wewbull
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- Comment on How Hungary became the world's solar energy leader 1 hour ago:
…and another 25% from fossil fuels, including still burning significant coal.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 21 hours ago:
The cybertruck is on a different scale of unpopularity.
Nobody threw Molotov cocktails at Delorians.
- Comment on Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 21 hours ago:
He could be Prime Minister if the house stood behind his leadership. It’s only convention that makes the leader of the largest party the presumptive prime minister. The house can send whoever they want to the king.
- Comment on Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 21 hours ago:
Not as an independent, no, but he could form the Recyclon party with a few of his kin.
- Comment on Thanks to the american FPTP voting system, Nigel Farage could obtain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 1 day ago:
Yes. Count Binface could too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
The best gifts are ones where they’ve anticipated your needs, wants, or desires. These are exceedingly rare though, and are never found in a last minute dash to wherever is open.
My brother, sister, and I have a deal. No fixed date gifts, but you don’t need an excuse to get someone a gift when you’ve got a good idea.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 2 days ago:
All the EDA tools for silicon design are Linux based.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 3 days ago:
My company is transitioning to teams. Most of our engineering is on Linux.
Can Microsoft please hurry up and break teams so we can’t transition?
- Comment on Pope Betting Odds: Bettors Lose Millions Predicting the New Pope as Polymarket Edge Fizzles Out 4 days ago:
“Bettors lose”… Bookies win.
Is this news?
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 6 days ago:
If you’re only doing university for a piece of paper, you done gone screwed up.
University is to learn how academia works so that you can continue your development independently afterwards. You become capable of researching topics, reading the papers and solving a problem you’ve never faced before.
Nobody ever tells you this, but your first degree is more about developing you than developing your knowledge. If you just askGPT the whole time you’re cheating yourself.
- Comment on The Beetle 1 week ago:
…is going the other way.
- Comment on Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy 1 week ago:
I believe there have been experiments growing crops under panels. The effect you speak of and the fact that panels, when they have no backing, are translucent can be good for some plants.
Harvesting under structures is difficult though.
- Comment on China's Huawei develops new AI chip, seeking to match Nvidia 1 week ago:
I think with a lot of these chips geared at AI there’s so much variation in how performance is measured you can say things like it beats an H100 inferencing on a specific INT4 model and that might be true. However, it might only hold for that narrow case.
So press releases aren’t worth much to me. Show me benchmarks.
- Comment on China's Huawei develops new AI chip, seeking to match Nvidia 1 week ago:
I don’t see how Huawei could have made that jump. There’s a lot of generational knowledge and software development behind Nvidia’s chips. No company can become a competitor first time.
- Comment on On May 1, German ran almost entirely on renewables energy during the day 1 week ago:
Spain managed to run …
Nobody ran anything that day. It was a mega-siesta.
- Comment on Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid? 1 week ago:
Only when you’re already in a hospital when the injury happens.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 2 weeks ago:
It’s known to melt witches in seconds.
- Comment on Put solar panels on all new homes to cut bills and carbon, says UK Local Government Association (LGA) 2 weeks ago:
Personally think this is a no-brainer. The cost of installation drops to almost zero if done during construction. It’s just a material cost (panels / cabelling / inverter)
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
1375…
We can work with metals, so we can probably make boilers.
I invent steam power 400 years early.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
…most kids…
Most kids? (⊙_⊙)
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 2 weeks ago:
No, we say “FUCK! It’s cold”.
- Comment on Reeves suggests UK-EU trade more important than US deal ahead of Washington talks 2 weeks ago:
Us downgrading to accept any US standards that are not already EU accepted. Means we will not be able to sign a simple deal with the EU.
Which is, I think, somebody’s plan. Brexit distanced us from Europe. US standards would make the split irreparable.
- Comment on Britain's state-owned energy company will not be allowed to use solar panels linked to Chinese slave labour, under changes to government plans 2 weeks ago:
It could but I don’t see it being a big jobs spinner. I’d expect us to automate the hell out of it.
Of course, the issue still remains that the materials need to be supplied from “clean” sources.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 2 weeks ago:
…but what are we actually trying to measure here? The miles travelled, or the wear and tear that’s caused by the wheels spinning?
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 2 weeks ago:
Do they exist anymore?
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 3 weeks ago:
Interesting that it’s just a cost of doing business in China as well.
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 3 weeks ago:
Obviously. How much?
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 3 weeks ago:
I was more meaning “on what scale?”. I assume he wasn’t a few hundred short.
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 3 weeks ago:
He was fined €240M? What had he done?
- Comment on stay healthy with just these 6 exercises 3 weeks ago:
I’m the picture of health