Katherine 🏳️⚧️
@quadraticink.bsky.social
Principal Software Engineer at Scopely.
Personal account for personal ramblings.
If I'm posting/sharing code, it's probably cursed.
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Personal account for personal ramblings.
If I'm posting/sharing code, it's probably cursed.
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You called your account "Altenergy" out of your own volition. Learn the basics. These are things anybody actually using solar in their house knows, let alone anyone doing renewables professionally.
Being unaware of such fundamentals make you sound like a fraud, trying to con people.
Being unaware of such fundamentals make you sound like a fraud, trying to con people.
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
You called your account "Altenergy" out of your own volition. Learn the basics. These are things anybody actually using solar in their house knows, let alone anyone doing renewables professionally.
Being unaware of such fundamentals make you sound like a fraud, trying to con people.
Being unaware of such fundamentals make you sound like a fraud, trying to con people.
And how many days can be cloudy in a row? Do you understand what an average is? Do you know what a typical usage cycle looks like? What sort of "heavy tasks," do you push off for a season?
Calcs are there, you shouldn't even ask, but car that's not statistically there during peak production 5/7?
Calcs are there, you shouldn't even ask, but car that's not statistically there during peak production 5/7?
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
And how many days can be cloudy in a row? Do you understand what an average is? Do you know what a typical usage cycle looks like? What sort of "heavy tasks," do you push off for a season?
Calcs are there, you shouldn't even ask, but car that's not statistically there during peak production 5/7?
Calcs are there, you shouldn't even ask, but car that's not statistically there during peak production 5/7?
With AI slop, though?
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
With AI slop, though?
P.S. "Lets just make more batteries, then." Not enough known lithium reserves to get the capacity up in time. If we aren't zero carbon by 2040, 2050 at the latest, things will get dire with climate. Current reserves put us on track for 2100-ish? We need other storage methods.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
P.S. "Lets just make more batteries, then." Not enough known lithium reserves to get the capacity up in time. If we aren't zero carbon by 2040, 2050 at the latest, things will get dire with climate. Current reserves put us on track for 2100-ish? We need other storage methods.
This isn't meant to be defeatist, mind. I'm just warning against saying, "Well, renewables will end up being cheaper than fossils, so this whole CO2 problem will sort itself out."
It won't. Not fast enough. We'll have to put in effort and resources to hurry renewables along.
It won't. Not fast enough. We'll have to put in effort and resources to hurry renewables along.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
This isn't meant to be defeatist, mind. I'm just warning against saying, "Well, renewables will end up being cheaper than fossils, so this whole CO2 problem will sort itself out."
It won't. Not fast enough. We'll have to put in effort and resources to hurry renewables along.
It won't. Not fast enough. We'll have to put in effort and resources to hurry renewables along.
The scale of the problem is a couple of orders of magnitude worse than our current rate of addressing it.
I have no doubt we'll catch up eventually, but we are doing catastrophic, irreversible damave to environment already.
I have no doubt we'll catch up eventually, but we are doing catastrophic, irreversible damave to environment already.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The scale of the problem is a couple of orders of magnitude worse than our current rate of addressing it.
I have no doubt we'll catch up eventually, but we are doing catastrophic, irreversible damave to environment already.
I have no doubt we'll catch up eventually, but we are doing catastrophic, irreversible damave to environment already.
And this is current power use against 2030 projections for batteries, so the increase from 300k batteries to 1.2M might not even cover the increase in power use.
And that's just residential, which is about a quarter of total and in Australia, which isn't a top power user on Earth by far.
And that's just residential, which is about a quarter of total and in Australia, which isn't a top power user on Earth by far.
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
And this is current power use against 2030 projections for batteries, so the increase from 300k batteries to 1.2M might not even cover the increase in power use.
And that's just residential, which is about a quarter of total and in Australia, which isn't a top power user on Earth by far.
And that's just residential, which is about a quarter of total and in Australia, which isn't a top power user on Earth by far.
Look, it's a good start, but the residential usage alone is ballpark 70TWh/yr. You want 24h reserve. That's 190GWh of storage. If these 1.2M batteries are an average of 20kWh, enough for average household power use for 24h reserve, you're 166GWh short...
