shadowfaxRodeo

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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
It’s not dangerous?! Somebody tell the nuclear power companies. They’ll save so much money on security and safety. They could have a side hustle doing tours for school kids. Of course it’s safe! This explains why Fukushima has such a thrivi
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
> That doesn't seem to add anything to the discussion. I don't know what you're getting at. I'm explaining why I'm against building nuclear power plants — it's a very simple point really: - Do nuclear power
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Line length revisited: following the research(designregression.com)
2 points by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago|0 comments
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
You could make the exact same argument about nuclear energy. The same promises were made, and it has failed to deliver. It doesn't address the main issue of nuclear — it's incredibly dangerous. For nuclear to be safe you need huma
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
If you think there's no prospect of coal consumption going down, then we're headed for global calamity. Knowing that it's a likely scenario that the world becomes wildly unpredictable, it's not responsible to also build
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
I don’t think you’ll find many anti-nuclear people on HN that are also pro-fossil-fuel. It’s a false choice, we can choose to not use fossil fuels, and decrease the risk of nuclear meltdowns and dirty bombs at the same time.
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
This is a false choice. As the world gets more unstable due to climate change — an increased risk on pandemics, civil unrest, extreme weather events — do we really want abandoned nuclear power stations added to the mix? So, don’t do either.
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
Because it doesn’t collect personal data to sell to advertisers.
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
This is an excellent point. I’m no influencer, but i do have a big family and lots of very close friends. I’m very lucky. Many people are isolated and struggle to make and maintain friendships — especially over the last year. They don’t hav
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
Which messaging app do you think most people would join… one with nobody else using it, or one with everyone else using?
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
My issue is with Facebook, not with the network effect itself. Happy to use the network effect to get people off Facebook.
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
Understandably, people who don’t use WhatsApp, don’t think it’s weird that other people don’t use WhatsApp. People who do have WhatsApp, probably have it, because most of the people they know have it.
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
I got rid of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp about 4 years ago. Facebook and Instagram was easy, but people who have WhatsApp really think you’re weird for not having it. Deleting WhatsApp, while annoying for me personally, has resulted i
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
I've tried it out, I'm still getting smaller AVIF files with dithering. Not like the saving you get by using a dithered png instead of a jpeg. Depends on a lot of factors. You can keep turning the quality down on avif and get it l
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
But you can also use a dithered AVIF — and save even more.
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
But have you tried dithering AND using modern image formats?
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
Hi there author of the article here, I did a lot of testing when I wrote the article, and even made a tool for dithering. https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this/ It completely depends on what kind of dithering you do — orde
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
If you try to use lossy compression on a dithered image it will increase the file size. Using dithering and saving in a compressed lossless format will have drastically different results.
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
I wrote that previous comment before I fully understood the new specification. I'm still not entirely sure, but it looks like you're right. I thought the rules were static, I see now they can be updated dynamically — which works p
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
I have a firefox version, and a safari one in the works. It has about 50 users on firefox and 1500 on chrome. It works a bit differently to most content blockers, you can take a look here if you're interested: https://prodto
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
Removing webRequest's blocking will completely destroy my web extension. It helps people get work done by blocking website's they're addicted to. I've just started out on a new version, not sure what to do.
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
it's the opposite way round. png is especially good at compressing dithered images. It's a reduced color palette, (in this case just black and white) so there's lots of repeated sequences. Which works very well with lossless
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Check if your bank is funding the fossil fuel industry(bank.green)
25 points by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago|17 comments
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
The carbon emmissions of the internet are often simplified to more data = more carbon — making streaming video the worst offender. Streaming video happens most on fast, more energy efficient networks — so I think we overstate it's effe
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The carbon footprint of streaming video: fact-checking the headlines(iea.org)
2 points by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago|1 comments
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
Video streaming is about 60% of the web. Not 99%. But, in what sense in video streaming not part of the web? Sustainable web design is just as applicable to streaming as e-commerce or a blog. It’s also not at all the same as turning off a l
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
And almost comically CRT screens. Anyone remember blackle.com?
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
The energy usage is very small — as mobile devices are generally very efficient. But the impact it has on battery life is big — and using more battery results in the battery dying sooner and then the consumer needing to get a new phone. A s
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure when that calculator was made, but somebody needs to make a better one.
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by shadowfaxRodeo 5y ago
In my experience, making a sustaible website means doing more talking, and a lot less coding. You are making less stuff after all. It's also about creativity, having pride in your work, living your values.

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