My government news agency basically copies msnbc narrative for major stories, or smaller stories if there’s a link to EU.

It means they dislike the people that brand themselves as woke.

It’s like asking anti-AI people their opinion on support vector machines - you’ll rarely get an informed answer.

I’m so glad I’m here I can’t wait to leave

Mine simply doesn’t take notes. We just walk and talk.

Wait, this is an idea I’ve not heard before.

The idea would be that turbine efficiency would increase because the alternative evaporating compound, traditionally water/steam, has a lower boiling point?

Or is the idea that the lower boiling point allows for ecologically preferrable heat sources?

Hydroelectricity will certainly be necessary! But sadly even that’s insufficient (1). Many people underestimate the scale of the intermittency problem, and resulting storage requirements.

There’s a need for long term storage. But sadly existing technology such as green hydrogen, syngas, compressed air… is still incredibly inefficient and/or does not scale. Until that exists, our current path of wind + solar power generation will require fossil fuels. Of those fuels, EU bet hard on gas. That was (is?) politically the most convenient in terms of price - ecological impact tradeoff.

Those benefits existed long before in VPS-es.

What I understand that was new as the marketing terminology shifted to “cloud” is that the provider not solely provided you the virtualized hardware with a stock OS. They would also manage typical software like nodejs, database, elasticsearch, queue, … Along with the annoying stuff like updates and backups.

Basically reduce the amount of work invested in the ops part of devops.

Airfryers! I don’t get it, it’s a worse convection oven?

O, woe! Wherefore must thou be so hurtful? A wolf in butterfly’s wings!

I don’t see the appeal

It’s about learning how others feel and react upon hearing the same story. To learn if they’re a compatible person, the way their mind works. Put the feelers out for an emotional connection.

that notes are only for the therapist?

They might think that they’re doing so, yet still use onedrive / google docs. Ignorance - inexcusable ignorance if you ask me - but sadly not rare.

Haunted eyes grrrrr

I asked her why she was there and she looked incredulous. Wasn’t it obvious? “Because Keir Starmer’s a wanker.” Why? “He’s taking our speech away.” Even though you’re allowed to sit outside his house and call him a wanker? “Well he is.”

I wonder why the author felt the need to place this early on in the narration. As if the reader, from now on, needs to imagine a dumb bimbo that got verbally dunked on.

but more still felt this far-right gathering was the only place they could be heard

Sadly the author missed the opportunity for self-reflection. They are right: people talk about them, they talk against them, but never with them. This very article being a textbook example.

Why not both, dancing predator

Yes, ideally no gas would need to be bought.

The question is what would the alternative look like?

Even in the best case scenario of oversizing production by solar and wind generation, storage requirements are very large. It’s only technically feasable with some sort of long term storage and massive interconnect investments (see 1. Section 3.6 The relevance of storage ).

But that technology doesn’t exist (yet?) beyond lab scale. Our current path of investing in solar and wind thus cements the need for fossil fuels for decades to come.

Hence the question: what future is the author arguing for?

Funny enough, that website uses the illegal “consent or pay” dark pattern:

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They’re lucky GDPR is only enforced against large US companies - almost as if they’re specifically designed as a tarrif against them :D

Spite

Most commodities are traded as futures. One can buy billions worth of futures today, with delivery date far in the future?