Hacker News: liketochill

New comment by liketochill in "Solar on Warehouses"

liketochill — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 23:29:13 +0000

In utility scale solar tesla product is vapor ware or under development to the point a 50 MW project is having major difficulties

New comment by liketochill in "CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg"

liketochill — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:07:46 +0000

The electric motor is not 100% efficient so some heat must be available for cabin. Large synchronous generators are 97% efficient not sure about 100 kw e vehicle Motors

New comment by liketochill in "CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg"

liketochill — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:05:21 +0000

Whistler Victoria is about that long too

New comment by liketochill in "Show HN: We built a ClickHouse-based logging service"

liketochill — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:08:09 +0000

My time series are from PLC in hydro electric power stations. Usually about 1000 series per turbine and another 1000 for general plant or river stuff. So it is just timestamp and bool, 16 or 32 bit u/int, or 32 bit float. Will just use grafana as front end. Seems to replace industry heavyweight offerings such as Osisoft Pi.

New comment by liketochill in "Show HN: We built a ClickHouse-based logging service"

liketochill — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:14:57 +0000

Did you consider Victoria metrics at all? It is based on clickhouse design. I am considering it for time series type historian so different Application but I think it could work where clickhouse works too.

New comment by liketochill in "How RocksDB Works"

liketochill — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 03:12:26 +0000

Victoria metrics can store data at local node and forward to central when network is functioning

New comment by liketochill in "California wants to cover its canals with solar panels"

liketochill — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:59:38 +0000

If the expense of the solar panels is not Bourne by the beneficiary of the increased water supply then there was no incentive other than the solar power.

New comment by liketochill in "Fleet announces open-source, cross-platform MDM solution"

liketochill — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 21:00:31 +0000

Mobile device management (MDM)

New comment by liketochill in "Xylazine, a dangerous new drug fuelling Canada’s opioid crisis"

liketochill — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 01:06:37 +0000

A side effect of having so many calls for drug users in distress is that those services aren’t available to immediately respond to other types of medical emergencies that are life threatening, such as a heart attack for example.

New comment by liketochill in "$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: GE Hitachi Executive"

liketochill — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 03:41:17 +0000

I agree the reserve mechanisms provide the incentive to pay generators to exist with an entire gas turbine, generator, switchgear, operations staff, health and safety staff, maintenance staff, transformer, interconnection, land, environmental permits, hr and accounting departments to be “available” but not generate except in the time that renewables can’t. The only difference in cost for the plant to exist and not run but be ready and to run is the cost of the fuel.

So we still have to pay for dispatchable generation if we want to have power on a calm cloudy day week. We can add that cost to the cost of the storage and overbuilding of capacity that allows solar or wind to deliver rated power overnight. Or live with blackouts

New comment by liketochill in "$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: GE Hitachi Executive"

liketochill — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:52:41 +0000

How do you make it worthwhile for someone to have a natural gas peaker plant ready to run at any time for only 1% of hours in a year? Where does that cost figure in the tradeoff between renewables + batteries vs nuclear?

New comment by liketochill in "$60/MWh for advanced nuclear electricity is achievable: GE Hitachi Executive"

liketochill — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 04:30:43 +0000

What stocks are you buying and how much of your retirement fund are you betting?

New comment by liketochill in "The Contradictions of Sam Altman"

liketochill — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 21:24:35 +0000

Has a government never prevented a merger that would have created a monopoly?

New comment by liketochill in "Desktop FreeBSD won't improve unless people are using it"

liketochill — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 03:35:34 +0000

Maybe that’s why the wrong version of one note opened the other day and I had to go hunting for onenote 2010

New comment by liketochill in "Desktop FreeBSD won't improve unless people are using it"

liketochill — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 21:38:39 +0000

I still use office 2010. They are deprecating it how?

New comment by liketochill in "Anxiety Strikes $8T Mortgage-Debt Market After SVB Collapse"

liketochill — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 15:09:00 +0000

30 year fixed rate mortgages aren’t available in Canada. Most have the interest rate adjusted every 3-5 years

New comment by liketochill in "Still Have a Use for Adobe Flash? Ruffle Is Working to Safely Emulate It in Rust"

liketochill — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 15:35:54 +0000

Some industrial equipment requires flash or Java for the web based configuration UI. Even Ethernet switches

It’s a huge pain to find the right version of browser, Java, flash, to be able to change a setting

New comment by liketochill in "Havana Syndrome was an “epic failure of science”"

liketochill — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 05:32:39 +0000

Canadian research of returning diplomats and their families found it was likely due to aggressive spraying of pesticides for mosquitos due to Zika virus concern

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-en...

New comment by liketochill in "Best printer 2023: just buy this Brother laser printer everyone has, it’s fine"

liketochill — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 02:23:17 +0000

I need a laser printer that prints 11x17

Any suggestions ?

New comment by liketochill in "Gitlab loses one-third of its value after company issues weak forecast"

liketochill — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 02:19:58 +0000

Which is great until the users blame the tool because they can’t finish their work