Comment Re:Easy way or the hard way (Score 1) 110
Republican FCC gonna Republican FCC
Comment Re:Looks slow to me. (Score 1) 78
Two modern techniques for building are SIPs (structural insulated panels) and ICFs (insulated concrete forms). Both methods involve foam insulation and also reduce the time to build. They're both just as costly, though. SIPs are constructed in a factory and the panels are trucked to the jobsite but exterior siding and interior drywall still need to be done on site. Stone and brick are great materials for longevity but are less energy efficient.
Comment Re: Weird (Score 1) 20
We blocked them a long time ago. They really are awful.
Comment Re: Looks slow to me. (Score 2) 78
There are channels built into the wall for wires to go through. Plumbing is typically through floors to avoid thermal bridging in the walls.
Comment Re: 100% blocked everywhere (Score 1) 20
Mastodon.social is still open to them afaik
Comment Re: Weird (Score 1) 20
That block was preemptive on a lot of instances. I know my admin proactively blocked them as soon as we knew what domain they would be federating from.
Comment Re: Weird (Score 1) 20
That's okay, most fedi instances have already blocked them. The flagship Mastodon instance is the only one that's being so welcoming to Zuck.
Comment Re:Stop charging us to view your ads. (Score 4, Insightful) 409
Another thing he did was add a ton of debt to the balance sheet that has to be serviced. Twitter was already unprofitable as-is but he has made that a much tougher hurdle with all that debt.
Man Dies Inside Spanish Dinosaur Statue After Trying To Retrieve His Phone (theguardian.com) 215
According to The Guardian, a man in Catalonia died after becoming trapped inside a large dinosaur statue while trying to retrieve his smartphone. From the report: Officers were called to the statue in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a satellite town of Barcelona, after a man and his son noticed something inside the papier-mache stegosaurus on Saturday afternoon. A spokeswoman for the regional police force, the Mossos d'Esquadra, said the death of the 39-year-old man was not being treated as suspicious.
"A father and son noticed that there was something inside and raised the alarm," she said. "We found the body of a man inside the leg of this dinosaur statue. It's an accidental death; there was no violence. This person got inside the statue's leg and got trapped. It looks as though he was trying to retrieve a mobile phone, which he'd dropped. It looks like he entered the statue head first and couldn't get out." "We're still waiting for the autopsy results, so we don't know how long he was in there, but it seems he was there for a couple of days," she added. Slashdot reader shanen submitted this story with the following commentary: Not sure what the technology link is. Smartphones make people stupid? Dinosaurs are scientific, but this is ridiculous? It would be funny, but it's too gruesome. But I guess I'll go ahead and submit it in the Darwin Awards category. Maybe a better title is man kills himself with dinosaur and smartphone? Death by paper mache?
"A father and son noticed that there was something inside and raised the alarm," she said. "We found the body of a man inside the leg of this dinosaur statue. It's an accidental death; there was no violence. This person got inside the statue's leg and got trapped. It looks as though he was trying to retrieve a mobile phone, which he'd dropped. It looks like he entered the statue head first and couldn't get out." "We're still waiting for the autopsy results, so we don't know how long he was in there, but it seems he was there for a couple of days," she added. Slashdot reader shanen submitted this story with the following commentary: Not sure what the technology link is. Smartphones make people stupid? Dinosaurs are scientific, but this is ridiculous? It would be funny, but it's too gruesome. But I guess I'll go ahead and submit it in the Darwin Awards category. Maybe a better title is man kills himself with dinosaur and smartphone? Death by paper mache?
Comment Re:None of our business. (Score 1) 151
Look everybody! A liar sharing misinformation!
Comment Re:Human hubris is to blame... (Score 1) 663
I guess if you don't poop, pee, eat, or use gas maybe? A real life trip across Texas takes at least a day of driving.
Comment Re: Kill yourself, Ms. Mash (Score 0) 663
Not expecting below-freezing temperatures is stupid considering what happened in 2011. The dipshits who run the wind farms are to blame for not planning ahead.
Comment Re:I think it is worse than that (Score 0) 663
The areas they cut power were nonessential. They kept areas with hospitals powered. The sub-grids were not granular enough to only keep the hospitals powered. The need to cut was just too much to be able to roll the blackouts. Our house hasn't had power for at least 54 hours now.
Comment Re:There already was a snap for VSCode (Score 1) 61
Sorry about replying to myself but the snap that was up there was vscode by Snapcrafters. This one is code by vscode (really?)
I uninstalled vscode and installed code and it kept all my extensions and settings. Even my recently loaded files were there. I don't see any difference and I don't really care personally that this one is the official version and the other was built by the community. I guess snapcrafters could insert malicious code in their snap but I don't have any reason to suspect that would happen so it really doesn't make a difference to me.
Comment There already was a snap for VSCode (Score 1) 61
Was that not an officially packaged Snap? There's also a deb you can download and install. I don't see what the need for a snap is. Heck, there's a Flatpak but it's the open source version without telemetry so I'm sure Microsoft would prefer you not use that one.
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