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New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws"

throwawaysoxjje — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:10:46 +0000

That’s not even what the post you’re replying to said

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

throwawaysoxjje — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:08:36 +0000

> The idea that living things, which are far more intricately organized at every level than any machine we have made, could have arisen by some unknown series of chance steps is a fairy tale.

Really? Because when you look at something like the human retina, the organization is embarrassing.

Especially since there are older, extant examples with better organization.

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year"

throwawaysoxjje — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:31:29 +0000

Like the government doesn’t already have that power?

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?"

throwawaysoxjje — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:04:44 +0000

Same reason you can look at a sunset but not the noonday sun

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

throwawaysoxjje — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:54:33 +0000

For reference the quote is “ During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.”

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

throwawaysoxjje — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:19:51 +0000

Dude, are you okay?

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Don’t use AI to write things that you present as your own work"

throwawaysoxjje — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 07:46:27 +0000

That summary makes the point but doesn’t communicate the meaning

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

throwawaysoxjje — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:07:13 +0000

If you just want to use LC connectors everywhere, they’re the same price. Plus single mode fiber has the advantage that there’s only two kinds and we really only use one of them.

The math worked out just to move to single mode a decade ago

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

throwawaysoxjje — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:06:00 +0000

And companies using the many individuals to magnify their leverage.

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

throwawaysoxjje — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:42:35 +0000

This is a collectible market so Lego sets aren’t fungible, so being unable to keep track of that sounds like negligence.

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

throwawaysoxjje — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:10:55 +0000

Macs originally didn’t have filename extensions because the file type was stored as metadata in the file system

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

throwawaysoxjje — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:54:38 +0000

You’re still anthropomorphizing.

They’re not communicating, you’re just being observant.

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

throwawaysoxjje — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:49:00 +0000

I’d expect the greater length of the encrypted data (which should look random) vs the structured header/footer to rapidly push the Shannon entropy to the maximum

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

throwawaysoxjje — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:02:13 +0000

I wonder if this has to do with the massive number of google calendar invites I’ve been getting as payment/billing notifications lately.

I’ve not been reporting them because I already know they aren’t valid and do not google’s work for them

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

throwawaysoxjje — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:51:32 +0000

But his emails!

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art"

throwawaysoxjje — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:35:07 +0000

Which case decided that?

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art"

throwawaysoxjje — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:29:28 +0000

Of course you don’t, because it’s not the EULA that enforces the copyright. Copyright law is what enforces the EULA. It’s right there in the fact it’s a Licensing Agreement.

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

throwawaysoxjje — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:23:47 +0000

> I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes business information.

That’s not a valid argument. The company itself would still need to consent.

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

throwawaysoxjje — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:10:00 +0000

This post is a prime example of why the Pope said what he did.

New comment by throwawaysoxjje in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

throwawaysoxjje — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:44:17 +0000

Because Apple been continuously doing deprecating hardware regularly since the mid 90s. And they’ll processor architecture every 10-15 years.

Microsoft was the backward compatibility king.