Comment Re: The reason I got it (Score 2) 92
again though, you're kind of gambling that a hurricane isn't going to trash your panels).
Haven't they invented home insurance in Florida yet?
I guess then no one should build anything.
Comment Re:For the discerning consumer ... (Score 2) 72
It doesn't matter what it is, just purchase product.
After you've received product, discard product and purchase next product. Quality of product isn't relevant to the conversation.
What are you, some sort of commie trying to collapse the US economy?
Comment Re:That's a neat trick, however: (Score 1) 50
Comment Re: earliest kernel containing this vulnerability (Score 2) 159
Comment Re: For once, yes (Score 1) 139
Comment Re: Why? (Score 1) 364
Comment Re:What could possibly go wrong? (Score 1) 42
Comment Re: This is concerning (Score 1) 147
Cool, cool maybe they can use Time Lord technology.
Like I said, get back to me when you hsve a cost effective design that works.
Comment I hate when people get this wrong. (Score 2) 8
The key itself is a one time pad generated using whatever random number generator you wish.
BB84 is a protocol that distributes the key to your communication partner using a quantum physics technique plus a public open channel to guarantee that no one has eavesdropped on or tampered with the key.
For the record, in BB84, the public channel must satisfy certain very strict requirements which I've never seen any BB84 implementations get right - even when they do the quantum physics correctly (which is another part people often get horribly wrong).
Comment Re: This is concerning (Score 1) 147
Then get back to us when you come up with a scheme to remove that waste heat that works in the vacuum of space, and isn't super expensive to implement and maintain.
Comment Re: um (Score 3, Interesting) 112
I doubt it.
And when 80gb gpus inevitably become affordable in 3-5 years time, even the large model slight edge is likely to be lost.
I just don't see how these hyperscalers will recoup their massive capital investments before consumer grade hardware catches up and their business model collapses.
Comment Re:Gas guzzling V8s don't seem like a good idea (Score 4, Interesting) 384
We've done extensive customer research in multiple cities, looking at a variety of powertrains, and the V-8 is always the number-one choice."
plus
Wall Street couldn't be happier with the new direction... Ford's fortunes are also on the rise, as it's predicting operating profits could grow by as much as 47% this year to $10 billion.
What Detroit seems to be saying is that their market research shows that people who are dumb enough to be climate change deniers are the same people who are dumb enough to prefer driving ICE over EV, and are the same people who are dumb enough to happy when they are ripped off for massive profit margins when they buy a car.
And so there seems to be a short term business opportunity there.
I'm never going back to ICE from EV, but I guess I'm old enough and grumpy enough to enjoy watching fossil fools get ripped off.
It's a pity the current govt is killing so many foreign civilians in forever wars to try and keep gas prices down though.
Comment Re: Premise of the story is flawed (Score 1) 27
For example, try asking an AI who the best tech bloggers at eating hotdogs are.
Comment Re:One day's worth (Score 1) 168
Red states and maga people don't have a problem with renewables.
Funny that I keep running into MAGA fossil fuel investors who have a problem with renewables cause it cuts the value of their investment, and MAGA fossil fuel workers who have a problem with renewables because they are worried about the jobs they are skilled for disappearing. Funny how the head of MAGA keeps reversing Biden-era approvals of privately-funded renewable projects.
We have a problem with 'only' renewables because we like the idea of still having power through a long outage.
There are many strategies to handle Dunkelflauten. If you don't know what they are, then that makes you way more ignorant than the average Electrical Engineer. If you think that nuclear with it's inability to regulate power generation is a cost-effective strategy to deal with Dunkelflauten, then you are drifting from ignorance into outright stupidity.
it's unlikely any of you has a larger residential solar setup than I do. I'm also on my second EV
Ah, the dick-swinging. This is slashdot - it's full of electrical engineers managing grid-scale installations. Your "large" residential setup is a rounding error. It's clear you have no idea what the grid-scale issues are for a renewable-only grid, because you keep banging on about the solved problems.
And I proudly and happily voted -for- Trump twice
If you are happy with what Trump has done, then you must hate the US and it's people quite a lot. Just one more reason you are in here recommending strategies that would give americans the most expensive electricity imaginable.