My experience before blocking it was that most people there are real honest Marxists that are eager to participate in serious arguments.

They just don’t believe in empiricism, logic, or coherence. They believe in the line.

Anyway, I never managed go be blocked, I just got a series of incredibly weird arguments.

Yep. And the good new is that you can block that one too.

Less than half, because glass isn’t a great heat conductor.

You should look for semi-reflective or tinted glass if you want it to not let warmth pass in to your home. (And if you have double glasses, only the external one should be treated.)

The UV-blocking glasses will warm you less, but as you noticed, not enough to make a sensible difference. They add absorption of a very small band of light that isn’t the most intense on Sun-light and is also absorbed by the atmosphere.

You mean drones?

Yeah, there are other companies working on that too.

It’s a perfect understanding of the bullshit meaningless names.

Posted from .world…

Have the posts grad is full of bothered you recently? You know, there’s a reason why not.

“Minimum mandatory” is doing some distortion here. There are countries where the vacation days can only be reduced with extra payments.

I believe a much larger share of the world will fall into the last category if you focus on “number of vacation a person can expect to have at no cost if they want it”. The 30 days is kinda of a standard.

Their products are currently better than the competition

If you want just a GPU, no they aren’t really better.

They have some different strengths, so they may fit some use-cases better, but they aren’t out-right better.

Oh, so this is about NVidia and its CEO. Thanks.

Yeah, he has been pissing everybody for quite a long time already. People still buy the things he sells…

I’ve pretty consistently seen the 1st level of management able to understand when you worked hard, and that it is not repeatable. Those problems tend to appear only when they report up what is happening.

What is to say that often (not always), you can be honest with your manager if both of you can keep a secret.

There’s the booty call, a random “snake! snake!”, the “somebody hold me! I’ll kill this guy!”… And the more social ones have quite a lot more.

A progress bar isn’t generally hard.

What is hard is making it move smoothly while still only incrementing and getting the correct time. But I don’t think there’s a single person that still cares about smoothness except for the very extreme cases. By now, everybody has learned they don’t work that way.

Anyway, about those extreme cases, just avoid filling the bar up to 99% on the first 10 seconds and leaving it there for the next 2 hours. Just do that and you’ll be already better than Microsoft, so nobody will complain.

He can’t pour a billion dollars into the Brazilian election unless he manages to bribe all the authorities… And look who he is talking about.

Yep, “insane amounts” of power like you what you get by investing something like 1% of a few countries’ GDP in PV panels.

Capturing all the extra carbon from the atmosphere is not as expensive as it sounds like. It can easily be done by a few rich countries in very few decades once we stop adding more there every day.

Recycling nuclear waste is one of those problems that should be easy but nobody knows what the easy way looks like. It’s impossible to tell if some breakthrough will make it viable tomorrow or if people will have to work for 200 years to get to it. But yeah, currently it’s best described as “impossible”.

Energy density is a useless bullshit metric for stationary power.

Produces more waste than almost all of the renewables.

Reliable compared to… … … ok, I’m out of ideas, they need shutdowns all the time. Seems to me it’s less reliable than anything that isn’t considered “experimental”.

And it can’t work with renewables unless you add lots and lots of batteries. Any amount of renewables you build just makes nuclear more expensive.

They are an interesting technology, and I’m sure they have more uses than making nuclear weapons. It’s just that everybody focus on that one use, and whatever other uses they have, mainstream grid-electricity generation is not it.

If it’s AWS fault, it’s also their fault for choosing AWS.

IMO, Severance is even weirder.

On Fallout they can at least say to themselves that they wouldn’t nuke their city to get more power. But Severance is about exactly the kind of stuff that they do.

Is it missing an apostrophe and a dash? Or they registered the wrong name?

Anyway, the use of quotes seem to have backfired. I blame Excel.