Hacker News: rurounijones

New comment by rurounijones in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

rurounijones — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:37:17 +0000

The issue is that if my electricity I am using now is 99% renewable and 1% gas then I am paying as if 100% is gas. That is why prices are so high.

The video goes into much better detail but the keyword if you want to search yourself is "marginal cost pricing.

You can still have dispatchable gas without this pricing structure.

New comment by rurounijones in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

rurounijones — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:37:35 +0000

Electricity pricing in the UK is dictated largely by the price of Gas. This is a good video that goes into it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEnFmrgEbWo

New comment by rurounijones in "Every map of China is wrong"

rurounijones — Wed, 08 May 2024 06:26:54 +0000

It would be an embarrassment if the reason it outlived its usefulness is because it got it got circumvented by hostile actors.

New comment by rurounijones in "Every map of China is wrong"

rurounijones — Fri, 03 May 2024 04:33:13 +0000

> is there any advantage (military or otherwise) for China to persist with obfuscation?

I don't think so but it would be an embarrassment for the government to admit it no longer serves a use and such an action would be anathema to them.

New comment by rurounijones in "YouTube algorithm weaponised to shut down Russia-Ukraine war reporting channel [video]"

rurounijones — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 02:04:48 +0000

The channel "Reporting From Ukraine" posts frequent videos providing updates in the Russia-Ukraine war. Supporters of Russia have long been trying to shut it down by weaponising the Report button and it seems they have finally succeeded with the channel now scheduled for deletion along with all the channels that features translated videos.

They seem to be unable to get in contact with a human at Google with authority to investigate and evaluate things outside of the mighty algorithm so we are going to lose a valuable resource.

YouTube algorithm weaponised to shut down Russia-Ukraine war reporting channel [video]

rurounijones — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 02:04:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v063wuJtM0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40047698

Points: 61

# Comments: 7

New comment by rurounijones in "2013 Airbus A380 for sale in Rolling Hills Estates, California"

rurounijones — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:53:32 +0000

Accordong to https://transsyst.ru/transsyst/article/view/10739

> The Japanese Shinkansen N 700 records the maximum value for Wheel-Rail systems at speeds up to 300 km/h. At a constant speed of 300 km/h, it has a specific energy consumption of 28 Wh/Pl/km (Watt hours per seat and per kilometre)

A train can carry 1,300 passengers depending on the number of cars.

New comment by rurounijones in "Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons in New Cars"

rurounijones — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:10:00 +0000

Touch screens are cheap and allow for post-release UI modifications.

New comment by rurounijones in "Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talked about PIPs"

rurounijones — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 18:00:38 +0000

Amazon PIPs happen in Japan but I don't know how the process may differ from an American PIP.

New comment by rurounijones in "Amazon shut down a Slack channel where 2k employees talked about PIPs"

rurounijones — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:43:39 +0000

That fact your reply to a comment about having a structured way to fire someone could be called a "performance improvement plan or PIP for short" is hilarious to me.

It seems you have accepted that PIPs are just a tool to fire someone but still think calling it a PIP is perfectly logical and desirable to the point that you snarkily suggest that this is what it should be called.

New comment by rurounijones in "The Evolution of Tunnel Boring Machines"

rurounijones — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 00:42:33 +0000

> E.g. during the work on the Eurotunnel. Here the British tunnel boring machine was diverted into the rock near half the length of the tunnel and left there. It was cheaper than somehow taking it out again.

Dara O`Briain has a hilarious stand-up about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFglJ3DyqK0

New comment by rurounijones in "War Thunder user leaks restricted military documents for AH-64D Apache Longbow"

rurounijones — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 02:14:33 +0000

Has it happened in DCS in the past? I know of the instance where an Eagle Dynamics employee got nabbed due to possessing documents but I don't know of an instance where a community member has posted docs publicly.

New comment by rurounijones in "911 call shows circumstances of F-35 ejection"

rurounijones — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 19:59:42 +0000

Protocol 3: Protect The Pilot.

New comment by rurounijones in "Why Does America Provide More Space for Storing Cars Than Housing People?"

rurounijones — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 07:20:12 +0000

The power of large corporations and their marketing departments.

New comment by rurounijones in "Show HN: Rental data supplied by tenants in Ireland, searchable by all"

rurounijones — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 03:25:13 +0000

BlackRock and co trying to buy every house they can get their hands on are not helping.

New comment by rurounijones in "Weight-based motor vehicle tax"

rurounijones — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 17:16:11 +0000

> That's the first time I hear this argument.

SUVs and the like exploit a loophole in various standards like fuel efficiency requirements because they are not "cars" but "Light trucks" and therefore those standards don't apply to them; which makes them cheaper to design and build for automotive companies.

The "Light trucks" category was supposed to be used for light commercial vehicles, not personal vehicles but then the law of unintended consequences had a love-child with profit seeking corporations and their linguistic games.

Literally the only reason SUVs and trucks became popular is because the automotive manufacturers could make more money doing it that way and convinced the consumers to buy them. NotJustBikes did a good intro video on the subject.

* https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-wants-to-close-the-suv-lo...

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo

New comment by rurounijones in "Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away"

rurounijones — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 01:10:21 +0000

User confusion.basically

New comment by rurounijones in "US vs. Poller: Ruling says police can use iPhones to circumvent tinted windows"

rurounijones — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 06:17:16 +0000

The officer has no probable cause to do what you suggest without the illegally obtained information in the first place.

New comment by rurounijones in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

rurounijones — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:31:02 +0000

I wonder if he considers Nitter "data pillaging"

New comment by rurounijones in "Starship launch debris landed 6 miles north, residents report broken windows"

rurounijones — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 16:59:23 +0000

I remember that article that got flagged recently predicted that we should expect broken windows in peoples' homes. I wonder if anyone will do an analysis to see what the article got right and what it got wrong. I cannot find the link anymore.