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by somethingnot 7y ago
I see. So when you said "No, it won't ever(x) become a problem", it was like one of those ads "Unlimited(x) data", with the fine print "(x) unlimited is meant to be understood as less than 10 GB per month"
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by somethingnot 7y ago
You seem very sure about how humanity will look like in 500 years and how much energy it would use. Obviously you consider the concept of Type II and Type III civilizations impossible and ridiculous, since they would use more than 20 orders
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by somethingnot 7y ago
You assume that it's obvious that we can't consume 7 orders of magnitude more energy than now. We already grew our energy consumption 4 orders of magnitude in 300 years. http://bwp.io/blog/2014/thermodyna
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by somethingnot 7y ago
Which is why I mentioned that it will be a problem in the future, not today. Imagine all of India airconed. And it's also why I mentioned albedo. That will drastically increase the sun insolation effect, today a lot of the suns energy
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by somethingnot 7y ago
> Build some nuclear plants to make more clean electricity. Problem solved. It doesn't work that way. Aircons dump unusable waste heat into the environment. On a large enought scale, it creates global warming on it's own. Sam
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by somethingnot 7y ago
There are mobile aircons, no drilling holes required.
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by somethingnot 7y ago
Git is also free. So, how are you the product when you use git?
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Let's face it: nuclear power is hideously dear and far from ideal(theguardian.com)
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by somethingnot 7y ago
> The first complication came in 2008, when a group of scientists, in an effort to more precisely map out the evolutionary relationships among animals on the tree of life, identified comb jellies rather than sponges as the earliest anim
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by somethingnot 7y ago
Not necessarily lasting physical damage, but flickering CRTs, or for that matter flickering fluorescent or LED lights can cause headaches, nausea, ... I've certainly noticed it myself, using 75 Hz CRTs made me feel tired after a few ho
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by somethingnot 7y ago
In the last two companies I worked in it was us low level employees which were begging IT for Slack, until they reluctantly accepted (because of costs and of fears about hosting confidential chats on 3rd parties). Nobody was begging for Lim
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by somethingnot 7y ago
Funny how a google images search for limechat fails to find a single screenshot with inline images. But I'll take your word for it. I guess that settles it. People will dump Slack and Discord on mass and move to the amazing IRC clients
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by somethingnot 7y ago
Yeah, and a Rolls Royce is little more than a Honda with worse miles per gallon.
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by somethingnot 7y ago
> People seem to forget that C++ and opengl is cross-platform OpenGL is dying. It's already deprecated on MacOS. https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/04/opengl-opencl-dep...
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by somethingnot 7y ago
Because I want to sync my settings across a few computers. And I want to install Store apps. But I am not forced to.
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by somethingnot 7y ago
I use Windows with a Microsoft account. But none of my files are saved in their cloud. What are you talking about? OneDrive? You don't have to use it if you don't want. Setting? You can disable their syncing too.
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by somethingnot 7y ago
bfloat16 sounds like it could be supported with minimal changes to existing floating point units, maybe with just some improved microcode. FB's approach on the other side requires entirely redesigned and separate execution units. That&
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by somethingnot 7y ago
So if you go to the top of a mountain and there is a single cabin selling water there, at outrageous prices, you would just help yourself to one bottle, because hey, no competition, captive audience.
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by somethingnot 7y ago
How is this different from trying a door handle to see if it's open.
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by somethingnot 7y ago
He did a lot of stupid stuff. Like logging into SilkRoad from a public library. FBI agents were at the next table.
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by somethingnot 7y ago
No, it's more like tricking the restaurant staff into giving him a free meal.
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by somethingnot 7y ago
His attack is active, privacy plugins are passive, even if they report back false fingerprints. Offense versus defense.