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Comment · 1 year ago
Eurovision post videos of the technical blunders that happen during the live shows (some related to set changes) with side-by-side comparisons of what should have happened. An interesting watch! https://youtu.be/KeVaE8ldqfE
Comment · 2 years ago
Most of Garmin's smart watches use MIP transflective displays but that's slowly being phased out for AMOLED
Comment · 5 years ago
There isn't a single grid, but there is a large synchronous grid covering most of continental Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
Comment · 5 years ago
The process of removing a chips encapsulation is called Decapping if you're looking for a search term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapping
Comment · 6 years ago
I wish there was some sort of scoring system for product packaging that would take into account the quantity and environmental impact of the packaging. Like, if the product comes in a small cardboard box it gets a good score, but if that cardboard is lined with a plastic film (effectively making the cardboard non-recyclable) then the score goes way down.
That score could then be used by consumers to make informed decisions or maybe it's used to charge producers to cover the cost of safe disposal of the packaging when it reaches its end of life.
Comment · 8 years ago
More like "Uaimh na gCat" (If my, admittedly, fairly rusty Irish is anything to go by).
Comment · 10 years ago
The AN-225's little brother the AN-124 was once used to fly a diesel locomotive from Canada to Ireland. It worked out cheaper for the train manufacture to pay to have it flown over, and meet the contractural delivery date, rather than shipping it by sea and paying the fine for missing the deadline.
Comment · 11 years ago
This is similar to the Oak Island treasure pit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm working on a PHP based solution for some personal projects ATM.
Feel free to check it out: https://github.com/diarmuidie/ImageRack
The big difference between ImageRack and most others solutions is that you pre-define the available image manipulations templates on the server side (for example a template for thumbnails, large images, iPad sizes etc.). I'm not a fan of letting the client generate multiple versions of an image by changing the URL (i.e. http://resize.ly/450x150/http://resize.ly/img/kittens/kitty-...).
Comment · 11 years ago
I thought the same thing.
It seems like it would have been a better idea to bring the cables/ropes in through the hole at the bottom of the wall, rather than over the top. The lateral compressive load would then have been taken up by the bridge itself, rather than the walls.
Comment · 12 years ago
One interesting side effect of this capping is that it is cheaper for me to phone a number on my home network while roaming, than it is when I'm in the country on the same network!
Three Ireland Prepay account mobile calls 35c/min, roaming calls 19c/min.
Comment · 12 years ago
You can see Ireland's real time wind generation here: http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/wind...
and total demand is here: http://www.eirgrid.com/operations/systemperformancedata/syst...
Comment · 13 years ago
I should point out that it was only for a few hours in the early morning on a windy summers night (low base demand, no AC or heating demand).
On average though 2013 renewables provided ~17% of total demand [http://www.eirgrid.com/media/EirGridAnnualRenewableReport201...].
System Non-Synchronous penetration (SNSP) is a real-time measure of the percentage of generation that comes from non-synchronous sources, such as wind and HDVC interconnector imports relative to the system demand. In the Irish grid this is limited to 50% for stability.
Comment · 13 years ago
One of the big problems with PV and wind power is that they don't offer any inertial load on the grid. This means that once the percentage of these sources increase the grid frequency stability decreases.
When using renewables you must still generate a majority of your supply from a big rotating generator. The inertia of the spinning generator keeps the frequency from straying from 50/60hz.
In Ireland they broke a record a few years back for having 50% of the electric generation coming from wind power. This was at the upper limit set by the grid operator (eirgrid) because above this level the frequency of the grid becomes unstable. Even though more wind power was available they didn't add it to the grid.
Comment · 13 years ago
What Google is doing is not illegal (immoral maybe). They have an obligation to their shareholder to maximise their profits through all legal means. If they were to turn around tomorrow and announce that they will no longer use the "Dutch Sandwich" and profit falls as a result do you think the shareholders would be happy?