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Aah. Certainly over here in UK and Europe most people are using solar to reduce their usage of the grid but they're nowhere near going self-reliant, so they're still using the grid…

Aah. Certainly over here in UK and Europe most people are using solar to reduce their usage of the grid but they're nowhere near going self-reliant, so they're still using the grid…

How would this make it more expensive for people who can't?

Nothing about this prevents utility solar

Because there are not enough of these large battery banks, which require planning permission to build. Whereas you can buy a battery that will save you money over a 5 year period a…

One where you don't like the first OS, believe the second OS does what you want, and don't care whether it's proprietary?

Not antibiotics? Surely nobody could be happy with that! Truly they are a terror.

Pretty much everyone in Brave New World is happy. You might not like the society they've built, but there are certainly arguments that a society where most people are happy is pret…

Tested on rhesus macaques. Worked well for 44% of them. It's a positive step, but still a fair way off for humans.

If they provably shared those datasets then they're just as liable for piracy.

They already can't make enough to keep up with demand. Inducing more demand at this point doesn't make them any more money.

This is definitely one of those situations where it would have been useful to explain what Playwright is.

"I realize that my boss and I could have probably worked out some face-saving compromise behind closed doors before having any sort of public discussions." Absolutely this. Nothing…

That's great if you're cultivating a very small group of friends who are local. Social media is how I keep vaguely aware of what's going on with my friends who now live scattered a…

Archive is giving a 500 error. Anyone got another paywall bypass?

Never mind, you're keeping the parts that are going to end up in that sorted location. That makes sense. This visualisation made it click for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy…

I assume that "index" in this case is for the index in the fully sorted list? i.e. if you're looking for the 50th place in a 100 item list, then it's 50th place in the sorted list …

For someone on "hacker news" you're showing a surprising lack of knowledge of the multiple meanings of the word "hack" in computer circles.

If you're going to dismiss concerns as nonsensical then it generally helps to explain why you think they're nonsensical.