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New comment by sidewndr46 in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

sidewndr46 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:29:24 +0000

it seems much more like Relativity by M. C. Escher where no one is quite sure how to exit without bringing everything down with them?

New comment by sidewndr46 in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

sidewndr46 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:32:50 +0000

if I generate solar power on my property I must sell it to the city.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977"

sidewndr46 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:57:08 +0000

I'm referring to the recorded signal with the 10 second period. If the modulation period was greater than 10 seconds there could be observable modulation. For all we know the actual transmission was a high speed data burst showing us how to build faster than light travel.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "The Wow signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977"

sidewndr46 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 02:08:32 +0000

it's just a CW carrier with no observable modulation for 72 seconds, the time the telescope would be expected to observe a transmission based on the movement of the earth

New comment by sidewndr46 in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

sidewndr46 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:04:49 +0000

Sure, if you live somewhere you own the power you generate. I don't own the power I generate if I had solar.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

sidewndr46 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:06:55 +0000

No, it definitely hijacked the back button

New comment by sidewndr46 in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"

sidewndr46 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:05:23 +0000

How do you do that?

New comment by sidewndr46 in "Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes"

sidewndr46 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:02:31 +0000

years ago, I set Storage=volatile on almost all the journalD configurations I have. This largely solved this kind of problem.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

sidewndr46 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:02:19 +0000

When you look at what a video game is defined as it includes: mobile games that are just microtransaction driven only & gambling on any kind of electronic machine.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

sidewndr46 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:49:28 +0000

If we're measuring this by hours, I had to get up at 4:45 AM to get to middle school. I didn't get home until around 4:30 PM. That's 12 hours a day just to attend middle school. I didn't get any of the advantages of AP classes, sport classes, volunteering, or clubs.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years"

sidewndr46 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:01:44 +0000

Same thing happens with plants on a similar timescale right? Cultivars look nothing like their wild relatives at this point.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years"

sidewndr46 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:02:24 +0000

Isn't it more accurate to say we went from wolves to dogs? Dogs are not a group of species. The domesticated dog is a species.

Also canines seem to hybridize well, suggesting they aren't truly differentiated anyways.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

sidewndr46 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:36:07 +0000

Aren't the advertised prices just a number now? When OpenAI or some other big player comes to buy months worth of production capacity, they aren't doing it at a publicly advertised price.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "Windows XP 2002 for the Itanium: Unbridled rage"

sidewndr46 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:30:35 +0000

I believe efforts like this were funded by HP. It is why the Itanium was kept around for so long despite being dead on arrival.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "ICE Collected Nearly 1M People's DNA Last Year–Including Young Children"

sidewndr46 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:22:50 +0000

There are several European countries that do this from what I understand

New comment by sidewndr46 in "RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2"

sidewndr46 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:52:29 +0000

Couldn't folks just use TLS 1.3?

New comment by sidewndr46 in "Destroying a Community with a Gigantic "Clogged Vacuum Cleaner""

sidewndr46 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:31:54 +0000

What I find interesting is that having lived in the southeast US for decades now, there is never any shortage of a story where someone buys a house near a race track. Not long after that, they complain that the race track is loud for several days in the week. Generally what follows is lots of posturing by local politicians and judges. Inevitably the race track shuts down within a year or so, usually because it isn't worth the legal battle.

Yet somehow data centers that apparently make awful noises 24/7, local lawmakers are suspiciously unable to do anything about.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

sidewndr46 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:11:54 +0000

not that I'm aware of, no. Maybe in some states sure, but not in most.

New comment by sidewndr46 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

sidewndr46 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:10:11 +0000

this could pretty much be it's own editorial, if you're feeling journalistic

New comment by sidewndr46 in "First Robotic Satellite Servicer Launched"

sidewndr46 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:44:00 +0000

Why would we? More importantly, why would anyone go to orbit period when you can do it with a robot.