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I love the absurdity of Farscape, but I do not accept the absurdity of Doctor Who. I will die on this hill. I do not understand the absurdity of Doctor Who. Why am I wrong?
  • New Who tends to run on Bugs Bunny logic but also wants you to take it seriously. Try some old Doctor Who if you can handle very bad effects. Early Tom Baker or the Jon Pertwee stuff at least tries to make sense.

    Also they often have the doctor have to work at the problem and have a plausible solution. Now it's just I pushed the radiation in my shoe.

    Back then the sonic screwdriver was just a high tech swiss army knife. The doctor would use it to open panels and rewire things. These days it's a do anything magic wand.

  • World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage
  • Actually no. Batteries and thier inverter adapt in the about one second to half a second range. The massive inertia of a turbine adapts in the millisecond range.

    To maintain 60 hz you need to be in the very low milliseconds range. Remember at 60 hz you do a full sin wave cycle in 16ms.

    Turbines act as a tremendous power smoother in the grid.

  • World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage
  • Partially. Inverters providing virtual inertia is good but has the problem of still being active and reactive. It helps and is cheaper and more efficient than flywheels.

    Flywheels and turbines however provide a very sticky frequency. They help out a lot with stability and give inverters time to respond.

    Think balancing a stick on your hand vs anchoring it in clay.

    If we take enough turbines off line we are still probably going to need some mechanical power stabilization no matter how inefficient.

    But yeah I think we are going to see a blend using as much electrical and as little mechanical as possible.

  • World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage
  • Batteries balance power usage and production. But they are DC and the grid is AC. Battery and solar both need to be run through an inverter before feeding the grid.

    Maintaining the grid at a constant clean 60hz is important. Inverters are very bad at maintaining that for a large grid that is constantly changing.

    Know your facts asshole. https://www.power-eng.com/news/preparing-the-grid-for-more-renewables

  • World's largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation - Energy Storage
  • It's not just base load, turbines also provide grid stability. All the quick fluctuations as people turn things on and off are hard to load balance with solar, wind, or battery. A big spinning turbine has a lot of inertia. That helps keep thr grid at a constant frequency. As solar gets bigger and bigger we might need big solar powdered flywheel generators just to stabilize the grid.

  • Police allege ‘evil twin’ in-flight Wi-Fi used to steal info • The Register
  • If you are trying to steel credentials from people with power and money passengers in first class are a good target.

    Where else are you going to find a cluster of people like that that are using the wifi and are going to be there for hours. It's about as optimal as I can think of.

    Even better if you are targeting a spefic company. Just pick flights out of the headquarters for that company.

    If you want to attack say Microsoft pick a flight from Seattle to DC. Pretty good odds of a Microsoft high up being on the flight and wanting to use the wifi for work.

  • Highlander reboot, starring Henry Cavill in the lead role, the movie is set to start filming in early 2025.
  • I agree he is terrible. But he was kind of the perfect mess for highlander.

    I love that movie but it was an amazing accident. I watched the commentary track and so many of the good scenes were last minute replacements for stupid ideas that they weren't able to pull off.

    I think if they had made the movie they intended it would have been just as good as highlander 2.

    The amazing Queen soundtrack helps as well.

  • What are your thoughts on this? "How did Mozilla Firefox go from being the best and most beloved browser to suddenly the worst company and browser according to Reddit"
  • Firefox and it's forks are the best browsers. They are still not very good. There are a ton of bad decisions and poor code. From old legacy stuff like how user profiles are stored to closed source shit like pocket.

    The mozilla foundation has been on a downhill slide since google hired the skilled programmers to make chrome. Bad leadership,poor spending, and stupid priorities.

    So yes firefox is the best browser. But that's kind of like being the best cable company. Not exactly a great thing.

  • www.theguardian.com Baltimore bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship

    Mayor says rescue efforts are under way after vessel crashed into Francis Scott Key Bridge, sending vehicles into water

    Baltimore bridge collapses into river after being hit by cargo ship

    A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has collapsed after a large boat collided with it early on Tuesday morning, sending multiple vehicles into the water.

    At about 1.30am, a vessel crashed into the bridge, catching fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the water below, according to a video posted on X.

    “All lanes closed both directions for incident on I-695 Key Bridge. Traffic is being detoured,” the Maryland Transportation Authority posted on X.

    Matthew West, a petty officer first class for the coastguard in Baltimore, told the New York Times that the coastguard received a report of an impact at 1.27am ET. West said the Dali, a 948ft (29 metres) Singapore-flagged cargo ship, had hit the bridge, which is part of Interstate 695.

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