Comment On that budget, good luck to them (Score 1) 126
Cost us Aussies $50B to achieve a similar thing (it actually cost way more, but even still, $1.75B vs $50B is a huge difference)
Comment New question on Google interview (Score 1) 51
Explain the location privacy settings
Comment Re:Jitsi (Score 1) 59
*and* me
Comment Re:The reasons for this success. (Score 1) 300
Not sure about educated and mostly sensible part.
The Australia Government announced that the COVIDsafe app was available for download around 3pm on Sunday, and registration for the app open from 6pm.
I installed it at about 7pm, and worked fine, but I saw that the review section was flooded with 1 star ratings from people complaining that they couldn't register (timestamped at 2+ hours ago).
The Australia Government announced that the COVIDsafe app was available for download around 3pm on Sunday, and registration for the app open from 6pm.
I installed it at about 7pm, and worked fine, but I saw that the review section was flooded with 1 star ratings from people complaining that they couldn't register (timestamped at 2+ hours ago).
Comment Re:This is how (Score 1) 300
It varies state by state. In Victoria, its a $1652AUD fine, and they aren't afraid to hand them out either.
Submission + - Elon Musk's Battery Farm Is An Undeniable Success (popularmechanics.com)
An anonymous reader writes: More than two years after winning an electricity bet, Elon Musk’s resulting Australian solar and wind farm is an almost total success. The facility powers rural South Australia, whose population density falls between Wyoming and Alaska, the two least dense U.S. states. In 2016, South Australia experienced a near total blackout after “an apocalyptic storm— involving 80,000 lightning strikes and at least two tornadoes,” Vox explains. In the aftermath, a Conservative politician blamed the push for renewable energy for the extent of the blackouts. For those even passingly familiar with Musk and Tesla’s online presence, the rest won’t be surprising. The head of batteries at Tesla said he was sure the company could do better, an Australian billionaire asked if he was serious, and Musk jumped in to promise his team was. The rest is history. Musk reached his goal 40 days early, and the Australian billionaire funded the project as promised. We can argue about whether or not private citizens should have to rely on a billionaire angel investor to get a steady supply of power or make the shift to renewable energy, but in this case, the bet benefited a shortchanged rural population beginning almost immediately.
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Just 1.7 million people live in South Australia, which is a nice size to consider a test market for technology like this. Rural grids tend to be left behind, because the ratio of required hardware and infrastructure is still so high per consumer—much more-so than in a big city, where the same short length of wiring could power thousands of homes. And building a facility that acts as a battery can help smooth out the natural ebbs and flows that come both from renewable energy technology and from the spread out, failure-prone nature of more rural grid sections. This smoothing has saved South Australians a ton of money, already much more than the $50 million cost that Tesla passed on to its Australian investor. The battery facility “reduced network costs by about A$116 million ($76 million) in 2019,” Bloomberg explains, “savings [Garth] Heron, [Neoen’s head of development in Australia] said would be passed on to businesses and households in the state. The battery’s introduction also slashed the cost to regulate South Australia’s grid by 91 [percent], bringing it in line with other regions in the nation."
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Just 1.7 million people live in South Australia, which is a nice size to consider a test market for technology like this. Rural grids tend to be left behind, because the ratio of required hardware and infrastructure is still so high per consumer—much more-so than in a big city, where the same short length of wiring could power thousands of homes. And building a facility that acts as a battery can help smooth out the natural ebbs and flows that come both from renewable energy technology and from the spread out, failure-prone nature of more rural grid sections. This smoothing has saved South Australians a ton of money, already much more than the $50 million cost that Tesla passed on to its Australian investor. The battery facility “reduced network costs by about A$116 million ($76 million) in 2019,” Bloomberg explains, “savings [Garth] Heron, [Neoen’s head of development in Australia] said would be passed on to businesses and households in the state. The battery’s introduction also slashed the cost to regulate South Australia’s grid by 91 [percent], bringing it in line with other regions in the nation."
Comment If RIAA had their way... (Score 1) 79
They would still be forcing us to buy physical CDs.
Comment Social Media in 1918 (Score 1) 166
I wonder what social media would have looked like if it was around when the Spanish flu took off
Comment Ummm (Score 2) 72
Flash was responsible for a number of things, but I can't say it was responsible for the Internet's most creative era
Comment I can think of one (Score 4, Insightful) 409
"It meets no technical or operational need that low-carbon competitors cannot meet better, cheaper and faster."
Nuclear works at night, and when the wind stops blowing.
Nuclear works at night, and when the wind stops blowing.
Comment Ancestry matched my twin sisters (Score 1) 258
Both my twin sisters submitted their DNA on Ancestry, and on the matches page, it said of the other twin - this person is either you, or an identical twin.
Comment Sounds legit (Score 1) 107
I have a friend who works for a company in the know, and he mentioned to me months ago that there would be no 5G for iPhone until 2020.
And funnily enough, my response was fairly similar - that it will take a while for the network rollout to become fit for use and for apps to take advantage of what 5G bring over 4G.
Comment Worried about eavesdroppers on iPhone? (Score 1) 109
Get a Huawei, then it's guaranteed
Comment On the first day of career... (Score 1) 202
My manager told me don't be good at anything you don't want to do for the rest of your life.
Probably the best advice I've ever gotten in my 13 years.
The problem is you don't realise how important those words are until you become good at something.
Comment Find my device is new? (Score 1) 277
My mum lost her phone a couple of weeks ago. I helped her find it with this: https://www.google.com/android...
So how exactly is #10 new?
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