Seeing it remade in unity was fun too

Jpeg2000, love it. Still no support in Google chrome.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frets_on_Fire

It’s been available since 2006, works very well

You asked for a line, they gave you a line, what more can be asked for?

We used to intentionally add wrong data to our datasets so we could circle it afterwards, declare it “outlying data” and gain the extra points for spotting and documenting it.

I’m not bitter about my formal education, honest…

Female presenting profile pic, we don’t actually know anything about the human who typed it

It might even have been on the cover. I wonder how many glow-in-the-dark trex skeletons still exist?

Beekake

A horrible thought I heard once and can never get out of my mind:

Our bodies originally had horizontal spines and everything hung down from it. Now we hold our spines vertically, but the internals now all hang wrong.

No idea if true (seems like it’s simplifying eons of evolution), but it makes me very uncomfortable imagining it.

Rtf is far more lightweight than docx. It’s closer to markdown.

That is just commercial electricity use. The issue is about what to do with spare power which appears sporadically, without warning. It wouldn’t be efficient or really possible to run a server farm which only switches on when power is cheap, the main power draw is cooling which is required 24/7.

I meant easier in terms of infrastructure already existing. Things like vehicle-to-grid, and Tesla Powerwalls are already on the market, so with the right incentives the power storage in the grid can scale with the speed renewables are scaling up.

It won’t be exactly inline, which is why windfarms are built with the ability to switch off if the grid rejects the power they’re creating, but it’s a start.

I agree with you about the failures in power delivery infrastructure. The UK is very slow to connect up new wind and solar farms because the grid cannot scale up fast enough. New wind farms sit idle for months before they’re connected to the grid, which is pretty crappy. Needs more focus and investment, maybe even marketplace competition to get things going, if we’re looking for capitalist solutions to things.

Right, this is essentially another form of battery. Maybe it’ll work out. It doesn’t require flooding an entire river valley somewhere, so that’s nice.

If you’re going to create infrastructure to use the extra power, you may as well do useful work with it.

Aluminium smelting is about the most energy intensive thing we do, so better electricity management around that would be far more useful to far more people than creating digital assets for board members to get excited about. Just as an example.

Realistically the easiest way to use cheap/free electricity is to charge electric cars with it. Then we have energy storage and offset power usage later on when electricity is more expensive. There are plenty of ways to continue to make money off that process even if the electricity itself costs very little.

Wasting energy isn’t the same as investing

Superman as a power source

https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2305

Half expected this to be a loss meme

You think other countries don’t have protests?

It’s not unheard of for lighthouses to be picked up and moved either.

One man controlling access to a sizable percentage of the world’s internet access doesn’t solve much.

It does change the way people think about history though