The solar isn’t the goal; the energy is enabling the value in other parts of the economy.

In fact; energy supply is so important to the reasonable functioning of the economy. It should be taken out of the profit driven cycle of business.

Look at what happened with WPI in Ohakune and PanPack when energy prices sky rocketed a few months back.

The “problem” of negative energy costs is easy to solve, but quite costly.

Build water desalination/carbon capture and storage/hydrogen generation plants that only run when the price goes below 0; even though these are very energy intensive, they would help stabilize the grid.

Then build more solar; you want to try to have the daytime price stay in the negative as often as possible.

This is a solved problem.

DC-AC conversion is pretty well understood, as is electrical protection, grid frequency matching inverters are available “off the shelf” for small units and are made to order in the MW range.

In NZ we have a DC link between the islands, there have been equipment failures over the years disabling the link, but grid frequency events are not an issue. The link has been in place for almost 60 years.

Also the distributed nature of generation makes cascade failure extremely unlikely. If you have an issue in one solar farm; another solar farm a few km away is extremely unlikely to have the same issue.

Maybe, but he can also rip your arm off and beat you to death with it…

When wrestling with a toddler, your stance doesn’t really matter.

Agreed.

And the causes are probably broadly similar; lack of education about how to cook, lack of time to cook, lack of education on healthy food, too much food advertising, ultra-processed foods are too common, healthy foods are expensive…

No, but your weird obsession with ridiculously unhealthy food is somewhat interesting.

So the answer is to not visit the US then.

So you breed these cats as food? Do you take the fur off first?

There is another option.

Just going to put this out there, cook too much the previous night, don’t eat all the dinner you cooked. Place the remainder into some form of container; transport said container to work with you the next day.

Lunch is sorted when you make your dinner!

Stupid adults harm their kids.

These people probably overlap quite heavily with the anti-vax people; it is their kids and all other people around them that are harmed.

To be fair, you never forget your first. Amiga workbench for the A500 was some of the best computing…

If cosmic inflation is correct, probably not. Inflation is our best theory of the beginning of the universe.

According to inflation, spacetime expanded exponentially from an infinitesimal point to many billions of light-years across. As far as we can tell, the universe is expanding again but at a much slower rate, due to dark energy.

Spacetime survived the inflationary period, so it looks like it doesn’t have a “tear” mechanism.

Another way to think of it, is to assume once torn, what is it tearing “into”. If you rip a bit of fabric, you look through to the other side, nothing special. If you tear our 4-dimentional spacetime, what are you looking at when you look “through” the ripped portion? This implies that out 4D spacetime is somehow existing in a higher dimensional reality.

Good choice on Mint.

I have been using Linux exclusively (personal) since 2008, distro hopped for a few years then settled on Ubuntu, until they shot themselves in the foot with 22.04 and the snap debacle; moved to Mint (after trying Pop, MX and a few others).

I have to say a big well done to the Mint devs, it is better than Ubuntu ever was; part of this is newer drivers etc…but it is very polished and it gets out of my way and lets me do my work.

Been working with the various flavors of Windows in a work capacity over the same stretch, in my opinion windows peaked with XP, 7 was ok, and 10 is also ok. But it really has been down hill since XP was retired.

Are you like 90?, 5 - 10 years doesn’t strike me as “future generations”.

I am also able to worry about more than one thing at once, also as a side note this featurebug is “powered by AI”, thus is an energy hog. Which directly affects the climate…

While this is true, in the life of a company, it is not that long.

In reality the “feature” will be rolling out at an increasing rate, the numbers will be growing.

I’m not saying in 5 - 10 years the roll out will start, it already has! In 5 - 10 years it will be default on ALL (windows) computers.

For now.

This is a long play, in 5 - 10 years just about all computers will have it by default.

The only computers without this “feature” will be running the pro / business versions.

2007, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

So a while ago, and Palmy has always had a significant student population, ideas like; you can get a free feed at maccas by going through the drive through and walking / biking off; tend to spread quickly.

When I was at university, I used to ride my bicycle to the local 24hr Macdonalds after I finished work; around 12:30am, I’d arrive just before 1am.

After doing this for ~8 months, they must have changed the policy, I was no longer able to use the drive through. But the door was locked after 10pm, so no more late night snacks for me!

Not sure if motorbikes were allowed or not.

By perpetrating another attack on November 9th, because clearly only 50% of the 9/11’s have been used.

Why does this vehicle look like it has downs syndrome?