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Comment Re: Grundfos? (Score 1) 55

What is "very large"? How far is the faucet from the water heater? Couple hundred feet? I've never seen anything take *minutes* to get hot water out. Hell, I can turn my boiler on and heat the whole tank from cold faster than that.

My house is a relatively normal size (1800 square feet), and it still takes more than three full minutes for water in my shower to reach full temperature when I run it straight hot. If I also turn on both faucets in my bathroom, I can get that down to about twenty or thirty seconds, which is barely tolerable.

At my mom's house in Tennessee, the distance the water has to travel is comparable, but it takes only ten seconds or so.

It's a huge downside to all the water-saving showerheads and faucets that were forced upon us here in California decades ago. We waste a lot of time and energy to make up for a water shortage that exists only because of decades of politicians being short-sighted and kicking the desalination can down the road over and over so that the money doesn't get spent on their watch.

Comment Re:Grundfos? (Score 1) 55

"Grundfos is a global leader in advanced pump and water solutions, renowned for its highly efficient, reliable, and sustainable pumping systems."

Yeah, what that means is that they are going to be the de facto choice for pumps for european DCs, and yet they are asking the EU to build fewer of them, which will mean less business for them. This doesn't mean what you think it means. Unlike in the USA, a lot of major European corporations are still run with sustainability in mind. They would like there to be a tomorrow for them to profit in.

Comment Re:Blaming Meta is like... (Score 1) 40

The analogy is not quite right. Meta are not analogous to drug dealers. They are analogous to drug designers who tweak the formula to make it as addictive as possible, ignoring any harms.

They are both things, as they are both producing the product and delivering it to the end user, and they are collecting the revenues.

Comment Re:9V, AA and AAA Lithium (Score 1) 43

NiMH also doesn't eat shit immediately if you deep discharge it once and leave it that way for a few days, which is my favorite thing about it. A lot of chargers are too dumb to recharge deeply discharged cells, though. Of my three NiMH chargers, only one will do it. I love eneloop batteries, but the eneloop bundled charger is trash...

Comment Re:uh (Score 0) 103

The only reason he'd need all that would be for some nefarious shit

Or they needed to bribe or hire a bunch of people.

That's not an "or".

everything the CIA does is nefarious. Doing dastardly deeds on our behalf is their job.

I am not paying taxes for the purpose of having feds violate the law, national or international.

Comment Re:IBM "and" Red Hat? (Score 1) 47

In some ways, it feels like IBM buying Red Hat was as much about keeping anybody else from buying them (and changing them).

Yes, because IBM wanted to change them — from not violating the GPL, to violating the GPL. And that's exactly what they are doing by placing additional restrictions on the redistribution of sources delivered to customers.

Comment Re:uh (Score 2) 103

Maybe I'm just naive enough to believe that checks and balances have to work this way, but this is the first example in a while where it seems to me like the system is working.

They're the CIA. They don't need the FBI to wipe their ass for them, they chose not to wipe it. But the more important point is how was this considered a legitimate request to begin with? The only reason he'd need all that would be for some nefarious shit, like when the CIA imported cocaine in USFS planes.

Comment Re:There it is (Score 1) 47

The disconnect for Local ID10T is their assumption that IBM/Red Hat won't share the code with the upstream project, the people on the service just get the immediate backported patch before it has a chance to trickle down the usual channel from the upstream. Not that the code won't be shared.

Yeah, we thought IBM/Redhat followed the GPL, but then they started placing additional restrictions on the software sent to subscribers, which is a direct violation of the GPL. It is not a defense that they are doing it in a separate license either, because that's the only place where they could do it as the GPL is copyrighted, so they can't legally just add a clause permitting it there because they'd be creating an unauthorized derivative work.

Given that they used to not do this, but they are doing it now, what's to stop them from making the next step not contributing the sources upstream?

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