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New comment by pxmpxm in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

pxmpxm — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:36:06 +0000

It’s disappointing to see Redditesque room temp iq discourse in the comments.

Has anyone mentioned the expected cost per Mwh of this project to get a sense whether this made economic sense, or are we talking Biden admin adjacent vanity political project paid by rate payers?

Just for reference, the hopefully-cancelled Empire wind near me had a 20yr PPA of $155mwh, which makes Vogtle (-~$170mwh) look like a steal.

More numbers and less foaming at the mouth, please.

New comment by pxmpxm in "Dumber Mini: A Nokia-Style Phone with WhatsApp and Maps"

pxmpxm — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:35:26 +0000

Make it high vis safety yellow with flashing lights, because the number one use case, and bulk of the selling point, is having other people ask you about it.

New comment by pxmpxm in "Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated"

pxmpxm — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:19:29 +0000

I love that comments like these incept million tech bro look-at-my-clout responses for having learned some subset of the magic incantations to make git barely usable... As if you get an award for mental heuristics to put up with a poorly architected product with leaky abstraction all over.

If you mentions reflogs, i'm yelling bingo.

Bonus points: You have 3 new commits and in one there is a change in file.stupid, how many git bs things does it take to revert file.stupid to previous version while keeping the rest of the change set.

New comment by pxmpxm in "Extremely Low Frequencies"

pxmpxm — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:54:26 +0000

https://www.samhsa.gov/find-support/how-to-pay-for-treatment...

Schizophrenia is covered under -caid.

New comment by pxmpxm in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

pxmpxm — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:57:48 +0000

My 13 year old mac desktop is sitting here with 14.82gb used with nothing but messages and firefox. Really dount that 8gb will cut it.

New comment by pxmpxm in "Hack Club is hiring 40 teenagers on a paid gap year"

pxmpxm — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:59:00 +0000

> paid gap year

Internship. The word for that is internship.

New comment by pxmpxm in "MacBook Neo"

pxmpxm — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:51:29 +0000

Yupp, even before the ram shortage we were paying $60-$80k for 1u racks with 768 to 1.5tb ram and 48-128cores

New comment by pxmpxm in "MacBook Neo"

pxmpxm — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:28:29 +0000

Unclear for a laptop, but for a workstation 1tb+ is what you want for any sort data science stuff.

New comment by pxmpxm in "Bug in AI Toy Console leaked 50k kid's conversation"

pxmpxm — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:17:51 +0000

Chat bot for kids toys sounds like a great idea; i'm sure they have the mental capacity and context to comprehend that they're interacting with a stochastic predictor machine.

It's just like tamagotchi, am i right?

New comment by pxmpxm in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

pxmpxm — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:42:10 +0000

Maria Machado? I thought independent observers mostly agreed she won the election?

New comment by pxmpxm in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

pxmpxm — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:36:37 +0000

> suggest high-level collaborators in the local military

This - almost guaranteed that this was a negotiated outcome/coup from the military.

Also it's telling i had to scroll halfway down the page to find the first non "trump therefore bad" comment. The cognitive dissonance of the posters vis a vis Machado is pretty astounding.

New comment by pxmpxm in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

pxmpxm — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:28:56 +0000

Ah yes, inexplicably alluding to race makes every argument stronger. May as well throw in some inaninity about climate change while you're at it.

New comment by pxmpxm in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

pxmpxm — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:38:30 +0000

Off the top of my head maternity/neonatal/family planning type of benefits are mandatory for obamacare compliant plans. That essentially outlawed all the affordable young adult catastrophic plans.

New comment by pxmpxm in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

pxmpxm — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:32:42 +0000

A) Inflation in healthcare costs is well documented and unrivaled

B) Biden papered over A) with "temporary" covid subsidies in 2021 and those are going away, revealing A) again

New comment by pxmpxm in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

pxmpxm — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:24:52 +0000

Bronze plan is shitty catastrophic insurance at like 5x the actuarial cost to try to fund risk pool and all the mandated benefits thst the o/p alluded to

New comment by pxmpxm in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

pxmpxm — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:17:21 +0000

Bronze plans with $5-6k deductibles have always ran more than what people paid for rent. Healthcare is the one thing that's outpaced inflation in higher education.

New comment by pxmpxm in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

pxmpxm — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:12:21 +0000

It's always cost ~$2k a month, the only difference is the previous administration thought everyone else should be "temporarily" paying for her plan.

I feel like we need a perpetual PSA here that moving money from person A to person B obviously doesn't make anything cheaper.

New comment by pxmpxm in "How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA"

pxmpxm — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 14:40:38 +0000

And very, very clever.

New comment by pxmpxm in "Fannie Mae officials ousted after sounding alarm on sharing confidential data"

pxmpxm — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:17:32 +0000

> Doesn’t take much reading ...

Not whole lot of room for that when you're foaming at the mouth, ready to repeat packaged PR narratives made by very well paid DC people.

New comment by pxmpxm in "Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end"

pxmpxm — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 02:58:14 +0000

Straight out of shitty user stories.

As a user I want my computer to restart by itself and lose of my work, because its entire purpose is to collect CVE patches.