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Nothing about smartphones has anything to do with "need" at any time. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-09-06 |
First, and probably only cogent comment in this thread. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Do it again! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
...Flashiness and consumer perception has been an absolute core function of Apple products since day one. Who's telling Apple to go against what's made them one of the highest-valued companies on the entire planet? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Are the sales stats of people in general, or Reddit users? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Bit of both. Average user age owns what type of phone, local and international. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I'd be a lot happier allowing automated systems to do a lot more things for me if they did things *I* wanted them to, instead of being locked into only things the manufacturer wanted to sell me, and then spying on me for the rest of its life. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Unfortunately from a company perspective, the men in suits will be cutting costs as soon as AI which will likely mean job redundancies | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Like how Siri is useful? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Don't worry, they'll roll out operating system level upgrades that mandate hardware requirements for running AI inference and fine-tuning on your machine.
And then those model fine-tunes will then be sent back to the mother ship, of course. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Just make Siri less of a brain dead, useless moron, please | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
The problem with making AI useful is that people will have expectations about the usefulness of AI, which will lead to them relying on AI rather than their own judgement and ability, which will lead to them fucking up and trying to pass the buck.
In my experience using already existing AI products, they are intentionally a bit shit. They will do a good enough job, but there will be a point where they just will not do exactly and specifically what you're asking of them, so that they can maintain their status as "a bit shit." If they were better, they'd be used like people are used. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
AI is extremely useful even as it is right now, it is just not extremely easy to get the results you are looking for. I am sure Apple will nail the ease of use part even if it means it is not as useful in the next few years. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I mean... Its apple. Flashy is their MO. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
So Apple does plan on making siri better right..... right? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
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Don’t elect someone whose whole agenda is rolling back 80 years of progress? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-09-06 |
Neglecting to mention that the DoE article you linked is penned by a fucking shill lol. 'Some random scientist' has more business talking about this stuff than somebody who profits from the extraction of fossil fuels my guy. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-09-06 |
Can I screenshot your comment and use it in my class? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-09-06 |
As it turns out, the problem is that people are stuck in their ways, and some simply don't have the capacity to learn anything more complicated.
The more technology advances, the higher the bar gets for skills that make someone employable.
So far no one actually has implement a plan for what happens when 10% or 20%+ of the population are incapable of developing skills that have any economic value. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-09-06 |
> building a coal reserve stockpile
you don’t need a reserve stockpile. It’s already stockpiled in the ground in Pennsylvania and west virginia. Just leave it there and dig it up if you need it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-09-06 |
How we deploy 1,000GW of solar is the wrong question. With subsides, we could deploy 1,000 GW of solar and it wouldn’t have the impact of 1,000GWh every hour of green energy. GW nameplate capacity is the wrong measure, we need to be talking about GW dispatchable.
We need to decarbonize the electricity supply system, not decarbonize generation—otherwise the duck curve continues to kick our ass and force us to use other sources. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-09-06 |
They can eat a dick. Coal has died a long time ago. They just need to realize it. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
What about 1.21 jigga watts | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Isn’t the coal industry the only thing keeping some of those towns alive?
I could understand why they are protesting. Anyone would if the fear of having to change your whole life appeared at your door steps. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
It isn’t the coal towns that are protesting. It’s MY town thats protesting. They literally just do not want solar, they’d rather have another golf course there or something like that.
Also, that’d be pretty selfish to protest against something that helps the environment around themselves. The only reason they live in those towns anyway is because it’s the only place to get a job in WV. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Start converting every roof into a solar station subsidized by the government | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
You cant retrain everyone. Its like when people were pushing to retrain these coal workers to become coders.
