Didn't play Baldur's , but in ME it was moderately cringe, and in ME2 (iirc) they kinda went overboard... I particularly didn't care for the fact that just being friendly in half the cases was "the romance path". i.e. that just showing interest in someone was deemed sexual interest. Though i guess that kind of misunderstanding happens IRL too so it's not entirely unrealistic.

"Infocom presents... The Crescent Hawks Revenge" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC1dufHFkG8) - that one's westwood.

RE Bioware specifically, i was a big fan of the KOTOR games and Mass Effect...(though i still haven't played ME3 but some day i will!)

Gaming is a tough industry

hmmm you're right. I was thinking of "micro reactors", apparently, which are currently even more speculative.

but but but Three Mile Island! etc.

So yeah, the industry needed a hook to be different than legacy nuclear and this is the one that seems to have less public pushback so... apparently it's what's being made. It's more expensive per kW and kWh, but at least its getting done vs not getting done.

some AI is telling me i'm being too political and while it's true that LCOE ( levelized cost of energy) will always be higher for the small reactors... the up-front cost for the big ones is SO high (tens of billions) and the risks SO big... that industry doesn't want to build them. And they're hoping the smaller cost and standardization of the SMRs lowers the risk of ruin to an acceptable level for projects to actually get approval and funding and move forward.

Normal operation and monitoring is all automated. So the control room techs as such don't have any real-time or critical roles, as i understand it.

especially since we'd go back one this time they could've just kicked the can a little down the road by deciding to just ignore this one which likely would've allowed them to ignore the next +1 too...

I'm with OP that once this is gone the systems will just become more brittle.

like imagine what it would be like to implement DST if the computing ecosystem didn't grow up with it.

sir, the obligatory xkcd on time standards is this one:
https://m.xkcd.com/2867/

search.brave.com/ask thinks it's doable. it's a 1600’ jump supposedly. and 30 degree ramp with 200mph launch is about right energy wise (I didn't check the math).

So can use electric for the main energy and then could save the air for attitude control and fine tuning the landing which are the scary and dangerous parts.

idk how impeccable the logic is, but one can own a dog and one can own a cow.

The cow especially is often operated as a slave and then often it is killed and eaten.

But torturing either is illegal and high frowned upon.

yeah the Space Age technology of some screws and an O-ring were lost technology to the wearables space for the past 15 years... along with replaceable batteries that that allowed.

Because we live in a universe where its basic attributes are such that they allow that to happen.
so yeah... if they were slightly different these might be nothing of interest here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

relatedly,
some postulate that there are infinitely many universes and by "the anthropic principle" we happen to be in one that allows us to exist because by definition we couldn't be in any of the ones that are hostile to our existence. e.g. in universes where gravity is considerably weaker there's no stars or planets... and if there are no stars, then there isn't fusion which is what created all the elements beyond hydrogen (iirc), and therefore no chemistry, and no life, no evolution to increase complexity... etc

hmmm. the with they link in the comments there is reasonably descriptive about what defaults on and what's off.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Data_...

idk what the chances of changing their policy is, but something like "category 2 should default to off because ..."
Or "installation wizard should allow unchecking of... for cat 1 and 2" would be the way to phrase it but it wind be a political policy battle rather than a tech bug one it looks like.

In this case it seems correct and in line with expectations from Enphase, the battery system provider. This is from one of their docs:

https://enphase.com/download/b...

It's an AC coupled system so solar goes DC -> AC and then the battery is AC -> DC -> AC which is where this percentage is coming from.

(nm on the $207/month isn't right. it's 207/year but just for the electricity roundtrip loss. has nothing to do with the capital costs etc.)

There's a YT guy who just posted his 2 year breakdown on his Massachusetts green house (electric everything, heat pumps, solar + batteries) a few days ago.
There it seems the utility makes heavier usage of his batteries than yours, but decreasing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
channel: "undecided with Matt Farrell". vid title "The Hidden Problem With Home Batteries" is a bit click baity, in that he's quite bullish on the whole thing, basically he's saying he just roundtrip loses 20% of the electricity in his battery, whereas, in MA with the current laws , he can use the grid as "storage" with 0% loss because he has net metering INCLUDING transmission costs.
i.e. if he puts in 1 kwh and takes out 1.5kwh he only pays for 0.5 kwh so he "stored" that 1kwh for free

In his case, even with all the up front tax rebates and with payments from the utility for the peak load shifting the batteries are costing him ~$207 / month over 20 years iirc. (including the installation cost )