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by sprash 7y ago
Many people here talk about "cancel culture" which is in fact a fake culture that is completely artificially generated via paid actors, like some on this list of signatures. Most of the people taking part in the character assasina
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by sprash 7y ago
All I'm saying is, when talking about efficiency the electricity source should be considered as well. Besides that efficiency is not the right metric to ask for here. Environmental impact is the important metric. Destroying existing in
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by sprash 7y ago
Again, here[1] a process is demonstrated that generates CO and H directly out of CO2 and H2O with a specialized catalyst using only heat from direct sunlight on a large scale. No electrolysis necessary. [1]: https://www.dlr.de&#x
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by sprash 7y ago
Most electricity is produced by burning coal heating up water and sending it through a turbine. The efficiency is limited by the maximum the carnot cycle can give you. In general less than 60%. Still not as bad as 10%, sure. But if you get
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by sprash 7y ago
Concerning point 1: Of course it will always be cheaper to pump Oil directly out of the ground. Nobody claimed otherwise. Concerning point 2: A few billion investment seems to me far less than forcing everybody to switch to electric and bui
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by sprash 7y ago
> Virtually all of them are producing synthetic fuel using other fossil fuels. Recently a plant was demonstrated by DLR in Spain that produced Fuel from air directly only with solar power: https://www.dlr.de/content/
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by sprash 7y ago
Can somebody explain to me why we need to switch to electric cars when we have Fischer-Tropsch to produce fuel literally out of thin air? We could keep all the existing infrastructure while having zero CO2 impact. I think digging up loads o
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by sprash 7y ago
The Terminator 2 movie is a prime example of using envroinment maps which are supported by OpenGL since day one. There is zero raytracing used in this movie. This shows again that from a psychovisual viewpoint 100% accurate reflections are
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by sprash 7y ago
This shows again that the RTX feature on NVidia cards is completely pointless. With some clever hacks you get the same visual fidelity with traditional OpenGL ES and with one order of magnitude better performance.
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by sprash 7y ago
How is "implemented in Rust" relevant for anything but bragging rights for using some obscure programming language. Your software has not more inherent value just because it is written in Rust.
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by sprash 7y ago
Why is hackernews kicking all Stallman threads off the frontpage? ycombinator seems to have an agenda in this too apparently.
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by sprash 7y ago
Why should anyone apologize for being a victim of a coordinated character assasination campaign?
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by sprash 7y ago
Getting actually constructive feedback is super rare. When you ask emotionally engaged poeple to be more specific and precise about their problem they usually rationalize their anger and stop being angry when they actually notice what exact
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by sprash 7y ago
If you want your product to be good you have the "obligation" to listen to negative feedback. But you don't have the "obligation" to make a good product. If you don't care about your product you are going to ig
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by sprash 7y ago
> even very mature, confident people find it hard to handle emotionally. One of the defining qualities of being "mature" and "confident" is to be able to fade out the emotional components and concentrate on the substa
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by sprash 7y ago
> So what to do with that? Negative feedback is the only form of valueable feedback. If you want to make your software better you should listen to negative feedback. Of course negative feedback often comes with emotional baggage but you
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by sprash 7y ago
I just witnessed how complete ecosystems are destroyed all the time in the name of incremental updates. Some prominent example are Python3, Gnome3 or KDE4. Every time such a transition takes place lots of people that are not full time progr
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by sprash 7y ago
My window manager won't work, my hotkey daemon won't work, my screenshot tool won't work, any X11 program that draws to the root window won't work. Xwayland is obviously not a working solution to fix the ecosystem proble
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by sprash 7y ago
Money Quote: > So, a lot of the design of X11 is giving clients and apps a large set of tools to design and implement their app, without any real opinionated design about how an app should be made. An X client can use this tool or that t
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by sprash 7y ago
With the introduction of backlight strobing the last advantage of CRTs over LCDs that remains is the support of arbitrary resolutions.
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by sprash 7y ago
You forgot to mention they have a very sane package hirachy that always draws as few dependencies as possible. Many self proclaimed "minimalist" distros will immediately become bloated as soon as you install one package not in the
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by sprash 7y ago
Found something similar on shadertoy [1] from 2013. Of course the geometry is handcoded in this case but it would be a good starting point to implement something like this via shaders in WebGL and use it for all your images on your Webpage
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by sprash 7y ago
The point is if people knew that they would get v.d. Leyen they never would have voted for EVP. The voter has apparently zero control over who gets the most powerful position in the EU. Note that commissioners not only have exectuive power
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by sprash 7y ago
You forget to mention that the head of the commission "Ursula v.d. Leyen" never was a candidate. The candidate that campaigned for election called "Manfred Weber" suddenly stepped down right after the election and "
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by sprash 7y ago
In recent local elections AfD more than doubled their previous results and is the second biggest Party in every of those local parliaments.
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by sprash 7y ago
The C64 could communicate with peripherals with the same speed as it could talk to RAM. "Technically" this would also be possible on x86_64 machines right from the start. The "enabling technology" in this case is that el
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by sprash 7y ago
X11 can do all that. If all else fails you can use GLX to blend some textures together or animate them. The problem is more that there are to many different ways to achieve the same thing. A clean up would indeed be nice but Wayland is exac
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by sprash 7y ago
> No, that's blatantly wrong. Not really "blatantly" wrong. Once the Glyps are transmitted to the server cache they can be redrawn infinitely without causing much bandwidth or round trips. The fact that they are not entire
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by sprash 7y ago
There were a lot of X-extensions introduced over the years that are rendered server side. Some are even widely used even today, such as Xft. Also the ability to upload pixmaps and blit them afterwards as much as you want without causing muc
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by sprash 7y ago
> For instance, modern anti-aliased fonts need to be drawn on the client side and sent over as bitmaps. Xft is drawn 100% server side > But they've decided to go in the other direction They made the wrong decision.

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