Atleast solar is more adjacent but still. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Didn't the GOP slash funding for the job restraining programs (in general) after blocking expansion specifically intended to help coal workers find new work in green tech since coal has been declining since the 70s? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Makes you wonder if they kept the solar panels on the WH in the 80s and pushed the tech where we would be. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
“The current guy is taking a balanced approach to a thousand year old complicated conflict. Better yolo it with the guy who openly calls for death whenever he speaks international politics, I bet he settles the conflict” | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That’s enough to power 148.7 flux capacitors | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Um, it would actually be approximately $6-7 trillion, *not* counting grid upgrade and storage requirements. About $2-3 trillion to replace all existing coal and gas power plants, not including the costs to decommission the old plants. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
God that coal to coding thing was such a stupid idea | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
So which part of my statement are you contesting? I didn’t talk about grid upgrades or replacing fossil fuel plants, so bringing them up is tangential and irrelevant | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Buttery males? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yeah, I'm also from the area. Glenn Youngkin apparently paid us a visit and started talking about building a small nuclear reactor (SMR). Next thing you know there's a whole thing with billboards, signs and all. Which I think is crazy cause even if the area was open to such things, there's no way in hell a nuclear plant is being built. That would be a hard ask in the most liberal of states. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Lmao it’s almost poetic he asked you “do you think A or B?” And your response was “I don’t [think]” | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Im assuming solar panels. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I mean exactly what I say, I am a socialist who wants Trump gone from this planet, it shouldn't take more than two brain cells realizing I am talking about the fucking particulars. Is my autism presenting in too literal of a format? It is really god damn annoying when you go and nitpick details to get a angle on every single fucking sentence. Typical internet brainrot debate mindset | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
How's it work then? This is how it's been explained to me
EDIT: This seems to agree with what I was saying: https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/52516/why-is-the-spot-price-of-electricity-determined-by-the-highest-price-that-gets-o | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Can we just start doing nuclear again? Solar is obviously going to take a *while* to fully implement for the entire country. We could be running on only nuclear in like a decade if we tried. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
So, we'll need more energy storage to shift peak solar output to peak demand times. Plus some green baseline supply for whatever that doesn't cover. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
At some point we'll have to take overnight, dramatic measures like that to truly start fighting climate change. Government will have to force change, destroy entire industries overnight, if we're to make a meaningful difference. Much harder in countries with a democracy and easier in dictatorships though. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
If we weren't on a time crunch to get on clean energy, sure. Nuclear takes forever to come online, and is more expensive than solar+grid storage in a lot of the US. Every year nuclear gets worse economically compared to solar. Hell in China solar panels are so inexpensive people build fences out of them. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Capitalism is what delayed addressing the carbon problem for decades. And the only reason renewables are economically viable is due to subsidized innovation and initial production. I think it's perfectly reasonable to be anti-capitalist. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Hahaha good one. I missed the “more or”. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yeah it actually is. If we don't decarbonize it will cost the lives of millions and put tens, maybe hundreds of millions in poverty.
Stop buying into the bullshit Russian propaganda to get trump back in office. Biden does not control Israel. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
The brain rot is you defending Trump, attacking Biden, and then trying to back out of it after you deleted your comment. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
We eliminate the GOP!! | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
You're reading that wrong. It's $34/mwh at the cheapest utility scale. The average between utility/commercial/residential is $92/mwh. Not $30/100mwh. So that's at least a >300x increase on your price, but I'm sure there's plenty more to it than that. If it was 122 million to give everyone in the US solar power, that would be less that 50 cents each. It would be nice, but those of us with our heads outside our own asses know it's not the reality. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
The need for greed overrides common sense they would rather have an antiquated grid than have a real energy solution | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
What will the carbon foot print for the whole scale of this from raw ore to producing watts look like? Is it really ever going to make a real dent whilst not raping other resources? Four million GWs is a big number. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Kill off good farmland for this?
What about nuclear. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
>Solar is ready for mass market adoption, affordable grid scale energy storage is nowhere close to that.
