matt_attack (u/matt_attack)

matt_attack commented on Guns bought through credit cards in the US will now be trackable theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/vinni2

salawat · 3 years ago

If you can't think of any other use for a gun than killing other people, that says more about you than the tool mate.

It's an open ended, mechanically triggered, gas generator frequently employed to convert chemical to kinetic energy of a poperly dimensioned payload.

That has many many uses.

matt_attack · 3 years ago

Gunpowder based nail guns for putting nails into concrete are definitely a thing.

Additionally you can use certain attachments or rounds with guns for breaching doors. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_round

matt_attack commented on Cloudflare Warp 1.1.1.1... · Posted by u/humility

nemo44x · 3 years ago

> We believe privacy is a right. We won't sell your data, ever.

There’s no reason to believe this. This is the same company that publicly stated their principled position relating to the culture of free speech and then flip-flopped not even 3 days later.

It’s not about that issue but rather that this company has lost credibility and should not be trusted with any promises. Keep at arms length.

matt_attack · 3 years ago

Indeed. I just remembered I was using their DNS service and disabled it because clearly they can't be trusted.

matt_attack commented on New Offshore Wind Design: 20% the weight and 30% the price of conventional newatlas.com/energy/t-ome... · Posted by u/onlyrealcuzzo

toomuchtodo · 3 years ago

As your renewables approach “free” (sub 2 cents/kWh), the marginal cost is storage, and is still competitive against fossil and nuclear (per page 122 of NextEra’s most recent investor deck). Near firm is industry parlance for battery backed.

Tangentially, the Australian gov is pulling forward 10 years their coal generator retirements (2037->2027) due to how quickly new utility scale renewables are going live.

https://cleantechnica.com/files/2022/06/lcoe-small.jpg?mrf-s...

matt_attack · 3 years ago

Australia does have some geographic and climate advantages when it comes to solar installations. Most of the interior is basically desert. It also helps that it has one of the lowest population densities of any continent.

It's also important to note that plans to phase things out do not indicate success. See California right now.

matt_attack commented on New Offshore Wind Design: 20% the weight and 30% the price of conventional newatlas.com/energy/t-ome... · Posted by u/onlyrealcuzzo

onlyrealcuzzo · 3 years ago

Capital costs for offshore wind are 67% [1].

The current median LCOE for new offshore wind is ~$125. Reducing capital costs to 30% could bring the median LCOE down to ~$67.

That would make offshore wind a good deal cheaper than all fossil fuels [2]. Natural gas, pre-war, was the cheapest - at about ~$75+.

Onshore wind saw a ~50% decrease in LCOE in 2011 [3]. This could lead to a similar decrease for offshore.

Solar is gaining ground rapidly - 38% growth from 2010-2020 vs 16% for wind. But solar isn't perfect. In the US - we have 3x more wind energy production than solar [4]. But >90% of that is onshore wind - because it was previously so much more economical.

A massive improvement like this for offshore could be huge! If we could add as much offshore wind as we do onshore wind - that could cut out an extra ~12% of fossil fuel consumption over the next decade.

[1] https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/14/7943/pdf

[2] http://www.globalwarming-sowhat.com/renewable-energy-/

[3] https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...

[4] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3

matt_attack · 3 years ago

Reminder that you'd need either equivalent backing storage and overprovisioning (not yet feasible except in the rare cases where pumped hydro can be built) or backing fossil fuel plants for each unit of wind, even more so than solar. The LCOEs are not directly compatible.

Dependability has value to society and LCOE does not account for it whatsoever.

matt_attack commented on iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS apple.com/iphone-14-pro/s... · Posted by u/tosh

matt_attack · 3 years ago

Only dual frequency? Triple frequency for L-band corrections is all the rage these days. If you have that you can get close to RTK accuracy anywhere (with good sky view).

matt_attack commented on iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS apple.com/iphone-14-pro/s... · Posted by u/tosh

pxeboot · 3 years ago

This is actually how all gps devices still work, including the latest smartphones and watches. It's just that now, devices can pre-download the almanac over your data connection, mostly eliminating that delay.

matt_attack · 3 years ago

Well most offline devices don't take minutes now except for the first fix in a long time. It's generally around 30 seconds to a minute.

Usually the almanac is stored in non-volatile memory so additional startup fixes are much faster.

matt_attack commented on H.R.2184 – End Oil and Gas Tax Subsidies Act congress.gov/bill/117th-c... · Posted by u/lordswork

ClumsyPilot · 3 years ago

because trains pylay for railways but busses dont pay for the road

matt_attack · 3 years ago

That's not necessarily true. Fuel taxes and registration pay for road construction and most railway construction is heavily subsidized by governments.

matt_attack commented on Project Fugu status – Web apps should be able to do anything native apps can developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/koch

lesserknowndan · 3 years ago

No, the reality is that native apps should be able to do far less than they currently can!

While ignorance is bliss, computer security is woeful.

matt_attack · 3 years ago

Rather they should only do what you let them. It's nonsensical that mobile OSes don't let you fake certain permissions being enabled (for example having a location spoofing option).