We already do this.

Oh, except the free money gets given to the wind farms to turn themselves off. Free money in subsidies, then free money to do nothing. What a win-win for the taxpay... well, government buddies who run these farms.

One windfarm, Carriegarth was paid to throw away 51% of its generation.

Wind farms only make sense for a limited number, they do not replace the grid. As we are finding out right now when wind produces about 1% of UK energy needs. We could double capacity, and then the problem would be solved, right?!

The rape gang evidence is there for anyone to see. you could try the Rotherham Enquiry that was horrific. The Home Office issued a report into "grooming gangs" that said there was limited availabiity of ethnicity, which I find strange as every police report has to include ethnicity (so we know just how racist the police are when they arrest too many black people, but somehow rape crimes don't record this data. Peculiar)

Mainly because of how long the authorities had ignored any problems for fears of being called racist, and how the social services had attitudes of "the 12 year old made an informed choice to prostitute herself so its not our business to get involved". - and if you think I made that up, you can google the Prime Minister Gordon Brown issuing that to police chiefs a few years ago.

What will they do on the other days - because there are times when its neither sunny or windy, sometimes for extended periods.

I note that these declarations of wind generation never include the hundreds fo GWh of battery storage that would be required to make it work reliably and consistently. Maybe because those battery storage facilities are terribly expensive. For reference Musk's "super cheap to get his foot in the door" Australian plant of 100MW cost US$50m.

could have better worded perhaps. Would "ignore the trolls" communicate the idea better.

the community that just ignored the assholes would find the assholes wander off as nobody would be taking their bait and validating their existence with little dopamine hits.

You are partly right - the core team are the directors and provide "guidance". Which is fair enough, all large organisations need direction.

However, the moderation team is not the development team. that would be the Compiler Team, the Dev Tools Team, the Language Team, the Library Team and perhaps the Infrastructure Team.

There's 11 teams in Rust. God knows why they have a community team and a moderation team.

Yes. Because

a) there's little you can do about it besides getting upset - which is probably what the asshole wanted all along.

b) perhaps you're perceiving it as a personal attack when really it was just badly communicated (as happens on the internet)

c) perhaps said asshole was just having a bad day and letting his frustrations sneak into the style of writing.

To deal with all of the above is to not get annoyed by the asshole. so don't take any of it as a personal attack, even if it is, because the only person who suffers when you do, is you and there is little to no effect on you if you do simply shrug and move on.

Boris Johnson, are you listening! :)

I don't think they are even a large percentage, its just that they are so noisy that it appears they are everywhere.

Flu really does kill a lot of people. Covid has killed many too.

Thw WHO estimates 10% of the world population have had it, and something around 1 million people globally died. Giving it a death rate 50% higher than flu. Whatever the truth of that, its not "ten times more deadly". (except maybe when statistics are skewed by government policy that sent infected and hospitalised people off to care homes to infect the other residents).

Lockdowns simply shift the problem along a bit - kicking a can down the road. Government tried it in Feb just to get out of the Flu season so the virus could be better treated in the summer... well, that was the plan. It would have been a good one too, but over-reaction and panic is what governments do best in times of crisis, and so they shifted it to... autumn, just in time for winter flu season. Go gov!

Musk is correct about the BD test, even if he's misinformed about the PCR one (however, never assume people are specific on twitter though, 140 characters means you have to use generalisations and cannot go into detail. Twitter makes wikipedia look like Encyclopeida Brittanica for accuracy). 84% sensitivity rate and the manufacturer says not to take any result as definitive.

The PCR tests accuracy... still out.

Among specimens from SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR-positive individuals, the percent seropositive increased with time interval, peaking at 81.8-100.0% in samples taken >20 days after symptom ons

This study sent samples from people who definitvely had the virus off for testing. The results aren't quite as promising as you'd hope. That 95% success rate looks like its only in optimal conditions and days since infected - 11 days or later, it'll pick it up (but I think you're cured by then, surely?)

https://covidtestingproject.or...

Also the numbers do lie - right now we seem to have cured flu completely, only covid deaths happen. Or maybe, the stats aren't being recorded quite as accurately as you'd want, so you always have to take the stats into some sort of context. Similar to the spike in spring, when thousands of elderly were sent off to care homes to die.