That depends how you define affordable. Using California as an example, ~10 GWh of storage could reduce peak demand significantly for a few hours (on a bell curve). At $100-150 per kWh, that's $1.5 billion to not need more power plants to meet peak demand. If we're talking nuclear power plants, that would cost tens of billions of dollars to solve the same issue, and those plants would have to be idled the rest of the day. So grid storage can be a fine way to reduce peak demand at a *relatively* affordable price. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That was Hillary’s plan. Retrain the coal workers for solar, but Trump came in and yep. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That's what your line of thinking leads to and you know it. Stop being fucking obtuse for one second in your life. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
And, Jesus Christ, what is this magic field the 50 year old with silicosis is going to take up? I 100% agree with doing something, but to just say, ‘oh just get retrained’ is borderline cruel, particularly to a fiercely independent group of people that are basically a colony for the extraction billionaires.
At least Hillary made some words toward a plan, but there’s got to be significant seed money in these communities before ‘retraining’ camps start. The region is prime for LEED prefab house building, as an example and that transfers pretty well as a skill. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Exactly why we attach the networked Tesla batteries with each system. I’m in California, where we buy majority of our power from out of state so eliminating the middle man allows us to provide discounted rates in comparison to the utilities.
Ideally you create, store, and use all the energy generated. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
and you can't run a coal mine with just those 50 year olds. So if their 20 year old kids abandon the industry for other fields and leave town, the mines die and they're unemployed with no training for any other field. And if I'm building a factory to build LEED prefab houses, 50 year olds broken by 30 years in the mines are not high on my list of people I want to hire without significant government incentives.
So vote for the person telling you that breaking this cycle is inevitable in a society without a good safety net or vote vote the person who swears they will reverse the inevitable. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I'm sure the cost to produce the energy isn't going up that hard, but the corporate greed 1000% is. And I don't mean that in the traditional sense. The main electricity provider around me has some pretty reasonable pricing if you adjust for inflation over the past couple years. But, there's a lot of these bullshit "providers" who have contracts with condo/apartment complexes who jack the price through the roof because they have no competition, and you're stuck paying 3x per kWh. Literally all these companies do is collect the bill, they don't do anything special, they don't do maintenance, they don't do fuck all except raise the price and resell. They need to be outlawed. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Many markets here in California have fluctuating rates depending on how much, or even when you use your power. Homeowners see their bills double and triple during the hot summer months because of the rate hikes, where I’m from at least. Many living paycheck to paycheck. We determine whether their roof gets enough sun to produce the same amount of electricity they use on average yearly (the more sun the better, less equipment) and sell them the power at the same or below their current lowest rate with the utility. Ensuring all their power comes in at the low cost. We divide that evenly over the 12 months with a term agreement and an escalator below market inflation.
Many factors determine whether the account is profitable for us or not through Net Subscriber Value
Their focus is to become the new utility provider where many here don’t have any other option. Where I’m from you only have one provider for power for your home. The Tesla batteries being a premium upgrade/incentive many have benefited from.
I’ll tell you honestly that I don’t know how it’s going in other states. My focus has been here. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
[China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total](https://www.ecowatch.com/china-new-solar-capacity-2023.html) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Understood that the grid as a whole is a complex beast, but power has to come from somewhere. If grid-scale storage can replace some fossil-fuel "peaker" plants at a manageable price, that seems like a good thing. Especially if the alternative is to overbuild nuclear power plants like France did, and end up running those at a reduced capacity factor of \~70%. Plus improve our use of "excess" solar energy at the bottom of the duck curve, which is making industrial solar inefficient.
