wing-_-nuts

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by wing-_-nuts 5d ago
I dunno why anyone would want a front loader. If the seal fails, you have water on your floor. If the machine fails during the wash cycle, again, no way to easily get your clothes out without getting water on the floor. If a top loader
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by wing-_-nuts 8d ago
No, actually, we have explicit taxes for SS and Medicare, and we've known they were not bringing in enough revenue to fund those programs since the 80s. The trust funds are almost dry, so we're either going to have to raise those
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by wing-_-nuts 8d ago
What a nonsensical argument. Yes, that's why we're all living in government owned housing, because if you tax something, it inevitably gets taken away, and nobody wants to buy houses, cause the government is just gonna take it aw
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by wing-_-nuts 9d ago
Nothing, hence my point about it being a straw man :^)
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by wing-_-nuts 9d ago
Because our current social safety nets all work by assuming the next generation pays for the care of the current elderly. Those elderly do need 'stuff' they need doctors and nurses and nursing homes. Thus taxes will have to go u
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by wing-_-nuts 9d ago
Man I always love the straw men you guys stand up to fight this. More taxes = socialism, and not nordic socialism, no, actually, communism. Therefore mass death / genocide. Ok. Sure jan.
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by wing-_-nuts 9d ago
Why not? We tax property every year on it's assessed value. I think it's pretty clear that the wealthy will need to pay more taxes throughout the world to deal with an aging population. I'm a little tired of billionaires &#
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by wing-_-nuts 12d ago
This made me laugh. I too, browse like corporate security is sitting at my desk.
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by wing-_-nuts 17d ago
>If we filter out the unsubstantiated fearmongering, all we've got left to discuss are NIMBY rants and geopolitics. I'm sorry, what? I'll put it to you again, you sound like me after playing around with gpt 3.5. It was in
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by wing-_-nuts 17d ago
I had a dark mode extension slowing things down. Then I got annoyed with the site performance and enabled 'reader' view
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by wing-_-nuts 17d ago
Oh hey, it's my point of view from a year ago... It's definitely changed in that time
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by wing-_-nuts 17d ago
I have no doubt that AI will massively transform society. That cat is out of the bag. It took decades for electricity, and then computers to change society, but this is the first technology where the average person can simply describe the
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by wing-_-nuts 17d ago
They really just need to mandate that new datacenter construction uses closed loop cooling, and must provide an upfront investment sufficient to add enough carbon free energy to the grid to power it. That would, of course, make it much mor
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by wing-_-nuts 26d ago
...and that's not a scenario that anyone is talking about employing with nuclear. We need enough for baseline load. Being able to build small modular reactors would give us scale that would help cut through the regulatory cost. By
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by wing-_-nuts 29d ago
I don't think solar even needs advocates at this point. Battery backed solar should win on pure economics.
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by wing-_-nuts 29d ago
'Fuel efficiency' is not the bottle neck to getting more clean energy on the grid, scale is. Waste? grind it up, vitrify it, bury it in an abandoned coal mine or something. People get more radioactivity from a coal power plant
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by wing-_-nuts 29d ago
I'm sorry, if you're gonna link to a 111 page pdf, please at least quote the area of interest?
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
Yeah, I don't mind walmart making a psa about theft if that's what they want to do with their money. I very much do have a problem with them putting their thumb on the scale and donating millions to one political candidate over
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
'Termination shock' will be a very real threat, and lets not pretend that injecting sulfides into the atmosphere is going to improve air quality or help the ozone layer. Best option is to rapidly cut emissions, but I think we can
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
I've seen estimates of the cost of sulfide injection to be about 2-3B / yr / 1C. That's not outside of the capability of a country like India, much less China
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
Last estimates I've seen for the cost of stratospheric sulfide injection was ~ 2-3B/yr. That's not nothing, but it's definitely something India could afford to do unilaterally, not to mention China
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
>This is literally going to kill millions. You could be right, but I think the more likely outcome is a 'Ministry for the Future' scenario where India or China just decide to unilaterally implement geoengineering and dare the r
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
>Automation is wonderful to cut cost for them but for the users being unable to get support is a horrible experience. But you cannot go elsewhere because they are the only player in town. I can't tell you how many times I've ex
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
I can't find the benchmarks now, but the ones I recently saw on hacker news, xwayland was notably worse than either wayland native or xorg native. Bad enough to be noticeable by the average user.
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
Also, as benchmarks show, xwayland introduces pretty bad latency..
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
Yeah, instead of the wayland folks leading the effort to fix issues, it's often some individual DE / WM going off, fixing it the way they prefer, and wayland grudgingly adopting it as official because they know the ecosystem is fr
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
If wayland had been sold as a hardened display for those who needed that level of security, I would not have a problem with it. As it is, the community got constantly browbeat with 'this is the future' and 'it's so much
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
Great, so let wayland be a hardened option for those who care.
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
You'll excuse me if I am not terribly enthusiastic about breaking all sorts of functionality to solve a security problem I've never experienced in my 25 years on linux.
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by wing-_-nuts 1mo ago
>Wayland is not a "display server", it's a display protocol. I, as an end user, do NOT care. >A lot of the "existing functionality" that it broke has nothing to do with displays, it's stuff that got cra

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