One stat that does require further investigation though - the number of deaths (in the UK) is 57,408 in total. However of those 6077 were under the age of 65 and 2112 under the age of 55. The virus is deadly alright - but only to the old, young people are as good as invulnerable.

Unfortunately science has been trumped by political desires, ass-covering and media sensationalism. eg the Danish study on wearing masks (that apparently has found that they don't work) - so far, unpublished because they cannot find anyone willing to publish such a controversial study (ie one that doesn't agree with the government policy). Similarly, take a look at this and think "scientists questioning their own research, or too scared to leave their old research available when it goes against the party line". This is where we are today, Musk questioning these tests is essential as he is high profile enough to see that question actually debated, verified and brought to everyone's attention. Shame a lot of the response is simply to shout him down because he doesn't say what he's expected to say.

I saw the head of the Federal Electoral commision say there was fraud - but to caveat that, he was referring to questions about not allowing observers in to see the counts somewhere, which is illegal, rather than any comment about ballot stuffing.

The trouble with indoctrination is that you can still be indocrinated - everyone so vociferously against Trump has been. You can dislike him and still have an adult discussion about politics but I don't see very many of those wherever Trump is concerned by his (sometimes completely deranged) detractors.

and the "thing burning" is the toast you're making.

The manufacturer of the BD equipment says it has a 84% sensitivity rate (page 12). It also says that positive results do not indicate covid, as it can be triggered by other bacteria or viral infections.

It also says that the negative result does not indicate you're free of covid either.

https://www.fda.gov/media/1397...

what it does say is that any positive result is required to be sent to the government, so no doubt the "people who have covid" stats you'll get tomorrow will include Musk. Twice. And then possibly twice again because he had 2 PCR tests.

I guess its crazy times, so rubbish testing is used as definitive these days.People want to believe, and today they want to believe a test is 100% accurate.

The document from the manufacturer is not so convincing:

REPORTING OF RESULTS Positive Test â" Positive for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 antigen.

Positive results indicate the presence of viral antigens, but clinical correlation with patient history and other diagnostic information is necessary to determine infection status.

Positive results do not rule out bacterial infection or co-infection with other viruses. The agent detected may not be the definite cause of disease. Laboratories within the United States and its territories are required to report all positive results to the appropriate public health authorities.

Negative Test â" Negative results are presumptive. Negative test results do not preclude infection and should not be used as the sole basis for treatment or other patient management decisions, including infection control decisions, particularly in the presence of clinical signs and symptoms consistent with COVID-19, or in those who have been in contact with the virus. It is recommended that these results be confirmed by a molecular testing method, if necessary, for patient management.

so if you have a positive test, they say you need to get tested properly. and if you have a negative test, you need to get tested properly too. Bonkers, but even more so the positive test results are required to be sent to the government as positive, for statistical purposes. So I wonder if Musk has counted as "having covid" twice in the official "how many peopel have covid" statistics that are wheeled out.

Page 12 of the manufacturer specs shows the sensitivity rate of 84%.

Oh it would, you'd be surprised how sensitive you are to sound delays.

By that I don't mean "speed of sound" in absolute terms but the delay between the speakers if theyr'e positioned non-equidistantly.

My hifi amp has a microphone on a long cable for this - you put it where you sit, and it broadcasts a tone to decide how much of a delay to add to each of the speakers so you get the sound at the same time. I guess its more for the audiophile than the general listener, but even then, a tiny delay in sound can give you a "something's wrong but I'm not sure what it is" feeling.

COBOL is a specialised language that excels at volume processing tasks - like when I was taught it, the first thing you're given to do is merge a set of payroll and employee datasets. 3 lines of COBOL later you think, "well that was easy". And 2 of them were print statements.

Its a bit like SQL, great language for what its designed to do, and what it does is exactly what financial systems do mostly - manipulate vast sets of data.

Delphi was incredibly popular for a very long time.

It should have been adopted instead of Visual Basic, but like so many other failures-in-the-name-of-profit-and-control, MS saw it off.