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I see. So when you said "No, it won't ever(x) become a problem", it was like one of those ads "Unlimited(x) data", with the fine print "(x) unlimited is meant to be understood as l…

You seem very sure about how humanity will look like in 500 years and how much energy it would use. Obviously you consider the concept of Type II and Type III civilizations impossi…

You assume that it's obvious that we can't consume 7 orders of magnitude more energy than now. We already grew our energy consumption 4 orders of magnitude in 300 years. http://bwp…

Which is why I mentioned that it will be a problem in the future, not today. Imagine all of India airconed. And it's also why I mentioned albedo. That will drastically increase the…

> Build some nuclear plants to make more clean electricity. Problem solved. It doesn't work that way. Aircons dump unusable waste heat into the environment. On a large enought scal…

Only if comrade Corbyn gets into power.

There are mobile aircons, no drilling holes required.

Git is also free. So, how are you the product when you use git?

> The first complication came in 2008, when a group of scientists, in an effort to more precisely map out the evolutionary relationships among animals on the tree of life, identifi…

Not necessarily lasting physical damage, but flickering CRTs, or for that matter flickering fluorescent or LED lights can cause headaches, nausea, ... I've certainly noticed it mys…

In the last two companies I worked in it was us low level employees which were begging IT for Slack, until they reluctantly accepted (because of costs and of fears about hosting co…

Funny how a google images search for limechat fails to find a single screenshot with inline images. But I'll take your word for it. I guess that settles it. People will dump Slack …

Truly spoken as a programmer, whose ultimate chat experience is text in a terminal. Why would anyone want GIFs or images in their chat app? Crazy people...

Yeah, and a Rolls Royce is little more than a Honda with worse miles per gallon.

> People seem to forget that C++ and opengl is cross-platform OpenGL is dying. It's already deprecated on MacOS. https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/04/opengl-opencl-dep...

Because I want to sync my settings across a few computers. And I want to install Store apps. But I am not forced to.

I use Windows with a Microsoft account. But none of my files are saved in their cloud. What are you talking about? OneDrive? You don't have to use it if you don't want. Setting? Yo…

bfloat16 sounds like it could be supported with minimal changes to existing floating point units, maybe with just some improved microcode. FB's approach on the other side requires …

So if you go to the top of a mountain and there is a single cabin selling water there, at outrageous prices, you would just help yourself to one bottle, because hey, no competition…

How is this different from trying a door handle to see if it's open.