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Comment Re:"Hate Speech" you say. (Score 1) 103

All protests, anywhere, are now labeled antisemitic.

Oh do fuck off.

There's an old Jewish saying as it happens: a half truth is a whole lie. You're making it sound like this is a generality and "they" whoever they are are labelling them as antisemitic.

Except you're quoting Netanuahu, the right wing nutcase currently PM in Israel who's desparate to keep the distractions going to avoid going to prison over corruption charges. And he's not exactly unbiased.

But then of course after hearing strenuously how it's just about Israel and not about the Jews at all we find that we are not in fact safe around the marches in Londoner, and all that's required to "antagonize" is to be too Jewish too near the march.

Comment Re:quite an accomplishment (Score 2) 10

That's an evolutionary just so story and while cute they are usually bunk.

You can fuck with plants in a lot of ways which would kill animals, especially vertebrates very dead. Sometimes pants end up with double the DNA for example. That's simply not survivable for animals, but it gives a lot more latitude to have more DNA.

Comment Re:EU investigation (Score 1) 30

It very much had the feeling of "oh noe teh EW".

he's in favor of anticompetitive behavior at the expense of customers for some sick reason, probably cognitive dissonance.

I think some people fundamentally support this sort of thing because they believe that one day eith enough hard work, they'' get to be the ones raking in heaps cash by screwing over people like they are now.

Comment Re:How much is really delayed maintenance? (Score 1) 116

Sometimes it is, but as always, "it depends". It's always aluminum for aircraft and overhead cables since it has superior resistivity per unit weight. For buried cables it's a tradeoff, but as always it comes down to money. As the price of copper goes up, the tradeoff tips towards aluminium.

Comment Re:Musk was right, children are a blessing (Score 5, Insightful) 247

As a family man, I can tell you that you won't find anything more amazing than being a Dad.

For you, personally. If someone follows your advice and finds that's not the case, then, well, that's a bit of a permanent situation.

And statistically, well...

https://www.bps.org.uk/psychol...

Anyway I have no kids. My brother does but seems desperate to live vicariously though them which doesn't lead to happiness because they aren't interested in the same things.

You won't need to tell yourself to get up and go, not ever again, not until they leave home.

Observation of other parents strongly indicates that is not in fact true for a lot of people.

Comment Re:How much is really delayed maintenance? (Score 1) 116

Why on earth do you think that the grid must be made from copper?

Copper has about 1.6x the conductivity of aluminium, which means you need about 1.6x the area of aluminium as you do copper for the same cable resistance.

Aluminium is a LOT cheaper than copper and a lot less volatile (making costs more predictable).

This is why there are very many cable manufacturers selling aluminium power cables for undergronud use as well.

Comment Re:Year of the Wayland desktop... (Score 1) 66

You.

Indeed but I can't really work out and you haven't explained why you are so angry with me responding to "is it the year of the Wayland desktop" with "probably not when Wayland based desktops missing common desktop features and are rather more fragmented with tooling".

The thing is both of those are demonstrably true.

But it seems to really really piss you off that it's true to the point where you think I should whip out a text editor and make it not true, so presumably you have less to be angry about.

You are way too emotionally invested here. It's really not my job to find a solution that will be accepted to window positioning on Wayland desktops so that you don't have to be fuelled with rage when someone points out it's missing.

If you want people to stop pointing out problems with switching to Wayland, it's on you to fix the problems. Angry as you are you won't succeed into shouting people into submission.

Comment Re:control (Score 1) 100

Some people are good at never losing those things. I'm not.

I'm not either, but it wounds like you are a somewhat extreme case. Do you have ADHD by any chance?

But even if you never forget anything, there's nothing like going about your life without ever carrying anything in your pockets. It's truly liberating.

I mean... maybe that's a consequence of losing stuff a lot? I often want my phone for navigation or transportation times. I have certainly done it the old way in the past, but there's nothing quite like not knowing if there's a huge traffic jam and the bus is never going to arrive or if it's round the corner. Plus there are no good RFID bike locks.

But also I guess I've just never felt bad about having stuff in my pockets. I almost always carry a pocket knife. Never know when it's going to be useful!

Comment Re:Apple servers (Score 1) 30

It's just a matter of not getting the same raw core count, but you can buy a lot of cheap Mac Minis to string together if you're buying a $10,000 Xeon or Epyc processor.

If you're buying a $10,000 Epyc processor, you're presumably paying a heavy premium for being able to have a very large system image. It's something of a waste to buy those CPUs if your workload is embarrassingly parallel.

Why not make a server product at that point.

Why bother? You don't buy a mac for the bang per buck, you buy it because you need a mac. If you want a build farm to CI test your iOS, you need a fleet of macs. Apple get to charge their high margins whether the case sits in the dark or not.

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