rwyinuse

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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
You just seem to have a fetish for aircraft with fully or partially rear-mounted engines. I prefer 747 over all of the above, although 757 is my favorite. IL-62 I particularly dislike. Sitting next to those big engines would suck, especiall
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
It's still possible they miss this time. Unlikely, but I rather wait for reviews before buying.
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
No need for that when solar power and nuclear exist. The problem in Poland, Germany etc is prematurely getting rid of perfectly good nuclear power plants, not lack of gas drilling.
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
That's why you build batteries that can store electricity for the other half. Or maybe nuclear power.
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
I agree. Sometimes one needs Windows for some legacy software, but for 99% of use cases Linux works, is faster and respects your privacy more.
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
Politics is everywhere, but the state of US politics today is exceptionally bad by Western world standards. I hate the government in my country, but their corruption and incompetence is nothing compared to the Trump administration. In that
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
Perhaps EU or China could build their own network of sensors to track this stuff? It's dangerous for so much science to be dependent on a country run by anti-science idiots. I sincerely hope that China wins the AI race, for the sake of
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
"In the past, this was a reason to have children, because you needed somebody to help out and look after you when you were old" I live in what is supposedly one of the happiest, wealthiest countries in the world, and even here few
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
Yep, all the talk about individual "carbon footprint" is just a distraction designed by the fossil fuel lobby. Universally in the world people who live most environmentally friendly lives are those that are too poor to consume muc
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
Your view is outdated. China is building renewable power generation at an extremely high rate, and also exporting cheap solar panels worldwide. China has a higher share of electric vehicles in cities than most of Europe and America does. It
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
Those consume nowhere near as much electricity as data centers. Of course electricity wouldn't be such a problem if US government chose to invest in cheap, sustainable energy sources and upgrade its grid. China is building solar and nu
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by rwyinuse 4mo ago
"for millions of years we were constantly fasting, then we hunted and killed animals, eating their protein and fat, no carbs, we were constantly in ketosis" Those hunter-gatherers of the past certainly did eat whatever carbs they
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by rwyinuse 5mo ago
Usually there's either sun or wind. Last year 57% of Finland's electricity generation was from renewables, the rest being largely nuclear, and the electricity costs were among lowest in Europe. Until battery tech gets (and maybe e
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by rwyinuse 5mo ago
Perhaps there are cultural reasons that explain this, such as attitudes towards work, entrepreneurship, private ownership etc? I have no idea if Rwanda and Malawi have difference there, but globally one can see clearly see the impact of cul
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by rwyinuse 6mo ago
The main problem is agriculture. If rain patterns get severely disrupted in most of world's current breadbaskets, it takes time to increase production in areas that may now have more favourable climate. During that time lots of people
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by rwyinuse 6mo ago
"There's not going to be much competition to drive prices down, the barriers to entry are already huge. There'll likely to be one clear winner, becoming a near-monopoly, or maybe we'll get a duopoly at best." Based
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by rwyinuse 6mo ago
Russia is still whole other level of evil compared to America. If nothing else, Americans at least put some value on the lives of their own troops - when the F15 got shot down in Iran, the launched a massive rescue operation. Back in the 70
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by rwyinuse 6mo ago
Perhaps the rationale is laziness. Maintaining VM probably takes some more effort and competence than deploying to Vercel. Some people are willing to pay to minimize effort and the need to learn anything.
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by rwyinuse 6mo ago
If I ever start watching football, I'll make sure to pirate every match. FIFA, La Liga, they all seem utterly rotten to me.
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by rwyinuse 6mo ago
Well, there are lots of EU countries where governments aren't as idiotic as that of Spain, and where bureaucracy is mostly under control as well. As a citizen of a Nordic country I would never want to live in America, except maybe if I
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by rwyinuse 7mo ago
I agree. Ironically ones complaining the loudest about fuel prices are be far-right populists, who tend to be against renewables.
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by rwyinuse 7mo ago
Somehow Europe manages to do that well enough.
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by rwyinuse 7mo ago
Which means at least 50% of the university degrees are no longer competitive, since the focus in those studies is just on the knowledge side.
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by rwyinuse 7mo ago
Meanwhile in Finland it's still official government policy to get at least 50% of the population to have higher education, even though academic unemployment is already at all time high. It feels like nobody in the government is even tr
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by rwyinuse 7mo ago
Yea, at least over here in Finland many university degree programmers are hardly worth it, even though there are no tuition fees. A plumber or electrician can easily earn more than a researcher with PhD, with much shorter studies, better jo
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by rwyinuse 7mo ago
End of civilization takes a lot more than high oil/fertilizer prices, even if it causes famine in poorer countries.
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by rwyinuse 7mo ago
That could work in ideal world where children behave nicely, and are eager to learn. But in reality that's not the case. Especially in high school big part of teacher's job is keeping order and being the authority figure. Good luc
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by rwyinuse 8mo ago
In my experience juniors are simply being replaced with intermediates and seniors who are willing to work for junior wages.
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by rwyinuse 8mo ago
What about tens of thousands of peaceful civilians who have been killed by the Iranian regime during past decades? The alternative to this war is allowing the Iranian government to keep doing that, business as usual. In my opinion bombing p
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by rwyinuse 8mo ago
Yea, IMO people shouldn't make jobs / professions too big a part of their identity. At some point human programming may be largely gone, but probably there will be increased demand for something else. It should be government'

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