I'm not saying any of this is easy, but your example of the Calpine battery project shows what can be done with today's technology, By the way, Calpine has 2.72 GWh of storage with 800 MW instantaneous output, so four of those could provide almost 11 GWh at up to 3.2 GW. At a cost of \~$4 billion, so not far off from my estimate of $3 billion for 10 GWh of storage. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
a) it’s not practical or scalable yet, and it still takes immense energy to produce less energy than you invested, and b) that’s not what efficiency means. Efficiency is the ratio of which you can extract energy from fuel, and is never beyond 100%. Just getting out more than you put in means it’s above 0%, not above 100% | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
>Let’s start with dispatch: it’s generally based upon operating cost per unit of power per hour, not price. So batteries, in order to only be dispatched at peak, would have to set their operating cost as high as the highest generating assets (busted ass old plants with low heat rates). They would not be built if that was the case because the dispatchable unit price (LCOE or equivalent) is too high relative to fossil competition
I'll admit I don't follow this. But assuming that's true, does this mean we might need regulations to phase out old crappy fossil fuel plants, in favor of cleaner solutions that don't fit current accounting rules? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Someday is the end of this decade based on recent trends. Coal will be basically irrelevant for electric power by then, barring a few isolated exceptions. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Oh Shit, well guys, better hope you‘ll be retrained for free. I’m sure they’ll be voting Biden.
/s for *sadly not true* | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
So you do admit that nuclear fusion exists? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
There’s many methods to phase out plants but that’s one of the options. This is why there was a drive in the US in the 2000s for a carbon tax, but that died to save the ACA. There’s talk even now for paying for negative externalities, but there’s a lot of pushback by some advocates as it doesn’t prioritize wind and solar over nuclear (as nuclear all in price includes storage and recycling, whereas other sources do not).
The most popular American method is subsidies and loan guarantees.
Another popular method is research grants to remove first of a kind risks (huge cost risks for innovative projects). There was just a big announcement for 8 fusion companies last week.
Tariffs are another method that is being employed. This is popular in Canada which tends to prioritize nuclear as they look at the total impact to society, not just direct cost (green long term jobs). | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
>The 680MW storage plant they're opening later this year is over $1 billion. How you get 10GWh out of 1.5x of them is some weird magic mathematics.
The Calpine project has 2.72 GWh of storage (per your link), so four of them would have almost 11 GWh for $4 billion. I guessed $3 billion for 10 GWh, so I wasn't too far off.
My point isn't to power the whole grid from batteries, but to replace the dirtiest "peaker plants" with clean energy from excess solar output sent to grid-scale storage. Another poster here said that won't work with current regulatory/accounting rules, but that's a different matter from whether it could be done.
As for France, they significantly overbuilt their nuclear infrastructure and have to run their plants at ~70% capacity factor as a result, which is inefficient. No need to repeat that mistake in the US, when we could use a smarter mix of all current options instead. Like, say, nuclear power for baseload supply, and solar plus grid storage for peak supply. I'm simplifying, but I don't see a reason not to use grid storage when and where it makes sense. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-11-06 |
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Always has been. Also, sodium is a dangerous coolant that is great on paper bad in practice. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-09-06 |
The ‘scientist’ saying this clearly has an anti nuclear agenda.
> A bomb similar in power to the one the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in 1945 could be made from 2,200 pounds (1,000 kg) or less of 19.75% enriched HALEU, the article said.
The bomb dropped on Hiroshima contained 64kg of uranium, how is a bomb ‘similar’ to Little Boy going to fission 15 times more uranium and remain similar?
Little Boy was over 4 tonnes, imagine how heavy a bomb containing 15 times as much uranium would have to weigh. It wouldn’t be practical, this is exactly why ‘weapons grade’ typically refers to Uranium that is >85% U-235.
Russia already produces this stuff, and if you can enrich to 20%, what’s stopping enriching beyond that point? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
That’s a lot of things tho
No excuse for ignorance | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
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You took a single stat, then made your entire assessment on it. Then in the face of the for profit billion dollar entity with actual skin in the game coming to the opposite conclusion, you decided you're still right. Lmao
How much additional time people do spend on social media when they they use it as a method to go through headlines? Do you have that info?
