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It fit USSR interests to say that they were the standard bearer of communism back in the day. It fit US interests to say exactly the same. Neither had any reason to think about how the word was used prior to the USSR and if it actually applies at all.

It's no wonder that people who lived behind the Iron Curtain have just as bad an understanding of communism as people in the US. The USSR certainly didn't want you reading theory outside of Marxist-Leninist material.

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France seems to be relatively easy to gain permanent residence and even citizenship, but they do expect you to learn fluent French. Most of the EU requires birthright citizenship. A few will grant it to the decedents of immigrants, like Ireland, though they only do it for two generations out.

Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b... (www.npr.org)

Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b...::undefined

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That's me. I started the first episode and I was laughcringing too hard.

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I can see where he picked up that attitude. It was common in the hacker types of the late 90s/early 2000s regardless of where their politics lay otherwise. Around the time he died, many of them were starting to see the monster that was created out of that, but it wasn't really obvious until the 2016 election.

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[citation needed]

On second thought, no, please don't.

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Transportation is 28% of GHG emissions. EVs are a huge improvement even before we add more clean energy on the grid.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions

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There's a cheat code out there right now: Toyota bz4x. At full price, they're not a very good option. There's plenty with better range and charge time. They also fucked up some of the features, like one pedal driving.

However, first year depreciation is hitting them hard, and then they look much better. So much off that the downsides can be overlooked.

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No. No, they are not more complicated.

You can learn to build your own brushless motor on YouTube that's close to as good as anything the major manufacturers are using. You'd need a whole machine shop to build an ICE, and it's not going to be nearly as good as a crate engine from a company that dumped billions of dollars into R&D.

Battery chemistry is complicated, but you can buy the modules and build a pack yourself. There's quite a bit of safety knowledge that goes into this so you don't burn your house down, but it's all out there.

Even if you bought all the major components and dropped them into a rolling chassis, an EV would be significantly easier to build than an ICE. It's not even close.

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Bad range, bad charge time, a bunch of little things that aren't up to snuff. Toyota didn't half-ass it as much as the Mazda CX-30 (which should go on the Wikipedia page for "Minimal Effort"), but it's not great.

Once depreciation hits, though, it's suddenly looking good.

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That's basically it. Here's the thing: if they followed through on that to the letter, most of the people complaining wouldn't have ever gotten one.

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Bring back FYROM, cowards.

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They love to find the cheapest processor meant for low-end smartphones/tablets and shove it in there. Then build an application that requires bunch of high res graphics that need to be scaled and moved around. Then have a surprised Pikachu face when it lags like hell.

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If they start flooding the current models with even worse amounts of advertising, might even have to trash my existing one.

X suspends account of Navalny's wife (news.sky.com)

X suspends account of Navalny's wife::The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Russia's wanted list. Listen to a Daily podcast special on the Russian opposition after Navalny's death as you scroll.

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I doubt Elon is sitting there with his dick out waiting to ban her, despite what most people here seem to believe?

Eh, I wouldn't be too quick to discount that.

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That's not feasible. A lot of companies have VPNs to protect their own networks. This increased with work from home during the pandemic. There are too many domino effects.

With SSH and an AWS instance, I can create my own VPN. It's not that hard with a bit of Linux experience. Canada would be about as successful at this as the US was at keeping PGP away from foreign exports.

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Not really. The definition of failed state is when people openly ignore the government.

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The whois data is usually anonymized these days. However, there are companies that forget to check that box.

Spammers often deliberately make their messages full of spelling and grammatical errors because they want to target people who are just that naive. Might have a similar thing going on here.

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities (www.techradar.com)

More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities::Phison quietly revealed an updated X2 SSD platform at CES

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Capacity that high is for servers.

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That doesn't make it better.

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Can the next big national protests involve throwing acorns at cops?

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Say you're only running off 100 of them and charge $1,000,000. They'll all be sold. Ferrari perfected this business model long ago.

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Alcohol evaporates, but the stuff you were trying to clean off does not.

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Global average income is $9,733 USD per year.

Why would you cite this fact in defense of the current system?

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If everything were equal, gdp wouldn't be how we measure prosperity.

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You don't need work for that. You need work to do necessary things for society, which would be far less than the amount of work being done right now.

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That's almost worse. A huge amount of work happens that isn't a paid job.

“In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI (gadgettendency.com)

“In 10 years, computers will be doing this a million times faster.” The head of Nvidia does not believe that there is a need to invest trillions of dollars in the production of chips for AI::Despite the fact that Nvidia is now almost the main beneficiary of the growing interest in AI, the head of the company, Jensen Huang,...

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It may be even more specialized than that. It might be a return to analog computers.

Which isn't going to work for Nvidia's traditional products, either.

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It doesn't have to be a full human-level intelligence to advance the field of AI.

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Gaming is in a sad state right now and people don’t even realize it.

I haven't noticed it because I'm watching the AAA gaming industry from afar instead of participating. BotW is about the only game from a major developer that I've given a shit about in the last 10 years, and only that because I'm a sucker for Zelda.

