ironeagl

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Your .dots have arrived in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

bonk go to horny jail

Does Harry Potter only know fifth grade math? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 10 points 9 months ago

I think the one exception is their money, you definitely need some basic math to use it.

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 months ago

On the contrary, there is a lot of professional software that doesn't run on Windows!

Netflix enshittification will continue until morale improves in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Gross or net?

Electric vehicles fail at a lower rate than gas cars in extreme cold | Electrek in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

.... battery heaters and block heaters are a thing for ICE too though?

Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 42 points 10 months ago

FYI: there is actually an XKCD font if you want to match the original more closely. https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font

Lasers reveal ancient settlements hidden deep in the Amazon rainforest in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

It takes a while to gather the data, new areas all the time.

A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

No, the plant is full of primary batteries! 4.2 million AA cells!

Google Photos Alternative in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Piwigo yet.

Has google stopped working for finding anything? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago

Also, starting in 2018 Google no longer actually searches for the words you entered. Instead, it tries to figure out "what you really mean" and shows results for that. See BERT

40% of US electricity is now emissions-free in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Ah, perhaps my source was off. Thanks for the additional data.

But looking at it another way, nuclear is less than twice coal. Estimating the cost of that georgia plant would put it at $16-17B, so those overruns would be atypical.

But my main point on cost is that government investment has been lacking in nuclear compared to renewables: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2021/12/27/why-is-solar-energy-getting-250-times-more-in-federal-tax-credits-than-nuclear/?sh=4a783c3221cf

Without investment, it's going to stay just as expensive. And the main regulating body not having a mandate to develop the technology has just been holding us back.

40% of US electricity is now emissions-free in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] ironeagl@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A coal power plant is rougly the same cost per GW as solar or wind, doesn't mean we should build more of them. I agree it's expensive, but so were solar and wind a couple decades ago. Government investment helped research, development, scaling up - imagine if that had been done in the '80s, we wouldn't be building natural gas plants right now.