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Fuck yeah was going to order a new one soon

Not that fossils/natural gas are required per se but their capabilities. Some places like Norway and Quebec are geographically blessed with distributed hydro that can fill a lot of that need. The variable load for a nuclear in that case could be many times larger than the generator itself but I'm not aware of any studies on that. Kinetic storage with massive flywheels is maybe the closest thing to that, or even batteries. You can ramp nukes by venting steam but that heat can cause environmental issues. Similar to hydro how their capabilites are reduced based on environmental factors like handling spring runoff.

There are some very recent reports out of the Ontario regulator who are dealing with this exact issue right now. Long term demand increasing for the first time vs carbon legislation, and the mandate to have a reliable grid.

Nuclear vs fossil gets in to why you don't/can't run all nuclear, else things would be very easy. Nuclear's capabilities are best suited to supplying the base load/minimum demand but they can't be ramped or dispatched, reactors basically run most efficiently at their designed output levels, so you can't use them to balance supply and demand. The use of fossils for base load is more a thing in countries with lower regulations, usually because of things like a growing manufacturing economy (ie "global south"), but also in some extraordinary regulatory circumstances (Germany) or just because of when fossil was brought online/refurbished. Fossil's capabilities are like the opposite and they are most efficient and economical used for load-following, which is even more important with renewables you can't dispatch.

So fossil is still the main control lever for reliability, and that's the crux of why a suitable replacement technology isn't available yet. If it was simply a matter of output level then we'd have no problem. Mitigations to reduce use of fossils when demand is high can even be things like a demand response/dr program for transmission-connected facilities, where they are incentivized to reduce their use during times of high demand. Basically instead of having a higher energy price and all this generation online, you take a bit of what that price would be and use it to incentivize consumers to reduce their demand. Smart stuff but fossils are still a thing with that and if storage could replace them we could easily just have nuclear+storage, even smaller nuclear like those SMRs/small modular reactors.

Another massive consideration with all of this is the logical location of each type of generation at the transmission level. In the event you might have to bring the grid back from 0, or even just handle expected equipment failure, the specific location in the logical grid where types of generation is attached has to consider the capabilities of each type of generation. For example in a blackout situation you can't just start a nuclear generator when the demand is effectively 0, you have to bring generation and loads online from scratch in very increments initially. During the 2003 northeast blackout there were opinion articles complaining about how the casinos were online before neighborhoods, ignorant to the fact those casinos were instrumental in providing an initial load on the transmission grid.

Depends on how much there is, what level of the grid it's connected to, and what the overall supply mix is. Without adequate energy storage yet, a lot of times it's fossil fuels filling the gap between renewable output and peak demand.

Worked pharmacy delivery for years starting in high school, just before smartphones, and I still don't use GPS. Basically just map to nearest main intersection and remember their street name and the one before it.

Edge is just a Chromium build with more manageability for enterprise use.

Oh yay another Windows 11 being bad meme, and all the same comments about it too. Feel like it's groundhog day cause this place only has 2 jokes that get recycled on repeat.

Depends what you use it for, there's some great servers for a lot of things. I don't really care about platforms and basically use them all. Certain people really hate Discord but the alternatives don't have many interesting things on them, and the people who use them aren't a very diverse group. Checking all the right FOSS and feature boxes is nice but it's not what actually makes a platform good to use.

An LMM modeled after the average redditor sounds like the most condescending thing ever.

That was the only reason to use the site lol other paid options are way better. All userbenchmarks was good for was giving you a rough idea that your hardware was performing as it was expected to.

Yeah and in those linux examples its not really latency that's important, plus those things run on Windows too. The Monome Norns is a raspberry pi shield with a linux platform and development community around it, where people write scripts to turn it in to all manner of musical devices. When it comes to a full DAW with VST support it's basically OSX or Windows, and if you don't want to be restricted to Apple hardware then congrats, you're using Windows.

Should restrict updates to security only

I do both and happy with debloated Windows 11 Enterprise with automatic updates restricted to security only. Pirating now is running a powershell command that fetches activation scripts from github.

As someone who uses windows to produce music

Exactly and some other media/creative stuff as well. Windows is the only way to run Ableton with full VST support on my own hardware. Then if I'm going to need a Windows workstation anyway, I might as well use it for gaming too, and lump in all my other "power station" uses. It's sometimes frustrating when you mention this and people who aren't familiar with these programs to try to debate you or assume you haven't entertained the alternatives. In my case I run Linux on my laptop and servers, and even some of my instruments like the monome norns and m8 are rpi based. Real time audio synthesis on linux is actually amazing, PureData and Supercollider are the ones I'm somewhat familiar with.

Configuration Management is the term I'm familiar with, third party tools or SCCM, or just group policy.

“Switch to Linux” is a simplistic answer that doesn’t address the needs of users. And I use Linux every day, as a serverOS, running VM’s and docker.

"Let me debate you about why you shouldn't use Windows" as if I want to use Windows, people who have no experience with the software in my industry dropping alternatives. Even had someone debate me after saying I'm a sysadmin in a mixed environment, and how I alone should just move the whole company and all our software vendors to Linux.

That's pretty cool I just used Enterprise Edition and ran Powershell to uninstall shit. Also Chris Titus Tech's tool is quite nice as well.

Pretty sure you can't even use the Flipper in the way thieves are using cheap alibaba radio amplifiers on the proximity fobs that people keep near their front door...

Phone number is the weakest form of 2FA but it's still an improvement. I've never had to use my phone in Discord though, I don't how Discord would even verify someone's phone number as legitimate. But like I said I have a couple Discord accounts with different emails, probably on 30-40 servers, and have never run in to this. So if they're collecting personal details in this really granular and specific manner, it seems like they're not doing a very good job at it.

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Framework boosts its 13-inch laptop with new CPUs, lower prices, and better screens

4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm

4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm

4000ac solar farm in Texas devastated by hailstorm

Mystical land pirates (with pizza)

As someone not in tech, I have no idea how to refer to my tech friends' jobs

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So many things I'd rather do than go back to Windows

Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

Reddit: 'We Are in the Early Stages of Monetizing Our User Base'

Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription

You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

You can remove or disable Windows 11 and 10's AI 'bloat' with new BloatynosyAI

Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts

FLOSS communities right now

Psychiatry Won’t Solve Our Mental Health Crisis — Only Politics Can Do That

be unreasonable

Hunter Biden’s Corruption Is a Symptom of Grotesque Inequality

The United Auto Workers Are Looking to Unionize the Whole Auto Industry

My weekly sourdough loaf

While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free

From the Depths

NWBTCW

consumption is freedom

or "yes you have, please continue"

Sometimes I need to hear this

Canada parliament speaker resigns after calling Ukrainian Nazi veteran a ‘hero’

Leader of Canada's House of Commons apologizes for honoring man who fought for Nazis