zik

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a false claim about wind turbines killing whales is spinning out of control in coastal Australia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That so ridiculous it’s funny as hell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome too...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  With the right attitude, any robot’s a sexbot.

  …and my robot vacuum’s looking mighty fine right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Vasquez is always the best

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would nuclear reactors be feasible everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not economically feasible anywhere right now. Unfortunately nuclear power is very expensive compared to all the alternatives. Unless there’s some radical breakthrough I can’t see much nuclear being built in the future. No company would pay such a huge up-front cost to produce uneconomic electricity.

  So the strict answer is - no, they’re not feasible everywhere. And also not feasible pretty much anywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Peasant Life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s from a famous paper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple slides from 2013 skewer Android as “a massive tracking device”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hilariously non self aware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to face £853 million UK 'batterygate' lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember the Samsung battery issues being all over the news a few years ago and everyone saying, “Apple never has these problems”? Meanwhile Apple was literally paying people off to keep quiet about their battery fires. Nice. 🔥

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Howard says he ‘always had trouble’ with the concept of multiculturalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange… that sounds like the kind of thing a racist would say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foiled yet again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst thing about this is that the English teacher is wrong too - common usage dictates that this is a perfectly acceptable form of request.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar power expected to dominate electricity generation by 2050—even without more ambitious climate policies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  USB is the new defacto standard DC outlet. It’s only suitable for fairly low power though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do poor people in the states give birth without money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. That’s horrible. The US health system sounds like a dystopian nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s basically nothing out there for laptops that comes close to the M2 Pro

  The Intel Core i9-13980HX laptop CPU is between 20% and 100% faster than the M2 Max on nearly every benchmark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel doesn’t think that Arm CPUs will make a dent in the laptop market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically few to non-existent cases where M2 is faster than either Intel or AMD’s best. On power consumption however it’s a total win for Apple. But performance… No. Not in any way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhones have been exposing your unique MAC despite Apple’s promises otherwise — “From the get-go, this feature was useless,” researcher says of feature put into iOS 14⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Compared to Apple?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨41 states sue Meta, claiming Instagram, Facebook are addictive, harm kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think 41 states realise that kids wouldn’t touch Facebook if you forced them. Instagram on the other hand…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal peril deepens as his defense comes up short⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he feels sorry for himself but remember: he absolutely knew he was illegally misusing customer funds. And he openly talked about it in meetings with other businesses as if it was normal and fine.

  So I don’t feel sorry for him. He’s an idiot who was given enough rope and he’s certainly hung himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel’s new 14th Gen CPUs arrive on October 17th with up to 6GHz out of the box⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell me the base clock, not the “up to… when powered by a fusion reactor” value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Among Us’ first new map in over two years brings beaches, mushrooms and toasty marshmallows⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we talk about Rock Paper Shotgun’s horrible dark pattern with cookies? It took me a couple of minutes to work out how to reject all cookies, and even then I’m not sure I did it correctly.