xthexder

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[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Now how do we get the rest to understand the actual percentage hasn't changed much, people are just better informed and not as scared to tell people who they are. I can already feel the negative reactions based on the headline from people who are scared of cis white males becoming a minority.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 3 days ago

I always thought T&& made sense as a movable reference. In order to move something, you need to change where the reference points, so conceptually you need a reference to the original reference to update it. (Effectively a double reference)

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This might work on the scale of a building to even out its own power usage throughout a day, but to make a difference on a city grid scale, you need an insane amount of height and/or weight.

Check out Pumped Water Energy Storage. It's the same concept but uses water as the weight. Doing the math on the Ludington Pumped Storage Power Plant's active capacity, it stores over 100 billion pounds of water.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 6 days ago

I'm sure the AI datacenters would have a few GW to spare if we put the LLMs on pause.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Is that using numbers for carbon capture from the atmosphere? Carbon capture directly on the exhaust of a fossil fuel power plant would probably be an order of magnitude more efficient. Obviously you can't sustain everything by only using fuel combustion, but you could probably reduce to total emissions per kWh quite a bit without even looking at renewables.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 6 points 1 week ago

i < array.length or else you overflow.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Speech-to-text set to the wrong language or something?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 9 points 1 week ago

They don't have to explicitly ban the Cybertruck if it doesn't pass the existing regulations. It's not legal to drive in UK/EU. You could buy one for display-only or something I'm sure.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Vinyl is lossy in that any dust or scratches on the record can be heard in the output, so this is only true if you've got an absolutely pristine vinyl.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've realized that for a lot of things that a phone does, e-ink is too slow to refresh. Even web browsing becomes painful to navigate sometimes. Maybe a dual-screen approach would work with e-ink on one side and a regular screen on the other?

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 15 points 2 weeks ago

I will say, you can't beat the satisfaction of tracking down the root cause and actually fixing the bug. I don't understand why so many people meme about covering up bugs with crazy hacks. It's not fun constantly looking over your shoulder to see if that bug has resurfaced. They start to pile up.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's so easy! Watch:

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I was on a road trip through the prairies and had to stop on the side of the road to watch the northern lights. The entire sky in all directions was lit up. I was able to take this shot with the big dipper visible.

4-second exposure, Sony A9 II, f2.8 24mm Sigma Lens, taken Sept 18, 2023

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