the author acting like they're clever for using their passport at the airport? TSA agents see them all the time, like every day all day. Of course it's fine.

Agreed, I was more responding to the idea of tying into existing sensors or motorcycle data as noted above. The light I mentioned is part of a bigger lighting system that works through a CAN interface and has all kinds of control of settings through a somewhat convoluted overlay on existing bike inputs, like press this switch, then these, then turn the wonder wheel to adjust brightness.

Ah, so just like with AKG they'll get rid of everyone who knew anything and then slap old (and already lower tier through their own lack of efforts) audio names on hot garbage.

Here are my personal choices and what I use on my Mac:

Paid: BBEdit

Free: Kate, after jumping through Apple's ridiculous "unknown developer" nonsense to approve it to run.

An existing brake light product, the Billy light from Clearwater, integrates with the BMW canbus to pull the bike's acceleration data and use that as a basis for what this light appears to do.

FYI "the few games that work" is most of them these days, including newer games like Baldur's Gate 3 and Elden Ring and older ridiculous towers of cards like my heavily modded Skyrim setup. I think it's mostly things that use invasive anti-cheat software that struggle. I use a mix of Steam and Heroic Games Launcher and haven't run into anything I've been playing recently that doesn't work except my PSVR2 to PC adapter in Steam, which I haven't taken any time to troubleshoot.

That's because it doesn't mean a god damned thing.

On my fairly recent corporate laptop a 30 second login would be massively faster than my corpo-malware-ridden experience. 5 minutes to Windows 10 desktop this morning.

A similar (slightly older) laptop I own boots from fully off to the KDE desktop in 25 seconds total including typing my password.

A more reasonable comparison is probably the hybrid Maverick, which appears to be popular (at least around here), has 4 doors and actual features, and starts at around $25k.

Looks like a concept that will never actually reach the market.

And if it does and I'm completely wrong, this concept is probably doomed anyways, as it is swinging far too far to the other side away from fancy tech and right into uselessly bare. I'm sure a few people are excited by this, but realistically it will have a tiny real market. Nearly no one wants manual windows and leaving them out isn't saving huge amount of money.

Make it comparable to a decent conventional vehicle, but electric, and you may do well. This though is more useless and non-functional than my old Jeep, which has a trip computer and bluetooth as the biggest "tech features".

Garbage. Has a lot of discussion that goes nowhere, then says "you have to subscribe to keep reading."

I see no reason to keep reading. I regret having started.

No one ever broke the laws of thermodynamics. What is this garbage writing?

It's always great when your shitty streamer or TV's dedicated button for a service goes to a dead product. What a great idea, and a great combination with Google, well known for killing products.

They're also functionally identical to my PS4 disc of Cyberpunk 2077 which is nothing more than a license; the PS5 version of the game and all updates were downloaded, nothing is loaded from the disc, but the game only works with the disc.

Considering how strongly Miyazaki cares for human art and human effort, and his past thoughts on early efforts in this space, he would likely consider this an abomination.

What experts?

Sports betting has ruined sports for me completely.

"The second and biggest bucket, 460 people, is for “performance” reasons, with Dorsey explaining that Block is laying off employees who score a “below” rating on the company’s internal performance tracking metrics, or were trending towards it."

Anyone who has ever worked at a big company knows this is bullshit. I think people would prefer to not be lied to like this.

This discussion and post from yesterday has some good perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413

1. Should be noted as [2022] or [2023] at best

2. This is about "VPNs" which are not true Virtual Private Networks but more anonymizing or semi anonymizing gateway services.

I use a WireGuard VPN to connect to services at home from my phone that I don't want on the public internet, and that is an actual VPN in the classic sense. And in this use case I don't want all traffic to go through it because that would be annoying. VPN infrastructure was designed with this case in mind and this paid service approach (do you really trust it?) is just piggybacking on the technology.

I'd need more info why I'd use this over wg-easy. The front is (as noted in the README) is the wg-easy front end. The one thing I see is it doesn't appear to require containers (but supports them).

This needs a real license too, the "free for personal use" statement in the README is not really an actionable license, and I wouldn't be comfortable building anything important on it.

PCalc is indeed excellent.

As for RPN, it's one of those things I didn't get until I was in my 30s and started using it. Then used it more. And now I'm at the point where using a "normal" calculator is a frustrating experience. I got very used to the stack and having intermediate results. I find it highly frustrating that the windows calculator still doesn't have it as an option, and that when asked about it the developers seemed confused why anyone would want it.

Free42 has filled the gap though.

No, you're thinking of Company Towns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town