Oh they’d respond exactly the same.

Lol no I think quota is beyond redemption.

Burning fields in FarCry 3 jamming to skrillax.

Adding to it, animation quality is top notch.

They got Canada right, then I thought c degrees is a joke because australia inverted or something, but then American is also c degrees, so I’m thinking OP of the meme also needs some more clarity.

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James S A Corey

It’s a pen name but still.

Yes but no copies is an error. So better to support the ones we have left.

Profits. Revenue was close to 200b

Am I missing something or people are calling engine of a car “motor”? Because there is a big difference between the two.

Yeah i dont understand some things. I support gender transition and LGBTQ community with all my heart, but I myself supporting it for adults, 10-11yo kids are stupid af. Unless there is a scientific way to objectively determine gender (which I don’t think is possible) we shouldn’t allow children or stupid parents that think they know their child from fucking up their future.

Would we take opportunity from a genuine trans person to transition relatively easily, sure. But i can’t see myself supporting it if it also comes with a massive chance of messing up straight kids that are figuring their shit out that about their sexuality. My one nephew thought he was supposed to be a girl for a year straight when he was 13 to the point doctor were concerned. He’s 18 now and as comfortable with his body and his penis as it gets I guess. And my cousin who recently started feeling like a guy after her long ftm transition, he is 28 now, he says she knew at 13 that “she didn’t feel like a she and should be a he”.

So should I let my nephew delay his puberty because I also know my cousin wouldn’t have to go through the fucked up period he went through?

I don’t know, I think solution is to be accepting of people who want to change as adults and leave the kids alone.

No, you should ignore these types of posts though.

I trust no articles from SCMP.

Made my day with that joke

I see wired and my immidiate thought is, whatever the article is, it’s not worth it.

I think these people just want to watch the world burn, contribute nothing, consume attention, waste time… You know like those early day virsu that would just bog up CPU but would do nothing else… Some people just enjoy wasting other people’s resources.

Tiny core Linux ftw

I mean i get your argument, but super-critical plants can only serve baseload, they need 48 hours to prime and can generally not operate below 50% capacity, they do yield very high efficiency though.

But I’m not sure where this discussion is going.

Coal power can’t really be used for on-demand scenarios, as coal fired power plants have massive startup costs and also time. Compared to a gas-turbine that can do a cold boot up to maximum production in 15 minutes. Coal needs about 4-5 hours to come to full power and that is with the best expensive technology we have not necessarily technology that is in use. Also coal plants take about 2 hours to shutdown and about 20 hours to be ready to be fired again. It’s just a limitation that we can’t overcome from complications due to coal being a solid fuel.

So whatever coal China has it must be using for baseload, they must have more alternatives if their coal fired capacity is decreasing.

EDIT: adding more context, so I have been hearing this coal as peak load instrument for a while now, so I decided to dig deeper on who is claiming this and why? So there are two claims in this space out there 1st being that for larger plants that can operate at sub 20% capacity can scale between sub20% to 100% in minutes making them useful for peak load, and that is just stupid argument as whatever minimum they are running it is still baseload.

Other argument is actual redisgn of plants that allow for quick cycling, but technology is new and they can cycle even 4x in a day, but they operate at relatively less efficiency and also since they don’t ever go cold they start plants semi hot, they can’t clean the boiler with forced draft, leading to increased maintenance cost during full cleanup shutdown significantly and also they deal with thermal stress a lot more leading to increased cost of wear and tear. Seems like only CGS has been able to operate using this model and their gen capacity is only 480mW so seems like a proof of concept idea than actual possi ility of turning coal into peak load.

But at least it looks possible with some research, contrary to my previous opinion that it’s not possible at all, but seems to be still years before it can reach baseload efficiency and last thing we want to do is run coal at worse efficiency.