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what goes here, my rarely updated website?

http://devblog.brahmancreations.com

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vfclists··on Tesla's lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
Trying to boost numbers by using units people can't picture or comprehend is not very useful.

231000 gallons is 1000 cubic meters, ie a 10 metre cube.

Perhaps the number of olympic size swimming pools of a standardized depth may be more useful. Perhaps the number of 3m deep Olympic sized swimming pools or gas/oil storage tanks.

vfclists··on Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
Because ther don't have to keep switching from discussion client to discussion client or whatever tools the use for each project they are involved with, at the same time being distracted by adverts, geegaws, random emojis and other kinds of nonsense.

They are simply more efficient and more importantly censoring is done by the user themselves, not by politically motivated admins who ban discussions based on their ideologies and whims.

vfclists··on Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials
I find this interesting because my first awareness of a link between gastrointestinal problems and autism was in the retracted so labelled "fraud" paper by Andrew Wakefield et al in 1998 which noted a link between gastrointestinal disease and autism in the subjects of the study.

In fact it is the subject of the paper, not the MMR vaccine which was the cause of the "controversy".

vfclists··on Dutch suicide prevention website shares data with tech companies without consent
Who are the founders, their funders and their motivation?
vfclists··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Hacker News - the place where shills love to make reasonable sounding arguments.
vfclists··on The gay jailbreak technique (2025)
But honey?!!??

LOL

vfclists··on Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
Will they pay the drivers for hosting the sensors?

Can the drivers charge a monthly late for hosting the sensors?

vfclists··on Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga
If IP addresses are a shared resource then it shouldn't be possible to block an IP or IP range because some of the domains are hosting illegal stuff.

This is like blocking access to a street, a block of flats or even an estate because drug dealers and hookers operate from them.

vfclists··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
You mean buy a Google Pixel?

How many people can afford one?

vfclists··on Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp
If Lisp developers want a better editor and IDE they can support Lem.

VS Code doesn't provide the liveness and extensibility Emacs and Lisp developers enjoy in their environments.

vfclists··on Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp
Lem doesn't claim to be a Lisp development environment or IDE. It describes itself as

General-purpose editor/IDE with high expansibility in Common Lisp

vfclists··on CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes
Cars,those urban monstrosities the vehicles that weigh over 25 times their payload and take up 20 times the space on the roads.

Should I adjust the figures for American sizes?

Should I also add that they are engineered to travel at speeds over 120 mph and usually ply the trade environments where 30 mph is a dangerous speed?

vfclists··on The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
Sounds like pay to play, the usual Trumpian playbook (no pun intended)
vfclists··on Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug
Correctness with respect to a specification is not the same as correctness with respect to intent(ion) or expectation
vfclists··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
Will the French government view open source software as software which should be well-funded and well structured, ie Blender level quality and organization, or are they going to underfund it and thus have it succumb to the shenanigans of Redhat, aka IBM, the infamous pushers of Gnome and Wayland?
vfclists··on Nursing Is the Surefire New Path to American Prosperity
Wasn't it coding just a few years ago?

Sure. Everyone will take out a student loan to become a nurse, wages will drop, and soon it won't be the new hotness.

Wasn't it law before coding become the new hotness?

vfclists··on Harvests and food prices at risk as Iran war triggers global fertiliser crunch
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525839
vfclists··on Ask HN: Why is a "War ON Iran" being labelled as a "War IN Iran"?
OP Here:

This war is on its way to causing a huge energy crisis globally of the kind that happened in 1973, as headlines like these show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBW-zXeaHTQ - France confirms oil crisis, says 30-40 percent of Gulf energy infrastructure destroyed

At least in this one the channel are leftist oriented enough to mention US and Israel at the start, never to mention them again, but listen to Christine Lagarde at 4:21 - None of us, none of us can resolve the uncertainty about how and when the Ukraine war will end and how the war in Iran will play out.

Note how she keeps the names of the aggressors out of the wars naming. In the former the Europeans wilfully cut themselves of Russian energy and in the latter the whole thing is out of their control. Question is how do you develop the proper mindset to fix problems when the root causes of the problem are kept out of the descriptions of the problems?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPInl-2qZks - Bangladesh fuel crisis deepens as war on Iran drives long queues and loan plea

Note how in the above video the narrator says at 0:23 - "The US/Israeli conflict with Iran is now disrupting global energy supplies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VavXBDH7N0w - Philippines has '45 days of fuel left', declaring state of emergency from Iran war

vfclists··on Miscellanea: The War in Iran
Why is a "War on Iran" being labelled as a "War in Iran" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525839
vfclists··on China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000
What is its weight, what is its payload and what is the cost of the fuel needed to propel it to hypersonic speeds?
vfclists··on Firefox Now Has Free VPN
Is their VPN provided by some other company?
vfclists··on Firefox introduces Split View: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them
Firefox introducing a feature which addons handled quite easily and much better in previous versions.
vfclists··on OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B
Does this mean RAM is going to get cheaper?
vfclists··on TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues
What happens if the creators load the video first with a different title and different contextual information, then if the video gets loaded, they change the title and the content afterwards?
vfclists··on Is liberal democracy in terminal decline?
How can liberal democracy not be in decline if it can only be discussed or seen behind a paywall which costs £59 a month to get over?

Are the voters a joke to the people who write such articles?

Am I a joke to them?

Is there a browser addon which can mark links on HN as behind paywalls?

Some sub-reddits tag them as such.

vfclists··on Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts
Could this be the results of incentivization by the Prison Industrial Complex, where ICE has become a useful tool for it?
vfclists··on Experts warn of growing parrot crisis in Canada [video]
Because shops either breed then unnecessarily or they are wild parrots captured from abroad?
vfclists··on Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark
Isn't stopping abuses of the power of the military the reason for the 2nd Amendment?

Why don't the people in Minnesota go open carry and let ICE agents think twice before drawing their weapons on people?

vfclists··on Furiosa: 3.5x efficiency over H100s
Why is their website demanding WebGL?
vfclists··on US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA
> When it stops being a disagreement over policy and becomes a paid job for a foreign government to spread as much malicious FUD as possible.

Where is the evidence for your claim that Mearsheimer and Sachs are being paid to spread malicious FUD?

Are you implying that the officials in charge of providing support for the Ukrainian war effort believed that Mearsheimer and Sachs had access to superior intelligence on Russian's war disposition?

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