| === Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away | ||
| === zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi | ||
| zmoylan-pi | we're in there somewhere... http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-14.05,52.12,3000 | 04:40 |
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| === zmoylan-1i is now known as zmoylan-pi | ||
| brobostigon | morning boys and girls. | 08:23 |
| knightwise | hey brobostigon | 08:52 |
| knightwise | how are you | 08:52 |
| brobostigon | hi knightwise, not bad and you? | 08:53 |
| knightwise | doing ok | 08:53 |
| knightwise | about to go for some Xmass shopping with the misses | 08:53 |
| knightwise | so I packed somme light reading material on my phone :p | 08:53 |
| brobostigon | :) | 08:55 |
| * brobostigon has a misses now as well, he is engaged. | 08:55 | |
| knightwise | Congratzzzz ! since when ? | 08:57 |
| brobostigon | last weekend. | 08:59 |
| brobostigon | thank you, :) | 08:59 |
| knightwise | wicked ! set a date yet ? | 08:59 |
| brobostigon | no, not yet, :) | 09:00 |
| knightwise | i'm off :) downloaded some books on the tablet so i have something to read in the meantime :) | 09:06 |
| brobostigon | :) | 09:08 |
| === Matrixiumn is now known as Xack | ||
| diddleda_ | ms edge javascript engine (chakra) is going to be opensourced: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/12/05/open-source-chakra-core/ | 15:11 |
| bittin | iktf: https://twitter.com/stephaniehobson/status/672299045155504128 | 15:22 |
| DJones | Hmmh, something wrong here, under an hour to upgrade a Win 8.1 machine to Win 10 including downloading 2.6Gb of upgrade, without any issues, completely working system and without making a mess of dual boot. I guess uEFI does have some benefits | 16:31 |
| === scotty is now known as Guest8151 | ||
| === Lcawte|Away is now known as Lcawte | ||
| foobarry | views on chromebooks in schools anyone? | 17:18 |
| foobarry | i.e. schools buying them instead of other things like macs | 17:18 |
| penguin42 | I guess it depends what the schools are doing; I guess the macs probably give more flexibility, as would a PC laptop; but there again the chromebooks will be cheap and probably easier to admin | 17:24 |
| foobarry | apparently the macs aren't being used much | 17:25 |
| foobarry | need to find out more | 17:25 |
| penguin42 | what age range? | 17:27 |
| foobarry | primary/infant | 17:34 |
| foobarry | junior school | 17:34 |
| penguin42 | I think at that age a chromebook should be fine, and you want something cheap and destructible so when they puke on it, it's not a big issue | 17:44 |
| penguin42 | heck, elastic-trickery prices seem to have dropped like a stone in the last year | 18:53 |
| zmoylan-pi | in ireland wind power seems to be reaching new heights every few months | 19:11 |
| penguin42 | zmoylan-pi: UK we've got about 8.5GW peak, but that is peak; we do have the occasional week when it produces ~.1GW | 19:38 |
| penguin42 | http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ is the current UK grid status | 19:38 |
| directhex | fortunately, wind power is highly predictable, and some types of fossil fuel generators can go from idle to full production in about 30 minutes | 19:44 |
| directhex | so renewable as a baseline is actually feasible - but no renewable is suitable for making up shortfall | 19:44 |
| directhex | nuclear is a better baseline, since it's got a constant output rate all the time | 19:45 |
| directhex | and pumped storage hydroelectric as a way to store excess power produced during the day for use at night *could* do instead of fossil fuiels... if it weren't comedy expensive | 19:45 |
| penguin42 | directhex: I'm not convinced pumped is enough; the problem with wind/solar isn't overnight - it's a week of low wind | 19:46 |
| directhex | also that | 19:46 |
| directhex | but using gas as a baseline is dumb | 19:46 |
| directhex | gas is a fabulous compensator, but using it as a baseline is a massive waste | 19:46 |
| penguin42 | yep | 19:47 |
| penguin42 | directhex: If you can persuade people to build nukes then you're right | 19:47 |
| directhex | yeah, not happening | 19:47 |
| directhex | nobody wants to build modern safe reactors, because 1960s reactors aren't up to 2010's standards. so we... keep running old 1960s reactors into the ground. good job everyone | 19:48 |
