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Re:Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:29PM (#50328837)
Damn, it’s really difficult to read huh.

If you go back to GP’s comment you’ll see they accounted for generation and transmission.

They clearly separated the efficiency of the engines with the efficiency of generation and transmission.

The point stands. For the same amount of energy, EVs travel 3-4x the same distance. And you were really rude.

Re:Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:40AM (#50326152)
> would increase baseline load during nighttime.

This is a good thing, because you’ve shifted usage from a peak time to a low usage time. The more uniform consumption is, the cheaper it is to supply.

Also, it’s rude to be dismissive of people’s comments, but especially so when you’re actually wrong.

They said an EV is 4x more efficient than an ICE car. You dismissed the claim with “not even close”.

Would it surprise you to learn that a 45mpg car takes about 1kwh of energy to run a mile while an EV uses 0.25-0.35 kwh per mile. That’s 3-4x more efficient.

Re:Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:26AM (#50052606)
Yeah wtf was that. Came out of nowhere.
New account, 36 karma. Come back when you’ve got a 1000 karma and I’ll take you seriously.
Datacenter hosts Russian bots that comment on western social media. Disrupting Russian propaganda online weakens the Russian military. A crushing defeat for Trump in the mid terms is a military boost for Ukraine.
Wildberries warehouses were filled with flammable items boxed up in cardboard, packed for maximum efficiency and no wasted space. They were tinderboxes.

A datacenter is filled with server racks that wouldn’t burn as readily as cardboard. The fire videos I see of this datacenter don’t look as good as the Wildberries videos.

That said, I wish the Russian people good luck with booking their taxis and Yandex employees luck with finding RAM.

Re:Our Project Suncatcher prototype satellite is in orbit on Friday October 02, 2026 @09:34PM (#49940592)
Can I just compare this to buying some slightly remote land, building one small nuclear reactor on it and offering free electricity to everyone in a wide radius of the plant/datacenter?

Someone else said the facility needs 370MW. Great, because SMR designs provide 470MW. That’s 100MW excess, given for free to locals to entice them to support the project. That can power 40k homes, easily. People object to these projects partly because their bills go up? Cool, those bills disappear now.

But no, I guess we’re creating massive arrays in space and polluting the night sky forever.

Account created 2 months ago, quite possible.
Russia has been self sufficient in drone production for more than a year. Not only that, they’ve innovated on the Shahed design by adding a jet engine. Production of drones is not the issue, lack of satellite internet is.
No. They’re not gaining ground. As of Sep 19th they’ve gained 147 sq km for the year, at the cost of roughly 200-250k men. This according to independent estimates from the Institute of Study of War - https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian...

Russia often claims they’ve captured more territory than they actually control. Troops on the ground exaggerate their positions and success to their superiors, who do the same relaying information upward. Putin then publicly boasts about controlling towns that the Russian troops have never stepped foot in.

But why can’t the military just not use Anthropic? Why can’t the DoD say “ok we’re going with a different vendor”? Even if you find Anthropic’s stance distasteful, why support taking punitive action on Anthropic?
Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:17AM (#49828564)
And we have tried it too! There have been energy shocks before, where the price of energy spikes and causes corresponding drop in energy consumption, leading to degrowth.

They only talk about the benefits in the abstract, but not what an energy shock actually means. It means people can’t afford to pay for heating and freeze to death. It means factories close down because the inputs are too expensive. Construction stops because the raw materials (steel, concrete) are too expensive to manufacture, and people don’t have money to pay for new homes.

We have done all these things just in the last 4 years! So why should we do more of it instead of just building more renewable energy?

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @04:58PM (#49807996)
Exactly
Re:Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:23AM (#49722747)
I knew keeping a pot of vantablack in my jacket pocket would come in handy.
Re:Let's make quality the norm again on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:53PM (#49717083)
> it’s expensive to be poor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. ... A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. ... But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”

Maybe some in this thread won’t celebrate CNN staying out of the clutches of the Ellisons.

