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joxdosba··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
France is not under threat from this.
joxdosba··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
It’s pretty incredible, especially given that the free education in France is actually rather decent.
joxdosba··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
Have you stopped for a second to consider the utter mathematical absurdity of what you’re suggesting here?

It is impossible for a datacenter to meaningfully heat more than the air in its immediate vicinity.

joxdosba··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
It’d be very hard to make these chips work at 200C, the electrical properties of semiconductors vary significantly with temperature.

It would require entirely different chips with entirely different manufacturing processes.

joxdosba··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
Why is it that most of the world despises the Israelis, despite them not having gone to Hamas/UNRWA schools?
joxdosba··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
I want anyone who believes they are superior to others because of their origins to be put to death.

Coincidentally, that’s a core belief of “the chosen people”.

But don’t try to dismiss me as some kind of an antisemite, I don’t think the Germans were sufficiently punished for their crimes either.

I know it’s not a pleasant subject, but it is possible to reason about these things https://www.popehat.com/p/we-should-talk-about-the-morality-...

joxdosba··on "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds
Or do a counter with read n<.hackycounter;echo $[n+1]>.hackycounter

When the counter hits e.g. 200, spam the user with notifications.

joxdosba··on Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says
> it's well documented that Hamas also uses child soldiers to some degree as well.

Cruel Israeli oppression motivates even children to resist them.

Israel then murders said children.

Obviously Hamas must be to blame for Israeli actions.

joxdosba··on Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
I don’t know, as someone firmly in the top 0.1% of taxpayers, most cops seem gleefully unaware of their place in life.

But perhaps that just reflects the public/private split when it comes to quality of services

joxdosba··on Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed
>I don't even know what to do with the "never date police officers" thing. Most police officers are married. It's a shift-work job, so they have high divorce rates, but they just remarry.

This is a deeply masculine take, Zuck would be proud.

This is such a widely known problem, I’m really surprised you’re not familiar with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer-involved_domestic_viol...

“Never date a cop” is very common advice women will give to each other, has nothing to do with politics or being excessively online.

joxdosba··on AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost
Posting meaningless AI generated nonsense as original text paints a very damning picture of the intellectual abilities of the person behind this blog.

And doing so without a giant [SLOP WARNING] at the top is an asshole move, a decent person would never do so.

joxdosba··on How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Ranks Its Members
Why is this even worth reporting on? There are thousands of similar events, why is this one special?

Does seem that actual journalists are already ridiculing this https://x.com/shashj/status/2067864292745961529

joxdosba··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
> wishing they would stop trying to make their hundreds of years religious regional conflict the world's problem

This is an entirely backwards way of portraying the situation. American evangelical Christians are by definition not based in the region.

They believe that they must supply Israel with the weapons it needs in order to bring upon apocalypse.

joxdosba··on Identity verification on Claude
> Identity theft also paints a clearer picture of what is required to remedy the situation. If your details have been pwnd hard enough, you might need to get new government documents entirely in order to protect yourself long term

Okay, but in the US (for example) you simply can’t do that, and your details are already available to everyone for a dollar or two.

I’ll concede that “identity theft” could conceivably have a reasonable meaning in the context of e.g. Estonian digital identities where you could in a sense steal someone’s private key.

joxdosba··on The AirPods Effect
Don’t get me wrong, there’s a plenty of good public transport in London. I’m just of the opinion that unless you happen to live on a particularly good route, the experience is too inconsistent.

I love the trains, Gatwick express is downright brilliant.

> Also 2-4 months at best out of the year is not a great argument for public transportation not being the better option compared to cars and parking that don’t scale.

Temperatures in packed tube carriages are very high no matter the time of the year, the bodies of the passengers alone put out sufficient heat.

When the AC works, that’s fine. My experience is that it fails far more often than I’m willing to accept.

joxdosba··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
Which part do you disagree with?

The border is in the North Channel today, so the bit about sovereignty clearly holds up.

Are you saying the GFA would have been reached through peaceful means?

joxdosba··on Identity verification on Claude
These links claim that identities are stolen, but do not explain how.

What happens to the victims, who are now presumably left unidentifiable? How are they tracked if they can’t be identified? Do their families recognise them? How does that work if they were married, had children or something? Does the identity thief just take over their whole life?

As far as I know, “identity theft” is a boogeyman invented by the banks. Traditionally, when someone would go to a bank and get a loan by pretending to be another person, we just called it “fraud”.

The banks realised that it would be nice to get you to feel some responsibility when they get defrauded, so after a bunch of focus grouping they came up with this new term to imply that you are somehow also a victim when the bank gets defrauded by someone else.

joxdosba··on Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police
> cops were fired for illegal raids.

This kind of pro-cop propaganda placing them above the law is disgusting.

Cops should go to prison for illegal raids. Some behaviour needs to be severely punished.

This kind of betrayal of trust is one of the most severe crimes one can commit against society, the punishments should be equally severe.

joxdosba··on FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama
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joxdosba··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
I don’t doubt it, but those are the loudest, most deeply invested voices.

This inherently affects how outsiders will view gamers, which is why GSK branding themselves as such is a mistake.

joxdosba··on UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro
Are you using the new better balanced harness?
joxdosba··on The AirPods Effect
There’s not even half a million people living in Zurich; it is absolutely tiny, which is basically the entirety of its charm.
joxdosba··on The AirPods Effect
I live in London, temperatures in excess of 30C are frequent on the Tube. If I’m going to or coming from the gym, that’s fine. Otherwise it really isn’t.

The metro in Prague is indeed good, it’s just not a big city.

Zurich also has excellent public transport, but it’s really a village at best.

Madrid has Barcelona beat, but still occasionally suffers from a lack of air conditioning frequently leading to absurd temperatures.

joxdosba··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
Are you sure? Ask yourself, how are women treated when they join the voice chat?
joxdosba··on The AirPods Effect
> Today I spent half my workday on a train going +200km/h to visit my parents. The alternative would have been an excruciating 6 hour car drive

You are describing an experience which couldn’t be further from the norm in Europe.

joxdosba··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
Ask women how it goes if they pop into voice chat in a multiplayer game. Ask an AAVE speaker how people react to them while gaming.

Are you really going to tell me that the average gamer is just as bad as the average internet user?

It’s kind of hilarious to be having this conversation with “ептсука”, certainly a fitting name for someone who would defend gamers as nice people.

joxdosba··on The AirPods Effect
It sounds like a dream. Well air-conditioned public transport can certainly be a wonderful experience. I was a huge fan of the MTR when living in Hong Kong.

Unfortunately those implementations are far from the norm though, but of course all of these networks are seeing gradual upgrades.

joxdosba··on The AirPods Effect
I need only one crowded Tube ride without air conditioning before a meeting for the total cost of car ownership to appear like an incredible bargain.
joxdosba··on The AirPods Effect
People mostly use it because they can’t afford the better options.

McDonald’s is also extremely popular, as are Coca Cola and Bud light.

joxdosba··on Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures
I simply pointed out that gaming and especially gamers have some pretty extreme negative connotations, which is true.

I could dump you links to research detailing the connections between the online gaming community and right wing extremism, but I’m pretty sure you know what I’m talking about.

“Gamer” is basically synonymous for “neo-nazi incel”, and GSK refers to itself as a “global coalition of gamers”. That’s a pretty bad look!

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