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It can provide power when solar and wind are not generating, and while doing so also provide base generation that allows the grid to be robust against fluctuations in solar and wind.
> flockhibiki17

I guess we now know what someone at Flock likes in their whiskey glass.

Re:GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @08:01PM (#49457581)
I see you haven't experienced USFoods and Sysco.
Re:The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:06PM (#49396221)
> The "Crypto and Privacy" village at Defcon demands you agree to the privacy policies of Salesforce, Google, Microsoft, and Discord to interact with them.

Do you have a citation for this? I am not seeing anything on their website and they did not come up to me and demand I sign anything when I was there?

Re:The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon [video] on Friday August 21, 2026 @11:04PM (#49396213)
I think you got them confused, DEF CON is the more counterculture and Blackhat is the corporate conference.
I grew up in rural Oregon, if there was rain forecasted and the farmer was in the middle of a alfalfa or wheat harvest, they would be up in the middle of the night with a combine or bailer to get the harvest done before it gets soaked and potentially destroyed.
> Here on the west coast I'd say most jobs start at 9am

If you work on things for banks, financial markets or the federal government, you may be starting as early as 5~6am on the west coast.

Well, in New York you will soon need to so that the cloud service can verify your not printing a gun: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-...
Re:Casio S100X Japanese Lacquer Edition (JP Page Only) on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:37AM (#48081298)
You can also grow up exploring the woods in an area with a lot of poison oak like me and it just does not react on your skin.
Re:The map that keeps Burning Man honest on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:46PM (#48065623)
That subreddit complains about trash dumping the other 11 months of the year, its just for a little while it can all be blamed on Burning Man.

(Also, despite having lived in Portland, Reno seems to be the worse city in my experience with people complaining about everything on Reddit.)

Re:The map that keeps Burning Man honest on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:43PM (#48065579)
So, one of the problems with leaving trash in Reno is that even if you do it in a way you think is ethical, moral and correct, your trash can be part of the "Burning Man Trash Problem", things I see _every year_:

1. Burners drop trash with people offering to dispose of it for $5 a bag or so, they end up dumping it somewhere else.

2. Burners drop trash at the major hotels and casinos, who buy dumpsters to attract the burners and then people from the local area toss the dumpsters scavaging for things.

3. The normal trash dumping issues Reno has are, for two weeks a year, blamed on burners instead of the locals. I seriously doubt trash bags full of baby diapers, mail and construction debris (all examples I see on the Reno subreddit every year) are from Burning Man.

There are already legit places in Gerlach, Reno, Lakeview and Ceaderville where you can dump trash and know its going to be disposed properly, but not everyone going is really hip to spotting the trash scams and all that.

Unfortunately all this mixes with the percentage of people going to Burning Man who don't dispose of their trash respectfully and it becomes a large, hard to quantify issue.

Re:Why airlines are always going bankrupt on Tuesday May 05, 2026 @09:03PM (#48030878)
How exactly does Boeing drive up the cost? The cost of the aircraft is less than 20% of the lifetime cost of operating an airliner and a lot of the maintenance cost is not related to the cost of parts from Boeing, since most parts that get replaced on an aircraft are not made by Boeing and airlines do not go through Boeing to buy them.
Flock can also fix this by validating the description of the target vehicle against the detected vehicle.

The dispatch backend can fix this by annotating this warrant with a warning that its not this particular vehicle.

Police themselves can fix this by being a human check on dumb entries in computer systems.

Re:Your favorite brands got worse on purpose on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @01:26PM (#47866565)
Costco has the same sourcing issues a lot of other companies have, they do spend a lot of effort on due diligence when sourcing Kirkland Signature brand products, but sometimes what they get in a production run ends up being something else, or there's unexpected issues with the products once the public gets them.
Re:Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:38PM (#47342374)
UBNT stands for UBiquiti NeTworks.
In the case of Global Entry you can enter your license plate into your profile to allow using it in the NEXUS lanes heading into the US.
From my experiences, it does have a higher chance of better outcome, as homeless youth are usually homeless because of some family issue and not because they are unable to hold down a job as a result of drug abuse or being homeless.
Your comparing statistics for homeless adults to homeless youth.

From my experience being a homeless youth 20 years ago, LGBTQ individuals make up a large share of homeless youth, I would guess more than 50% at the time.

There may be less gay or lesbian homeless youth these days, but transgender youth may have grown.

> There can be two Skycams in major playoff games or the Super Bowl (high and low).

There can be more depending on how you block out the cables, I have seen 5. The two Skycam limit is based on two independent systems that do not do cable avoidance in software, you just block out the allowed altitudes on each system.

There also other cable suspended systems in use to move on a line strung between two points and sometimes a track suspended under the stadium roof.

Fun fact: The Skycam was invented by Steadicam inventor Garret Brown and uses some of the same principals for stabilization.

Re:Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012) on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:35AM (#46767773)
The page on Wikipedia for fsn was deleted because fsn is "not notable."
Re:Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @07:36PM (#46699709)
Airlines don't negotiate prices based on the exact options selected, they select a list of options and then negotiate on price from there. This particular option does not appear to have a price associated with it, it just increases the cost of training and documentation for pilots and some airlines would opt out of using it.

People talking about MCAS seem to simultaneously pound the line that everything on the aircraft the pilots encounter should be trained for and forget that adding new stuff to the flight displays will incur additional training that an airline may not want to deal with.

Re:Boeing knew of flaw in part linked to UPS plane crash on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @07:31PM (#46699668)
Did UPS Airlines ever fly the DC-10/MD10?

FedEx did and they retired them in the last 5 years because they had reached the end of their economical service lifetime and not because of any major flaw.

Re:It's Always TCP_nodelay on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @02:58PM (#46368819)
Things I have found that only do 10mbit:

Old CNC equipment.

Older Zebra label printers.

Some older Motorola radio stuff.

That SGI Indy we keep around for Jurassic Park jokes.

The LaserJet 5 thats still going after 30 years or something.

Some modern embedded stuff that does not have enough chooch to deal with 100mbit.

These stations and networks still have about 80% of their previous funding, so nothing is really going to get shut down right away.

Also, in many cases the TV and radio spectrums in markets these stations are in are not saturated to the point where new licensees are prevented from operating just because of saturation.

So this is really just some group asking for public broadcasting to be punished even more.

> or if you're rural, five minutes in and out.

After driving for an hour or two.

Re:Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:41PM (#45974868)
COs are already being used for edge datacenters, its just not been talked about much outside the industry.
But you do need a GDPR specialized attorney to review all of what your doing even if you don't use any cookies.

Why? Even logging an IP address in a request log is creating records controlled by GDPR.

When TV news in the US is broke and only gets along because large companies buy up stations to control the news, its hard to justify spending tens of thousands of dollars on complying with laws from another continent.

For fridges? True Manufacturing.
They were also involved in the Boeing MCAS thing as the company responsible for the computers and who presumably wrote the code.

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