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Comment Re:simple question (Score 1) 192

-- as Spain clearly demonstrated on 28 April 2025, when wind and solar was supplying 71% of the produced power, and a 5-second interruption caused tripouts across the Iberian peninsula and southern France, resulting in a total power outage lasting ten hours or more.

While renewables were part of the cause, they were not the sole cause, a lot of things combine to result in the voltage swings and cascading outages; even the investigations pointed out that more spinning power alone would not have stopped the event.

Comment Re:simple question (Score 5, Interesting) 192

And the reason that this horseshit could not have been a Zoom call is..?

Because 90% of the actual discussion ad business is done outside of the meeting in informal settings, often in a chance meeting. That's hard to do in Zoom, especially with the possibility of such discussions being recorded. Plus, it's a pain to have to start a new meeting every time your free tier limit was reached...

Comment Re:Chatbot Lies (Score 1) 100

The Engineer had agency. The AI (or google search, or a stack of text books) does not.

Of course, if the mad bomber instead posed as a student and found some non-evil reason for wanting the exits to collapse first (even a thin one like directing the dust upwards), the engineer is less culpable or not culpable at all.

But we need to be very careful about imagining an AI has agency. There are many legal and philosophical implications behind that.

Comment Re:Same with EE and ME degrees (Score 1) 26

The field is becoming saturated. I'm reading a one percent application to hire rate lately for EEs and MEs. That is, 1 job offer to 100 applications.

I suspect that may have something to do with what you want to do as an EE or ME. Power engineering isn't sexy like some areas but is hiring and few people want to work for the power company.

Comment I used them (Score 1) 179

I had one that plugged into a SCSI port IIRC, and later an internal one as well. I used them to backup my HD and store old project files, the 150 and 250. Worked great until the dreaded click of death. Still have the drives and disks, haven't tried to get it working and see what is on them. In theory the internal one should work with the right interface but I doubt there are drivers for my Mac, maybe a VM and Linux or Windows would work. Not a high priority as it's likely just random junk now.

Comment Re:So (Score 1) 127

The entire premise is simply “not China”?

I was told manufacturing jobs would come flooding back to this country.

But you weren't told when. This sounds like a way to get cheaper labor and less environmental rules; and I doubt they can ever scale anywhere Cole to China in terms of output or price. China could simply drop prices to make this an unattractive investment, leaving it just another promise to appease Trump without having to actually do anything substantive.

Comment Re:He's Not Wrong. (Score 1) 240

Sounds like it's time for U.S. auto makers to figure out how Chines manufacturers are making their cars so inexpensive.

And no, it's NOT all from cheap labor. It's also from efficiency, making a fair profit rather than hand over fist, less marble and mahogany in the executive suite, and paying a reasonable amount to upper management. Also less jet setting for execs.

Do we REALLY have to repeat the '70s and '80s when the Japanese manufacturers spanked the big three?

What happened to "free trade" and "deregulate all the things!"

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