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New comment by foxyv in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

foxyv — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:45:28 +0000

Meanwhile I can't build a carport for my driveway because of the "Character of the Neighborhood"

New comment by foxyv in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

foxyv — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:57:08 +0000

In America it is a little different. Unfortunately California is still using 48% natural gas at this point. But they are moving in the right direction. Most states are continuing this trend. Driving in Texas you see wide load trucks hauling wind turbine parts almost every day.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

New comment by foxyv in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

foxyv — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:17:29 +0000

I am not aware of a "System" line item on the accounting for cost. Do you mean the capital put forward to construct the system? That is included in LCOE.

New comment by foxyv in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

foxyv — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:51:46 +0000

That is not entirely correct. Typically you will see LCOE for Solar grouped with the LCOE of Solar and energy storage.

EG: > Solar photovoltaic $1,327 $1,333–2,743 $31–146 12–30% > Solar PV with storage $1,748 $2,044 $53–81 20–31%

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...

New comment by foxyv in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

foxyv — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:43:30 +0000

Typically power is priced by Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) where you amortize the total cost of ownership across the total power generated to get a per kwh cost which is what most grid operators care about. After all, large scale investors and governments don't care if a plant costs a billion dollars if it produces 20 billion in electricity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity

What you are talking about is the Payback Period (PP) or Return on Investment (ROI) which is more important to homeowners adding a solar plant to their homes.

Both of these types of measure take into account both capital and operating expenses.

New comment by foxyv in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

foxyv — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:52:43 +0000

> I think you've missed that all generators have upfront cost.

Why do you say this?

New comment by foxyv in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

foxyv — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:54:48 +0000

Solar/wind is the cheapest form of power generation by far. You just can't beat it because they don't have any fuel costs. Gas peaker plants will always make sense until we have enough grid scale batteries. They will hold on for now until the price of natural gas hits rock bottom. But with the current advances in low cost battery technology I see them becoming less and less necessary. They would probably already be dead if hydrofracturing hadn't propped up the cost of gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

New comment by foxyv in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

foxyv — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:59:36 +0000

I'm not sure if it was intentional, but roaring is an interesting word to use here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties

New comment by foxyv in "Ozempic may be reshaping the brain, scientists say"

foxyv — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:55:41 +0000

People underestimate how much hormones change their brains. We all think "I have free will!" Then the progesterone comes in and is like "The heck you do! Time to eat that cake!"

New comment by foxyv in "It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop"

foxyv — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:27:51 +0000

The year of the linux Desktop was the friends we made along the way... fixing our Linux desktop.

New comment by foxyv in "Trump administration to send Americans exposed to Ebola to Kenya"

foxyv — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:34:17 +0000

The person was sent home before the Ebola diagnosis. He would still have been sent home under this new protocol.

The USA, similar to other nations, is extremely well equipped to treat Ebola patients once they have been diagnosed. Doctors just don't expect it because it is so rare.

New comment by foxyv in "Steam Deck OLED is back in stock, with a price increase for both models"

foxyv — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:22:19 +0000

Prices have been a little weird lately. After a quick check on Newegg I'm seeing prices:

16GB of RAM - $250

Low-Mid GPU - $700

1TB SSD - $250

New comment by foxyv in "You Can't Stop This Data Center, a Mom Was Told. She Won't Quit"

foxyv — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:40:56 +0000

Local government is so messed up. No you can't have that unattached mother in law house because it doesn't "Match the Character of the City", but Jeff Bezos can build his 6000 acre datacenter in your water restricted city and they will re-zone and bend over backwards. Meanwhile your water has turned brown and your power keeps cutting out because the city infrastructure is 60 years old and has been maintained with barely functional fixes.

New comment by foxyv in "Public have more fear than hope on AI and future of work, study finds"

foxyv — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:54:30 +0000

I would feel a whole heck of a lot better about AI if we were making progress towards a society where people who work for a living won't die in poverty when there are no more jobs for them.

New comment by foxyv in "A Master's Degree Isn't the Job Guarantee It Used to Be"

foxyv — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:13:15 +0000

If you cannot be replaced, you are un-promotable. Your entire career becomes tied to a single point of failure. Then, when they replace that piece of software with a new product you have no experience elsewhere.

New comment by foxyv in "Military Snipers Are Being Put Out of a Job by Drones"

foxyv — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:40:40 +0000

Considering that snipers in modern warfare were mostly used as forward recon, it makes sense that drones are replacing them.

New comment by foxyv in "Googlebook"

foxyv — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:55:26 +0000

What CPU architecture does it have? No comment.

What operating system will it use? No comment.

Will I be able to play games on it? It has AI!

New comment by foxyv in "California cities seek to bless polyamorous unions: it will get messy in court"

foxyv — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:57:20 +0000

We need to re-work marriage laws anyways. Most of them are exploitative and archaic. There is a reason fewer people are getting married now. We could easily replace it with a corporate structure like a partnership model. Communal assets owned by the corporation with liability laws to match. Maybe create a special equity share for family corporations accounting for unpaid domestic labor.

Marriage should be a cultural thing. Not something governed by the state.

New comment by foxyv in "U.S. Treasury will have to borrow $2T this year just to continue functioning"

foxyv — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:21:48 +0000

When US currency stops being backed by huge amounts of petrochemicals and the largest economy in the world. Or when China stops accepting dollars for stuff maybe? Who knows when it comes to macroeconomics. It's a bit like predicting weather.

New comment by foxyv in "McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)"

foxyv — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:42:57 +0000

This reminds me of Demolition man when he wakes up in the future and Taco Bell is fine dining.