Decent for large scale backup perhaps? Or remote plants (almost always mining in the middle of nowhere). Remote plants have fuel logistics already.
Another fit might be somewhere like singapore which is very space poor but very trade connected. But they're currently building a ocean power cable to Australia where they will tap a massive solar farm or existing grid.
It probably fits some use cases better than any alternatives, but for powering cities and suburbia I think renewables still make heaps of sense when space is available somewhere that can join the grid.
This is society though, hence it is an issue of law and people trying to tell other people what to do.
The Elbonia rite crowd don't just want this for themselves. They want to ensure that their vision of "what is right" is put onto everybody. And the AnkleShowers want their vision of "what is right" put onto everybody. And everyone else has their opinion too.
And the shit-shouting continues until finally someone says "But we can ALLLLLL agree that we want to protect our children yes?"
The issue has never been technical. It is how society has it's debates. Things like each issue becoming a two party extreme. Things like media rules that "both sides get equal airtime" even if one is a tinfoil hat wearing idiot.
As a society, we won't get properly better until we debate better and can accept middle grounds.
From an individual senior exec point of view - all staff are replaceable. You just hire from outside the company.
People don't think in terms of shared commons and that if all companies are doing the same thing then there won't be much of a "senior" market left to hire.
When companies stop hiring juniors it completely kills the employee leveling process. It all but stops the creation of skilled senior employees.
You say you can just hire from outside the company - but what do you do when there is no one left to hire because the talent pool is completely drained?
Abandoning the junior employee will slowly drain that talent pool until there are no seniors available to hire, the "just hire from outside the company" plan doesn't work any more.
That is some hard stereotyping being generalised on a platform with worldwide reach. You may wish to rethink what led you to that statement.
Although, with that statement and others from you recently I'm guessing you have "lost your fucks and don't have any more to give" IE burnt out on it all.
Good luck, I hope you get to a place where you can not rely rely on shortcuts like stereotypes so much and have more energy to give to yourself and your life.
Yes, stereotyping. And? I said "chances are." What led me to that statement is my personal experience. Every time I go outside, I can smell somebody smoking weed on their porch. And it's not like it's the same person or the same porch. I can travel multiple kilometers and encounter multiple people doing that. So much for trying to get fresh air. Even without looking at any statistics, I am convinced that a very high percentage of people has some kind of addiction—drugs, alcohol, porn, gambling, god knows what. I had so many people proudly tell me how much they love alcohol, with no shame whatsoever. It's the same everywhere I have been.
Yes, its kind of a shitty way to approach life. Assuming that a plumber beats his wife is a really extreme form of classism and you sound like kind of a miserable piece of shit.
I didn't say that he beats his wife. Basically, I was arguing that people who do physical work, or just some hard work that anyone would hate, must be miserable, regardless of whether they admit to being miserable or not, and even regardless of whether you consider them miserable or not, because I don't trust your, or anyone else's judgement on that, because, from my experience, people only point out bad things about others when it is socially advantageous to them. I don't trust your claim that your plumber is 100% nice and happy, because it sounds like you are friends with him, and people tend to not criticize their friends and ignore their friends' faults, even when the faults are extremely obvious to a neutral third party. And people who are miserable tend to do bad things, such as, but not necessarily, beating wives.
This is a stupid assertion, plenty of people like being plumbers, or otherwise working with their hands. There no logic in your argument just classism.
I’m not friends with the guy, he’s just done good work for me at a fair price. I have a lot of respect for that, and clearly you don’t respect people who work hard.
Corporate greed and government collusion have revived indentured servitude through work visas, sanctuary based illegal immigration and virtual offshore outsourcing. You are supporting a vile practice.
I never said I supported such. Merely that if I were in control, I'd probably do the same.
The US has rules to play by, the corporations are playing by them. Recently some of the rules seem to involve specific donations but it is the current set of rules.
In this case, the corporations have global reach, so they may decide that other countries people can be more productive per $. Whether importing or offshoring. Are they correct? That's up for debate.
If you are a US citizen, then this is the result of the policies of your country.
Go be upset at the US system, not a random outsider who is suffering the effects of it all as much as anyone else. :-)
A toilet door is a basic no brainer. Unless you want any others to watch or - if travelling alone - you want your bedroom area to smell the same as your freshly shat-in toilet...
But then hotel do dumb things like fully enclose a barfridge in a cupboard too.
It’s also a hygiene issue. Bathrooms are notoriously covered in fecal particles, one of the reason why flushing with the lid up is not a great idea. Having a door at least provides some protection against your bed also being covered in them.
Hotel beds are covered in far worse, a few more floating poo particles coming round the corner from the loo (after all, even if there is a door, it isn't always closed by prior guests, and they may get into bed without washing hands or worse) is the least of your worries.
That’s not remotely true. There are plenty of health conditions that affect this. Alcohol consumption can affect it. Completely normal diets with specific foods can affect how stinky your poop is. Non standard but healthy diets also can do the same. There’s a lot more to it.
While yes to a certain extent cutting some processed food and adjusting your diet may help with it, eating a few boiled eggs would set you back massively. It’s not that straightforward.
Extractor, what I’d call a bathroom fan, fair that effectively stops airflow, I’ll go with “close enough to negative pressure for civvies that they fool themselves” (I.e. ain’t actual negative pressure like a cdc lab)
I mean, it literally does. Put something that smokes in a bathroom, open the window, close the door, and caulk the gaps. See how much smoke phases through the door.
I forgot HN isn’t exactly the demographic that tries this and finds out exactly how well it works. I guess for this demographic, I’d suggest telling your tenants it’s okay to smoke in the bathroom as long as the door is closed and the fan is on.
Depends. I'm not sure you could make a business out of just fixing monitors. As another thing the phone repair shops can fix - maybe?
As for why? $ per benefit.
I had a pair of Samsung 204B screens I liked. I didn't see dollar per benefit in upgrading from 1600x1200 4:3 to 1920x1080 16:9.
They went funny, I obtained a capacitor, pop the back off, unsolder and solder new cap, put the shell back on. Job done. 20 minutes per screen because man, am I bad at soldering...
They worked happily for another 5 years each. Until society got well past the 1080p rut and into proper 1440 and 4k etc screens which were actually worth upgrading to.
1920x1200 in 23" or 24" were an OK upgrade from 1600x1200 CRT 21" for me. I did the stuff you did on an 18" 1280x1024 SPVA LCD from Fujitsu-Siemens. Since I hadn't soldered for a long time, I just bought that stuff 2 times, because the parts were a few cents only. Didn't need them 2 times, though :-) Worked for some mainboards in similar ways. Except I've been afraid to completely desolder them on mulitlayer mainboards, for fear of destroying the VIAs/through-holes. Just pulled the capacitor from it's pins still stuck in, cleaned them, and soldered the new one(s) onto the old pins. Looked like sort of a water tower in miniature, but the boards worked flawlessly afterwards. For years :-)
But 42MW energy doesn't come from nowhere, fuel needs to be considered. And there everyone has their own constraints.
The AI companies will likely care about $ and little else.
Engineers will point out that 42MW fuel takes up space and supply on an ongoing basis.
Other people will be worried about the externalities of burning 42MW of something vs solar panels and batteries etc.
You can't please all of the people.
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