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paulmac_ie
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Comment #43288743
192 kHz is the sampling rate, not the sound frequency.
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Comment #41145446
I was also diagnosed with a duodenal ulcer when I was 10. In my case, it was the late 1980's and the H. pylori cause of ulcers wasn't accepted or widely known. I spent a week in be…
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Comment #35466592
The issue isn't that the grid can't handle large amount of renewables, it's that renewables aren't consistent. Large thermal plants provide inertia that renewables simply can't pro…
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Comment #27940704
They're short series, and with very few arcs, there's not much to differentiate between series. And it's easy to binge watch the entire box series! My favourite part of my job is n…
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Comment #27940620
Dermot Morgan died just after making the third series. Before Ted, he was best known for Scrap Saturday, a radio show that parodied and mocked the Irish politicians of the day. Scr…
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Comment #27617735
This is my prompt that shows my git branch, AWS_PROFILE etc: if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then PS1='\[\033[0;32m\]\[\033[0m\033[0;32m\]\u\ [\033[0;36m\] @ \[\033[0;36m\]\h \w\ [\0…
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Comment #25925056
We control a mixture of loads, but for Fast Frequency Response (FFR), it's mainly compressor/ motors, with the occassional mains breaker thrown in. Large cement factories, refriger…
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Comment #25914706
The company I work for provides Demand Response to the Irish grid operator. In cases like this, our systems would detect the frequency deviation, and shut off loads within 100 mill…