Rivalarrival

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[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 1 hour ago

Regulation? I think you mean "guillotines"...

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 27 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Bingo.

Either support the device until the heat death of the universe, or provide consumers with the access to maintain it themselves.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

Ok.

Let's start with Gaetz.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

I mean, it's far more engaging and a bit more compassionate than most of my teachers...

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 11 points 5 days ago

The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’

They're halfway there already.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

My advice: Don't setup dual boot.

Instead, setup Virtualbox in your Linux instance, and install Windows in a VM. You'll have access to a windows "crutch", without having to leave Linux to use it.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 25 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. About the only way they could increase their objectivity would be by using the candidate's own, recent words on the various topics.

Somehow, I think there would be far more outrage if they had done that...

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago

so you're saying there's a chance...

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 26 points 3 weeks ago

They do, but "rightsholders" suck harder. And the tech companies oppose the measures the rightsholders are pushing them to adopt.

Here, the enemy of my enemy may not be my friend, but they aren't my enemy.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 10 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Dance halls and hotels don't have "safe harbor" provisions as a matter of law, and their services to performers are not deemed a "human right".

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Just for another angle on the problem: baseload generation (nuclear) is most efficient at its highest possible output, but it has to maintain that output 24/7. It can't ramp up and down fast enough to match the demand curve, and it can't be ramped up above the minimum overnight demand.

To increase its efficiency, utilities push large scale consumers like steel mills and aluminum smelters to overnight shifts. This artificially increases the overnight demand, allowing the baseload generators to ramp up their relatively efficient production. This reduces the need for less-efficient peaker plants during the day.

That overnight demand can't be met with solar, and wind generation tends to fall overnight as well.

What nuclear can do is help level out seasonal variation, between the short days of winter and long days of summer. If you want to contemplate a truly pie-in-the-sky scenario, there are provisions for tying large ships, (like aircraft carriers and hospital ships) to shore power, and backfeeding the local grid to support disaster relief efforts.

Imagine a fleet of nuclear generation ships, sailing to northern-hemisphere ports from November to April, and to southern-hemisphere ports from May to October.

Pumped storage is also essential, but extraordinarily limited. We can probably run essential overnight loads on pumped storage, but it does not make sense to keep an overnight load on pumped-storage that can be shifted to solar/wind directly.

We need to take a look at demand shaping rather than supply shaping. We need to shift load to times we can produce, rather than shift production to times of demand.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Plot twist: RIAA and MPAA own all the major VPN providers, and/or the data centers they rent from.

/ConapiracyTheory

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