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Comment don't mention the war? (Score 1) 254

I notice in this thread and others a lack of comment of the impact the ongoing wars have on the climate. Yes I may have a diesel car. But I'm not dropping 1000 bombs per day on Ukrainians. That shit will take centuries to clean up, if we are to measure by the ongoing efforts to clean up WW2. And it's not stopping. And the reason it's not stopping is because eg France bough 40 billion $ of oil/gas from Russia last year. And France's government will ride a private jet to Cop30 where they will tell me to stop using my diesel car. If those are the terms of the deal, I'm seriously tempted to say "fuck it, let the world burn".

Comment Re: lab equipment (Score 1) 137

VMWare were very good at this - and probably still are, but people don't like them anymore. Their hypervisor and guest OS drivers came with a "VMCI device" which offers a wealth of information and management options without exposing a classic network interface. I'm not aware of an equivalent in the VirtualBox / KVM world. I've heard of "vsock", also written by VMWare, haven't tried it yet.

Comment Re:No, thanks. (Score 0) 140

You can, for a bit more money, get a 2-person compartment and for even a bit more get that to yourself

This doesn't scale thought, it would make train trips horribly energy inefficient so where's the green incentive then? It's also a very good reason to pick the plane: it efficiently packs 200-300 people and flies them 1800 km in 2 hours.

Comment Re: biological sex vs gender identity. (Score 1) 254

To anyone silly enough to try debating this topic: remember that very often the people you argue with are not rational. They truly madly deeply believe to be what they say they are. To the point where they irreversibly chop off functioning body parts and attach non-functioning ones. The debate should have taken place with their parents long ago.

Comment Re:Chemical composition (Score 4, Informative) 206

Indeed, my reaction to reading even the whole article was a "huh?" - surely those people can't be so naive as to think butter = fat. There are likely hundreds of other ingredients, varying on animal source (goat, cow), nutrients fed to the cattle, region in the world, exact species so many factors in play. This article basically says all the work a Swiss farmer does to produce the best milk in the world is useless as the result is just some fat - if ever there was a reason for the to abandon their neutrality and go to war!

Comment Re:Actually surprised (Score 1) 122

I am surprised none of the geeks here has suggested photos on paper. Proven to last for centuries, high quality media easily available, and very good error toleration. For films - film. Same qualities paper, just with one important snag, which I did encounter: it is highly flammable. Storage needs to be done carefully.

Comment Re:You can beat all the crypto investments. (Score 2) 26

Loss: 0%

Unfortunately, that's not true. Inflation is eating people's savings at rates completely unsustainable for anyone who expects something still relevant under that mattress in 30 years. Basic saving accounts don't help much either, they offer (from my personal limited experience) 5% growth when inflation is at 10%. A basic calculator like https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.bls.gov%2Fcgi-bin%2Fc... shows in 30 years you'd have less than half your money left. That is what drives people to crazy investment schemes - the hopelessness of the mainstream solutions.

Comment and this is only on the English-language web (Score 2) 62

It is even more depressing in other languages. I cannot produce a formal study on this, so just anecdotal: all my bookmarks from 20 years ago are gone. A few possible explanations:
- huge local ISPs, with millions of customers, shut down or got bought, and the web hosting services they were offering bundled with the subscription were simply wiped.
- hugely popular blogs (remember those?), also with visitor counts in the millions, migrated to the new platforms like FB and their old content was simply abandoned/wiped.
- GDPR or "right to be forgotten" (European specific problem, similar somewhat to the US DMCA problem): many web providers have been too zealous in enforcing those, wiping whole websites just to be sure they don't get entangled in expensive lawsuits.

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