@DustinB3403 said in Floating solar is more than panels on a platform:

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@DustinB3403 said in Floating solar is more than panels on a platform:

@scottalanmiller said in Floating solar is more than panels on a platform:

They should put solar power on glaciers! Someone call Argentina, Chile, and Greenland. This is a huge opportunity!

The issue with glaciers is that they can be treacherous, difficult to work on and vastly unstable.

Man made reservoirs on the other hand would be level and easily accessed.

Just putting solar production on every reservoir in the US would offset a lot of coal power.

Sadly you can't just put solar on every reservoir in the US.... There is the entire pleasure craft industry... as well as fishing both for food and sport...

You can still put solar on these reservoirs. You don't have to fill the entire reservoir with solar, although that might be ideal.

True, even just a little coverage helps a little.

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There goes Ed25519

Might as well stick to RSA 4096

@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

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@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@travisdh1 said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

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@Dashrender said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@coliver said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@SanWIN said in Underwater Servers in Your Future?:

@Dashrender Direct water cooling looks like more effective, taking into account that you have to burn (generate heat) something to produce an electricity to cool the hardware with the traditional air conditioning. But I do agree that it still could affect the nature.

Especially if you can couple this with offshore wind, solar, wave, or current generation systems.

This might be crazy thinking - But I wonder how much we are affecting our physical world by tapping energy directly out of it - i.e. taking heat energy from the planet, pulling energy from wind, from wave, etc. In writing that - I'm wondering if there might just be less thermal bleedoff? I know the planet gets a ton of energy from the sun, I'm pretty sure it's what powers most of our weather, so maybe it's a non issue?

It's mostly a non-issue. We're affecting it more with CO2 and other gases then we are through wind, solar, and geothermal.

CO2 is not the boogieman it's made out to be. There are lots of other reasons to prefer moving things to have less impact on the environment. I think it's that most people aren't capable of understanding those other reasons that a boogieman like CO2 is used, most people think they understand less=good more=bad.

There are whole bodies of research on why excessive amounts of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are bad for the environment and people living in those environments. It's not a new thing and knowledge of it has been around for decades...

The key word is excessive. Take a look at the historic CO2 values to get the idea.

Huh? Even past concentration didn't really hit the point where we are today. IIRC the highest (and climatically volatile period) was only ever ~300PPM CO2 at least from the measurements of ice cores. We're well into the 400PPM CO2... So I'm not sure what you mean by look historically.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/06/04/dr-vincent-gray-on-historical-carbon-dioxide-levels/

HAHAHAHAAAHAH

In New Zealand, he was the first Director of Building Research and later, Chief Chemist of the Coal Research Association.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_R._Gray

@NerdyDad said in Musk went on firing spree over slow satellite broadband progress:

@scottalanmiller You don't have to go all that far to find really crappy Internet, even though we aren't even in the slightest of poorest countries. Glad to see that somebody is doing something with all of their money and power to help the rest of humanity.

Yeah, but even rural America with the worst options, you have the options of leased lines, bad satellite, moving, fixed wifi, etc. It's awful, but never as limited as being in a country where free Internet (free as in freedom) doesn't exist, or there is no provider at all that you can legally use.

One of the examples in the article is that in a jury case, someone needed to explain 10% as meaning "one in ten". I think people who really get stats do this for everything in their heads all of the time - take anything and put it into the most meaningful terms. And I think those same people would be surprised to find out that other people do not do this.

The US really needs this competition. They say that the latency is low on 5G with 2-4ms, but the FCC claims Verizon FiOS is 10ms. But as a FiOS user, I can tell you, it's definitely 2-4ms all the time.

@scottalanmiller said in New Alexa Devices Announced:

@dashrender said in New Alexa Devices Announced:

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@scottalanmiller said in New Alexa Devices Announced:

Alexa Wallclock

A traditional clock, but you can talk to it.

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Who is this even aimed at if schools no longer teach kids how to read analog clocks?

that's funny - I was wondering too - is Jeff Bezos trying to bring back analog clocks?

I think the majority of wall clocks remain analogue. You might disagree, but I feel like most people find analogue clocks to be a lot more attractive. People think of analogue clocks as fancy decor for their house, digital is more for bathrooms or bedside tables.

No I don't disagree.

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@dafyre said in Drupalgeddon2 Kicks Off:

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@dafyre said in Drupalgeddon2 Kicks Off:

Has everybody else already patched their Drupal setups?

Well, a new customer we needed to patch it 😞

Hopefully it has been patched before they got pwned.

Yeah hopefully .

@ryanov said in White Castle Adds Veggie Burgers!:

@dustinb3403 I legit just did forgot password to log in here and downvote your comment. Apparently I dont yet have the reputation for it. So now I’ll have to work on that so that I can come back and downvote it.

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Hah! I was just cleaning out my email and found a survey from them. Wonder if they'll actually respond to me.

Here is the current Mac Pro, the top of the line system: https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/

Honestly, it's not impressive. This is not "power" hardware by any stretch. The price is high, but the gear in it is lackluster. They've not released a "power" product since 2013, what they released then was this which is pretty hampered, and they don't plan to update it until 2019 at the earliest.

It's not hard at all to see how an ARM-based system might compete really, really well here. Apple's "power user" hardware isn't on par with power users from the rest of the industry as it stands today and their refresh cycles are absurd so that anyone in their "power users club" has to already feel totally abandoned under the current model of things.

@coliver said in FCC Has Approved SpaceX Satellite Launch Plan:

@nerdydad said in FCC Has Approved SpaceX Satellite Launch Plan:

Of course, this directly affects all ISPs, but I'm also curious to see if this will also affect cell phone carriers worldwide. Will they also go bankrupt in time or will they have to adapt to stay relevant? Would cell phines even be able to communicate? Currently no, but in the near future?

It looks like it's being pitched as a competitor to cellular devices.

That'll take a lot of work to get mobile devices able to talk to it. If they can get that cheap and reliable, it'll be the killer thing.

Oh wait, that's a Lenovo product. That would explain why there is spyware that can't be removed. That totally mimics everything we know about Lenovo. Honestly, FB is the least of your worries there.

Analysis is that the new Apple iPad is not enough to help Apple in the education market.

@nashbrydges said in Going Past Spectre, New Branch Prediction Security Attacks Discovered:

@mlnews Ugh! I'm going back to my abacus.

My 8yo loves using an abacus.