Sadly blew my mod points trying to make this point so I can't mod you up, but great response.

Maybe young ladies are not interested because there are not many young ladies in those fields they can be held up as role models?

I read "daily demand" as something that fluctuates during the day - there's no such thing as "daily demand" as some sort of discrete object that matters in energy production - but if you're going to be a dick about it I'll cheerfully walk away from the conversation. I won't read further replies.

Not sure what the GP was talking about but suspect it might be more along the lines of the responsiveness of gas peakers and batteries, which is much much faster than nuclear's load following ability. We have grid batteries that can respond in (IIRC) tens of milliseconds in response to demand changes.

Despite the noise from the cryptoasset crowd as part of their general machinations, code is not law, a fact most of us are probably pretty thankful about

Hello from Australia, where negative prices are increasing common, to the point where some areas need to be forced to disconnect from the grid because there is too much rooftop generation and it risks destabilising the grid. It vexes home owners because they can't earn feed in tariff in these cases.

Hello from Australia, one of the largest providers of lithium in the world as of a couple of years ago when we finally bothered to build some mines for it.

Do electric cars require tire changes more often?

Wouldn't it be easier to just use a desktop computer connected to power with a wire? This weird trend of trying to make retail cool with tablets seems to add nothing but risk and annoyance. Watching an employee type my details in one handed on a tablet is frustrating as hell even before I knew about this kind of attack.

My mother, my partner and I are the only ones we know still regularly wearing masks(P2, so roughly N95 equivalent - good N95s are hard to find in Australia).

We don't wear them everywhere, just public transport and shopping centres and other obvious places (chemists and doctors).

We're also the only ones thst we know that haven't had COVID yet (or at least, not that we know about).

Yeh, correlation isn't causation and this is just anecdata, but I'm not stopping masking any time soon.

On the plus side the fastest way to pop the AI bubble might be for them to start trying to make their own hardware

Plenty of photos?! How?

There was lots of 'data' floating around in the first few weeks of COVID and most of it was garbage.

The idea that kids are not major spreaders of COVID I would say is one - they are less likely to have symptoms and less likely to get very sick but just as likely to infect people in their own household.

Most of the people I know got their first infections from their kids having brought it home from school (this is in Australia where the infection rate was very low for a long time). It spread like wildfire in schools - though most kids were fine and/or asymptomatic - and then everyone brought it to their workplaces.

Only available in US and UK so don't bother attempting to try the free version if you live in the rest of the world. Be nice to have these details in the story.

FWIW my company is buying Chromebooks for our non-technical staff. They are generally received pretty well. We're buying what are basically the cheapest Lenovo option (AUD$600). Most of them are 2 years old and still going; of the 30 or so we've bought I've had to return 3 for various minor fault, they were replaced quickly.

ChromeOS is supported til like 2028 in these models. We treat them more or less as disposable but they do exactly what we need and cause very little headaches - no provisioning, no real maintenance, no real management.

I would be SUPER interested in an Apple version of these, not because I think they'd be much better, but because the staff would be think they were much "cooler".