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- Comment on Japan's births likely to fall under 700,000 for 1st time in 2024 1 week ago:
And they STILL won’t let immigrants get full citizanship rights. Guess the birth-rate hasn’t gone low enough.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 1 week ago:
Please stop by the office and pick up your combo Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 1 week ago:
Because light-blue weighs less than blue.
- Comment on your mom falls significantly faster than g 2 weeks ago:
Depends on the color of the feather and the ball.
There’s a simple explanation.
- Comment on Singapore Approves 2,600-Mile Undersea Cable to Import Solar Energy from Australia 2 weeks ago:
The most reliable system (against natural causes, political, and financial strife, as well as future-proofing) would be local microgeneration.
This sounds like a huge boondoggle.
- Comment on Hyundai secures largest clean energy supply in Korea, enough to charge over 7 million EVs 2 weeks ago:
So… Hyundai Automotive signed a deal with Hyundai Electric to supply them with electricity.
🤔
- Comment on ChatGPT has literally devolved into "let me google that for you" 2 weeks ago:
It’s worked better for me when I throw complex tech questions at it, instead of wading through mountains of StackOverflow and Reddit 10-yo bilge.
You can’t trust 2/3 of what ChatGPT generates or returns, and still have to know what you’re doing. But it’s a lot easier than clicking on 100 search results and finding 99 of them irrelevant.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 2 weeks ago:
This is pretty sad.
I have a number of elderly relatives. The one thing I keep telling them is if they ever get approached, to contact their kids, or check with another family member before responding. So far, there haven’t been any problems.
But I heard an in-law’s parents in a different state lost a big chunk of money to one of these scams and may now lose their home.
- Comment on Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts On The State Of Decentralized Social Media - TechDirt 2 weeks ago:
Totally agree.
Builders care about the nuts and bolts of a building. Most people just care about whether they can get a decent hot shower, how cold it gets inside at night, or whether the smoke alarm goes off every time they fry onions.
The killer feature of decentralization, I suspect, does not lie in a singular interaction with a user, but (as Mike notes) in harnessing the power of the distributed group to do something amazing.
- Comment on So Long WordPress. 2 weeks ago:
Not a WP dev. Just a (techie) user.
This whole thing seems so unnecessary. FOSS devs would love to get a fraction of the goodwill being squandered here.
- Comment on Why don't we just gather up all the ocean's trash and all the nonrecyclables, put them in a rocket, and launch it into the sun? 2 weeks ago:
And the one time the rocket goes kablooey on its way up, everyone down the flight path will get a shower of used hypodermic needles, disposable vapes, and old appliances.
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 3 weeks ago:
All the deserved ribbing aside, if you had to design a removable, R/W, high-capacity, environmentally tolerant, secure, fault-tolerant, mission critical storage system that could last 25 years, starting NOW…
What would you pick?
That’s a tough one, even if you design future hardware upgrades into the system.
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks ago:
Apple and Google can fix the problem. Apps are required to ask for permission to access location information. Most of the time, it’s for tracking and analytics, not anything related to the app’s functionality. That’s the data that is leaking to these data brokers.
In those cases, if asked, user can say no, but apps keep haranguing you until you capitulate.
Instead, the OS could add a button that says: “Yes, but randomize.” After that, location data is returned as normal, but from totally random locations nearby. They could even spoof the data clustering algorithms and just pick some rando location and keep showing returns to them, or just trade the data from one random phone for another every N days.
You do this enough and the data will become polluted enough to become useless.
- Comment on Large Boeing Satellite Suddenly Explodes Into Pieces 3 weeks ago:
It was the window seal.
- Comment on Watch: Inside the FBI’s Secret Phone Company 3 weeks ago:
Read the book. Great story. Was curious why they decided to roll up the program at the end and blow their own cover. Book mentioned it was getting too popular, but that didn’t sound right.
Hopefully, the talk will explain it a little better. Bookmarked to watch.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 3 weeks ago:
“She states she did not regret her actions.”
- Comment on In the California desert, residents are struggling with the influx of massive solar projects 4 weeks ago:
Was reading an article about creation of a large public beach. It only sat 2ft above sea level and often washed over in high tide. The developers bulldozed sand from the sea side to bring it up to 12ft. But they had big troubles with wind blowing the sand inland. It almost scuttled the whole project.
So they planted hardy native grass that grew roots toward the water. It mitigated the dust problem.
