stubish

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by stubish 4d ago
Locked up and waiting for signals to release doesn't do much good.
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by stubish 5d ago
The more times people equate age checks with ID checks the more likely that age checks will be ID checks. Like here, even though the diagram explicitly shows a check purely for age and the system the OS uses still an unknown and likely regi
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by stubish 8d ago
In countries with public health care and social security, harm to the individual is direct harm to other taxpayers. You must wear seat belts or wear bike helmets because the rest of us don't want to pay your rehabilitation bills.
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by stubish 15d ago
Could be. Pity there is no way to donate to Firefox. You can only donate to Mozilla for 'mission to keep the Web open and free', with an unknown fraction going to Firefox development. People have been deliberately disenfranchised
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by stubish 15d ago
'lifetime' The last lifetime license I bought expired when the developer was bought, stopped releasing updates, and the software stopped working the next major OS upgrade. It is on a clock, and you don't know when it runs out
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by stubish 22d ago
It would be more efficient for every single insurance company to evaluate every single treatment and decide if they will cover it?
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by stubish 27d ago
At upload time? Or by every client at download time? Or just adhoc by random users? This does sound like an excellent way of improving automated package checks, even if it does result in some false positives and false negatives. For all sor
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by stubish 1mo ago
Key words here are 'some people' and 'prefer'. I think this causes prices to spiral up (but this might be papered over by government subsidies). Do you prefer gas enough to pay $300/year for the connection fee? Or w
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by stubish 1mo ago
In Victoria, today, you could get a $10,000 loan, install a battery in your apartment, and switch to a free power or VPP plan costing just $0.30/day after kickbacks, and have it all pay for itself in 5-10 years. The people being left b
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by stubish 1mo ago
The VPPs are interesting. Several of them available to join in my region in Australia. But update isn't as high as they like, as people don't like handing over control to the energy company (traditionally the enemy). And the reali
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by stubish 1mo ago
Unfortunately most of the EVs already purchased don't have the electronics to support V2G. Newer Leafs and a couple of other brands do, but I think most models in most markets cannot support V2G.
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by stubish 1mo ago
It is free if you can afford a suitably sized battery. Everyone else should stick to the existing plans. Fuzzy area in the middle for slightly undersized battery owners.
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by stubish 1mo ago
I was surprised there were no companies offering finance deals, such as loans to cover the out of pocket costs. An energy retailer could lock in a customer for 10 years to reasonable rates, make more money, and customer pays less. I suspect
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by stubish 1mo ago
It would be great if they performed that badly. If my panels drop below 87.5% in 30 years they get replaced under warranty for a second 30 years of use. These are even the cheap panels. Amazing how much better the tech is now.
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by stubish 1mo ago
In Australia now, you don't actually want to install rooftop solar. You want to install batteries. No point getting solar when you can charge your battery for free. You just have to ensure it is sized for winter so you don't end u
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by stubish 1mo ago
Interestingly, with the new free power periods in Australia, it is now better economically to not install solar panels and instead spend the cost saving on a larger battery. Solar has become so popular in my region that periods where the
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by stubish 1mo ago
We have inflation. Everything is going up, except electricity. Interestingly, one of the retailers offering free power already in Victoria gives a $1 kick pack if you use no power during the (rather long) peak period. So users with large en
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by stubish 1mo ago
Selling under our cost price. Not selling under their cost price. China can destroy western manufactures even while making a profit.
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by stubish 1mo ago
It has been available from two retailers for several months already. Pricing is such it doesn't make economic sense unless you have a battery due to higher peak and shoulder prices (So get a battery! Even with loan interest payments it
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by stubish 1mo ago
With gas getting more and more expensive here in Victoria, and electricity prices plummeting and already free if you get a decent sized battery, the gas connection ban seems mostly pointless. Nobody will pay $300/year for the connectio
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by stubish 1mo ago
I live in a Victorian town of similar size. Houses have mains gas even when they don't have sewage, and it has been this way at least 30 years. I'm guessing the mains gas didn't get to your town. I've visited houses furt
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by stubish 1mo ago
If Firefox baked in ad blocking, they would have to then deal with the financial incentive to make it worse. Sponsored ads, 'good' ads, government announcements, election propaganda... there is a slippery slope they are better off
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by stubish 1mo ago
You need to construct a sphere that is strong enough withstand 1 atmosphere of pressure but also lighter than the weight of the air being displaced. In a sci-fi book you would construct your unobtanium shell in space and use them to splash
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by stubish 1mo ago
And by raising awareness, they cannibalize sales from their competitors. So their competitors have to buy ads to compete. And everyone ends up spending lots of money, which consumers pay for. And that is why I gravitate to cheaper, unknown
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by stubish 1mo ago
And thus the social media addiction lawsuits and age gating are gaining traction. It seems clear the problem isn't going to solve itself, so society is turning to regulation.
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by stubish 1mo ago
> and pretending the toxic platforms you hate no longer exist Thank you. One reason I spend more time on my Mastodon feed than my Bluesky feed is there are fewer people there complaining about Twitter. Less rage and complaining in genera
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by stubish 1mo ago
I'm hoping those NP chips ending up in some new computers will be able to run something like this. Thanks for your work! A general purpose system, especially if trained by the users, would be more than just an adblocker. It could be tr
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by stubish 1mo ago
I assume blimps or lighter than air components where illegal? Or is it just too hard to fly the larger volume around the course?
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by stubish 1mo ago
There are a lot of assumptions here about how an artist uses the AI tools. Suddenly artists stop fussing and planning and sketching and mocking and drafting and redrafting and polishing until the work is perfect and communicates their inten
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by stubish 1mo ago
I stopped using Copilot because it was unable to answer Windows questions, often hallucinating or regurgitating decades old info. I sense a theme here.

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