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New comment by dopa42365 in "Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome"

dopa42365 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:47:09 +0000

webp = VP8 image

Nothing wrong with that per se, it's just old and limited, especially compared to avif/AV1 which would be like a theoretical VP10 at this point.

New comment by dopa42365 in "How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent"

dopa42365 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:00:32 +0000

It's mostly about the distance, isn't it? Iirc even with the most modern ultra high voltage lines, it's about 3% per 1000km. Which honestly doesn't sound too bad, even for really long distances (like solar power from some desert to where people actually live).

New comment by dopa42365 in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

dopa42365 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:37:15 +0000

It's like the racist facebook users profile picture meme, but with "concerned" reddit users post history (always hidden).

10 years ago redditors took some pride in transparency, you were able to check who you were talking to based on their profile (unlike boards like 4chan). Now it's auto-generated user names with hidden everything. Might as well get rid of unique names and profiles at all and call everyone anon.

New comment by dopa42365 in "How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?"

dopa42365 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:50:18 +0000

Latency has roughly remained the same since DDR2, no? So that has just about nothing to do with the improved performance of every generation.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Claude Opus 5.5"

dopa42365 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:35:26 +0000

Right next to the hypersonic missile vibecoder

New comment by dopa42365 in "North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes"

dopa42365 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:41:38 +0000

There're like 20 magnitude 4 earthquakes worldwide every day too. Even those are rarely noteworthy.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

dopa42365 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:55:25 +0000

Ever seen the phrase "diffused in Taiwan, assembled in Malaysia"?

New comment by dopa42365 in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

dopa42365 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 02:31:38 +0000

A fully loaded Falcon 9 carries less kerosene than 1 (one single) A380. What level of concerntrolling is this?

New comment by dopa42365 in "Global warming will exceed 1.5-degree limit, UN says"

dopa42365 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:08:30 +0000

More specifically, beef and lamb.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

Replacing those with basically any other meat (pig, chicken, fish) would make a huge difference already. And it's far more realistic than no meat. Indirect demand destruction (from cost increase) through carbon credits or something like that in the future?

New comment by dopa42365 in "GPT-6 Astra"

dopa42365 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:42:59 +0000

like eh 2 days ago it was the usual "too powerful to release"

https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-says-upcoming-model-...

> "With the right tools and access, Astra can find previously unknown security flaws and develop ways to exploit them across many well-protected systems without a person guiding each step," said Amelia Glaese, an OpenAI vice president overseeing its safety work.

> The company plans to make Astra available "soon" to a limited group, but declined to provide specifics. Glaese said the extra security measures may "sometimes slow, pause, or stop legitimate work," and that OpenAI would work to minimize those disruptions.

what a bag of horseshit

New comment by dopa42365 in "Smaller reactors bring nuclear power closer to fulfilling its promise"

dopa42365 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:17:53 +0000

Except some of them are still building new plants today (large ones cause higher efficiency, unsurprisingly). For China and Russia those are entirely separate from the kind of reactors used for plutonium reprocessing or medical isotopes or whatever else, they only exist to boil water at the end of the day. The only incentive here is electricity, and both have plenty of other options available.

Bit of a paradox isn't it? They'd just burn coal or gas instead if that was much cheaper.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Actinide is first startup to produce high-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU)"

dopa42365 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:50:30 +0000

5% enrichment (regular reactor grade) is 2/3 the way to weapons grade already.

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-c...

Hence there technically being no enrichment cap for any country that signed the NPT and stuff (not to be confused with protection from US bombs or rogue states that never signed the NPT).

New comment by dopa42365 in "YouTube Format IDs"

dopa42365 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:19:03 +0000

>Are there specific cases where "HFR" videos are really improving the viewing experience of particular (types of) content?

Yes. Every single one. It's that simple.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights"

dopa42365 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:58:26 +0000

If anything, the freebase is more potent by weight (albeit less water soluble than the salt form, so it's only really usable via vaporization).

New comment by dopa42365 in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

dopa42365 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:29:36 +0000

Those are all telegram reposts, barely anyone in the former combloc uses twitter.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Starbase, LA"

dopa42365 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:42:27 +0000

Sounds like "legal language" threshold for whatever reason? The Terafab announcement used the same phrase:

>The initial phase of Terafab is estimated to require approximately $16.8 billion in capital investments from SpaceX and Tesla, with potential future expansion phases bringing total investment much higher. This facility will employ at least 3,000 people, many of whom will be from Grimes and nearby Brazos County — continuing the trend of our other Texas sites where between 60% and 80% of new hires are local residents.

https://www.spacex.com/updates#terafab

That Starbase concept (not that the numbers are realistic by any means) is orders of magnitude more ambitious than what SpaceX does today with 22k employees.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

dopa42365 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:51:50 +0000

Goddamn turbocapitalist commies! How dare they!

New comment by dopa42365 in "Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows"

dopa42365 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:09:41 +0000

Shouldn't it be profitable? Buying low and selling high. Like, the current oil in there was bought at below $60/barrel or so and sold at 50% higher price or whatever. The oil is always sold at a much higher price (otherwise it wouldn't be available in the first place).

New comment by dopa42365 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

dopa42365 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:15:52 +0000

Twitch ads haven't reliably been blocked by ublock origin (in any browser) for years. The "best" solution people came up with is replacing the stream with an ad-free low res version for the duration of the ads, which doesn't make for a very enjoyable viewing experience. There were/are some more experimental options like m3u proxies to jurisdictions where Twitch isn't serving any ads for one reason or another, but those aren't reliably working all the time either. In any case, somewhat outside the scope of ad blockers and closer to paywall circumvention-ish.

New comment by dopa42365 in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

dopa42365 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:07:08 +0000

87.5% vs 83.1%

Renewables have to go up by 10x (or more, with electrification of all the things) everywhere pretty much in the coming decades.