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frafra

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    Comment #47058846

    Metabase works great with DuckDB as well, thanks to metabase_duckdb_driver by MotherDuck.

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    Comment #44708428

    Play Integrity API requirement dropped: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-app-andro...

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    Comment #43253806

    Price != cost/value. You can produce cheap electricity at noon, which would have little value.

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    Comment #42584020

    Update: you can buy from Norway now, but you need to get it shipped to a different country. You need to select a different country and then chose a billing address different from t…

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    Comment #42574920

    I asked Framework that repeatedly, but no progress. I think they might be violating EU Regulation 2018/302, which is rather common, mostly due to ignorance. The problem is that it …

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    Comment #42350183

    [citation needed] Lazard 2024, CAISO scenario: nuclear is cheaper compared to go with renewables + batteries (max 4 hours). It also does not take into account integration costs, su…

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    Comment #42339112

    Cost != price/value. You can produce energy cheaply at noon, but it has little value compared to electricity produced at 18:00. The higher the share of renewables in the electricit…

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    Comment #41294921

    Short answer: no, they are not (read footnotes 1 and 2) CAISO, 1st column, 1st bar: - blue is the cost of solar - beige is the cost of firming intermittency using gas CAISO, 2nd co…

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    Comment #41292613

    Of course it has debt, as almost every company and state :) EDF got loans from banks and money on the market, based on the fact that investors thinks it is a good investment. That …

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    Comment #41289209

    When taking into account the "Cost of Firming Intermittency" the total cost can go up by 2/3 times in the "CAISO" case at page 8 of Lazard 2023, which is higher than LCOE for exist…

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    Comment #41284700

    > Renewables are now cheaper than fossils price of energy production != cost of energy Lazard 2023 estimates that solar and wind in the California grid costs 2/3 times more than wh…

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    Comment #41284660

    The amount of debt is not directly correlated to the health of a company: most companies have debts, and building nuclear reactors is very capital intensive. EDF net income for 202…

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    Comment #40208225

    This is not new functionality: "There’s a new tool in systemd, called “run0”. Or actually, it’s not a new tool, it’s actually the long-existing tool “systemd-run”, but when invoked…

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    Comment #40145794

    Thanks for the links :) They should use EU/EEA actually, since the very same rule apply to the whole EEA. Given what they have written, I guess they would be glad to amend the page…

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    Comment #40143615

    Well, if I select Norway I read: "We haven’t opened ordering in your region yet, but we’re looking forward to getting there!" This is definitely illegal inside the European Economi…

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    Comment #38989358

    It remembers me when I pasted a multiline SQL query started with `begin;`, but psql ignored the first due to a connection timeout, it automatically reconnected to the server, and p…

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    Comment #38555346

    etcetera is found in ~500 years old books, and et cetera itself comes from et caetera , from the Greek καὶ τὰ ἕτερα . Which one should we use then? Should we only use the Latin fro…

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    Comment #38368038

    They are banning entire countries (violating the EU geo-blocking directive as well, probably).

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    Comment #38023180

    This seems very cool, but last release is from 2014, last commit is from 2018, and there are various bug fixing PR that have been waiting for years to be merged :( What about https…

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    Comment #37378930

    Thanks for pointing it out. The website is rather opaque with respect to funding. It looks that both associations are non-profits, with a lot of students, scientists, professors an…

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    Comment #37351402

    France's total electricity production from nuclear is expected to rise, actually: the government, after abandoning the plan to have nuclear covering just 50 % of its electricity mi…

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    Comment #37351041

    Italy has been slowly going down for the last 30 years. Too many small businesses that are not competitive, providing lower salaries; populism rose. The State of Italy is spending …

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    Comment #37349014

    Do you have proof that she gain money or benefits because of its involvement in such group, and/or that that group is funded by the nuclear industry, as you said? I found no inform…

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    Comment #37348960

    Is it Denmark really putting taxes on electricity so high that a kWh costs 2 times more than in France? Just to reduce consumption? The interesting data you linked clearly shows th…