thejohnconway

5 ms·

1.
by thejohnconway 4mo ago
Because it’s on track to become expensive than other sources of energy. There are plenty energy sources we don’t use because they are comparatively expensive.
2.
by thejohnconway 4mo ago
To my ears “Molten” would imply that the sand is currently in liquid form. The sense ”melted” is used here, as having been melted, seems right. You melt sand to get molten sand, right?
3.
by thejohnconway 5mo ago
Apes are a subset of monkeys.
4.
by thejohnconway 5mo ago
Trump’s talking about a “joint venture” with Iran for charging tolls, weird that he feels that might have to make this concession, right? https://x.com/jonkarl/status/2041839012097229086?s=20 He’s mentioned this p
5.
by thejohnconway 5mo ago
> Iran does not “control” the strait any more than neighbor controls my front door because he threatened to stop me from using it. If the US or other naval power tried to pass it would have no issue If your neighbour threatened to shoot
6.
by thejohnconway 5mo ago
Real world events are conditional. Would you prefer I talk in absolutes? Defacto Iran still controls the strait, as they have since the start of the war. If they start letting the ships through with no toll, I think that would indicate a ta
7.
by thejohnconway 5mo ago
As a cyclist in London, I’ve hit one pedestrian: they stepped backward(!) into a cycle lane. I had nowhere to go, as there was a curb on the other side. Pedestrian behaviour is just totally wild with respect to cycle lanes, a lot of them ar
8.
by thejohnconway 5mo ago
None of those things matter if they survive and control the straight, which seems to be the situation. The toll revenue will be enough to rebuild several times over. They have proven that they can absolutely crush the gulf states with missi
9.
by thejohnconway 5mo ago
> I can't see Trump or anyone else willingly misusing that trust Is this sarcasm? It’s hard to tell these days.
10.
by thejohnconway 6mo ago
If we look at the stated goals (as inconsistent as they have been): Unconditional surrender -> nope Regime change via popular uprising -> nope Destruction or removal of enriched uranium -> nope Destruction of drones and ballistic m
11.
by thejohnconway 6mo ago
That’s not what people are worried about, it’s the rigging of real world events (including wars!) that has people worried.
12.
by thejohnconway 6mo ago
I don’t see how it relates very well to what I said. I think you’re trying to say the that the Chagos island lease disagreement is as big a deal as threatening to invade a NATO ally. I disagree.
13.
by thejohnconway 6mo ago
I don't understand your comment.
14.
by thejohnconway 6mo ago
Maybe Americans don't really get this, but the Greenland stuff was a very, very big deal. The rest of NATO was staring down the barrel of the unthinkable: war with the United States. For what? Some lib owning? A bit of fun? A real esta
15.
by thejohnconway 6mo ago
I'm using it Infomaniak, including their KDrive as a Dropbox replacement (with 2TB of data). I've even used their video conferencing app. No complaints so far. All seems to work just fine.
16.
by thejohnconway 6mo ago
Honestly, the instability of the political environment in US feels so extreme, that it seems like something could bite you that you didn't even see coming. Just on the Gmail front: maybe Trump decides to trade embargo you country and p
17.
by thejohnconway 7mo ago
Lol, I’ve had cutting edge models suggest I make an inflexible hole bigger by putting shim in it, and argue their case stubbornly. I don’t know what you’re using to suggest they are anywhere near solving your problem there!
18.
by thejohnconway 7mo ago
Indeed, “defence” so obviously an Orwellian term for these departments, I’m very much in favour of the change.
19.
by thejohnconway 7mo ago
Yes, but it doesn’t have to be error-free. The friendly fire rates in symmetrical hot wars is pretty high, it’s considered a cost of going to war. If autonomous weapons lead to a net battlefield advantage, I agree with the GP, they will be
20.
by thejohnconway 7mo ago
If you think literally everything I'm saying is wrong, you haven't done much of a job of explaining why. I realise that the watch was probably under development for years before Jobs died. It was, however, released in a half baked
21.
by thejohnconway 7mo ago
> At what point did the old Apple cross the threshold to "modern" Apple? This hardly an original sentiment, but when Steve Jobs died. Jobs was not perfect, but he believed they were there to make great products, had good taste
22.
by thejohnconway 10mo ago
No the original was 16:9, you can see they have been digitally removed in the shots from the Blu-ray.
23.
by thejohnconway 10mo ago
Property isn’t real either.
24.
by thejohnconway 11mo ago
Mastodon is a fairly finicky beast, has a few dependencies that you also have to manage (redis, sidekiq, Postgres), and is surprisingly resource intensive. So you can do it, but it’s not really designed for that use case. I would be great i
25.
by thejohnconway 11mo ago
Species is a concept that isn't particularly well defined, and certainly not in palaeontology. One can see, however, diverging body plans (disparity), distinct lineages (diversity). If we take our extinction further, it will probably b
26.
by thejohnconway 11mo ago
> That is just a mathematical truism. No it isn’t. Diversity rates have risen and fallen over the history of life, and it can take many millions of years for life to re-diversify after a mass extinction event (like the one we are causing
27.
by thejohnconway 11mo ago
Billions of people have died in the past, but it would obviously be a catastrophic tragedy if billions of people died this year. Species usually go extinct at a rate at which new diversity can take their place. The current rate of extinctio
28.
by thejohnconway 1y ago
> But Lisa Su can’t bring herself to compete. Which is very strange because she brutally competed with and destroyed Intel. Maybe making cutting-edge GPUs is actually quite an engineering challenge, and not entirely down to the competiti
29.
by thejohnconway 1y ago
They run hot, and don’t stick to the phone as well as I’d like. No, MagSafe batteries aren’t the solution for me, and I too would buy a thicker phone with more battery life.
30.
by thejohnconway 1y ago
In fact, it turned out that Darth Vader was Lukes father. Contextual fictional facts are really common in language. I remember doing it in philosophy first year. It conundrum-y philosophically, but usually understood effortlessly in normal

More ›