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Or getting mad at oil & gas companies? They’re only supplying the fossil drugs we demand. And using their billions in profits to lobby at every level of government and society to e…

Quite a few countries (France, Spain, Italy for starters) require seat reservations in advance for any long-distance/high-speed trains now. And worse, they have a quota for passes,…

The EFI partition is unencrypted. “you don't even need to plug an external storage device, you can just pull out the disk, copy the files in the EFI partition, put it back and it w…

3GW/9GW is peak load, as I understand it - data centres usually operate at 85-90% of peak load according to Goldman Sachs. Meanwhile, the 4GW figure is average demand - Utah consum…

‘More power than an entire state’. Yep - take the Stratos data center project in Utah, the first phase of which is expected to consume 3GW and at full capacity is expected to be 9G…

Estimates suggest they could save U.S. consumers billions of dollars a year in electricity costs, while potentially offsetting thousands of megawatts of demand ( https://www.scienc…

My understanding is that is why they are limiting to 800w (~4A) at least in the UK's BS 7671 Amendment, which they consider well within the designed safety margins.

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Unfortunately most people's actual usage patterns for plug-in hybrids appear to make them worse than just a straight up ICE - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/pl…

How exactly? Meta isn’t doing this out of generosity to society. They’ll be consuming this and vastly more energy to ultimately increase their own profits?

You actually don’t need (long-lived / hard-coded) secrets in this scenario if you use OIDC: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/how-tos/secure-your-work/...

I wonder if this works more reliably than airdropping between my iPhone and MacBook… which seems to be 50% success rate at best.

Until recently, the geographical locations where geothermal is feasible and economic was very limited. Ironically it is tech from fracking/shale gas that is starting to open up a f…

which is why dispatchable power is required - not coal?

Nothing to do with the blackout in Spain - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/what-caused-iberian-... - voltage surge and various thermal power generators failing to provide t…

Baseload is traditionally about generation, not consumption. And baseload generation only makes sense when it is the cheapest option. When solar and wind produce at near-zero margi…

I had a similar experience and backed away from using it - non-spam emails were getting spam filtered without visibility or notification.

Assuming those don’t become illegal - Australian authorities are looking to ban face masks at protests- https://www.hrlc.org.au/explainers/human-rights-briefing-vic...

The investigation has shown it was in fact nothing to do with renewable energy sources despite the noise made at the time - https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/what-caused-iber…

you also appear to get efficiency gains as vertical panels don’t get as hot - https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/11/10/researchers-shed-ligh...

Iceland, Japan and Norway are the culprits still supporting whaling, not China - just fyi :)

Discussion and video link here for anyone else interested: https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411#d... And lightly edited transcript here: https://github.com/mi…

In case you are not aware, there is tooling to help with GitLab to GitHub actions migration, but I have not tested on anything complex so YMMV https://docs.github.com/en/actions/mi…

Yep!