The kind someone sprays in your face a moment before you wake up in a bathtub full of ice in a hotel.

This is a perfect example of sunk cost fallacy... they continue to throw endless good money after bad.

With SpaceX dragon flying flawlessly (and to think Boeing thought they would beat SpaceX with Starliner lol), and NASA now having the Orion space capsule, there is just no place for starliner.

Just cancel this turd and move on. It simply has no reason to exist anymore, and they continue to throw good money after bad.

Good luck driving to Europe or Southeast Asia from the US.... I fly there all the time... and it is absolutely brutal. It is absolutely soul crushing.

I like one of the other commenters ideas, make bench seating.

I think Samsung's had the 100x space zoom since the S20 Ultra? I had the S21 Ultra and now I have the S23 Ultra. It's very cool, I love the zoom (its useable up to 30x, which is 3x digital zoom on the 10x optical zoom camera) but starts to get very pixelated above that. 100x is not very useable.

But I feel it's been pretty obvious to everyone that Samsung is basically faking the moon photo by overlaying it.

Not sure why this is suddenly news now?

Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.

Actually, it's not impossible at all. The UK grid needs about 3 times the amount of wind and much more solar and 2 terawatts of underground hydrogen storage.

There's enough salt caverns around the UK that can give it that storage, and the hydrogen can be manufactured via electrolysis when the wind and solar is producing too much. It's not very efficient, but renewables are cheap.

It CAN be done.

The Australian grid is rather different, it's a LOT closer to the equator and their renewables are a lot more consistent, so they need a lot less storage in percentage terms.

Not really, but the grid operator is basically the government for the grid, and they're highly incentivized to not fuck up. They're the ones that sent out the request for quotes.

FYI as of 2021 the UK had 1.3 GW(h) of battery storage on the grid:

https://www.solarpowerportal.c...

I'm not sure what the total storage is now, it's going to be over 1.5 GW(h) with this installation, and probably a lot more. Note that large batteries aren't needed, it's the total battery storage that's important.

The UK grid operator was particularly keen on getting batteries on it, because the HVDC interconnectors to the continent have been unreliable, and they tend to suddenly break with no warning. That has meant that the grid needs to have a couple of gigawatt of spinning reserve instead, particularly spinning overnight, but with enough batteries they can shut most of that down into hot standby.

The last outage the grid had, due to a lightning strike, they didn't quite have enough battery, and that meant they had to do load shedding and that caused chaos. They should have enough battery now to keep it up long enough if there's a repeat to get backup power running and avoid any load shedding.

The other thing these batteries can do is help smooth out the production curve. If we had enough batteries to smooth out the evening power demand, the CCGT gas turbines would be much more efficient. When they first start up they use about twice as much fuel per kWh until the second cycle kicks in. If they start up less, costs should go down. But we'd need a lot more batteries to make that work.

How about no. Perfectly happy working remote and not having to wear pants.

Thus spake the master programmer:
                "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
                be maintained."
                                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.

No, there is apparently still one AC tie switch in Dayton, Texas that has been used only once in its history (after Hurricane Ike).

You're right, they do have to synchronize before they connect, but it's not usually a monumental task.

Amusingly the UK national grid was first connected up by technicians playing around in the night without any permission, they just synched up the regional grids that there were at the time and closed the switches- just to see what would happen, as you do! Worked fine, and the following year it was done permanently.

I think it was more that he was blatantly lying about it, not that it was renewables per se.

That, and the plain fact that the failures were very avoidable, that similar conditions had happened before both in Texas and elsewhere, and that the recommendations were simply not followed, meant that it was never going to look good for them.