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I think everything you wrote is correct except "It was a different time."
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:43PM (#50307485)
> I've only seen Google use it to refer to engineers maintaining / operating someone elses code.

You didn't look around very hard then. I acknowledge that certain areas of the company can consistently use subsets of a role, so you may not have encountered it personally, but your view is definitely wrong about the role in the company as a whole.

I tried to make a "unicorn" review on AliExpress. IIRC you can only write a review in the first 30 or 90 days. Too bad because I was going to sell the praises of the thing.
1. Them and their germs are long dead

2. The salt will kill the germs, but also... it's huge... you can find a spot.

Only sad part is they don't let you ride the mine cart boat thing because a group of drunk soldiers drowned using it.

Also, I didn't find evidence of this after a quick search, but IIRC the miners have been bringing people since at least the 19th century. It's great fun.

Re:Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:49PM (#50199444)
> what would we lose?

Who is "we"? Going back to the origin of Free Software to proprietary printer drivers causing hardware to be unfixable by its users and otherwise become ewaste. The loss is users are nearly beholden to the manufacturer to customize or maintain their own devices. Android phones, most ereaders, can have long lives when obsolete, but this is only because Linux is Free Software; with proprietary kernels they are entirely ewaste instead of a small fraction having continuing life. OTOH most do become ewaste. OAH this Free Software allows competitors to start from almost the same place and prevent total monopolies, hence why Apple makes most of the profit and I can buy a $150 phone instead of what appears to be $799 minimum from Apple.

But, I think 20 year-old software is probably mostly safe from the above effects and I'm not sure GP was arguing otherwise, just against total absence of copyright.

Re:I built a programming language that LLMs can't use on Sunday October 18, 2026 @09:48PM (#50147420)
Which is exactly why this human does not enjoy Forth very much.
No, you pay full price and can use power at any time of day. People who don't mind the restriction pay substantially less than you.
Then you can pay a bit more for the battery capacity and others can take the discount to deal with the minor inconveniences. It works out for everybody.
Sadly not in the USA.
From a T&M standpoint it's affordable to use external insulation and cladding to safely insulate these old houses. But that runs afoul of planning/landmark laws (some places even mandate single-pane windows!) So some Brits freeze to death rather than hide some history. Their choice to make, I guess.
You won't be able to wash your clothes when you feel like, you will have to adapt to when there is spare power, like in developing countries.

In nearly every case, this is actually "we'll take 35% of your bill if you agree to let us sometimes turn off your A/C and clothes dryer between 5pm-8pm". It doesn't require everyone to take the deal, just enough people who want to save money. You can take the discount and use your own battery if you want, or you can pay full price so the power company can. And some will live with the mild inconvenience in exchange for money (which most of us are forced to do in so many different ways).

This is just charging people the costs of their decisions. That's capitalism at its best.

Re:OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:13AM (#50039732)
What's worse is:

    x = 1;
    a = 2;
    echo(x);
    x = a;
Errors out with "line 1: a is not defined", because the override is implemented as is the tokens were present wherever the first declaration is. (If anybody looks up me, you'll see I've made a bunch of contributions and bitched about this particular thing which really fucks up a bunch of optimizations you'd want to do)
Reverse mortgage.

> How is this fair at any level?

How is it fair that working people have to pay 10x for housing than she did when she was young? How is it fair that the money goes to her inheritance while she made her working neighbors pay her share of taxes?

The boatman doesn't charge money, so what's the problem with that? They got to live somewhere other people invested to make nice without extra money out of their pocket.
Because boomers voted to defer fully funding pensions until later. Now it's later. We're paying for past work and current work.

In Washington State, Puget Sound Energy is a for-profit utility owned by mostly pension plans! Their guaranteed ROI is sucked out of the productive economy. Everywhere you look rent is being extracted either by the 0.01% or the elderly, and the working class must slave to get 1/10 what they gave themselves.

Either it's really valuable, and they can borrow money to pay taxes, or it's not and taxes are low. But people shouldn't be allowed to freeload on the work others do to make the property valuable.
Re:Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data on Monday October 05, 2026 @12:59PM (#49967412)
I have another solution. I look normal online when filling out information. I use Facebook, whatever.

But whenever possible, I lie. Different name, birthdate, every question about "favorite pet"? A lie. "They" have tons of data on me, but more and more is wrong. Let it leak.

Summed over all phones I've ever bought, I don't think I've spent €650.
Re:What is going on with ceiling fans on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:14AM (#49965937)
> get up to speed faster

That's not something I've ever cared about.

Re:What is going on with ceiling fans on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:15PM (#49959980)
I don't know about those reasons, but an AC fan uses ~100W on low and my DC fan uses 5W. You tune out the hum, but the AC fans hum and the DC fans don't.

But I don't think torque or longevity are actual issues with AC fans. Just efficiency and noise.

Re:The US state replacing power plants with home batteries on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:23PM (#49903629)
And when the power lines fall down in rural areas, how will people heat and power their homes? I guess they could buy some batteries, but then they'd sit idle most of the time. Maybe they could find some other profitable use and share the capital cost?

    BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE
Re:Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out on Sunday September 27, 2026 @12:21PM (#49868114)
Code link didn't work for me.

On mobile, I don't have enough room to scroll the background so I got stuck in a long text box.

Re:Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:41PM (#49862498)
I'm betting the developers are for single-family homes not apartments. The only NIMBY I'm for is anti-SFH.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Friday September 25, 2026 @01:33PM (#49847568)
You're closer to right. I was remembering oil+coal=80%. Coal is 60% today and oil is 20%.

https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/china

Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:41PM (#49839612)
It's not reset of you inherit, or a bunch of other bullshit exemptions.

We live in a gerontacracy. Every advantage and tax break and handout is given to the elderly and the ladder has fully been pulled up for the new generations.

Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Thursday September 24, 2026 @12:00AM (#49826095)
That's 50% of electricity, but not 50% of energy. Coal still provides ~80% of energy IIRC (roughly 10% is carbon-free and growing faster than the US). China burns so, so much coal, while much of the world has shifted to natural gas, which has much less carbon per energy.
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:49PM (#49826036)
That only makes sense if you're burning hydrocarbons to heat your homes; about 1/3 of total energy use is space heating. Shifting to heat pumps and more wind before wasting money on solar panels at high latitudes is better ROI on energy independence and carbon reduction.

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