Wonder if a similar thing can be done with native desert vegetation to solve this problem.
- Comment on Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Opened an old scientific instrument to see if it works... 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Opened an old scientific instrument to see if it works... 4 weeks ago:
Protip: once you dissolve as much of the gunk as possible, take a small metal brush and give the contacts a scrub. If they’re coated, this helps open up metal contact surface to give the new batteries a chance.
But if the contacts are too corroded, you may need to MacGyver something with a soldering iron.
- Comment on 18 treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing 5 weeks ago:
Quick search. Yeah, the naked nuns rollerskating down a half-pipe is real.
And no, will not be posting links, you pervs.
- Comment on Deaths outstrip births in UK for first time in nearly 50 years 5 weeks ago:
The common benchmark ‘replacement’ ratio of birth to death is 2.1.
Once a country falls below that, they’re on a slow multi-generational train ride to extinction. There will be multiple stops along the way, where small towns get hollowed out (youngsters move to the cities), and the social safety net for the elderly goes away (not enough money coming in from fewer young, money-earning people).
Next stop is where there aren’t enough caregivers for the growing elderly population. After that, you start going down the dark alleys of Senecide, where the elderly are left out in the forest or ignored to die.
None of this is new. Japan and South Korea have been dealing with it for the past 20 years.
Only solution is immigration from high-baby to low-baby regions. But if the culture is closed and xenophobic, they’ll put barriers up to slow the flow. Second class citizen status. Sectioned-off neighborhoods. Laws to prohibit inter-racial marriage. That sort of thing. After a few years, those immigrants will trend somewhere safe and financially viable where they will get proper respect.
There will be partial stops, of course, where local nationalists will make angry noises about purity and poisoning bloods of the country, etc and win local elections (hi, USA, Germany, Italy, France, and Netherlands!)
But the hard, long-term reality is: a safe, peaceful life is expensive and the cultural norms putting women down just don’t fly any more. The kids are just not making enough babies, and taking away reproductive rights just makes people angry and less likely to reproduce.
This is true for more than 50% of the countries in the world, including US, Britain, and Canada. And the trendlines are pointing down.
I spent 1.5 years working on this stuff in my last job. There are tons of reports out there from WHO, IMF, and the UN, all backing all this using terms like ‘Demographic Time Bomb.’
tldr: We’re screwed if we don’t find a way to assimilate and encourage immigration and reduce the cost of raising kids.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 1 month ago:
Good thing they stopped emptying train toilets on the tracks.
- Comment on Cloudflare blocks largest recorded DDoS attack peaking at 3.8Tbps 1 month ago:
- Comment on I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. 1 month ago:
I hadn’t been there in a long while, but a friend sent a link to what he said was a funny tweet. It was, but the responses were just awful, and they all had blue checkmarks.
Every single inserted ad was for right-wing grifts (crypto, t-shirts, gold coins, etc) or awful right-wing politicians looking angry or posing with guns.
Noped right out.
I pointed it out to my wife, but she says the journalists she follows are still all there. 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
There was an appliance where the wifi chip was at the end of the power cable, embedded inside the plug. From the outside, you couldn’t really tell. It was there so radiation inside the box couldn’t affect the wireless signal as much.
I can imagine some genius thinking it’s a good idea to run a server from inside a cable or a connected home appliance.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
They should put that across the top banner on Audible.
- Comment on static website generator 1 month ago:
If you use github pages, you can create, deploy, and host static websites for free. Only cost, if you want your own URL, is for a custom DNS name.
You can use their default Jekyll static rendering engine, and create the content using Markdown. And with github actions, all you need to update the content is create markdown, then push the change to the same repo. After a few minutes, the new content shows up.
Hugo can also be used, but it takes a few extra steps: gohugo.io/…/hosting-on-github/
You can also find ‘themes’ to customize the look and feel of the site, specific to the site generation tool.
If you want a lot of extra features, Docusaurus is pretty much as good as it gets, and you can set it up to push out to GH pages: docusaurus.io/docs/deployment
- Comment on ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem. 1 month ago:
My favorite tell is when a write-up starts with a verbose explanation of given knowledge on a subject. Yes, we all know what ‘World Wide Web’ and ‘Internal Combustion Engines’ are.
Get to the f’ing point.
- Comment on Meta acquires the Threads.com domain name 1 month ago:
So many $$$$$$$$$$$$$, no doubt.
