wewbull
@wewbull@feddit.uk
- Comment on People who say water doesn't help after eating piment are just wrong 3 days ago:
Something sweet (acidic) will break it down too. I find fruit juice or a soft drink will work better for me than milk.
- Comment on France is about to pass the worst surveillance law in the EU. 3 days ago:
There’s been been bills at the EU level, but they’ve been defeated. I think individual countries introduced their own bills if they were supporters of the EU one.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 3 days ago:
Personally I keep a copy of chromium around just for Google meet. Everything else is on Firefox.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 week ago:
I wish people understood the differences between types of vaccines more. I despise the “vaccines good” Vs “vaccines bad” thinking. Each of them are separate treatments and like any medication have pros/cons for each individual recieving them. I think a lot of people learn about Jenner and the smallpox vaccine and assume all other vaccines work the same way.
- Comment on Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies 1 week ago:
I’ve seen plenty too. They fly over sometimes. I believe they are called “helicopters”.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 week ago:
This is the important graph from the Carbon budget presentation. The difference between USA and China is about 1.5 Billion tons of CO2.
That news story on the US military cites a report with this graph in it. The total emission of the whole DoD is 60 million tons of CO2.
It doesn’t make a dent.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 week ago:
- Where in the world it is deployed doesn’t matter. It would still be US emissions.
- You were saying it wasn’t an apples to apples comparison. How we correct the two sides of the equation shouldn’t really matter.
- I’m going to need evidence that the our world in data plots don’t include the US military anyway.
- The vast majority of global CO2 emissions are coal. I’m not aware of coal power being used much in the military.
In the next year or two China will take second place for total historic CO2 emissions, taking that place over from Europe. It’s emissions per capital overtook Europe several years ago and it has 6x the people. If the rest of the world hits zero tomorrow, Chinas emissions are still too high.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 week ago:
You’re saying china woul also be going down if you also exempted their military?
Errrr, no!
- Comment on ScottishPower and Stillstrom study explores electric future for offshore wind operations 1 week ago:
That was not what I expected from the headline.
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 1 week ago:
Europe and US CO2 emissions are dropping. The charts are in the comments here. China’s are skyrocketing, as are India’s.
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 1 week ago:
I don’t understand why LAs don’t understand that you pay for the parking space by having a thriving town centre. Making wandering around the shops an expensive expedition means people only come when they have a specific reason to.
Low footfall kills shops, and kills towns, so don’t make parking a money making scheme. Size it appropriately for the town, make it free, and maintain it. That’s it.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 week ago:
In his case.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 2 weeks ago:
Signal is person to person messaging with groups on the side (ala WhatsApp)
Matrix is groups with person to person on the side (ala Discord)
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 2 weeks ago:
He wants to speak freely, but he doesn’t want to afford anyone else the same right.
It’s not an uncommon stance, but it’s a hypocritical one.
- Comment on Intel Becomes Potential Takeover Target Of Broadcom, TSMC: Reports 2 weeks ago:
I’m in the industry but don’t know much about broadcom. What makes you say that?
- Comment on Researchers are training AI to interpret animal emotions 2 weeks ago:
Where’s the training data coming from?
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 2 weeks ago:
People born in the 50s have long retired. The grey beards are not baby-boomers. They are people born in the late 60s and 70s. They are people who grew up as computing technology matured. They started coding low level and had careers building the infrastructure of computing which is what a lot of FOSS is.
However the question is not why these people have aged? It’s why hasn’t there been a steady stream of people taking their place from younger generations?
I believe it’s because the generations after them have careers working at higher levels of abstraction. Often going lower level is seen as black magic that is unknown to them.
- Comment on UK economy grows by 0.1% in unexpected boost for Rachel Reeves 2 weeks ago:
Surely that’s within error margins.
We’re flat and stagnant.
- Comment on Jeep's annoying pop-up nags you to buy an extended warranty at every stop sign 2 weeks ago:
There’s a market waiting for car without all this crap. Late 2000s level of electronics and aids please. That goes for EVs too.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re under thinking this.
The primary focus of Trump since coming to office has been securing natural resources. Greenland, Canada, Ukraine all have rich mineral deposits. Even the Panama shit is about controlling a geographic “resource”…the canal.
This rename is about making it sound like it belongs to the US. What’s there a lot of here? Oil. And it sits under international waters.
- Comment on Vance stakes claim to US leadership in AI. 2 weeks ago:
Vance stakes claim to US leadership…
I guess it can’t be any worse. He should go for it.
…in AI
Oh! Twat!
- Comment on BuzzFeed is taking on Instagram, TikTok, X with a new social platform designed to spread ‘joy’ 2 weeks ago:
Toxic positivity, the drug of the Nation Breeding ignorance and feeding radicalisation.
Doesn’t scan quite as well as the original.
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 2 weeks ago:
Well only a handful of users exist.
- Comment on DeepSeek might not be such good news for energy after all 3 weeks ago:
This is more about the “reasoning” aspect of the model where it outputs a bunch of “thinking” before the actual result. In a lot of cases it easily adds 2-3x onto the number of tokens needed to be generated. This isn’t really useful output. It the model getting into a state where it can better respond.
- Comment on Two AI-powered charter schools could soon open in Pennsylvania 3 weeks ago:
Educating the people is fundamental to a democratic society. Every time you see education under attack, it’s people trying to pacify the electorate.
- Comment on The parable of the "Good Samaritan" is an ancient example of Israeli racism / bigotry 3 weeks ago:
It’s one of the most basic messages in the Bible. It is clearly anti-racist. It promotes helping others above all else. And somehow modern Christians seem to miss the point completely.
I’m pretty anti-theist. However, if religions were just a bunch of ideas on how to live your best life (like this parable) it would be generally fine. The problem is a lesson as simple as “love thy neighbour” fails to make it through because it would undermine the organisation. Without “them” there is no “us”, and without “us” there is no organisation.
I don’t think people consciously take on this “us” / “them” thinking, but they fall into it and it feels safe and comfortable. In this case Jesus was literally telling his followers to do what felt uncomfortable — to help people outside of their own faith. To not let labels get in the way.
Be spiritual. Hold a faith. Just forgoe the organisations that corrupt that faith.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
English is 3 or 4 languages melded into one.
There’s the Germanic old English which gives most of the base language. This is mixed with Norse from the viking invasions. Then aristocratic French came in around 1,000 years ago. Underneath it all, some regions have Celtic influences.
Of course there aren’t consistent rules.
- Comment on Can The EV Charging Business Survive the Trump Administration? 3 weeks ago:
A nice, simple to fit combustion engine?
- Comment on ‘Normalise Indian hate’: DOGE staffer resigns over racial posts 3 weeks ago:
Musk’s perspective: “One awkward person has removed themselves from the organisation. Oh no!”
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 3 weeks ago:
Mine is capitalising everything because of German.
