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New comment by Thlom in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

Thlom — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:40:17 +0000

The city has half a million residents and the oblast has a million residents. There's restaurants, museums, grocery stores, car dealerships, parks, zoo's, malls, stadiums, factories, train stations, an airport, ports etc etc. It's a real place.

New comment by Thlom in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

Thlom — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:20:36 +0000

I'm on win11 at work and when I right click in explorer it loads the normal menu but then immediately populates the menu with more options. It takes just long enough before it populates more options for you to maybe click on something which has then moved to somewhere else. Extremely annoying.

New comment by Thlom in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

Thlom — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:55:29 +0000

Cybersyn was an experiment and we don't really know if it would have worked or not because the USA arranged for a military coup to destroy it ...

New comment by Thlom in "The Forgotten Art of the LAN Party (2023)"

Thlom — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:15:23 +0000

The big LAN parties also had a fat internet connection at a time when the best you could have at home was INSD. But even more important was that everyone at the LAN shared their piracy collections over DC++ or FTP. Good times.

New comment by Thlom in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

Thlom — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:14:46 +0000

We have trucks, but almost no one has a truck as a family car because they are expensive and inconvenient.

New comment by Thlom in "DeepSeek v4"

Thlom — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:10:26 +0000

Same goes for every country on earth?

New comment by Thlom in "In the UK, EVs are cheaper than petrol cars, thanks to Chinese competition"

Thlom — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:37:39 +0000

Eh. A new EV can drive 400-700km on one charge. It takes 20-60 minutes to charge on public chargers depending on the charger. Except that charging on public charges is more expensive than charging at home I don't really see the practical issue. I know many people without charging options at home that will never go back to ICE.

New comment by Thlom in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

Thlom — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:51:57 +0000

There was a push in the cinema industry a few years back to get more into live events, concerts and stuff like that, but seems like it didn't really take off like they wanted.

New comment by Thlom in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

Thlom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:30:00 +0000

A lot of the electricity is gobbled up by a few aluminum plants, but in addition to that Norway is a very electrified country. We don't use gas at the consumer level at all (except for grilling 2 months of the year, lol) and are rapidly moving transportation to electricity.

In a normal year we are a net exporter of electricity, but it's only around 10% that is exported.

New comment by Thlom in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

Thlom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:22:27 +0000

Should also compare with total energy consumption. Lots of countries have good electricity generation numbers, but use gas or oil at the consumer level for heating (and cooking) and oil products (diesel, gasoline) for transportation. Electrification matters.

New comment by Thlom in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

Thlom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:54:33 +0000

Norwegian electricity prodcution in February this year was 98,8% hydro and wind and 1,1% thermal (mainly gas). I guess the last 0,1% might be the diesel powered generator on Svalbard (the coal one was turned off 3 years ago).

New comment by Thlom in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

Thlom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:39:32 +0000

I can juggle 4 balls for a little while, but two in my non-dominante hand? That's so unnatural I don't think I've even bothered trying.

New comment by Thlom in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Thlom — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:56:34 +0000

Do you not read the news? Israel was bombing Lebanon DAILY and occupying parts of southern Lebanon throughout the so called ceasefire. All without Hezbollah firing a single shot in retalliation until Israel and the US attacked Iran DURING NEGOTIATIONS!

New comment by Thlom in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Thlom — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:49:37 +0000

Lol. No.

New comment by Thlom in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

Thlom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:02:42 +0000

Low bandwidth is a bigger problem than high latency. If it takes half a second or even a second for your clicks to register it's not a big deal, you learn to work around it. But if the bandwidth is so low that it takes 5-10 seconds just to write the screen it really sucks.

New comment by Thlom in "Animation 10k Starlink Satellites"

Thlom — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:22:30 +0000

I think OP was talking about the political side, not the technical side. How one company with the blessing of a regulatory body in one country could put thousands of satellites in LEO with minimal international coordination/deliberation.

New comment by Thlom in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

Thlom — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:49:43 +0000

I'm thankful I live somewhere I can pay $300/month for daycare. I think it's even cheaper now and capped at like $400 no matter how many kids you have in daycare.

We tried to have them at home while WFH a few months during covid when everything was shut down. That didn't work. lol.

New comment by Thlom in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

Thlom — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:34:41 +0000

You can still buy LEGO Classic which is just a bunch of bricks.

New comment by Thlom in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

Thlom — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:24:02 +0000

Sure, but I still need a Microsoft account of some sort to play Minecraft? And parental controls still exists inside Microsoft or Xbox (is that the same account??). I spent a couple days just trying to make it possible for my daughter and her friends to be connected on Minecraft. And then you need to figure out what a launcher is, that Prism even exists. And you get a completely different experience on iPad where Prism doesn't exist. It's stil a hassle compared to Downloading free Roblox and start playing and having the same experience across devices.

New comment by Thlom in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

Thlom — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:56:22 +0000

Haha.