We're in a golden age of indie titles, and they deserve your money a lot more than the Ubisofts and Activisions of the world.

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What were their expectations? PS4 sold 117M globally. PS5 is currently 54M, and it was severely supply constrained by chip shortages at the beginning of its run. If this didn't meet expectations, then their expectations were out of wack.

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PS4 was $400 at launch.

Though, tbh, it's game sales that drive their profits. Consoles themselves are on thin to negative margins.

Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance' (www.thecooldown.com)

Scientists develop game-changing 'glass brick' that could revolutionize construction: 'The highest insulating performance'::The team of scientists developed an aerogel glass brick, which is a translucent and thermally insulating material.

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It's more for public buildings with glass fronts. "Revolutionize construction" is a questionable headline. Aerogels have use for replacing insulation in other ways, though.

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Houses generally will last a century with basic maintenance. Modern US construction techniques are a lot more thought out than is generally acknowledged.

I'm more concerned with things becoming "outdated" in aesthetic ways. A properly installed tiled bathroom (including the bath stall) can last a long, long time, but future owners might not like the look and tear it all out. Recycling it all is a laughable dream. There are designs, though, that stand up to the test of time, and we should be pushing those more.

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It does happen all the time. If a flipper buys a house, redoing an old bathroom is one of their first things they think of.

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To go where, though? Lynx? Everything else is Chromium and that's not much better.

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People have been saying some variant of this at least as far back as Slashdot in the late 90s. Nobody has come up with a viable way to change peoples habits.

Instead of fighting it, what can we do knowing that this is how it works?

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Depends on your target. The integrated GPUs from AMD these days are very good, and can run a lot of games at 720p pretty well. Discrete GPUs have also come down in price over the last year.

What happened was the pandemic created a supply chain bottleneck combined with scalpers gathering up what supply there was. The issues were worked out by the end of that generation, but then Nvidia released the next generation with prices where they assumed people would just pay that now. That's bitten them in the ass, and there's been a lot of market correction as GPUs sit on the shelf (though probably not enough).

As usual, AMD comes out looking like the good guy by being slightly less shitty than its competition. They also had elevated prices this generation, but kept it just a bit lower. Looking good by being a smidge less bad than Intel and Nvidia is a plan that's worked for them 100% of the time every time in the past, so why change it?

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PC Gamers: buys $550 Steam Deck

Console Gamers: . . . shit

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There's some up and coming ideas. The problem with traditional designs is that for them to be efficient and effective, they have to be big. Backyard turbines with less than 10 acres to work with won't cut it. They might supplement things a bit, but they're expensive for little gain.

Looking to the future, that might change. This video goes over some of the options at various levels of development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQKHJm7vd4E

I would add that when it comes to these sorts of things that have yet to see mass adoption, you should be skeptical of any individual thing. However, if there are ten different things, probably at least one of them is going to work out. In fact, that's my general feeling about Matt Ferrell's videos. Good for getting an overview of what might work in the future, but don't be too quick to jump on any one thing.

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If an EV is burning, you often let it burn and make sure it doesn't spread to anything else.

Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use...

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That's not how that works. If you were using MD5 and then immediately SHA256 the output and not using it for anything else, that would be fine. You're not accomplishing much in this specific case, but it'd be fine.

When you layer security, the attacker has to pull back each layer. You don't rely on any singular layer. If the attacker needs biometrics AND a code AND a physical key, that's very good security.

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AI

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The Minds do most of the work of controlling things. This is mostly administrative tasks. If they wanted to dominate, they're in a position to easily take over, but they have no wish to do so.

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Depends, are the screws galvanized?

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. (insideevs.com)

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. All seven of its California stations...

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There is very little water there, and it varies considerably by region. You have to condense it out of the air, which itself takes energy. Then you have to electrolyze it, which also takes a lot of energy. You also can't electrolyze straight water; you'll need a supply of salt.

Once you've worked out all that, why not just feed that power into a regular battery and use that to charge cars? It will be far, far more efficient. Or just build a substation and use the power on the grid.

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And so does your idea; you just haven't thought it through.

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Dude, you don't even have a good grasp of how much hydrogen you could make from the atmosphere. Nobody is advocating for doing it that way because it's too much effort for so little gain. I'm not going to take your word on much else.

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There are very few details on how much they've actually generated on any of these. The MIT one doesn't specify how it's getting the original water at all.

The IEEE one does actually list it out:

Researchers have built a kilowatt-scale pilot plant that can produce both green hydrogen and heat using solar energy. The solar-to-hydrogen plant is the largest constructed to date, and produces about half a kilogram of hydrogen in 8 hours, which amounts to a little over 2 kilowatts of equivalent output power.

Yeah, that's about what I'd expect. You are not going to power cars with this.

The one in the Guardian article seems to be targeting it a as a replacement for natural gas in home heating and cooking, which is a maybe.

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