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New comment by buckle8017 in "Solar power is becoming bigger than nuclear"

buckle8017 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:52:10 +0000

The largest pumped storage facility in the world is in the us.

It's also pretty old.

"USA should look into thing it practically invented" good meme

New comment by buckle8017 in "Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22"

buckle8017 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:14:48 +0000

The British system which Canada basically copied is entirely designed to prevent real democracy.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22"

buckle8017 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:48:54 +0000

Liberals NDP Greens Conservative

Liberals NDP and Greens would never form a government with the Conservatives so the liberals are effectively always in power.

Which means insiders in the liberal party are in charge and voting is partly irrelevant unless you're voting for the conservatives, but they would need an actual straight majority.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22"

buckle8017 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:44:06 +0000

There are no primaries in Canada at all.

Parties select their representatives who run in the election.

The system basically guarantees that insiders cannot be removed.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers"

buckle8017 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:26:54 +0000

Remove PGE from the numbers and I bet it's a lot closer.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland"

buckle8017 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:36:41 +0000

security guards vs FSB.

uh huh

New comment by buckle8017 in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

buckle8017 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:25:30 +0000

The tweet doesn't say that ledger installed the chip.

This is some D grade trash writing.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

buckle8017 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:22:02 +0000

For the low low price of unlimited liability.

No thanks.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen"

buckle8017 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:26:37 +0000

I am shocked......

New comment by buckle8017 in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

buckle8017 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:58:43 +0000

It's almost always in the same /24.

New comment by buckle8017 in "The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)"

buckle8017 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:02:14 +0000

It's... enciphered.

They rolled their own.

New comment by buckle8017 in "The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)"

buckle8017 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:57:13 +0000

High probability the NSA has satellites intercepting cellular radio traffic world wide with triangulation.

Pocket backdoors.

New comment by buckle8017 in "I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records"

buckle8017 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:25:09 +0000

JWT is complicated.

Complexity is a spec failure in security issues.

It's that simple.

New comment by buckle8017 in "I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records"

buckle8017 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:20:59 +0000

Try 10-20 million USD for a zero click iPhone exploit.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Prompting Claude Opus 5.5"

buckle8017 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 14:30:58 +0000

Don't use opus 5.5 at high. Medium is about as good as 5.0 was at high.

New comment by buckle8017 in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

buckle8017 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:30:27 +0000

Short in person quizzes frequently.

They don't even have to be a significant part of the rubric.

Just ensure the students know what they don't know.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

buckle8017 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:08:57 +0000

HBM is less dense at a water scale than DDR because of all the vias, but each memory but is as dense or denser.

You make HBM instead of DDR and the number of bits you're making goes down.

It's really that simple.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

buckle8017 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:18:58 +0000

The vias to enable stacking is a significant amount of the die area.

New comment by buckle8017 in "Agreement between the USA and Denmark (1951,2004) [pdf]"

buckle8017 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 16:46:16 +0000

US activities in Greenland have always been about strategic defense.

This latest enterprise likely has to do with a strategic missile defense system.

New comment by buckle8017 in "I don't like passkeys"

buckle8017 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:28:53 +0000

Passkeys are mostly useless because of that.

Their security is nearly universally undermined by reset mechanisms.

There are virtually no sites where passkeys cannot be bypassed.