wewbull

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[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago

Exactly. They're not "accusing Putin". They are saying to Trump " He is humiliating you! What are you going to do about it?"

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've tried this a few times. I don't think it works.

Basically the way you want to explain a piece of reasoning , and the order in which things need to be defined for a program, are different. You end up either making the document match the code structures, or the code structure match the document. Both are bad.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

It's only the timescale I'm unsure about.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Venison probably. Boar is also good.

On poultry, I'd go turkey over duck. Not keen on goose, too fatty.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 14 points 1 day ago

During a tense high-level meeting in Brussels, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the EU’s foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas that Beijing cannot allow Russia to lose in its war against Ukraine. According to several sources cited by the South China Morning Post (SCMP) on 4 July, China fears that such an outcome would allow the United States to fully pivot its attention to Beijing.

  1. The US ain't doing shit with Russia, so I don't follow on it being a "distraction". The US is wholly self absorbed and that's the distraction.
  2. Hey Russia! Nice "ally" you have there.
  3. Was China expecting EU support on this strategy?
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 36 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I'm going to be bold. The internal combustion engine car.

There will be a tipping point where nobody wants to maintain the highly intricate manufacturing for them, and they will stop very quickly. Electric motors are the future and the transition is accelerating. We're currently around 20% of new sales and I expect after 60-70% ICEs will just disappear from sale.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

Not really. Power induction through air is inherently lossy. That's just physics.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago

No, we have a vaccine for that.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 17 points 1 day ago

Ai is the bigger issue right now. We can deal with Disney later.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The BNP were not what we would call Conservatives. They were thugs and nationalistic bigots. Conservatives are a bit less thuggy.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

I can speak a bit on the UK as I live there.

The use of gas is for two things.

  • Balancing against wind and solar, both of which can evaporate at certain times of year. Without more storage we're left in a position where we basically need to be able to support 30GW of demand just on gas.

  • Frequency stabilisation and cold start capability. We never seem to drop below 4GW of gas (or biomass - anything spinning mass) generation. Even if we had excess wind and solar, some gas will be burnt "just in case".

Right now we need more storage, and better connections from the new sources of power (the coast for wind and international connectors) to the centres of demand (the cities). Power stations were historically located much closer to where the demand is, and our electricity grid is still shaped by that.

Today has been a good example. Lots of wind and sun but still 16% gas. We even switched some wind farms off today because we couldn't get the power to where it was needed or a way to store it.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

That last graph is very impressive, but the shortfalls worry me. They're too small to make it cost effective to have an alternative source handily available, but if you don't you're resigning yourself to major power outages.

I'd quite like to know how much we need to overbuild capacity to remove them completely.

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