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The issue is that if my electricity I am using now is 99% renewable and 1% gas then I am paying as if 100% is gas. That is why prices are so high.

The video goes into much better detail but the keyword if you want to search yourself is "marginal cost pricing.

You can still have dispatchable gas without this pricing structure.

Electricity pricing in the UK is dictated largely by the price of Gas. This is a good video that goes into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEnFmrgEbWo

It would be an embarrassment if the reason it outlived its usefulness is because it got it got circumvented by hostile actors.

> is there any advantage (military or otherwise) for China to persist with obfuscation?

I don't think so but it would be an embarrassment for the government to admit it no longer serves a use and such an action would be anathema to them.

The channel "Reporting From Ukraine" posts frequent videos providing updates in the Russia-Ukraine war. Supporters of Russia have long been trying to shut it down by weaponising the Report button and it seems they have finally succeeded with the channel now scheduled for deletion along with all the channels that features translated videos.

They seem to be unable to get in contact with a human at Google with authority to investigate and evaluate things outside of the mighty algorithm so we are going to lose a valuable resource.

Accordong to https://transsyst.ru/transsyst/article/view/10739

> The Japanese Shinkansen N 700 records the maximum value for Wheel-Rail systems at speeds up to 300 km/h. At a constant speed of 300 km/h, it has a specific energy consumption of 28 Wh/Pl/km (Watt hours per seat and per kilometre)

A train can carry 1,300 passengers depending on the number of cars.

Touch screens are cheap and allow for post-release UI modifications.

Amazon PIPs happen in Japan but I don't know how the process may differ from an American PIP.

That fact your reply to a comment about having a structured way to fire someone could be called a "performance improvement plan or PIP for short" is hilarious to me.

It seems you have accepted that PIPs are just a tool to fire someone but still think calling it a PIP is perfectly logical and desirable to the point that you snarkily suggest that this is what it should be called.

> E.g. during the work on the Eurotunnel. Here the British tunnel boring machine was diverted into the rock near half the length of the tunnel and left there. It was cheaper than somehow taking it out again.

Dara O`Briain has a hilarious stand-up about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFglJ3DyqK0

Has it happened in DCS in the past? I know of the instance where an Eagle Dynamics employee got nabbed due to possessing documents but I don't know of an instance where a community member has posted docs publicly.

Protocol 3: Protect The Pilot.

The power of large corporations and their marketing departments.

BlackRock and co trying to buy every house they can get their hands on are not helping.

> That's the first time I hear this argument.

SUVs and the like exploit a loophole in various standards like fuel efficiency requirements because they are not "cars" but "Light trucks" and therefore those standards don't apply to them; which makes them cheaper to design and build for automotive companies.

The "Light trucks" category was supposed to be used for light commercial vehicles, not personal vehicles but then the law of unintended consequences had a love-child with profit seeking corporations and their linguistic games.

Literally the only reason SUVs and trucks became popular is because the automotive manufacturers could make more money doing it that way and convinced the consumers to buy them. NotJustBikes did a good intro video on the subject.

* https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-lo...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

User confusion.basically

The officer has no probable cause to do what you suggest without the illegally obtained information in the first place.

I wonder if he considers Nitter "data pillaging"

I remember that article that got flagged recently predicted that we should expect broken windows in peoples' homes. I wonder if anyone will do an analysis to see what the article got right and what it got wrong. I cannot find the link anymore.

Come to think of it; I never saw the water deluge system come to life... did it?

I know you are joking but I am not sure if you are aware of how close you are to reality:

https://thenewstack.io/how-the-u-s-air-force-deployed-kubern...

TEPCO has an atrocious safety culture. the operators of the Onagawa plant (closer to the epicenter) had a very safety-first culture and it showed.

It would require changes in regulations around the world. Many ports do not allow nuclear powered vessels to dock. Those regs were written with traditional nuclear power plants in mind but I think there would still have to be a lot of work to get acceptance.

Hahaha, HN is the last place I expected OverlordBot to pop up :D

Thanks very much.

I am kind of surprised that there is no obvious mount for a basket on the back (or front?) for small amounts of shopping and whatnot. Seems like it would increase the utility of it massively.

My friends in Paris who use mopeds a lot would definitely miss the carrying capacity, modest as it is. The footboard looks wide enough to place some bags in but not everyone likes that.

> I will never understand the reason for Cucumber to exist

In a previous company I had one use-case that I thought cucumber helped out a lot at.

We were writing software that would be vigourously tested and approved by a customer who didn't have any technical knowledge. Their initial plan was the "Excel sheet of death" test case management system with really fuzzily named tests.

I convinced them to write Cucumber tests, which turned out to be around 100, using the very explit syntax that then got called stupid by the cucumber devs and moved to the "training-wheels" gem. I never expressed what we were doing as cucumber tests. I just told them "Write them like this and it is easy to understand" and they agreed and did so, then they were signed off by our project team and them.

After that I then automated them our side so that we could run them quickly and easily in our pipeline while the customer could still use the tests for their tedious manual user acceptance testing at the end.

It worked out quite well. The customer never knew we automated the tests our side, they were just thrilled that something like 99% tests passed first-time and the 1% that didn't were down to interpretation differences.

This comment I made, and others in the thread, a while ago might shed some light on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27179677

Awesome. Is there an active plan to make the TTS models available on ONNX? Or is it something that is possible but is not being worked on right now? Is there an issue / ticket somewhere that I can follow (Or should I create one?)

Based on my limited understanding it seems to be possible to use (Not training) these models using C# and the ONNX runtime without needing any Python or other dependencies installed (would need to download the models manually). https://github.com/snakers4/silero-models#onnx=

Is this correct?

This may be offtopic so feel free to ignore but:

When you say "working on your EU license" is this something that is an extra steo due to Brexit that would have been automatic before? (i.e. you would only need one license for UK and EU)