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Comment What a clickbait title (Score 5, Informative) 60

First of all, it is not just Microsoft saying not to use iPerf3. The developers of iPerf3 says it is not fully supported on Windows. They recommend using the previous version iPerf2. Second, both companies "recommend" that you do not use it as it is unsupported. You might get it to work but the results might be suspect. Neither company is stopping you from using it.

Comment Re:13 times current _onshore_ renewables (Score 1) 222

The study in the article showing all the assumptions, methodology. I take it you didn't bother to read it. A simple Google search of UK solar power generation in 2022
You: "My 10 days in the UK trumps everyone else's knowledge. I talked to one guy and everyone else must be wrong."
Me: Your sample size is too small to lead to your conclusion.
You (triggered): How DARE you!!!
Let me guess, you want to speak to my manager?

Comment Re:13 times current _onshore_ renewables (Score 1) 222

You're not in the slightest interested in the data, or the conditions in the UK.

You have yet to present ANY data except anecdotal evidence. I repeat: you have presented ZERO evidence and when reminded about that, you got upset.

I'm done with you.

So you will never admit you have zero evidence. That seems indicative of a denier.

Comment Social engineering has been happening for a while (Score 1) 14

At my former company someone emailed HR posing as the CEO. They wanted a copy of every employee's W-2 in PDF form emailed to them by the end of the day. Thankfully HR had many, many questions and called the CEO directly. The first question is why does the CEO need W-2s instead of asking an assistant for whatever information he needed directly (like salary information, etc). Also why does the CEO want thousands of PDFs emailed to an outside inbox, etc.

Comment Re:Guess the white woman was important enough (Score 1) 48

And what does your link prove? Someone attempting to sell a Taylor Swift vinyl record for $3000. And? Your link also shows the low of $30, median of $264, and high of $2600. There is no other detail like the $2600 record might have been for an autographed copy. By the way, the same website shows an Eminem CD from 1997 for $5500. By your logic, Eminem fans are crazier.

Comment Re:13 times current _onshore_ renewables (Score 1) 222

Air conditioning? In UK? Really? You must be in the US.

1) Record heatwaves in the last several years in UK (and Europe) have increased the need for AC. There this thing called climate change that people wish to ignore. 2) You are aware the while most homes in the UK do not have AC, some do. Businesses also have AC.

You seem do not seem to acknowledge your small sample size does not lead to your conlcusion.

Comment Re:13 times current _onshore_ renewables (Score 1) 222

You need to size your energy needs based on when you need them.

Again, you have a sample size of 1 instance of panels and your experience of 2.7% of days. But you made your conclusion that ALL panels in the UK generate 10% peak power ALL the time. You seem not to acknowledge that your sample size is not enough to make your conclusion.

I can make conclusions based on my biases too. For example, studies have found that many parents are sleep deprived which affects them and their children's health. But I know at least 5 or 6 parents who get plenty of sleep; therefore, that study must be wrong according to my sample size of 5. Bear in mind the 5 parents I know have children who are past college age and moved out of the house, that that is unimportant in my sampling--according to me. OR I can see that there is bias in my data and not draw the conclusion that someone who has done research must be wrong.

An extra long day in summer is useless when you need power in December.

Also you do not seem to understand demand and supply are different things. Someone might need less power in December than in summer. For example, AC is required more in the summertime than in winter. Heat can be supplied through other means electricity. You still have not made any reasonable arguments of what is demand vs what is supply.

Comment Re:Guess the white woman was important enough (Score 1) 48

How would you even remotely test to make sure you could handle that load?

As far as I know, stress testing a website exists. Ticketmaster either did not do a test or did not do an adequate test.

Sure, if they didn't take the question as a warning and prepare to spin up as many virtual environments as they needed, but again this was unprecedented and it's absolutely bonkers that anyone would use that event to declare an antitrust violation.

Er what? The fact that TicketMaster failed during the Eras Tour sale is not a direct indication of antitrust in linear path of Step 1. Ticketmaster failed. Step 2. Antritrust. Step 3 Profit! Overall, the Taylor Swift situation highlights the fact there was no alternative to TicketMaster that any artist even someone of Taylor's wealth and power could overcome. It is more indicative of the last straw.

Again, even if they had competition, the competition sites would have crashed. Guaranteed because ticket bastards has had years to deal with surges and well there is no competition so they haven't had the opportunity.

And how would you know that? A competitor might have actually stress tested their site and prepared better. You also seem to ignore the obvious solution that multiple competitors could have been used. For example, dates are split among different sites. But no other competitors exist is the hallmark of monopoly.

Comment Re:13 times current _onshore_ renewables (Score 1) 222

Solar power generation is not a binary situation where it must be a bright summer day with zero clouds to generate some power. There is some generation on cloudy days. Putting panels in places like a desert in California is optimal as they can generate power almost every day of the year. Putting them in England will generate less power but some power is better than zero.

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