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palemoonale··on GE Vernova announces order of 674 wind turbines, providing 2.4 GW of power
Yay! More ugly landscape-disturbing things helping only during certain hours, compared to established nuclear technology, or still-in-research fusion technology.

PS, the usual peeps downvoting not just me: Sure, let your emotions guide you, don't care. My comment above is not offtopic.

palemoonale··on The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
Not if these have been found and removed.
palemoonale··on Tuna species popular in sashimi and poke bowls in sharp decline
Fish is not categorized as "meet" not even "meat". But as others said: People love getting told what to eat, do, drive, think, vote.
palemoonale··on FURY – How a Museum with a Sherman Made a Movie [video]
Right, "their 2nd most laughable one". "Heroically mow down waves of made-inept SS" is and will stay obviously number one. Can't praise vintage ("Liberation") and current ("Pavlov's 28") Russian WW2 movies enough, while the later ones do have their holes ('inept German conscripts"), at least the props are always alright, acting is top.
palemoonale··on FURY – How a Museum with a Sherman Made a Movie [video]
This scene as shot was beyond idiotic. Never would have a Tiger left its hiding to drive straight(!) towards 3 remaining Sherman. He could just have picked them out using his superior optics, and relying on frontal glacis armor.

(...rounds don't ricochet off fields, kids! This is supposedly timed as spring '45)

But "uh hu, we got permission to use 131 in a movie, so we definitely need to show it driving around!" With the museum's explicit restriction of not turning, as to save wear on that precious (it is!) final drive, so there you have it: an idiotic "leave-perfect-hiding-drive-fwd-drive-backward-and-lets-just-outturn-the-Fireflys-turret-by-turning-ours" game.

palemoonale··on FURY – How a Museum with a Sherman Made a Movie [video]
Ah, Fury. One of the most historically correct American war movies made. /s

(The Tiger ambush scenwas their 2nd most laughable one, as they were told to not turn 131 in oder to protect its drive train, and so got shot in the ass. Besides that, Panzerfuehrer were trained to go for first and last tank in a column to block movement, and especially if one is a Firefly!)

palemoonale··on Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal
Does anyone have / setting aside the space for Kbd's like the Ergonomic? There are way better designs available than this plastic bomber from ~two decades ago.
palemoonale··on Rue de l'Avenir
> fixed global warming Sir, the correct term du jour is "climate emergency". "warming" is not to be used anymore since expected natural developments started to contradict the yearly proclamations made by Gore et al.
palemoonale··on Rue de l'Avenir
To transport their just-bought stuff?
palemoonale··on Rue de l'Avenir
Of course someone had to bring up cars. You know how many people get striken by reckless cyclists?
palemoonale··on LinkedIn Isn't Just for Jobs Anymore. It's Now a Dating App Too
Everything about dating, sexuality, having fun with typical life things finds the wrong audience here, where people love to dwell in front of their terminals.
palemoonale··on Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
I second this, having to work with multiple TZ and calculate timelines as UTC.

Btw: Yours is one rare example where both domain and TLD are simply fitting, thanks!

palemoonale··on Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird
Male Arab and African population subcultures now firmly established in the Western hemisphere.
palemoonale··on Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird
What's this thing with prefixing 'micro'? Either you provide mobility, or you don't. Same with services.
palemoonale··on June 30th, 2024, will bring the End of Life (EOL) of CentOS Linux (2023)
Why not SAP on SLES? Its a defacto standard on both sides of the pond.
palemoonale··on A week with a Ford F-150 Lightning
Pah, nothing special. Try to drive some ugly Toyota Yaris instead, way too impractical for everything besides getting a parking spot.
palemoonale··on Researchers have identified the enzyme that gives urine its yellow hue
Username checks out.
palemoonale··on An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
I'd rather home-cook and take regular walks around the district, than having to spend even more time w/ tech after for work. Work is already kind of fulfilling, even as a manager, when you still can dabble with lower-level things and tools work. But spending your pasttime on more tech? Thats so sad, seriously.
palemoonale··on Almost half of British teens feel addicted to social media – study
Colour me surprised. And quite some of you friggen' softies and app devs are resposible for this, this output of yours which is way worse than the perceived impact of carbon dioxide, travel, cars, etc. Fuck you social media devs.
palemoonale··on Elizabeth line testing ways of banishing its "ghosts in the walls"
> It’s like they designed it to look shiny for day one but ignored decades of practical experience

Modern software development, and especially UI design, in a nutshell.

palemoonale··on Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)
Energy density is one major fact the EV propagandists don't get. What they get is policies and mandates to work for their cause.
palemoonale··on Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]
Half way in, i find this a tiring style of narration. Less enthusiasm would require less focus and thus less energy from the viewer.
palemoonale··on I want a city, not a museum
> they just grow and grow and grow as necessary. 100x in 20 years if needed

Unless you want to have a livable city, and want nature nearby, yes sure, just grow, and grow, and grow. Btw, Shangaians f.e. want a word with you.

Perhaps Lisbon, as many other cities, should impose a limit on newcomers / population and area growth. It would help conditions and feel a lot.

palemoonale··on Farewell, Java stingaree: Scientist declare the first marine fish extinction
"We don’t know the species’ range around Indonesia. We don’t know anything about its reproduction, though its closest relatives are slow breeders and therefore vulnerable to overfishing and other threats."

"The Java stingaree was likely pushed to extinction by “unregulated fishing,” according to Constance, who said fishing pressure was so high that catches of many species were already dropping in the Javan Sea by the 1870s."

Color me impressed about science then.

palemoonale··on Big Layoff at Duolingo
> indoctrination

That's the goal, isn't it? Normalize unicorn genders.

And i fully agree with "If we’re going to have diversity, why not primarily show people who actually speak the language?"

palemoonale··on BYD Overtakes Tesla as Most Popular EV Maker
No wonder, Tesla is a legacy automaker with no secret sauce nor moat.
palemoonale··on Stoßlüften: Shock Ventilation
Not possible in the US with all its closed-up office and hotel rooms.
palemoonale··on Koka: Strongly typed functional-style language with effect types and handlers
The talk in office restrooms about using Koka gets a new twist.
palemoonale··on 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free
So many experts here... laptop experts!
palemoonale··on Quairading shire erects signs telling travellers to ignore Google Maps
The only thing GM is good for are their myriad of business POIs. For everything else, use OSMand respective OrganicMaps.

(and yes people, contribute adding POIs to OSM!)

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