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  1. So, you've simply never heard of the technology involved in geothermal. You only heard of the big word. You asked, "What is under the well head?"

    Just fucking look up Puna Geothermal Ventures. Even many of the ones in Iceland are done that way.

    You're using a grade-school mental model of the Earth, where the crust is of uniform thickness, and there aren't any magma intrusions. No, that isn't really how it works. That's first of all. Second of all, it isn't like the crust is cold, and the mantle is hot. The reason there are different zones is because of different behavior at different pressures, not because there is a neat stack of stuff. It gets hotter and hotter as you go down. It isn't cold cold cold and then you get to a transition and now it is hot. LOL the lower part of the crust is only a tiny increment cooler than the mantle.

    And, what keeps you from just digging however deep you want? Heat. It gets too hot to go deeper. There might be some relevance here to the prospect of extracting heat, too. Hmmm.... lololol

    And stop making up numbers. They're excessively round, and you have no idea how they relate to your supposed conclusions. In context, they're made-up. Whenever you don't know what a number really means in the context you use it, then it is a lie that you are sharing a math-based conclusion.

  2. Re:I assume... on GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you don't tell yourself, you'll never know! Solved.

  3. Why are you repeating the number? The thing you said it measured is just a straw man. Are you now trying to claim that it measures something different than what you said?

    I'm going with, you tried to cherry-pick a number, but you didn't even know if it was relevant and fell on your face.

    If you don't think digging a hole makes a difference as to heat exchange, you're not ready to talk about geothermal power plants, you're not even ready to talk about using heat exchangers under the lawn for home heating/cooling!

    If you look at a basic cut-away model of the planet, like from elementary school, you should be able to figure out that depth is going to matter when it comes to temperature.

  4. Re:Say what now on Will Compression Be Machine Learning's Killer App? (petewarden.com) · · Score: 0

    Here's how that read to normal or informed people:

    That's a nasty type mismatch error. Are you saying that compiles for you, or do you just not understand your own words? That would certainly be average, or informed to the average level. But yeah.

    Protip: People who don't understand the basic vocabulary of the subject... are not well informed. And no, I really do not care if people who wear their base ignorance on their sleeve can understand my words. I don't type it out for them, I type it out for people who matter. It doesn't bother me if it is only two or three people out of the thousands that read it.

  5. They might even do it all the time, but they didn't tell you.

  6. It isn't nearly as good as that Hoff guy in Gaurdians' Inferno

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    It almost makes me want to paint my car and install some red LEDs with a ring counter!!!

  7. Re:Makes sense to me on YouTube is Down · · Score: 1

    The "poetic justice" angle, I love it!

    But some neckbeards are gonna need a safe space after they were tricked into thinking about Justice.

  8. Re:Dangers of a Fragile Single-Outlet Monopoly on YouTube is Down · · Score: 1

    What is a "youtube nagging screen?"

  9. Re:One upload too many on YouTube is Down · · Score: 1

    Is that before or after they edit them into different versions, and add effects?

  10. Re:This is not a surprise on Professional Videogamers Are Working Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Chess, too. Endurance is a major factor at the professional level. The people who can win tournaments have to be able to still think clearly even after their bodies are totally exhausted. That requires lots of cardio training. Most people don't expect this to be true, since they're not doing cardio while competing, but it makes the difference between swimming in confusion, or staying focused, once you're running on stored energy. You can't eat heavy enough to prevent running on stored energy, because heavy digestion also reduces the available brain power. So you have to eat light meals during the competition, except before bed, and a major international tournament might last 2 weeks.

  11. Re:makes sense on Professional Videogamers Are Working Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid I would do laps around the arcade, checking under each machine for lost tokens.

  12. Re:Grab a Warm Soda on Professional Videogamers Are Working Out (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    If you have warm hands, you reduce the risk of injury versus cold hands

    I bet the soda companies are displeased.

    That's why they remembered to pretend that drinking "smoothies" is a type of "work out;" most of the soda companies sell smoothies that are basically milk shakes with extra sugar and fake fat.

