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Comment Alarmists have historically been wrong. (Score 0) 170

People who waste their life away with worries and panic are not part of the solution. Buy solar panels, switch to higher efficiency machines, get a bicycle, use the train. See if your power company has a plan based on renewables. Plant trees, vines, bushes, buy flower pots or even a cactus. Do something OTHER than sitting on your ass with your armchair activism and annoying the silent but hard-working people who invest their whole lives into becoming greener.

Comment Most of the civilized world doesn't have corals (Score -1, Offtopic) 57

Does this affect ecosystems outside the immediate coral region?
Not everyone is a Floridian. Sure , it's a sign of climate change etc. but it wouldn't hurt if the media delved a little deeper sometimes.
I guess I'll just ask Chat GPT, because AIs are generally more useful than humans these days XD

Comment Non-native speakers need to be eloquent (Score 1) 115

My ukrainian wife runs everything through chatGPT as if it was a spell checker. Data speaks for itself. It doesn't matter if you use Google translate or even a grammar checker that came with Word 20 years ago. My English teacher refused to accept my homework because I used a fucking THESAURUS to change some words for fancier ones and said it was too good to be true and that's not the level of fluency I usually demonstrate in class.

Comment They just gave him cancer. (Score 2) 20

As a Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma patient I also have cells multiplying out of control inside my lymph nodes and with a metabolic rate comparable to liver cells.
You're going to give him a liver in the thyroid and bone marrow. The lymph nodes also connect with your blood stream so it can easily spread to every part of your body and then you'll have 200 livers growing inside of you. That's also what happens in the terminal stage of liver cancer. LOL
And the new livers, assuming they don't clog your lymphatic system, will create pressure on other organs just like cancer does. Enlarged lymph nodes in your abdomen, specifically, will compress the intestine and cause epic constipation issues. My thyroid tumor makes it hard to swallow food and they say they won't take it out unless it turns malignant or makes it harder to breathe.

Comment Golden sge of TV series (Score 3, Insightful) 74

I have found there's a lot more stuff I can cheaply watch than play. Very high quality material in great abundance. And I already played enough shooters in the 90s. Games are full of ads and grind. Why bother doing something repetitive to get a bit of storytelling when you can just watch a movie?

Comment It's not so much the browser that needs to be fast (Score 4, Insightful) 55

People writing pages these days don't even bother optimizing images and have 300 divs inside each other for a layout not terribly different from what we had in the 90s. And loads of dependencies like giant CSS and JS files and god knows what. It's nice they have gigabit connections but I would still like to browse the web when I have low signal. Which happens a lot in ye olde Europe when you go inside 500 year old stone buildings.
Do note: I used to work for a startup that targeted developing countries with 10 year old low-end phones etc... with clever use of unicode/emojis instead of images and very tight hand-coded svg I once made a webpage in 16KB. I use lots of image optimization tricks from the old days, like lowering image color depth to 16 bit and whatnot.

Comment We had other electronic gadgets in the 70s and 80s (Score 1) 203

And those who made fun of us nerds went on to become succsesful supermarket clerks or heroin addicts instead of silicon valley millionaires or other successful professionals.
There isn't much to gain from idle chit-chat and subjective conversation with drooling idiots who have an opinion on things they never personally experienced or read about.
The time I spent with my family was... sitting quietly staring at the TV screen. That's what my mom did too. And she had a console in the 70s. Played computer games until she passed away in 2010.
I think this guy doesnt know much about history. Maybe he should spend some screen time on Wikipedia or Netflix, watch some old movie set in the 80s with bullying and teen pregnancy.

Comment Is the US stuck in the 90s? (Score 1) 64

Cable AND internet? Are you out of your mind? You never heard of "triple play", that's like 20 years old. You cannot detach cable or telephone from "the internet" it's INTERNET DATA, all in the same fiber LOL. TV is served over IP! You can watch every TV channel on your freaking phone! What, you never heard of VOIP either? There is no analog phone network anymore. Telecoms pulled out and sold the copper out of the ground years ago, it was worth a lot of money. No analog radio. And certainly no cable company. .I'm pretty sure we've had gigabit fiber connections available for some ten years or so. I live in a distant suburb, not exactly Wall Street. What have your telecoms been doing for the past couple of decades? :D
Let me guess they still charge you for text messages limited to 140 characters?
We don't even have 3G anymore let alone the old GSM texts. We're about to phase out 4G, too.

Comment But why? (Score 4, Interesting) 181

Bitcoin is completely useless and the fact something is finite doesn't mean it's valuable. My great-grandfather put all his money on land and nobody lives in former agricultural towns anymore. The land is worth shit.
Gold is way overrated as well.
I can't fathom what sort of idiots just want to park their spare million on obscure risky assets instead of letting a certified professional handle it. Blind faith and money laundering.

Comment Build it on a mountain (Score 1) 108

That's what we did. We built one of the world's largest datacenters in 2013 with a capacity of 34 Petabytes and at a cost of 100 million on top of our highest mountain, which has always been one of the main attractions in Portugal. Now it's old and for sale. Sic transit gloria mundi. Soon you'll be able to store 34 petabytes on your desk.

Comment Isn't that what they always do? (Score 1) 71

I'm not a physicist but I seem to recall reading that over a long period of time it's likely that gravitational attraction can sync up orbits in a resonant pattern....if we're talking about largeish planets aligned on the same plane and relatively close to each other it sounds like the perfect environment for resonance to form.

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