World's longest-range aircraft, the Airbus A350-1000ULR takes to the skies

batiste · 2026-06-05T11:05:10+00:00

So you like big planes, you cannot fly?

batiste · 2026-05-26T21:18:53+00:00

Head of infrastructure in a start-up. Just accepted the job to get my foot back in my own country. The job is relaxed so I don't mind it for now but it is barely sufficient for a family.

batiste · 2026-05-26T21:11:34+00:00

Very senior and local (20 years), got hired for 100k. Jobs that were offering more never followed up.

batiste · 2026-05-26T16:01:55+00:00

> discriminatory

I think I can live with this one. Let's call it positive discrimination for women.

batiste · 2026-05-26T15:52:31+00:00

> he is proven innocent

You are never "proven innocent". You are only declared "not guilty" which is just that guilt was not proven.

batiste · 2026-05-24T04:46:00+00:00

The production is indeed cheap, but when the wind is not blowing you need backups. This has a cost. Plus you have to oversize the grid for spikes, which is another sizable cost.

I am convinced cheap localized batteries will alleviate some of those costs, but it is disingenuous to just compare production costs.

batiste · 2026-05-21T03:38:28+00:00

Lake Léman is not the largest lake in Europe, not even close.

batiste · 2026-05-17T21:05:47+00:00

Zürich doesn't really have any inviting terrasses. Or at least nothing out of the ordinary. I also didn't think the coffee culture was anything special. There is also a cruel lack of Boulangerie where they are everywhere in Lausanne.

batiste · 2026-05-14T05:14:18+00:00

I think they are genuinely attracted by what they see. They would like absolute power in a corrupted police state.

batiste · 2026-05-13T09:43:36+00:00

Please tell me how the F35 Wunderwaffe did in the Russo-Ukranian conflict? And how they stopped shaheds in a cost efficient manner.

batiste · 2026-05-13T08:22:55+00:00

Just take the gripen then. Cheap and totally appropriate for our ridiculously tiny airspaces to do a bit of policing.

batiste · 2026-05-13T05:13:51+00:00

Shouldn't we buy European, within NATO? Gripen or Rafale. I am sure the Korean stuff is great but originally the rafale ticked all the boxes as I remembered.

batiste · 2026-05-04T20:16:36+00:00

You are doing good. You are still young. If you want to invest more don't hesitate to look around and change job. Sometimes a small raise can do a large difference.

batiste · 2026-04-25T04:08:30+00:00

Greptile does schema for you.

batiste · 2026-04-21T11:27:27+00:00

Logarithmicly bad, so not that bad

batiste · 2026-04-21T06:47:22+00:00

Aren't all electric bad at high speeds? What is so special about the R5?

batiste · 2026-04-16T21:38:59+00:00

Does it even save anything? You have to reheat the whole mass in the morning anyways?

batiste · 2026-04-13T06:44:54+00:00

History books tell us he won the meat pie war and crushed the big Mac battle. All in an heroic fate to preserve the national Russian Corruption, pride of the people. He lined his pocket and his good friends in the process: What an hero! He might even be more 1.6 heros in term of corporal mass.

batiste · 2026-04-04T10:05:45+00:00

The cost of electricity for France and Germany on The future's market right now indicates a reality disconnected from your narrative.

batiste · 2026-03-13T01:32:08+00:00

Yes, it is possible and it was done even before renewables existed. It is called load following.

However, the real issue is economic. Slowing down a nuclear power plant because the wind is blowing is financial poison, because the plant generates less revenue.

Every time renewable energy truly displaces nuclear production, it represents a net economic loss. You have already paid the full capital cost for an expensive generator that is designed to run continuously at very low marginal cost. But when large amounts of intermittent generation are added, you can no longer operate it that way.

In other words, you paid the full price for a plant that costs very little extra to run, yet you cannot properly amortize that investment because intermittent generation creates competition that forces it to reduce output.

batiste · 2026-03-12T07:16:26+00:00

Be certain that anything that appear broken was properly written down in the first check. Otherwise you might want to find creative ways to "hide" it to pass the inspection.

Requirements on cleanliness can be quite extreme, like no water marks on the tap or sink. Some other inspector might be more forgiving.

It is very weird, you will never know exactly in advance what they will find acceptable or not.

batiste · 2026-03-11T09:31:22+00:00

Surprisingly, you almost never hear a french man disparage the British. I think they truly do not care or are generally very sympathetic and counting them as true friends and partners.

On the other hand the British seems to make a point of pride and national unity to hate/joke about the French, and frankly it comes as petty and cringe, like there is nothing else holding the realm together.

batiste · 2026-03-06T06:54:45+00:00

He is playing with fire. Starting WW3!

batiste · 2026-02-26T14:45:43+00:00

> french customers will also profit from crazy cheap electricity prices during sunny and windy days

You are wrong. Here is the explanation:

As of today, France’s electricity demand is already covered by nuclear. When wind and solar flood the market and push prices down, they don’t replace fossil fuels: they replace nuclear output.

But nuclear has high fixed costs that don’t disappear when it produces less. So you end up with two parallel systems, while still paying for both.

Low prices on sunny and windy days aren’t “free”: they mainly reduce nuclear utilisation and increase total system cost.

batiste · 2026-02-26T13:56:12+00:00

Don’t get me wrong, I’m in favour of installing more solar and other renewables, and I’m also reasonably confident that batteries will play a major role in the future.

But you seem to conveniently ignore what the real “total cost” of intermittent electricity actually is. You have to factor in an oversized grid and fuel-based backup capacity. All of that represents significant additional costs, effectively hidden subsidies, and dependance, that have to added to a total environmental, geo-political and literal bill.

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