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The post you are replying to literally is playing the finger pointing game. They level accusations right back at spark fun.
I have zero skin in this game, and personally think the right move is for Adafruit to simply say, "We wish Sparkfun the best of luck" and move on, but the post you are responding to is clearly looking for a public fight.
This post is not a good look. You come off as quite snide. In particular, things like "Sparkfun will not?", calling a CoC concern a weirdo behavior, responding to harassment allegations by saying the did it first.
This seems very much like two businesses experiencing friction and separating, which happens all the time. You coming in and framing the flames makes doesn't scan particularly positively to me.
I don't think you understand the situation the parent is describing. Golf is a luxury. Baking one's own bread is a huge luxury.
For a lot of people, finding the time to do either (let alone the financial outlay) is impossible.
You want to tell single parent working two jobs in an apartment that's moldy to "try playing golf. Read more!"?
You are saying the same thing they said -- it doesn't scale. It's not how you build a large factory. They acknowledge this and pretty quickly move on to say that they are aiming for smaller and sustainable.
They even specifically call out why they chose not to use a conveyor based oven in the video.
Basically they believe they can be price reasonable at small scales, small batches. Build process knowledge and expertise over time, and then incrementally scale up after assessing bottlenecks.
I think the route of local sustainable, grow as needed or collaborate to expand capacity is pretty reasonable.
Why? You've said you do but not why you do? Why not leave a terminal open?
In every other case, in every other industry, we call people who buy a limited resource, transform it in no way, and sell it at a profit a "scalper".
For a long time I thought, "maybe landlords are offering some service and not just squeezing people...." But over the past decade it's become clearer and clearer how predatory and parasitic the industry is. Things like this. Things like landlords all using the same pricing algorithms so they can raise rents in unison.
The amount of time this author is complaining about is like, a fraction of the time I spend getting through the first few sips of coffee in my day. I'm sure there's so many bigger time optimizations to tackle first.
This feels like a strange hang up to me.
What workflow involves opening hundreds of shells every day? Like, I've got a half dozen shells open at any given time, and sometimes I gotta refresh or reboot, but even on my worst day in looking at two dozen.
How do you get to hundreds?
They will need to sooner or later. Linux has more momentum than ever, and saying "players on steam deck/steam machine/bazzite can't play our game" seems like a losing long term strategy.
They link to the paper in the article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266635462...
Who is being taught the food pyramid? Its been 20 years since it was discontinued. I don't know any children being taught it.
I work in accessibility. I'm non binary and queer AF.
The particles are a problem for some sensory processing disorders that cannot tune out motion. This is why the prefer reduced motion attribute exists.
I appreciate that you and I probably agree that some people with anti-LGBTQ sentiments will pick on anything atypical about a website like this to claim some notional moral high ground to punch down, but in the case of the particles specifically there are disability accommodation reasons to consider them something toggleable.
(Though using reader mode is probably sufficient for those users, as the site is developed to support it well.)
It absolutely does. It's full of editorial decisions. What content is on there, what is cut. What editors consider germane, etc.
It can absolutely act in a way that makes it neoliberal.
Phone typing, apologies. Too late to edit it.
Excess solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear power.
You have to dredge pumped hydro though. Silt accumulation is a challenging engineering problem and erases capacity over time.
You've got a free order of magnitude issues. First, a rail car typically is closer to 100 or 125 tons. 20 tons is nothing. And the sites they are selecting likely have much more than 100 meters of vertical distance. 1,000 meters would not be unreasonable in some areas, though most are probably smaller.
So a single car in this system is probably delivering 25-300 kWh of capacity depending on elevation and mass. And it scales linearly with mass, elevation, and storage space at the apex. Push 100 cars up and you've stored 2.5-30 mWh.
Their demonstration effort plans to store 12.5 mWh. It doesn't seem totally unreasonable. It's at least within the umbrella of.... maybe, but friction is going to eat a ton of energy.