  13. Re:Options on Will Compression Be Machine Learning's Killer App? (petewarden.com) · · Score: 1

    The problem with upstream caching is that it is a type of man-in-the-middle attack, and there is a strong tendency to abuse it.

  14. Re:Say what now on Will Compression Be Machine Learning's Killer App? (petewarden.com) · · Score: 1

    Wow, you didn't know SCOTUS has anything to do with anything? Yikes. Imagine how long you've been on the internet, too. And yet.

  15. small business is probably the targeted market.

  16. Re:Known for some time on Some Electric Car Drivers Might Spew More CO2 Than Diesel Cars, New Research Shows (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    About the same amount of CO2 is released from the wood if it decomposes on the surface as if it is burned. Much of it comes from waste, or fast growing hybrid poplar trees.

  17. They don't actually build it on the surface. They dig a hole.

  18. Re:Here comes the telescreen! on Facebook Plans Camera-Equipped TV Device, Report Says (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    Star Trek didn't really go into if it was really off. They certainly turned things on remotely whenever they need to.

    According to Blake's 7, it had more nefarious uses in a political context that wasn't shown in Star Trek because they only showed loyalists with cushy jobs.

    I think people should make sure to be in control of their screens, and input devices. Run your own video phone on an open system that you trust. Don't just buy a screen that talks to a network and trust it blindly.

  19. Re:Nope on Facebook Plans Camera-Equipped TV Device, Report Says (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    I bought the only "dumb"-TV I could find in the size I wanted, and it didn't even have a headphone jack!

    It was easy enough to solve with a closed-circuit jack, a little soldering, and a drill.

    It did come with a 3.5mm stereo phone plug on the back, but it is actually a TTL serial input for wired remote control.

    Don't expect the dumb TV to be cheaper, though. The creepy features of a smart-TV have value to the manufacturer, so they're more likely to reduce the price than to increase it.

  20. Re:Here comes the telescreen! on Facebook Plans Camera-Equipped TV Device, Report Says (cheddar.com) · · Score: 1

    1984 was an instruction book after all.

    To be fair, Star Trek had this too.

  21. 96. Not 94.

    Don't spew dates from memory, either look them up, or preface your numbers with something like, "as far as I remember."

    Copypasta was in widespread use in the software developer community long before that. As soon as "copy/paste" was a widespread feature of editors, it was ripe for this one. So you can't give some late date and be sure of it. You certainly can't state one in a construction that appears to create an absolute limit.

    And to that end, I check and it was entered into the website urban dictionary in early 2006. So not, "might go back as far as 2006," but rather, "clearly was in widespread use by 2006." Unlike Cromulent, which was not in widespread use at all before being formally published on a TV show. A prior web forum citation from February 2006 used it casually and without comment, in a serious statement, indicating that it was considered known slang by the writer. The fact is, there is little interest in the etymology of the word copypasta, and nobody is going to bother to scrape IRC logs or old email list archives for the earliest use. It is a totally obvious play on words that was almost certainly used by thousands of witty wags before ever being published in something that would find its way into etymology citations. Whereas Cromulent is not an obvious word at all, and if it was used before the known citation it would more likely have a meaning related to the Cromwell family name, and so would not even be the same word, mere a homograph. The chances of the same actual word Cromulent having been in use prior to the television episode are vanishingly tiny.

  22. Copypasta isn't as old as enbiggen, but it might be older than cromulent.

  23. Re:What about mobile phones. on Our Reliance on Cellphones Began 35 Years Ago This Week (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    It was easier with live operators, you could just connect a radio relay to the phone system and no extra tech was needed. Every call goes to the operator, and you tell them where you want to call.

  24. Re:General affordability on Our Reliance on Cellphones Began 35 Years Ago This Week (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    On the west coast of the USA, by 2004 even most poor people had cell phones, and you could buy prepaid phones at most convenience stores.

    By 2009 they were standard kit even for the homeless.

    35 years ago, most people didn't even have a pager.

  25. Re:dvorak vs qwerty on Slashdot Asks: Can Anything Replace 'QWERTY' Keyboards? (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    You don't actually have to "do" anything other than design/choose your keycaps and layout and pay some money. So don't think too hard. You'll know if you want to DIY instead, or just assemble.