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That was my guess too. Apparently Starlink satellites go quiet over the area too but there is still some detectable EMF.

One advantage of heating water over sand is that you can heat it up with high temperature heat pumps which currently have CoPs ranging between 2.4 to 5.8 [1]. So for every kW of electrical energy you put in you get at least 2.4kW of thermal energy out.

So yes, the volume of 95C water would be much greater than that of 600C sand, but if volume wasn't an issue you could do it much more efficiently. Alternatively, you could use battery storage for just the electrical capacity required and not the (much higher) thermal capacity which may be more cost effective when you look at the conversion.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...

What about Apple?

1.28sqm projected surface area? That's a very a big iphone.

Would love to know your opinion on this then - is there any way onsite cutting could be eliminated, semi or fully automated with wet cutting? Or is the onus always on the contractor to use PPE?

"They can afford it" is a terrible argument. There's literally no upside for Apple providing their infrastructure for free to third parties, particularly given that it's a potential vector for flooding their customers with spam.

Up until quite recently, most phone carriers metered the number of texts you could send per month and then charged extra. Many still charge per text when you're roaming overseas. Perhaps Apple could offer API access on commercial terms to third parties but that's their decision.

Sounds like a good opportunity to rezone and modify some buildings to residential.

I've heard it said that in France there are 3 types of nuclear reactor and 100 types of cheese. In America it's the other way around.

The professional gear can also be too good. I remember when the first Hobbit film came out the picture was so crystal clear it was distracting - like a very high end BBC drama.

Sceptical - another "energy storage breakthrough" article with no detail of either cost or conversion efficiency. Non-technical founder too.

Most datacentres ban the use of ultrasonic humidifiers for exactly this reason.

I wish articles like this would standardise on W/kg or W/L. Range is meaningless when you don't know the pack size.

A couple of reasons. First, you could compare a self driving car's safety against your own record. I've had a licence since 1988 and never had an accident. I want to compare against that standard. Second, you could get a better idea of the insurance premium against your own. I suspect there will come a day when the premiums are much lower for self driving cars but right now I suspect they'd be higher due to all the added self driving equipment you're insuring as well.

The comparison against all human drivers is too broad. Typically insurance companies will apply higher premiums to new drivers due to inexperience and a higher likelihood of accidents. It would be better to see comparisons against the safest, most experienced cohort of human drivers.

So the Economist reported today that Tuvalu is planning for its disappearance as sea levels rise [1].

What a great opportunity for Msrs Andreeson, Thiel, Musk and all the other neo-Rand true believers to step in and create their seasteading utopia. They could cast this manifesto in gold at the entrance. Years from now, when we visit their brave new world below the waves I'm sure it will have worked out great!

[1] https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/10/12/tuvalu-plans-for-i...

So excuse what may be my profound ignorance, but aren't there 2 unencrypted points in every communication that they could intercept?

Very roughly, I assume every Whatsapp message follows something along the lines of:

1. Unencrypted input

2. Encryption

3. Encrypted transmission

4. Decryption

5. Unencrypted stream to display handler

Technically - what's to stop them from compelling Apple and Google into putting a software keyboard logger inbetween 1 & 2 and another output logger between 4 & 5?

Edit: I'm not saying this backdoor would be secure btw. Of course it wouldn't. But that seems to me a separate issue than "breaking encryption"

Exactly right. Try driving past a mob of kangaroos at the side of the road. There's a definite pace that works and they'll often break straight in front of you with little warning.

Until self driving cars have been deployed internationally in a huge range of driving environments I'll take my chances behind the wheel.

Australia’s capital city Canberra was planned and built roughly halfway between Sydney and Melbourne. Turned out ok

This is correct and has been forgotten.

"You don’t want your phone to be an open platform. Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up." -Steve Jobs 2007

There's a good example of how fast, intuitive thinking often fails in "Thinking Fast and Slow" (referenced in the article):

A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?

Only 2019 reasons? Surely there are more

With magnetic stripes. Your banks are adorable.

Well done America. This has been available for literally decades in Australia. I was doing bank transfers over the phone from a landline in the 90s before mobile phones were common and the internet was all dialup. I don't think I've been paid by cheque (check) since the 80's.

When I started dating my wife, she called me an old man for even owning a cheque book. That was in 2006.

Why not put edge datacentres in the middle? They could provide heating to perimeter apartments in cold climates and just imagine the ping!

That was my initial response to Stable Diffusion images

Learning difficult concepts is only one aspect of developing perseverance - which is probably the greater ability to master. Others are finishing what you start, developing habits to complete undesirable tasks (like regular exercise or doing the dishes) and overcoming fear.

The latter is something you see creep in as you get older and it's something that's always attracted me to hobbies that require you to keep your nerve like skiing, scuba diving and flying planes. There's nothing like having to land a plane solo with a bit of a crosswind to give you confidence in yourself.

I liked Khan Academy. Got me all the way through Mechanical Engineering and I didn't start until I was 38

Residents of Tasmania will have some sympathy for their fellow Polish submariners. They've been plunged to the depths of the Southern Ocean by amateur cartographers for years.

Well yeah - that's how the legal system works assuming it gets all the way to court. In reality, Meta and OpenAIs lawyers will do a risk evaluation against the strength of the claim and if there's any merit at all there will be a quiet settlement.

Correct this was just the structure. Still impressive for what it was. I did the mechanical services which were put in after in a traditional way but in theory a lot of the services could have been installed within the modules at the factory and connected onsite.