wing-_-nuts

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by wing-_-nuts 7d ago
>If we filter out the unsubstantiated fearmongering, all we've got left to discuss are NIMBY rants and geopolitics. I'm sorry, what? I'll put it to you again, you sound like me after playing around with gpt 3.5. It was in
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by wing-_-nuts 7d ago
I had a dark mode extension slowing things down. Then I got annoyed with the site performance and enabled 'reader' view
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by wing-_-nuts 7d ago
Oh hey, it's my point of view from a year ago... It's definitely changed in that time
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by wing-_-nuts 7d ago
I have no doubt that AI will massively transform society. That cat is out of the bag. It took decades for electricity, and then computers to change society, but this is the first technology where the average person can simply describe the
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by wing-_-nuts 7d ago
They really just need to mandate that new datacenter construction uses closed loop cooling, and must provide an upfront investment sufficient to add enough carbon free energy to the grid to power it. That would, of course, make it much mor
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by wing-_-nuts 17d ago
...and that's not a scenario that anyone is talking about employing with nuclear. We need enough for baseline load. Being able to build small modular reactors would give us scale that would help cut through the regulatory cost. By
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by wing-_-nuts 19d ago
I don't think solar even needs advocates at this point. Battery backed solar should win on pure economics.
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by wing-_-nuts 19d ago
'Fuel efficiency' is not the bottle neck to getting more clean energy on the grid, scale is. Waste? grind it up, vitrify it, bury it in an abandoned coal mine or something. People get more radioactivity from a coal power plant
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by wing-_-nuts 19d ago
I'm sorry, if you're gonna link to a 111 page pdf, please at least quote the area of interest?
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by wing-_-nuts 20d ago
Yeah, I don't mind walmart making a psa about theft if that's what they want to do with their money. I very much do have a problem with them putting their thumb on the scale and donating millions to one political candidate over
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by wing-_-nuts 22d ago
'Termination shock' will be a very real threat, and lets not pretend that injecting sulfides into the atmosphere is going to improve air quality or help the ozone layer. Best option is to rapidly cut emissions, but I think we can
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by wing-_-nuts 22d ago
I've seen estimates of the cost of sulfide injection to be about 2-3B / yr / 1C. That's not outside of the capability of a country like India, much less China
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by wing-_-nuts 22d ago
Last estimates I've seen for the cost of stratospheric sulfide injection was ~ 2-3B/yr. That's not nothing, but it's definitely something India could afford to do unilaterally, not to mention China
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by wing-_-nuts 23d ago
>This is literally going to kill millions. You could be right, but I think the more likely outcome is a 'Ministry for the Future' scenario where India or China just decide to unilaterally implement geoengineering and dare the r
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by wing-_-nuts 23d ago
>Automation is wonderful to cut cost for them but for the users being unable to get support is a horrible experience. But you cannot go elsewhere because they are the only player in town. I can't tell you how many times I've ex
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by wing-_-nuts 27d ago
I can't find the benchmarks now, but the ones I recently saw on hacker news, xwayland was notably worse than either wayland native or xorg native. Bad enough to be noticeable by the average user.
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by wing-_-nuts 27d ago
Also, as benchmarks show, xwayland introduces pretty bad latency..
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by wing-_-nuts 27d ago
Yeah, instead of the wayland folks leading the effort to fix issues, it's often some individual DE / WM going off, fixing it the way they prefer, and wayland grudgingly adopting it as official because they know the ecosystem is fr
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by wing-_-nuts 27d ago
If wayland had been sold as a hardened display for those who needed that level of security, I would not have a problem with it. As it is, the community got constantly browbeat with 'this is the future' and 'it's so much
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by wing-_-nuts 27d ago
Great, so let wayland be a hardened option for those who care.
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by wing-_-nuts 27d ago
You'll excuse me if I am not terribly enthusiastic about breaking all sorts of functionality to solve a security problem I've never experienced in my 25 years on linux.
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by wing-_-nuts 27d ago
>Wayland is not a "display server", it's a display protocol. I, as an end user, do NOT care. >A lot of the "existing functionality" that it broke has nothing to do with displays, it's stuff that got cra
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by wing-_-nuts 27d ago
>I'm not some anti-wayland zealot but you will pry xfce out of my cold dead hands. Hard same. I'm using xfce on my laptop with mint xfce edition, and it's a breath of fresh air. Everything just works how you'd expec
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by wing-_-nuts 27d ago
With a project as user/dev hostile as wayland, it's much better to be a 'last mover' than first. For the life of me, I'll never understand how wayland got traction with the community. 'Hey guys, we decided to i
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by wing-_-nuts 28d ago
For me, the biggest thing was simply my ability to work in a quiet environment with little distraction. We went from an open office floor plan that was so loud I wore noise canceling head phones and a baseball hat to block the buzzy lighti
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by wing-_-nuts 28d ago
>By the time I actually got to college I realized these techniques were not only more effective and enjoyable for me than sitting down in lectures, but that the vast majority of students never actually had to build these muscles to begin
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
>my energy company was trying to put load into its batteries at the times when the grid most needed it. I'm not sure I understood this sentence?
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
It's not licensed per se, but in certain areas of the defense industry, one is restricted to using the 'DOD approved' subset of C++. Coders that know how to be productive within those constraints (and can pass clearance) a
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
We are actually fortunate. Folks from LATAM seem to have no problem integrating with US society. Europe seems to have a much harder time with their pool of migrants. Probably due to the lack of birthright citizenship
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
Took a min to read the link, that was a surprisingly good summary. My whole concern with the AMOC is that given it's a non-linear system, and we've seen evidence of 'fast shutdowns' in the climate record before, I fear w

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