But think of it this way. If Ellison’s acquisition of Warner Bros falls through Ellison must pay Warner Bros a $7 Billion breakup fee. That’s on top of the $2.8 Billion they paid Netflix to abandon its pursuit of Warner Bros.

So Ellison would have wasted $9.8 Billion and years of his life for absolutely nothing. And I think we can all agree that the world would be better off.

Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:59AM (#49698054)
The account you’re replying to has 8 karma across 13 comments in the last 11 years.

The other comments are about as good as the one you replied to.

Re:Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:48AM (#49697839)
“Concerning” is just a right wing thing to say. They get the habit from Musk. They say it and don’t elaborate, so it kinda operates like a dog whistle.
Re:Apple Watch Series 12 on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:57AM (#49639474)
This reminds me of the last time I saw an Arabic movie. It was last week. I used subtitles.
Re:Version Control Second Coming on Thursday September 10, 2026 @02:29AM (#49639234)
This is my dilemma. Do I feel like giving up because it isn’t written well or because my attention span is shot? Hard to tell.
Re:Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @06:09AM (#49624012)
The streamer is talking to the people in the stream’s chat room. Every streamer refers to all the people in the chat room as “Chat”. Kids these days use the same collective noun for everyone in their group chat.
Re:AI, Tools and Transformation on Sunday September 06, 2026 @05:47AM (#49584834)
Do I need to upload a new build of the app every 90 days? I’d prefer the app to just work forever without thinking about it.
Re:AI, Tools and Transformation on Sunday September 06, 2026 @04:35AM (#49584460)
I have a question about web to iOS native. How do you distribute that app? I’m assuming you’re paying $99 yearly to distribute through the App Store? Is this app meant just for you or for anyone to find?

Reason I’m asking is because I’d like to make native iOS apps just for myself rather than progressive web apps. But I haven’t understood the best way to distribute.

Re:Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @09:56AM (#49536317)
Why not Large Modular reactors? You’ll produce fewer of every component, making it less feasible to set up an assembly line for it. You’ll build everything bespoke, because you’ll only build it a few times.

But assembly as well. People learn by doing. The second reactor will be built quicker than the first and third will be quicker than the second.

And you can see it in the Rolls-Royce order book. 3 separate countries have ordered 3 reactors to start with. An order book of 9 reactors strongly incentivises setting up an assembly line.

Re:Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:13AM (#49535104)
Anti-abortion people prefer “pro-life”.
Re:Forgotten History of Small Nuclear Reactors on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:01AM (#49534998)
> nuclear power is quite expensive

Could you look out the window in a westerly direction? There’s a country there that is powered 80% by nuclear and it has much cheaper electricity than other Western European countries.

The fact is, only nuclear can provide a clean baseload that runs 24x7. I’m a big fan of wind, batteries and solar, but they can’t handle a reliable base load that always runs.

We have no option but nuclear, meaning we have to solve the problems of waste management, making it cheaper and so on.

And happily, people are tackling this. Britain’s Rolls-Royce is developing a small nuclear reactor that can be manufactured in a factory and assembled on site like an ikea project. There are other companies trying the same. I’d much rather read a 2026 article about trying to solve a problem than a 2015 article saying a problem is unsolvable.

Re:Htmx 4.0.0 has been released on Friday August 28, 2026 @05:11PM (#49484298)
> unhinged

Please take a look at the official documentation for htmx, which specifically clarifies that the author owns many hinges.

Yeah ok, that’s very plausible. I’m limited my by knowledge, so this screwworm thing is the worst, most pointless blunder that I know of.
Poor Albania, drawn into a war they didn’t even know they were a part of until Trump mentioned it.
I think Iran was an enormous blunder that hurt everyone around the world, and will for a long time. But at least I can see what he was aiming for - the acclaim for winning a war and bringing a long time foe to heel. He was sold an easy war by Netanyanhu and being gullible he was easily convinced.

There was a reasonable, desirable goal he was aiming for.

But this screwworm thing is so stupid simply because there was no upside to it. It just hurt Americans, especially Trump voters. No one benefited other than screwworms now feasting on American cattle.

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