CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Knowing that boomers had the "hate my wife/husband" humor because they were rushed to marry borderline strangers and didn't believe in therapy but can't prove it 1 week ago:
“People choose their sexuality”
- Comment on CPU shortage is 'getting more serious day by day, no less than the memory chip situation' says unnamed gaming PC company 1 week ago:
No chipsets from that era that handle 96GB are going to be affordable to run - unless you’ve got excess solar or something.
- Comment on "At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss 1 week ago:
As if nvidia and nvidia’s shareholders considers gamers to be customers in 2026.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
The issue with serving urban is that they need more satellites with narrower beams to handle the higher density and resulting load. Yes, they fly over, but they don’t have the capacity.
- Comment on Could waste heat power the Great Lakes region? | The Narwhal 1 week ago:
Two-thirds of the energy generated by the 2,100-megawatt Pickering Nuclear Generating Station, east of Toronto, comes in the form of heat, not electricity. The excess heat is transferred to cooling water that is dumped into Lake Ontario.
It all comes in the form of heat. I think what the author is trying to convey is that only 1/3 of the energy released by the reactor is converted into useful electricity.
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
LEO satellite internet service is life changing for people who live in underserviced, rural, and remote areas - but it’s a tragedy that it’s controlled by billionaires and the USA. Growth at all costs mindset cannot accept that they should exist only as an ISP of last resort, so they’re servicing urban areas and planning data centres.
- Comment on Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive 1 week ago:
I’m not sure solar panels are a higher priority than insulation in existing and new stock, but they have come down in price quite a bit over the last decade so i guess it’s not so bad. Heat pumps though are a net good thing especially with the heat waves in recent years.
Are there current plans being executed to build battery banks to absorb all this solar?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
EV? Why not ICE too?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0SrxBC1xs
Vehicles are more connected than 10 years ago.
- Comment on Living without a private vehicle in Brisbane is impossible for residents due to the city’s sprawling layout and limited public transport options 1 week ago:
Some organisation funded a study to learn what urbanists have studied for decades. Good use of the money.
- Comment on This fuel costs as little at 80c a litre in Australia. So why isn't everyone using it? 1 week ago:
It is volatile, unreliable to obtain (chances are you’re better off with an EV), contrails less energy than petrol, and is a fossil fuel.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 1 week ago:
Is company chit still illegal if it’s a bonus?
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
Yeah that also is awful. Can’t learn anything about the place without getting accidentally redirected to the App Store.
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
I prefer Apple Maps because it’s not ad laden but the coverage for businesses simply isn’t there, and it is pretty aggressive about populating businesses that don’t really exist (ie the business registration not the place of business, if they have one eg Plumber who doesn’t have a shop), don’t exist in the category (eg a factory isn’t a retail establishment), or just plain don’t exist. It also likes to ignore the actual road name for directions; instead of “take the exit towards A361 Burford Rd”, it says “take the exit to Diddly Squat Market” because some street view scanner picked up a sign and chose the wrong one.
If they start pushing ads, Google wins in “find me dinner nearby”.
- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 1 week ago:
That is the result of the search warrant.
- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 1 week ago:
I agree. We’ve seen this happening in the USA “yes technically they can do that but they would never”. Now we know better.
- Comment on Google tipped off authorities to illicit images in Canadian doctor's account, search warrants say 1 week ago:
They’re suggesting it was automated hash based recognition.
I don’t have a problem with CSAM hash matching.
- Comment on Six fuel ships bound for Australia cancelled 1 week ago:
Using oil to make things instead of setting it on fire for personal convenience would dramatically reduce the rate of consumption, effectively ending this crisis. But instead we have oil propagandists screeching about freedom to choose.
Setting things on fire is rarely the best use of a resource.
- Comment on 'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me' 1 week ago:
Absolute mockery of a police force.
Of course this is the same country that announces the confiscation of a chef’s knife as if they stopped a nerve gas attack in paddington station.
- Comment on Six fuel ships bound for Australia cancelled 2 weeks ago:
The new Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, has called on the federal government to consider oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight.
In a statement where he copied Donald Trump’s “drill baby drill” slogan, Canavan last week said that unless Australia launched new oil projects in the Bight and elsewhere, “we will always be at the mercy of unstable regions and international conflicts”.
Yes, there is simply no other way to achieve energy independence.
- Comment on Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies 2 weeks ago:
They’ve had feedback for years and ignored it.
Then they asked copilot to write a blogpost to get adoption of win11 up.
- Comment on Nvidia "confirms" DLSS 5 relies on 2D frame data as testing reveals hallucinations 2 weeks ago:
GenAI is the ultimate demoware.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
ARM is absolutely serving Intel’s head on a platter these days and it’s slowly happening - Server 2025 is availableish in ARM, and the Copilot PCs are ARM. There’s value but MS would rather customers go to PaaS than rebuild eg MSSQL on ARM, I think.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
The legacy systems need to upgrade because they need security patches. It’s not an incompatible system from 1992. Windows broke stuff going to Vista, when real-time controllers like you’d find running a power plant or CNC changed in ways I don’t remember, but fundamentally you could run a 35 year old application on windows 11 with tweaks over the years. These companies are running apps written in the 70s and 80s.
Microsoft could and perhaps should bifurcate Windows into new and old, or draw a line along Server and Workstation, but I think the bulk of their windows income comes from these enterprises and the “new” windows wouldn’t sell that well - it’s effectively been free for consumers since 8. Windows was the absolute show runner for decades but since the Cloud, it’s shrank quite a lot so there isn’t the money there anymore.
ARM is an interesting experiment they’ve been working on from a couple angles over the years but never really got the buy in.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
Enterprise customers depend on legacy stuff that you haven’t heard of. And there’s enough of these 800-pound gorillas in the room that pay for enough of Microsoft’s bills that they have to listen to, that they can’t cut it. A behaviour bug from 2002 is actually used by, say, JP Morgan’s trading department as a critical part of their flow.
Also, the legacy stuff is literally decades of work and knowledge so unscrambling it is not really feasible.
They can’t nuke it because of the customers that rely on it. Microsoft’s job (and that of all vendors) is to cost less than a migration to another option.
- Comment on I love mango 2 weeks ago:
If it wasn’t so expensive I’d give it a go. I’ve done cider - dead simple - and added fruit to a very light ale but never tried any other fruit. Do you just squeeze mangos?
- Comment on I love mango 2 weeks ago:
I’m curious what mango tastes like with all the sugar fermented off. I feel like it would be gross but evidently I’m wrong.
- Comment on Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax 2 weeks ago:
The rich can lobby in your country too.
The parliamente debates, votes it, discusses it in specialty commitee, votes it again, reviews it until it can get a majority to pass,
- Comment on PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI 2 weeks ago:
Well, it’s not like PwC does stuff where anally-retentive levels of accuracy and precision are required, so I can see why they’d be all for AI.
- Comment on I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. 2 weeks ago:
Is that one of the states with mandated reporting of miscarriages because it might be an abortion? Pass.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
At the local level there are many people in many cities trying to make things better.