"sunlight is free"

This is the UK btw...

You mean the gas power stations that are already built?

every wind/solar farm on the grid needs backup gas turbines, whether its already built or not, which costs money either way, but those are never included in the cost.

In the UK, demand has been steadily going down. We don't need new gas power stations to cover increased usage.

you aren't getting it. You need to match, on demand, any solar or wind generation. On demand means gas turbines, because nothing else can power up quickly enough. X amount of power generation from a wind farm needs X amount of capacity sitting around waiting to come online.

I am getting it. I'm saying 10 years ago demand was X and we had the gas capacity we needed. Now demand is X-10. We have 10 too much capacity without building any more gas generation.

I haven't even gone into the presumption that it needs to be gas. What about batteries, hydro?

And that's going on the assumption that all wind and solar is going to suddenly drop to zero. And yes it might go low but not all at once without warning.

So yes. I get it. It's you that doesn't seem to.

I don't think it's so much an issue of designed to fail as trying to get it as cheap as possible.

Theres further issues with everything coming out of china and a brand slapped on it. No one is left to take responsibility on the engineering front. This feedback I doubt will get to the correct people at best buy, let alone going back to the microwave manufacturer. And then there's the question of if they care, as they aren't a customer facing brand.

Well you're saying that from not just an Anglo centric pov but a US pov. 'Cockly' doesn't sound particularly bad to my British ears.

But then I live not so far from Penistone, so maybe I'm just used to these kind of naming schemes.

I've recently hand the 'pleasure' of dealing with legal issues. Google ai was giving me lots of useful sounding advice but you ask for case law, and then Google itself can't find it, and the ai in that search is guessing that you've made a mistake, because the citations just don't exist.

But then you have programming where it appears to be scarily good.

So is this a case of programmers program so their Ais are tested to be good at programming? Or is this cognitive dissonance on our part?

To tie it in to this post. Is it a good thing to have the ai generate the code and data? It assumes an understanding that isn't really there.

Weren't structs a fairly late addition to C?

And anyway, isn't that kind of missing the point. 512 bytes isn't much. Your comment is nearly a 5th of that budget.

I've had the idea before. Was never quite brave enough to do it. It's elegant until it isn't....

Can't tell if genuine or sarcasm ...

very broad extrapolation of the previous two 'cycles'. after a peak, it tends to crash to 20-30% of previous peak value, goes sideways for a year or two, then goes up to 2x its previous peak.

the 'four year cycle' is perhaps moreso the 'US presidential cycle'.

So you were being serious. You know the quoted figures are based on nothing...

Bitcoin has already largely separated from the 4 year cycle.

So basically bitcoin is the finance equivalent of fascism/extremism?

It promises something better than the current broken system. And people end and up not looking too hard for / are willfully blind to, the flaws, until it inevitably bites them in the arse.

Even though it is noted in the fsv wiki page, and so definitionally it is notable...