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Comment Re:In ur radar, hacking ur storm cloudz (Score 2) 71

The old images were from radars that did 6 elevations with a sweep time of a minute per elevation. So rather than put the data in a continuous 6 minute buffer, they throw all the data away every 6 minutes and start over.

They could have bought a system from a number of groups for far less money. There are even TV stations that would have sold them a world class system for a few million dollars. That would be a turnkey system that can take feeds from all the existing radars plus any of the newer coastal radars that also collect weather data as well as the mobile research radars.

Comment Re:Sure, do this instead of better tech (Score 1) 69

Given I haven't used Firefox for that long now, do they finally have the ability to select input and output devices for audio?

I use speakers for normal audio, but Teams / Discord etc on a headset only.

Yet the feature request to be able to select audio streams has been around for at least a decade and never implemented... I gave up caring in waiting for an outbreak of common sense - but you wanted to know what 'tech' is missing...

Comment Re:Universal fix (Score 1) 215

This is what the numbers look like:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftrends.builtwith.com%2FS...

Sadly, it seems the quality of Fedora is going down the gurgler too.

If they ever finish debian to use a single init system and actually have some consistency, it'd be soooo much nicer to use. I've been saying that the last 5-6 versions though.

That's the problem with debian - there's no central leadership for anything - so it only really seems to get 80% of the way there. If they could just get that extra 20% completed, it'd be a complete, hands-down, no brainer to use for just about everything.

Comment 7 Day certs? (Score 3, Interesting) 38

There are proposals to have 7 day SSL/TLS certs. This is an example of why that could be a major problem. Many Islands are connected by one cable with an old satellite system as backup. Emergency satellite links often don't comply with the local law of the disconnected country or the downlink station.

Comment Re:Research funded by venture capital (Score 1) 131

Except you're just wrong.

By the time you deploy enough solar and wind to charge the batteries *as well as* supply the load while the batteries charge, you're deploying ~6-10x your required load in watts. Add to that the MWh required (remember, power vs capacity), and you'll also need 3-4x the amount of storage as your daily usage - most of the time, that will be idle and unused.

Capacity factor in renewables still isn't anywhere near traditional generation - whatever type you compare it to. Nuclear is normally north of 93%, solar and wind still sits around 25-30% in most deployments.

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