This website has 81% battery power remaining

Post by wnkrshm » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 11:35 AM UTC

obblekk wrote: post #168

*Technically*, this is very cool, impressive, and generally an elegant work of art. *Pragmatically*, I see 2 flaws in their thesis (as explained on the about page): >> "The entire network already consumes 10% of global electricity production with traffic doubling roughly every 2 years" I think the implication is electricity consumption will also double roughly every 2 years, but Moore's law actually operates on appro…

Post by can16358p » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 12:01 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #273

can16358p wrote: post #223

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Reddit web is incredibly sluggish. I open the app to browse which is a smooth experience (putng aside dark patterns). Same for Twitter. Maybe it's intentional to move users into the app, where ads are more likely to be actually seen (e.g. Many web users have ad blockers) and in app purchases are frictionless.

Just FYI, for Reddit there's an amazing third-party client called Apollo on iOS, and I'm sure there are others too, same on Android.

Post by DanBC » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 12:06 PM UTC

gandalfian wrote: post #195

secondcoming wrote: post #188

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It'd be interesting to know what you actually are doing! Thoughts and Prayers, etc

Oh, actually, just browsing to kill time while watching the open browser window at the side refresh on the NHS booking site hoping it will work long enough to give me a booster jab appointment. It alternates between "you are in a queue ten minutes to go" and "our site is overloaded please try later" for about two hours now. Everyone else between the ages of 18-50 in the UK is basically doing the same thing, hammering…

Post by AshamedCaptain » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 12:14 PM UTC

y4mi wrote: post #296

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #241

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> power consumption has increased significantly, and is about to become unreasonable in my opinion It is not the first time it has happened, and then went down again. It's just one of the usual "cycles".

I don't think we've went through a circle of more then doubling the power consumption before, but I've only been paying attention to it since shortly before 2010, as I was using prebuilt systems before that. Maybe you're right and more then doubling the power consumption is a normal thing that just occasionally happens.

Post by MayeulC » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 12:19 PM UTC

makomk wrote: post #206

MayeulC wrote: post #97

As another commenter pointed out, Lead-Acid batteries are terrible for this. They are fine for backup power supplies that you don't expect to actually use more than a couple of times a year, but discharging them too much will completely kill them, and even if you keep a margin and discharge them to only 30%, the number of cycles is quite limited (1500 to 3000 cycles quoted in [1] seems a bit optimistic, probably depe…

The problem with LFP batteries is that they really need to be kept resonably close to room temperature in order to be efficient and safe to charge. This is fine if you're using them for some kind of off-grid home that needs to be heated anyway or for intermittent high-power applications like cars that can cope with the energy required for heating and cooling them, but it won't really work in this setup.