Since Apple's keynote this week.
wewbull
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You are, if you're calling for Apple like features.
You might argue that "private cloud" is privacy preserving, but you can only implement that with the cash of Apple. I would also argue that anything leaving my machine, to a bunch of servers I don't control, without my knowledge is NOT preserving my privacy.
While I was vacating my colleagues...
I'm reminded of a scene from The Wire:
(I know. I removed a comma from the quote, but that's how I read it)
It does matter in distributed application on LANs. The thin client model is still in operation at a lot of HPC and similar environments. Laptops and Desktops just display what is being done elsewhere.
Remote X11 is a better user experience in that environment than anything else I've tried. It feels like the application is local even if it's not.
A lot of places seem to view it as "we just work from the backlog" with no requirements on when features are delivered, or their impacts on other parts of the project.
You still need a plan, goals and a timeline. Not just a bucket of stuff to get done.
It's interesting watching how the 30minute electricy price has shifted patterns in the UK. 3-4 years ago there was no doubt that the cheapest time was 1am - 4am. These days the overnight dip isn't anywhere near as significant as it was, and it's now equally likely for 1pm-4pm to be the cheapest time of day.
All I can assume is that so many have moved usage to overnight due to "time of use" tariffs that now the demand curve has evened out a bit, and now the extra supply from solar during the day pushes the afternoon price down.
I don't know where you're from, but I doubt it's as bleak as you make it sound for renewables. They key to renewables is threefold IMHO:
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You have to overbuild. You need to be able to sustain things on 50-60% of maximum output.
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You must have multiple grades of storage to cover different time scales. Hours, days, weeks, months. Different capacities of storage that can respond on different timescales.
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You need to exploit the diversity of different geographic areas. Take the US for example. Wind in the northern coastal regions. Solar across the south. Hydro in the mountains. These different areas can't do it alone. They need to supply each other in times of plenty, and depend on each each other in times of "famine".
So there's lots of investment needed; In capacity, storage and transmission, and the choice is always where you spend your money. I would rather spend it on renewables and the infrastructure to support it. It'll be quicker to bring online, cheaper, and a better long term solution.
Exactly, so you invest the money in renewables.
None of what you say is false.
None of what you say is enough to make it the right path for the future.
It's expensive in subs too
Sorry, but we've seen what happens when you build nuclear reactors in a low regulation environment under cost pressure.
It's not pretty.
In terms of specifications all I can find is that this has a 2.0GHz 8-core RV64 processor with Vector. That's not a lot of info.
Does anybody know anything more about it? Performance level, battery life, etc. I expect this is really a phone or SBC level processor, so it should sip power, right?