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New comment by petermcneeley in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

petermcneeley — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:49:24 +0000

Yawn. Can you imagine 2026 and people are still into climate change. You are like 3 seasons out of fashion.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

New comment by petermcneeley in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

petermcneeley — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:40:25 +0000

Probably the most evil PMs that we have ever had. Literally a international banker! Its like electing the monopoly man lol.

New comment by petermcneeley in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

petermcneeley — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:38:34 +0000

Low balling it is about 10 billion a year CAD in electricity. That is assuming full uptime which is not realistic. It is also going to take several years before these projects complete.

I think the ROI is better than 5% even if you include a variety of factors. Of course if the budgets go >> 70 billion then likely it is a poor investment.

New comment by petermcneeley in "The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US"

petermcneeley — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 06:36:11 +0000

One can post practically anything to HN it doesnt have to be just purely about technology.

New comment by petermcneeley in "At-home test for infected ticks could improve Lyme Disease diagnosis"

petermcneeley — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:03:08 +0000

Only some kinds ticks carry Lyme disease. Sadly I tried the e-Tick identification system and it was beyond useless.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy"

petermcneeley — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:02:42 +0000

Were did bill gates mother work?

New comment by petermcneeley in "Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy"

petermcneeley — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:02:10 +0000

Clarification. None of the silicon valley elite were ever "normies". I would guess most of them come from the top > %1 of society. This is just a rival elite not a non-elite.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?"

petermcneeley — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:02:02 +0000

The speech might be judged socially but the punishment is always economic.

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996)

petermcneeley — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:45:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681425

Points: 3

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New comment by petermcneeley in "Coding a Brick Tower [video]"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:42:27 +0000

As a general technique yes. Less so as "create a model or entire world out of an sdf equation."

Btw to me this is one of the best of IQ: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ttSWf

New comment by petermcneeley in "Coding a Brick Tower [video]"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:42:48 +0000

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/33GyRV

It runs at 10fps on my gen12 intel at fullscreen. These techniques are cute but limited.

New comment by petermcneeley in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:25:46 +0000

What are you afraid of?

New comment by petermcneeley in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:20:56 +0000

"My kids grew up under 24/7 adulting and had nowhere to go."

Yes but this has nothing to do with cars. What are you even protecting kids from anyway?

New comment by petermcneeley in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:30:55 +0000

You think there wernt cars when I was a kid? I lived in the subs. Kid utopia!

Can you imagine bringing up cars in this thread?

New comment by petermcneeley in "Think of the Children: How to Force Real ID for All Internet Traffic (2023)"

petermcneeley — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:28:52 +0000

You know what we are talking about. It was written in the book.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

petermcneeley — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:14:33 +0000

They have played us all for absolute fools!

New comment by petermcneeley in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

petermcneeley — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:25:38 +0000

The catholic church fought the printing press for hundreds of years. Lets see how long our rulers fight the internet.

New comment by petermcneeley in "Floor and Ceil versus Denormals on CPU and GPU"

petermcneeley — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:36:38 +0000

WebGPU (WGSL) handles this by having a specified accuracy for each operation.

https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/#concrete-float-accuracy

This is all fully tested in the CTS.

https://gpuweb.github.io/cts/standalone/?q=webgpu:shader,*

New comment by petermcneeley in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

petermcneeley — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:04:49 +0000

Isnt the reason to by a Framework (or similar) because you would not want to be part of Apple's ecosystem? Why would benchmarks even matter here?

New comment by petermcneeley in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

petermcneeley — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:28:25 +0000

esp when the number is capped at only 64 bits which is quite small for some bigInt style numbers.