| directhex | the pricing issue with nukes isn't even construction or maintenance, it's insurance. which costs basically £infinity | 19:48 |
| penguin42 | you can kind of see why | 19:49 |
| directhex | we could build safe reactors tomorrow, but fear of free love era relics means it won't happen | 19:50 |
| penguin42 | define 'safe'? Has anyone actually built a large scale inherently safe one yet? | 19:50 |
| directhex | plenty of modern designs are modular parallel small-scale ones | 19:51 |
| penguin42 | oh, hadn't realised those existed | 19:52 |
| directhex | i thiknk toshiba had a 100% sealed design one | 19:52 |
| directhex | just drop it in the ground & connect a (big) cable to the top | 19:53 |
| penguin42 | hmm, why aren't tehy getting in on the UK competition? | 19:53 |
| penguin42 | that seems to be mostly French/Chinese? | 19:53 |
| directhex | france is one of the most nuclear nations on earh, if anyone has the experience needed to actually deploy things successfully, it's them | 19:55 |
| penguin42 | yeh, that's true, and I think we are due to get one they're probably debugging on their own soil | 19:56 |
| directhex | like... 90% of their national demand is nuclear, 10% is hydro? something like that | 19:56 |
| penguin42 | ah well there's a link at the top of that page for the french grid | 19:56 |
| penguin42 | http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/france/ | 19:57 |
| bashrc | I don't think nuclear has much of a future. Electricity from renewables overtook nuclear and coal within the last few years. Nuclear is expensive, particularly when you include the externalities | 19:57 |
| penguin42 | currently cooking at 92.36% nuke | 19:57 |
| directhex | nobody's had to deal with a catastrophic wind spillage yet :o | 19:57 |
| penguin42 | although lots of people have been killed by catastrophic hydro power failures | 19:58 |
| directhex | nuclear is *way* more dependable than renewable. no "is it sunny? is it windy?" issues, so less need to top up with fossil fuels than with a heavy renewable base | 19:58 |
| directhex | nuclear probably has no future, but not because it isn't good | 19:58 |
| directhex | it's political | 19:59 |
| penguin42 | directhex: Given the design life of nukes I do wonder when they start having financial difficulties due to the expected arrival of fusion | 19:59 |
| penguin42 | directhex: I mean if you design for a 50 year life, we *should* have working fusion by then | 19:59 |
| bashrc | that's what they said 50 years ago | 19:59 |
| directhex | ever gone swimming in nuclear runoff? nice & warm! manatees love it! | 20:00 |
| penguin42 | bashrc: Yeh, although ITER is actually getting somewhere | 20:00 |
| ali1234 | if you mined all the lithium in Earth, how many amp-hours of batteries could you make? | 20:02 |
| penguin42 | bashrc: They've actually got buildings going up and the superconducting cables made | 20:03 |
| directhex | "As of January 2010, the USGS estimated world total lithium reserves at 9.9×109 kg (economically extractable now) and identified lithium resources at 2.55 × 1010 kg (potentially economic). Most of the identified resources are in Bolivia and Chile (9 × 109 kg and 7.5 × 109 kg, respectively). World lithium production is currently on the order of 2 × 107 kg per year." | 20:04 |
| ali1234 | yes i am also reading that page | 20:04 |
| directhex | so it's 100g per kWh | 20:04 |
| ali1234 | yeah. so about 1*10^11 kWhs | 20:04 |
| ali1234 | enough to run the whole planet for five hours | 20:06 |
| ali1234 | that's kind of scary | 20:07 |
| * penguin42 hates to think of the connector you'd use for that | 20:07 | |
| directhex | CCS. | 20:07 |
| zmoylan-pi | the apple variant would of course cost double :-) | 20:08 |
| moreati | A sanity check: can anyone get this page to show a comparison? Is there a button I'm not seeing? http://www.asus.com/uk/Notebooks/Zenbook-Series-Products/ | 21:23 |
| moreati | nm, I've found alternate means. Still puzzle though | 21:29 |
| === Lcawte is now known as Lcawte|Away | ||
| Azelphur | Hi folks, I'm trying to figure out how to make my PC pretend to be a bluetooth headset, such that I could make phone calls via my phone, utilising my PCs mic and speakers. Does anyone know how to do this? | 22:18 |
| penguin42 | hmm sounds like it should be possible, I think, never done it | 22:55 |
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