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New comment by toasty228 in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

toasty228 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:55:08 +0000

> As much as it's funny to dunk on meta this type of surveillance is becoming the norm.

It already is illegal in developed and civilised countries

New comment by toasty228 in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

toasty228 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:21:59 +0000

From this morning: I had a single go file with like 100 loc, I asked it to add debug prints, it thought for 5+ minutes, generating ~1m output token and did not actually update my file.

New comment by toasty228 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

toasty228 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:40:35 +0000

> 0,5 W/m2/K.

That was a good number in 1980 lmao (or in the US maybe), passive houses are often 1/5th of that. I'm talking 25cm+ of rockwool in the walls, 40cm on the roof and triple pane windows, mostly facing south, reasonably shaped house that conserve heat by design, etc.

0.5 W/m²/K is a good value.... for a window, certainly not for the overall house, for a wall it wouldn't even pass code in most of Europe

> That's entirely unrealistic to cover with batteries with current battery technologies alone

It already is a reality for many people.

New comment by toasty228 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

toasty228 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:26:14 +0000

Do they come from non .il domain name?

If you have independent numbers feel free to share them, otherwise it's straight up propaganda from either Israel or the US and I trust none of these two given the context

New comment by toasty228 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

toasty228 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:43:23 +0000

Lmao everytime that number is posted it's multiplied by 3. I even read 150 000 dead last week

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toasty228 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:37:02 +0000

That's way too naive, prices never go down, the owner pockets the difference, you pay the same, and once they come to your industry you have more competition

New comment by toasty228 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

toasty228 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:56:04 +0000

I think my comment is pretty clear about the use case, this is obviously not water for your floor heating. You shouldn't even have that in a properly insulated house, way too much inertia.

There are electric floor heating graphene foils that put out 20w per sqm, they're more than enough, no moving part, no maintenance, no bs, not even 20% of the price of a hydro floor heating, you can even install them yourself

New comment by toasty228 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

toasty228 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:53:03 +0000

I'm replying to someone who bought a 30kwh battery and 24kwp setup, in my country that's already classified as a "local energy provider" I think they're doing OK financially.

People still spend literal millions on poorly built and poorly insulated mcmansions today btw, it's not a money issue.

New comment by toasty228 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

toasty228 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:50:42 +0000

Not saying it shouldn't, I'm just saying it isn't. Housing should be free and taxes illegal but here we are. Some retard decides to go to war with Iran and it costs 30% more to tank your car, I'm not making the rules. Solar panels got 15% more expensive over night in my country too. What happens when they decide to mess around with China? They make 70% of batteries and panels.

New comment by toasty228 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

toasty228 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:44:11 +0000

A house built to passive house standards requires less than 10w per sqm of peak heating demand, a 500w toaster will warm 50sqm, which is a decent room already.

There are passive houses built at 2000m altitude in the Alps, some are made of wood and have literal strawbales for insulation, there are no excuses left in 2026 not to build good houses, it's more economical, more practical, more comfortable, more ecological

New comment by toasty228 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

toasty228 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:39:31 +0000

You don't even need to go that far, put 100m of tubing 2m underground and plug it in your heat recovery ventilation system, bam free winter freeze protection/pre warming and free summer cooling, all you need is a 30w pumps and you will save hundreds of kw per year

New comment by toasty228 in "Solar and batteries can power the world"

toasty228 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:27:38 +0000

People still build houses like energy is cheap and abundant. A properly insulated house in any temperate climate require very little heating or cooling.

Spend 50k on insulation that will last the life of the building instead of 50k on heating and cooling devices which will need constant maintenance and replacement + fuel and end up costing 10x more over the life of the building.

A modern house with modern insulation in a mild climate shouldn't even need a central heating system. You can get by with 500w toaster heaters in each room for the coldest time of the year