Do you know who does? Google. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
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I have the opposite experience. Loyal PlayStation 3 owner that bought at launch, but there is no possible way I’m getting a ps5. I got my series s and my pc. I play games pass and even play cloud gaming on my surface pro. I think it’s rad I can play the same games on any of these seamlessly. But my series s is mainly for fifa. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I think that was the plan all along | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
And should have never existed. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yea and how did that turn out? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
The digital XSX should have been the digital XSS al along. Instead they went with a weak underpowered XSS that has held them and the generation back. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Yeah cause registration and always online requirements don’t already affect the use of games on a disc.
Be serious, the bus has already left on this. The only path forwards for anyone wanting to retain games is piracy and by that I mean pre-emptive piracy, because sources for torrents disappear as fast as the game leaves popular discussion.
Microsoft and Sony both know the days of consoles are at their end - if a video card that costs less than console works on a low end PC gives the same results, the only thing they are providing is a hand controller and exclusivity to an ever shortening list of games. Nintendo will be in the same boat if Steamdeck (or alternatives) become cheap enough to compete. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Won't matter if the content isn't there. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
For a console you can often get for $199, it’s a pretty damn good value. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I’m not saying any of this is original. Who knows what horrible idea Microsoft is going to try this time. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
For starfield?? Like wtf bought one two years ago and I forgot about it | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Once you get your foot in the door to pc, there’s really no reason for consoles, or maybe it’s just the fact of growing up and me and my friends could all finally afford them. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Sure, but I just bought a $70 game for $40 today on a beautiful disk. And it was a 130gb download. But it was cheaper and I own it, and can re sell it easily. Your $70 download is a lease and you can't sell it, so it's worthless | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
I bought the Orange Box on Steam in 2007 and I can still easily play it 4 computers and 17 years later. That's the difference.
Sure some consoles might have one or two generations of backwards compatibility but it's not a permanent solution and it's not a guarantee. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
This is the argument I’m responding to: Ok.
I get what you’re saying, we need to stop talking about ‘digital’ though.
Blu Ray, HD-DVD etc are digital. Floppy disks were digital. Cartridges were digital. We haven’t used analogue media since cassettes and dialup modems.
The person is arguing that we shouldn’t refer to these consoles as all digital and mentioned how it’s not all analog. It was debating definitions.
What do you think the argument was then if I am off, generally confused about what the argument would be then? I was just trying to say that is why these new Xbox are being called all digital.
What they commented and what I responded to:
Ok.
I get what you’re saying, we need to stop talking about ‘digital’ though.
Blu Ray, HD-DVD etc are digital. Floppy disks were digital. Cartridges were digital. We haven’t used analogue media since cassettes and dialup modems.
WTF is a digital XBox?
Was an analogue XBox ever a thing? | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
If you want short answer: possibility of piracy.
You can hear a lot, "if they take my games, then I will pirate" or something like that.
Does it solve the problem? No, because what about online games that require accounts? Also using illegal solution to solve immoral problem?
While PC is currently large, it is in weird shape. Around ps3/x360 brands that were mainly targeting PC (keyboard and mouse) moved to consoles (for example COD, BF). Additionally genres that were defining PC were killed and moved from AA into indie. (Point and click adventues, RTS, Turn based strategy, tactical etc.) | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
its a digital license in comparison to a license that is tied to a physical item.
jfc | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
> I mean, who is buying physical games on PC?
Well, I buy a lot of them. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
Right, you have digital license is connected to a disk, which calls to a server to download a game. On the other hand, you have a digital license connected to your account rather than a disk.
I was just commenting on the comment or talking about an analog Xbox but it’s called all digital because it’s only digital license, you can’t use a physical disk with a digital license connected to it with the console. | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
you are being intentinally obtuse.
from the Oxford English Dictionary:
*I.5.
1991–
Designating a virtual, computer-mediated counterpart of an object that exists in the physical world.*
*“Digital, Adj., Sense I.5.” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford UP, March 2024, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/8299345616.*" | r/technology | comment | r/technology | 2024-10-06 |
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