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I’m actually happy that any chat message in teams is pretty much gone forever as soon as is it off the screen. It keeps people from using it for anything other than one off questions.

I wonder what is unlocked by creating their chip that couldn’t also be achieved using intel and nvidia products? Surely the same product can be delivered but the main difference is energy use?

What % of google’s costs is energy? Is the whole exercise of making their own chips just to save some energy cost or is there a bigger goal with it?

Can you explain what the existential threat in an entire state or a small town is that requires people to live in the most expensive and desireable cities?

There are probably 100 cities in the fly over states just like KC.

I live in a small town because I could not afford the big city near by.

Life is full of compromises, not living in the most expensive city in the country shouldn’t be considered a hardship.

I randomly chose Kansas City Kansas and there are houses there for less than 200k that looked ok.

Living in San Francisco is not necessary. Live somewhere cheaper and stop complaining that desireable places to live are more expensive.

But only 1 angle of attack sensor on some models …

Where in the USA is that? What utility and rate plan are you on? That’s a pretty amazing rate to have year round

It takes periodic maintenance to repair the blade and restore efficiency.

Or 24vdc, or 120v dc

I self host redmine. I offered plan.io $300/yr on my corporate card but they insisted on $600. Too bad for them.

I thought we were taking about battery capacity preventing a blackout during a major grid outage and not installed renewable capacity meeting the demand.

Or a lot of difference in elevation. With 900m head you can get 8 MW from only 1.5 m^3/s in a pipe less than 2 feet in diameter.

How long can south Australia power their load from batteries? I thought they had the one 100MWH battery so basically could power 100k house for an hour? And that battery was over 100 million dollars.

Different languages have different libraries with different functions that take different arguments and have different data structures. The tools you used with the old language might be different or required modification to work with the new language.

Maybe libraries they had written to solve problems in their domain have to be recreated.

It seems like switching from Delphi to Java or Go and changing the entire ecosystem would take a bit of time to get back to making the same productivity as with the toolset one has been using for a decade?

Generally outages, deratings, and unavailable equipment have to be reported to the system operator. Not doing so and then claiming for lost revenue from broken equipment due to curtailment would be fraud.

Nit: the steam is not released to atmosphere, it is sent directly to the condensers. Treated water to use in boilers and turbines without leaving deposits and damaging them is precious, so it is a closed cycle and not vented to atmosphere whenever possible

Yeah I love function block programming for control systems.

I have also found old papers to be the best for learning a new concept - they make it as simple as it can be. A colleague of mine wrote a paper that proves that negative numbers exist and would often cite archimedes, Galileo, newton, etc in his bibliographies. I think he loved crediting the first person to come up with whatever idea or concept he was using.

That comes from old Unix workstations with CDE et al

Nuclear plants can respond to changes in reactive power demand in ~100ms. It is a function of the voltage regulator and not the prime mover. Perhaps you didn’t mean reactive?

Carleton university in Ottawa has a network of tunnels linking different buildings on campus as well. You can go from res to classes without going outside when it is -20.

I use Redmine

Glad it will work there. There has been local opposition to new transmission lines in the USA (see Maine recently) so when folks say “just build powerlines” all I can think of is the difficulty of the land assembly and permitting. Technically it is easy, it is all the humans in the way that make it hard.

Do you have week long blackouts currently? In any given year you can count on a week where a panel only produces 10%. It just has to be cloudy or rainy. However much solar we add, even with storage to get through a night, needs some other source to get through the cloudy week, unless we are ok with blackouts.

would you program the software to allow your friend to obtain drugs from the hospital without deducting it from inventory so nobody would notice?

They need to be marketed to the public and lawmakers to get passed and like a cve with a catchy name and brand they get more attention with a good name. Eg 1200 page bill which includes the governments entire platform summed up as inflation reduction act

A breaker can use sf6 gas but usually that is at 60 kV and above. For 35 kV and below vacuum bottle breakers are much cheaper than sf6.

individual wind turbines are not generating at more than 13.8kV so I would be surprised if they had any sf6 in them.

I went down the same rabbit hole after my epson WF-7620 ran out of ink in 9 months and only printed 100 pages at most.

Gotta have 11x17 printing and scanning for control panel drawing packages

I hope the fields never flood and the solar farm is under water

Here’s a link.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nortel-collapse-linked-to-c...