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I'm in Perth. Our feed in tariff changed in July to 10c/kWh between 3pm and 9pm, and 2.5c/kWh at other times. Use tariff is 26.2c/kWh. I'm pretty sure our solar will pay itself bac…

Dunno if your geographic size argument holds much water. Australia is about the same size as the continental US, but we always get lumped in as one entity. Canada appears to get th…

Except instead of being something cool like "diet coke and mentos" this is something basic that webdevs should be familiar with.

The transaction price does not reflect the true cost of the energy, nor does it reflect the negative externalities. When ~1/3 of BTC mining is powered by coal in Xinjiang, it's hor…

It's absurd. repeating what I said elsewhere - my desktop at home has a 650W PSU. It would take ~76 days of full power for that to consume as much energy as a single BTC transactio…

>The problem with people claiming mining btc is a waste It takes ~1.2 MWh to confirm a single transaction right now. My fridge at home consumes approx 300 kWh/year. Are you saying …

Bitcoin mining is a colossal waste of energy (given it's at about 1.2MWh currently to confirm a single transaction, and that number is basically nondecreasing). People playing vide…

So people aren't allowed to criticise the system they live under? Every time I see this take, I am reminded of this comic: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/

>Please support this with data. It doesn't literally burn for it; fires are down, what, 90% from a century ago? Got a source for the "fires are down 90%" statistic? I think it's pr…

Google wasn't an ad machine prior to the dotcom crash. Before the crash they had a very small advertising group, and it was pretty maligned. It's also somewhat important to differe…

Seems like stock standard American Exceptionalism to me. "When we do it, it's a communications network. When China does it, it's espionage".

> Why would you need to use "modulo and division into round/ceil/floor" on array offsets? How often you do it? Circular buffers?

There's multiple theories of value. Labour theory of value contends that the value of an object depends on the "congealed human labour" in that object (e.g. a chair is worth more t…

If that were true, wouldn't the proportion of crimes involving a firearm be consistent the world over?

While Rowling provided the creative input to her stories, they were: - Edited by other people - Printed by other people - (Films were) directed by other people - Characters in the …

Why would they? Supporting privacy-preserving options is not within their business interests.

>I guess the hardware / IoT use case is pretty small OSIsoft was bought earlier this year by AVEVA for $5 billion[1]. OSIsoft's offering is centered around storing industrial contr…

The other surprising factor is that a lot of heavy industry will have data going back decades. If they can't get all of that data in to timestream, that's a massive mark against it…

>If you expect a 12 hour outage, you should probably spec for 12 hours. Industrial facilities don't always expect their outages. > Additionally, you can scale the memory retention …

Sure, but if you configure your database for, lets say, 4 hours of in-memory, and you have a network outage of 12 hours (this is not uncommon on mine sites), you lose 8h of data an…

Yeah, I currently work for a company that does a time series DB for industrial applications (think power generation, mining, etc). Backfilling/inserting old data is common. Control…

Can't speak for Chinese systems, but I'm aware of "jump hosts" (used for remote access to industrial control systems) that are running windows server 2003 and are internet-exposed.…

>It’s an old idea that keeps resurfacing and frankly I think it misses the real problem of modern websites: they’re too bloated with code that the user is expected to run and yet i…

The table linked lists the following lifecycle emissions (min/median/max) * Hydropower: 1.0/24/2200 * Concentrated solar: 8.8/27/63 * Rooftop Solar PV: 26/41/60 * Utility Solar PV:…

This is exactly why I changed all of my personal machines to Linux. Unfortunately I'm bound to Windows at work (work is a MS shop).