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Comment Re:Morbo Voice: (Score 3, Interesting) 192

You've also got the waste heat from power generation and transmission required to power all the ACs that plug into the mains and draw their power from the grid. If an AC is powered by locally connected solar or whatever that's going to be pretty insignificant, but the rest are going to add up. The laws of thermodynamics totally apply, which means you are not magically moving heat from A to B in a zero sum game, you're consuming power to do it, and that means more waste heat in addition to the losses in the system through inefficiencies.

Cities are already microclimates and mass AC adoption is absolutely going to cause an aggregate, and almost certainly measurable, temperature increase across that microclimate, and especially so in narrow streets where there is limited airflow to disperse that extra heat. If the heatwave is already making outside temperatures unhealthy then adding another degree or whatever on top of it to help keep interiors cool via AC is going to really suck for those who are forced to go outside in it for whatever reason.

A better solution, given climate change has been a thing for decades, would have been to look at how pre-AC civilizations in equatorial regions built very efficient ways of keeping interiors cool passively in extreme heat and adopted those techniques in anticipation of hotter summers for any new builds over (realistically) the last 20-30 years. Hindsight, and naive optimism the Paris Agreement et al would work, is a wonderful thing though and here we are - putting a band aid in place that will actually make the overall problem slightly worse.

Comment Its turtles all the way down (Score 3, Insightful) 51

The only way to stop this is to entirely cease allowing companies that use contractors and subcontractors on military projects.

Otherwise what is going to happen is the military will sign a contract with Lockheed who will outsource part of it to IBM who will off-shore part of that to India who will outsource part of that work to another subcontractor who uses people in China and Vietnam.

Comment Charging a nominal fee is the way to go (Score 4, Interesting) 55

Charge a $50 fee to submit a report, a fee that is refunded if the report was found to either be

a) A real bug
b) A non-issue, but it was non-obvious and obviously was found in good faith by a human who spent a lot of time researching it

This is not a real gate. Anyone who finds a real issue in Curl will not have a hard time gathering that $50.

Comment Re:Ok boomer (Score 4, Insightful) 189

#1 - Did you somehow entirely miss the part that the nephews older brother - in the same generation with the exact same upbringing - is doing fine?

#2 - Your statement is outright false. If you think the government paid 70% of your tuition 30 years ago - I have a bridge to sell you. It simply didn't work that way, ever. In fact, most people in the 90's and 00's worked their way through school.

Comment Gemini is far more transparent on this vs ChatGPT (Score 1) 74

The controls you have over your personal data in ChatGPT are far, far, *FAR* less than Google gives you with Gemini.

With Gemini, I can browse through all of the records, see whats there, choose what to delete. I can't do any of this with ChatGPT, it is a total black box.

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