November 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Look, it's a good start, but the residential usage alone is ballpark 70TWh/yr. You want 24h reserve. That's 190GWh of storage. If these 1.2M batteries are an average of 20kWh, enough for average household power use for 24h reserve, you're 166GWh short...
I almost thought you hurt your foot on the way to x-ray, I was about to howl.
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
I almost thought you hurt your foot on the way to x-ray, I was about to howl.
P.S. Yeah, I know that "Senate representing people," is kind of a bad joke to begin with. Even *if* we pretend they aren't just working for the lobbies, this is still very ugh.
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
P.S. Yeah, I know that "Senate representing people," is kind of a bad joke to begin with. Even *if* we pretend they aren't just working for the lobbies, this is still very ugh.
And these 53 Republican votes represent 46.5% of the US population. The disparity isn't as awful as I expected it to be, mostly 'cause Texas, but it's still an upsetting situation. And it looks even worse if you consider *which* groups are being better represented.
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
And these 53 Republican votes represent 46.5% of the US population. The disparity isn't as awful as I expected it to be, mostly 'cause Texas, but it's still an upsetting situation. And it looks even worse if you consider *which* groups are being better represented.
All of the senators, even the ones that didn't vote yes yesterday, are now helping fast-track this through the senate. This isn't just a Chuck and the defectors problem. The entire senate's rotten, and absolutely not a single one of them should be electable ever again.
November 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
All of the senators, even the ones that didn't vote yes yesterday, are now helping fast-track this through the senate. This isn't just a Chuck and the defectors problem. The entire senate's rotten, and absolutely not a single one of them should be electable ever again.
Yeah, it's better to do imaging and not take risks with the spine and/or any internal bruising that might be more serious than it looks. Glad you're getting it looked at.
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Yeah, it's better to do imaging and not take risks with the spine and/or any internal bruising that might be more serious than it looks. Glad you're getting it looked at.
Lighter-than-air is rough. Other than hydrogen and helium there aren't good lifting gases, and getting enough helium is... Yeah. But we do have much better, less flammable materials. Maybe we could try hydrogen again?
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Lighter-than-air is rough. Other than hydrogen and helium there aren't good lifting gases, and getting enough helium is... Yeah. But we do have much better, less flammable materials. Maybe we could try hydrogen again?
Which is mean and unfair.
But still worth the effort. *sigh*
But still worth the effort. *sigh*
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Which is mean and unfair.
But still worth the effort. *sigh*
But still worth the effort. *sigh*
The truth is, any person who can be trusted with having billions of dollars would stop having billions of dollars within days, because they'd find good things to do with that money. Hence, no such thing as a good billionaire, I'm afraid.
November 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The truth is, any person who can be trusted with having billions of dollars would stop having billions of dollars within days, because they'd find good things to do with that money. Hence, no such thing as a good billionaire, I'm afraid.
He wanted pictures of Spider-Man!
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
He wanted pictures of Spider-Man!
You'd think that's over the top, but having spent 10 years in a department that focused primarily on high energy, condensed matter, and low temperature physics, meaning we had silly powerful magnets and vats of liquefied gases in the research annex, I've seen how these things can go wrong.
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
You'd think that's over the top, but having spent 10 years in a department that focused primarily on high energy, condensed matter, and low temperature physics, meaning we had silly powerful magnets and vats of liquefied gases in the research annex, I've seen how these things can go wrong.
When the department promissed to do some maintenance on the science building, but never allocated budget for the workers.
November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
When the department promissed to do some maintenance on the science building, but never allocated budget for the workers.
I know it's pure fiction, but I want to picture someone having *a day* and actually trying to do a getaway on something like this, and law officer "giving chase" by walking along patiently, trying to talk them down.
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I know it's pure fiction, but I want to picture someone having *a day* and actually trying to do a getaway on something like this, and law officer "giving chase" by walking along patiently, trying to talk them down.
I'm prettu sure asking is evidence for yes. v_v
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm prettu sure asking is evidence for yes. v_v
So you're saying bullyable *and* forgettable?
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
So you're saying bullyable *and* forgettable?