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Comment Just bought... (Score 3, Interesting) 110

Fiction:

12 books from the Deverry series
The Three Body Problem trilogy
Monkey
Treacle Walker
Various books on Powershell

Non-Fiction:
Linux Administrator's Guide
Linux Network Administrator's Guide
Both OpenZFS books
Ansible
Terraform
Various books on Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL optimisation
C++ manuals
Various Cisco manuals
OpenPF manual

Comment Re: Orders of magnitude (Score 2) 110

It shouldn't take an hour, but it does reasonably take at least ten minutes. Considering that you can get quite a bit of charge into an EV in not many more minutes, this is a long time.

When you add into that the multiple filling station explosions which occurred already it begins to look like a very, very bad deal.

Comment Re: Orders of magnitude (Score 1) 110

No one has to sabotage green hydrogen technology, because it has to overcome physics.

Hydrogen production research is always ongoing, because there are so many uses for hydrogen. Even if there were zero people trying to use it as a motor fuel there would still be ample reason to develop more technologies for that.

Comment Re:Subjectively it make sense... (Score 1) 70

I don't understand your point, I'm not arguing against hiring more teachers, I'm simply pointing out the quality of the teachers we have isn't great.

All of these things are part of the same problem. The best teachers are also the best equipped to take a job elsewhere. If they can't afford to survive on what's being paid, and they have other opportunities, they take them. There is also high burnout from having to be a babysitter to so many ill-mannered children, who got that way by emulating their ill-mannered parents.

We need more teachers, but that just means the teachers we have, need to work a little harder.

You sound like men that women won't talk to talking about women. Do you even know any teachers? I do, and they are working as hard as they can with what they're given already. Side note, most are women.

Comment Re:It's not 'Homegrown' (Score 1) 38

Weird that you would cite "Mainland China" here, when the same thing is entirely true of Western manufacturers.

It's not weird because only China is claiming that their borrowed thing is homegrown. Everyone else is acknowledging the roots of their product. You don't have to call out lies when people tell the truth.

Comment Re: Now who saw that coming? (Score 1) 268

PGE knows exactly what a utility company's job is. It's right in the law that they only really get paid for building new generation capacity, so that is clearly their primary job.

This is why we should nationalize the distribution infrastructure. We don't let them profit from maintaining that because it makes them cut even more corners.

It's also why they want to build nuclear. They get to profit more from more expensive projects. And the less power produced per dollar spent, the more generation projects they get to build, thus the higher their profits are.

Comment Re:power (Score 2) 43

Titan's atmosphere is rather calm; not an issue. At the surface, the winds measured by Huygens were 0,3 m/s.

You actually can use solar power in extreme environments - even Venus's surface has been shown to be compatible with certain types solar, though you certainly get very poor power density. Dragonfly, as noted above, uses an RTG.

Comment Re:Second flying drone to explore another planet (Score 3) 43

Planetary scientists frequently refer to moons that are large enough to be in hydrostatic equilibrium as planets in the literature. Examples, just from a quick search:

"Locally enhanced precipitation organized by planetary-scale waves on Titan"

"3.3. Relevance to Other Planets" (section on Titan)

"Superrotation in Planetary Atmospheres" (article covers Titan alongside three other planets)

"All planets with substantial atmospheres (e.g., Earth, Venus, Mars, and Titan) have ionospheres which expand above the exobase"

"Clouds on Titan result from the condensation of methane and ethane and, as on other planets, are primarily structured by circulation of the atmosphere"

"... of the planet. However, rather than being scarred by volcanic features, Titan's surface is largely shaped..."

"Spectrophotometry of the Jovian Planets and Titan at 300- to 1000-nm Wavelength: The Methane Spectrum" (okay, it's mainly referring to the Jovian satellites as planets, but same point)

"Superrotation indices for Solar System and extrasolar atmospheres" - contains a table whose first column is "Planet", and has Titan in the list, alongside other planets

Etc. This is not to be confused with the phrase "minor planet", which is used for asteroids, etc. In general there's a big distinction in how commonly you see the large moons in hydrostatic equilibrium referred to as "planets" and with "planetary" adjectives, vs. smaller bodies not in hydrostatic equilibrium.

Comment Re:Subjectively it make sense... (Score 1) 70

We have maybe 50% of the teachers we need in the US, because we have maybe 50% of the teaching positions, and are willing to spend maybe 25% of the amount necessary to hire enough teachers at reasonable wages.

Really we need to be building approximately 1 school for every school we have now and hiring teachers accordingly so we can shrink class sizes.

However the education system we have now was deliberately compromised to avoid the creation of an "educated proletariat" (plug those words into google with the quotes and see what you get!) so we can't have that.

Comment Re:Harmony will create disharmony (Score 1) 38

I thought it was a fork of Android

Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

From the linked article, "while for smartphones, tablets and Huawei Watch which uses both, the system operates by utilizing a Linux kernel subsystem and executing the AOSP code with a modified EMUI user interface, enabling Android apps and HarmonyOS apps to run seamlessly through a compatibility layer in the userland outside the kernel"

AOSP code. Linux kernel. It's Android.

Comment Re: Free money! (Score 1) 101

Just how many aspects of life do you think government should be in charge of changing people's behaviour?

All of those where they are incapable of making a sustainable decision.

I don't want politicians socially engineering mine or anyone's life.

I want politicians preventing the worst excesses by everyone, including politicians. That's because I have a nose, and other people are careless about waving their fists.

Comment Re:Dumb idea from day 1 (Score 1) 28

A traffic jam (or a music festival) concentrates a lot of other people in the area and the cell towers quickly become overwhelmed and boom... more stopped autonomous cars.

Hence why we need a mesh networking phone system, so that when you get more subscribers in an area you get more bandwidth, carrying that traffic node to node until it reaches another cell site. But the providers haven't figured out a way to lock us into their infrastructure while doing that yet...

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