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Re:EVE Online moves to Python 3
on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:46AM (#49490358)
* and commit no felonies
Re:New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plan...
on Saturday August 08, 2026 @09:53AM (#49221848)
400,000 people in Europe are displaced. Pretending that this is a future issue is tremendously disingenuous. Things don't need to be civilisation-ending to cause a degree of harm that is worth focusing on.
Re:Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line
on Friday June 26, 2026 @06:18AM (#48684793)
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Re:Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
on Friday May 15, 2026 @06:45PM (#48154930)
You're forgetting insane levels of air pollution and a measurable increase in ambient temperatures.
Re:€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing ...
on Thursday April 16, 2026 @09:46AM (#47792881)
This should be illegal. If a contractor your hired to swap out a tile on your bathroom floor billed you for remodelling your back garden, you would obviously have the legal right to refuse that.
Re:IDF Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: ...
on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @06:46PM (#47145216)
> Hamas was the first to cast the stone.
That is ignoring many decades of history.
Re:Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on P...
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:51PM (#46319311)
Same for me. I actually don't order much but kept the subscription going for some of the shows I enjoyed. I promptly cancelled because of this. Obviously I'm in the minority, otherwise they wouldn't do it.
Re:You can't grow cool-climate plants in hot climates
on Saturday August 23, 2025 @03:02PM (#44998244)
Or powering the current AI bubble with a buildout of climate-wrecking energy infrastructure.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/21/gas-power-plants-approved-...
Re:Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics
on Saturday August 16, 2025 @05:53AM (#44921842)
What exactly makes an environmentalist "radical" in your mind? Is it reading studies about planetary boundaries and the effects on micro plastics pollution?
Re:Once Again, Oil States Thwart Agreement on Plastics
on Saturday August 16, 2025 @05:49AM (#44921823)
> Plastics aren't a problem if people actually put them in the bin, and they are buried / recycled / burned.
Only 9% of all plastics ever produced has been recycled. 100% is impossible due to the various composite materials that exist.
Landfills don't work in many places in the world due to lack of space and are expensive, hard to manage and come with methane emissions. Burning is obviously the same as burning fossil fuels and cannot happen if we want to keep our planet habitable. It also happens almost always in poor communities that suffer health consequences because of it.
Even if the disposal was somehow magically solved, we still have the problem with production. Plastics are a lifeline to the fossil fuel industry and are expected to account for more than a third of the growth in world oil demand to 2030. Cracker plants for plastics production are also usually placed near communities of colour or in developing countries and create toxic conditions for life around them.
Plastics are a problem. Regardless of the disposal.
Re:Carbon capture more costly than switching to renewables, researcher...
on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:11PM (#43064304)
No, it is not and the idea that extreme weather would somehow result in more food is laughable on its face. Higher CO2 concentrations also reduce the nutrients in food.
Re:UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers
on Sunday December 08, 2024 @06:56PM (#42361823)
A good move but it's still mad to me that we're banning junk food ads while fossil fuel ads are still allowed which are creating damage many orders of magnitudes greater than a muffin ever could.
Re:Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant modal shift from r...
on Saturday October 12, 2024 @07:53PM (#41823839)
Show me an effective carbon abatement method well under $100.
Re:Gassy cows and pigs will face a carbon tax in Denmark, a world first
on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @07:05PM (#40805558)
This is propaganda from the livestock lobby that has been disproved again and again. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/15/beef-f...
Re:Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources
on Sunday May 19, 2024 @06:47AM (#40405937)
Re:More than half of Bitcoin investors are in the red, study says
on Saturday February 12, 2022 @08:09PM (#30318072)
I have yet to see someone argue that TWTR is the future of money and will replace gold.
Snake in my Boot: An implementation of snake in a bootloader
Re:The Rhine waterway risks becoming impassable because of climate change
on Saturday January 19, 2019 @07:07AM (#18946613)
I'm not sure if "ironic" is the right word here, but that as a direct effect of climate change, coal power plants had to shut down and cars couldn't be manufactured is certainly an interesting twist.
Re:A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas
on Sunday November 04, 2018 @06:05PM (#18378533)
I'd love to have more articles that revisit all the amazing sounding findings we read about every day. Especially about the ones that fail trials.
“The Hard Parts of Open Source” by Evan Czaplicki [video]
Re:Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server
on Friday August 24, 2018 @10:31AM (#17835123)
If I remember correctly, Django only shows these information if left in debug mode. Needless to say, this should never be used in production.
UP brings ordinance for ban on polythene
Re:Dev Watercooler: World of Warcraft Classic
on Sunday June 17, 2018 @10:05AM (#17332418)
Reading option one made me quite anxious. Having to backport a virtually infinite number of bugfixes and support for new hardware features from over 12 years of constant development sounds like a perfect way to burn out developers. I'm glad they went for the clearly more sustainable option of adopting the old data to their new client infrastructure.
Re:List of April Fools Day Announcements (2018)
on Sunday April 01, 2018 @06:30AM (#16727628)
https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2018-April/01555...
Proposal: Professionalizing GHC Development
Re:I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet
on Saturday March 31, 2018 @12:46PM (#16724004)
My gym actually has a few machines were the weights regularly get stuck like this. I never considered this to be a danger. Thanks a lot for sharing that. I'll pay more attention to that in the future.
Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook
on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:58AM (#16412863)
I'm not on the Yoga team but work with them quite closely. There are no active plans for adding CSS Grid support mostly because the spec is kind of awkward with the ASCII-art style definitions that are very reliant on CSS as the source language. Personally, I've been warming up to the idea of using CSS Grid for UIs more and more lately after reading this post on Mozilla Hacks[0], but we haven't had many requests for adding it otherwise.
[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/02/css-grid-for-ui-layouts/
Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook
on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:55AM (#16412853)
That sounds super cool! I was looking into writing Rust bindings to Yoga myself but then saw your library. I'd love to read a post about what you're doing once you've made sufficient progress with it.
Re:React Native and Yoga Both Given MIT Licence by Facebook
on Monday February 19, 2018 @08:54AM (#16412847)
Litho and ComponentKit have similar APIs and we try to bring them closer together, but I'm not sure what unifying them would actually look like. You would still end up with two libraries that target very different languages. React Native is there to stay if sharing logic is more important to you than raw speed.