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Comment #49016492
I think you're misunderstanding "codeberg is political". Everything is political, FOSS is political, GitHub is also political. When people say "We're not political", or "That's not…
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Comment #47775882
A 1m2 heatsink/fan on earth can sink kWs. My heatpump is about 1m2 area and can sink 15kw. Seems earth is at least 20x times better.
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Comment #46866217
Not all of libc is syscalls. E.g. strlen() is zib libc but open() goes to system libc.
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Comment #46130458
I did, you clearly didn't. > For instance, the emission footprint of a US resident is approximately 15 metric tons CO2e per year22, which translates to roughly 1.7 kg CO2e per hour…
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Comment #46130159
> And when you have the opportunity to use human labour or AI, AI is almost certainly the greener option as well. For instance, the carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are…
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Comment #42397726
This is just an advertorial for Amazons "AI" tool. I wouldn't put any weight on any of the claims.
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Comment #42370916
> HSS share roughly the same probability of catching fire as tumblers Does "tumblers" in this context mean tumbler dryer? I've only ever heard tumbler meaning the type of cup.
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Comment #40532657
Louis is outspokenly against professional certification for repairs...
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Comment #40254085
The need to electrify the economy is why nuclear is so bad, it simply can't compete on cost even. This article is about a power plant that cost £46Billion and nameplate of 3260 MW …
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Comment #40253146
One thing I found out recently found out about nuclear that really shuts down home "great" it is as a fix for climate change is how limited fuel is for it. Some numbers Nuclear cur…
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Comment #39170924
I'd say it's both. The old stuff Human created fakes have always drawn criticism but the amount and distribution was so limited that it was easy for people not directly affected to…
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Comment #39048314
Climate change can be an existential threat to humanity and Geo-Engineering can make it worse at the same time.
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Comment #39047408
Being against Carbon Capture and geo-engineering is just following the science. Carbon capture has constantly been shown to just not work at any scale. and geo-engineering causes s…
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Comment #38464433
I agree, we should limit flight to exclusively across large oceans. And replace flights over land with more practical low carbon options like high speed trains.
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Comment #37453597
That's not true. Heat pumps are cheaper to run than gas heating, I removed my old single room gas heater for a ducted split system total cost reduction was 30% even before Russian …
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Comment #36627055
Facebook has never lied about numbers as a way to kill off competitors. So There's no reason to think their reported numbers aren't perfectly correct.
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Comment #36473663
You'd love Sam Zeloff http://sam.zeloof.xyz/ he makes DIY transistors
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Comment #36039643
Funny how now is never the right time. It's always just gone or some time soon .
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Gitlab now putting ads for “AI” in Git push messages
Just got this when I pushed my code to gilab.com. remote: remote: ======================================================================== remote: remote: Code Suggestions is now a…
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Comment #35781766
Seems like you were doing more to protect that guy than the union was.
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Comment #34963622
If the system your building is "mathematically impossible" to explain in a way that would be expected of every other system. Maybe you shouldn't be building that system.
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Comment #33558368
Albanese included a "Assistant Minister for the Republic" in his government so possibly soon.
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Comment #33016067
Interested to hear what you think is "Political" vs "Non-political".
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Comment #30660076
The difference is something like storing your comment was made at 2022-03-13+10:40. Which the time zone has been set and will always be the same at as it's in the past vs "set an a…
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Comment #30435684
The surveillance and lockouts bitcoin allows makes even the most Authoritarian government blush.