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phreeza commented on We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon   labs.ramp.com/rct... · Posted by u/iamwil
phreeza · 25 days ago
Claude Code in dwarf fortress would be wild
phreeza commented on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes   reuters.com/world/us/us-w... · Posted by u/kpw94
8bitsrule · a month ago
Don't hold your breath.

It needs to be illegal for anyone to buy a single-family home that already owns one, and who won't agree to live in it, full-time and exclusively for at least one year. They must also agree to sell it ONLY to someone who also accepts the same terms. The penalty should be a criminal fraud charge with minimum jailtime -and- a hefty penalty.

phreeza · a month ago
Wouldn't that most likely lead to less rather than more construction of single family homes?
phreeza commented on Clicks Communicator   clicksphone.com/en/commun... · Posted by u/microflash
SkyPuncher · a month ago
I had the Unihertz Titan for a while . It was a fun experiment, but I ultimately found it too annoying for continued daily use

First, typing was actually slower and more error prone. Even nearly a year into owning it, I was constantly misclicking and spending loads of time correcting myself.

Second, you loose a ton of navigate functionality with the hardware keyboards. Holding space to navigate between characters is gone. Emojis are gone. GIF keyboards are gone.

Third, none of the apps are built for this aspect ratio or screen size. Often this is just an annoyance - but there are times this became an actual, legitimate blocker. Items would be laid out off screen in a way that you couldn’t access them. The solution: a scaled view where everything was ridiculously tiny.

Three B: too many situations where the virtual keyboard would come up and you’d literally have the entire screen covered.

I didn’t realize how much value I lose with these issues until I experienced them. Every thing you’ve relied on essentially become unreliable because you might not be able to use certain functionality.

phreeza · a month ago
Holy shit I just learned about using space to navigate between characters. That's amazing, thanks.
phreeza commented on Pakistan says rooftop solar output to exceed grid demand in some hubs next year   reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo
toomuchtodo · 2 months ago
Rough location (if you feel comfortable sharing ground truth)?
phreeza commented on Geothermal's Time Has Come   economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/pingou
xnx · 3 months ago
Doesn't that deep down rock reach equilibrium with the system and is then limited by the flow rate?
phreeza · 3 months ago
Exactly. The only exception to this are very rare sites like the one in Iceland where you can get close to a magma cell which has a much higher thermal gradient and possibly magma convection replenishing it.
phreeza commented on Geothermal's Time Has Come   economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/pingou
griffzhowl · 3 months ago
> the energy flow across the crust is ~0.1W/m^2

It's a misleading comparison. This is only the average amount of heat that diffuses through an ordinary patch of surface, and has more or less nothing to do with how a geothermal plant works, since they don't harvest heat by covering a large area of surface with conducting material.

The surface heat flow is low because rock acts as an insulator. If you drill down to where it's hot and draw the heat up you obviously get orders of magnitude larger flows of energy to the surface.

phreeza · 3 months ago
Are you suggesting to basically harvest the thermal energy in the rock in a non-renewable fashion? I don't think that is very promising, the heat capacity of rock is not that huge.

Back of the envelope calculation is drawing 1 GW from a cubic Kilometer of rock would lower the temperature by 1 degree C every 25 days. So I think you'd deplete a typical borehole quite quickly?

phreeza commented on Geothermal's Time Has Come   economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/pingou
phreeza · 3 months ago
Pasting a comment here I made on the previous article:

To me the most important fact to keep in mind about geothermal is that the energy flow across the crust is ~0.1W/m^2. Compare that to the sun which has >100W/m^2 even at high latitudes. Of course this does not mean geothermal is useless (in particular heat pumps, if you count those, are great), but it goes a long way to explaining why geothermal isn't seeing the same explosion as solar.

phreeza commented on Google Antigravity   antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi
phreeza · 3 months ago
Can someone inside comment if this is this a cider fork or a new branch off vscode?
phreeza commented on The time has finally come for geothermal energy   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/riordan
phreeza · 3 months ago
To me the most important fact to keep in mind about geothermal is that the energy flow across the crust is ~0.1W/m^2. Compare that to the sun which has >100W/m^2 even at high latitudes. Of course this does not mean geothermal is useless (in particular heat pumps, if you count those, are great), but it goes a long way to explaining why geothermal isn't seeing the same explosion as solar.

u/phreeza

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