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661.
by lazide 7mo ago
If the outcome is you need to pay the next time, but not the first time…. Doesn’t it at least save you from having to pay for it the first time?
662.
by lazide 7mo ago
Guess what agency has been gutted and attacked recently? EEOC recently….
663.
by lazide 7mo ago
Not having to round trip through ACL/security checks. Not having to deal with state management. Not having to deal with browser compatibility issues (and mobile vs desktop). Not having to deal with weird input validation stuff dual lay
664.
by lazide 7mo ago
Uh huh.
665.
by lazide 7mo ago
HTML and CSS are also absurdly hard to actually do anything useful with or interactive compared to normal desktop or app frameworks. Orders of magnitude more BS, plumbing, awkwardness, head scratching, etc.
666.
by lazide 7mo ago
‘The constitution is not a suicide pact’ [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Constitution_is_not_a_suic... ]. It’s the same reason there is a different legal system in the military than for everyone else. Sometimes, you
667.
by lazide 7mo ago
Since kva literally just means ‘kilovoltamps’ and is calculated by multiplying volts * amps, and transformers convert step up and down voltages while keeping amperage roughly the same (to the first order approximation), then yes. Minus loss
668.
by lazide 7mo ago
Eh, kinda…. If you’re really careful you could have parallel sets of series transformers feeding into a common feed. At a much larger scale, that is exactly what the grid is, actually. It just sucks dramatically from an operational perspe
669.
by lazide 7mo ago
Why can’t we mass manufacture aircraft carriers by making a lot of small boats and joining them up? It’s the same kind of problem. (And notably, it’s not that it’s actually completely impossible to do it that way - just impractical compared
670.
by lazide 7mo ago
Under that definition, ‘Caring’ can mean anything from hopes and prayers to major economic sacrifices. With that struggling neighbor, are you talking about helping them take out their trash at night when they’re tired - or paying unemployme
671.
by lazide 7mo ago
Ah, invasive extra paperwork (enforced by criminal penalties, at least in theory) for something they say on the surface they won’t actually need. So very german (hah)
672.
by lazide 7mo ago
Huh? It highlights the relevance. It’s easy to handwave ‘imports’ away - but import from whom, and how do they make the energy?
673.
by lazide 7mo ago
The issue is when you get down to the edge cases, you get into politics again. Is ‘caring’ (what does that mean exactly?) for someone on death row good or bad? You’ll likely find splits in answers along ‘political’ lines, especially dependi
674.
by lazide 7mo ago
It has dramatically higher thermal heat demands in winter - far higher than is compensated for by that. Even if everyone switched to heat pumps.
675.
by lazide 7mo ago
That was what the gov’t was saying was true - which was a lie, and was later proven to be a lie. Which reinforces my point?
676.
by lazide 7mo ago
Germany has only a tiny portion of their total energy needs on renewables - if we’re being honest about the definition of ‘total energy needs’. Like in the camper van scenario, if we include winter heating and transportation? Oh boy. It’s g
677.
by lazide 7mo ago
Has there been a time where (after later facts came out) they were wrong?
678.
by lazide 7mo ago
Germany’s renewables rollout would like a word….
679.
by lazide 7mo ago
It means some other infrastructure (fossil fuels?) needs to take up the slack, and people underestimate actual costs at larger scales. It’s the big issue in Germany for instance - it’s all fun and games until Winter.
680.
by lazide 7mo ago
Hard to do if it’s not present to use already?
681.
by lazide 7mo ago
Frankly, you didn’t seem to care if I was here or not.
682.
by lazide 7mo ago
Uh huh.
683.
by lazide 7mo ago
Except that is not what is happening at all. Trump started the war to distract everyone, and we’ll all keep dealing with the fallout while he moves on to create another distraction. It isn’t going to actually end anytime soon.
684.
by lazide 7mo ago
Bwahahahahahaha
685.
by lazide 7mo ago
There seems to be an assumption of ‘power to the people’, and ‘just world’, that just doesn’t seem to match reality at all. That’s what I am responding too.
686.
by lazide 7mo ago
More like the first two definitions of the word - literally. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fantasy
687.
by lazide 7mo ago
So…. Fantasy?
688.
by lazide 7mo ago
Hoho ho. Hardly helped anyone in Bakmut eh? And hardly how China or India are likely to work too. That future you seem to think is inevitable is very far from it:
689.
by lazide 7mo ago
We can neither confirm nor deny on advice of counsel.
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by lazide 7mo ago
Everyone is just figuring out again why Microsoft was so hated in the 90’s.

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