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The typical kagi user uses hn. In the past, hn was even further up, though I guess they're slowly getting "normal" people too.
Just look how often PR reps appear here to reply to accusations - they wouldn't bother at all if this was just some random platform like reddit.
Especially considering that Dijkstra didn't even coin the phrase himself.
It's a factor of 5 to 20 [1] in many cases.
Regular hosting is unbelievably cheap, especially in high traffic environments.
[1] https://tech.ahrefs.com/how-ahrefs-saved-us-400m-in-3-years-...
My point was essentially, that if he thinks wayland is this bad, the poster should help improve it to their liking, instead of ranting - it's pretty widely adopted now, and just like systemd, little more than a few minor holdouts are going to be left a few years down the line.
Now, keep in mind, I'm not claiming that wayland is good or bad - just, that complaining is unproductive and improving helps much more.
The most extreme situation is concept artists right now. Essentially, the entire profession has lost their jobs in the last year. Or casual artists making drawings for commission - they can't compete with AI and mostly had to stop selling their art. Similar is happening to professional translators - with AI, the translations are close enough to native that nobody needs them anymore.
The book market is getting flooded with AI-crap, so is of course the web. Authors are losing their jobs.
Currently, it seems to be creeping into the music market - not sure if people are going to notice/accept AI-made music. All the fantastic artists creating dubs are starting to go away as well, after all you can just synthesize their voices now.
It's quite sad, all considered.
I'm seriously sick of that whole "laundering copyright via AI"-grift - and the destruction of the creative industry is already pretty noticable. All the creatives who brought us all those wonderful masterworks with lots of thought and talent behind, they're all going bankrupt and getting fired right now.
It's truly a tragedy - the loss of art is so much more serious than people seem to think it is, considering how integral all kinds of creative works are to a modern human live. Just imagine all of that being without any thought, just statistically optimized for enjoyment... ugh.
Essentially, any notable installation fundamentally deals with much higher currents and voltages and as such is much, much more dangerous. Once a certain size is reached, the carrier also has to be involved and professional installation is mandatory, both due to the law and requirements by insurance companies.
At least here in germany. I've been involved with building all kinds of PV installations in bavaria, from 4kwp up to 20MWp. The balkony generators aren't taken seriously by anybody in the industry right now, at least.
Reality is, the law doesn't matter if you're big enough. As long as they're not stealing content from the big ones, they're going to be fine.
Cheers!
PV installations on roofs typically have around 10-20kW peak output.
Let's go with 10kW. That's around 25 panels, each outputting 30V with something like 13A. Small installations are typically single-stringed, so you end up with a voltage of 25*30V=750V with 13A DC. That's pretty likely to kill you within milliseconds if you mess up.
There's a reason that stuff tends to be handled by professionals. It's a ridiculous (and pointless) risk if you aren't well educated about it and have some experience.
At least in Germany, every PV installation of certain size (> 30kW peak) is mandated to be able to be shutdown remotely by the carrier if you supply electricity for the net and aren't just using it for yourself. (You get paid the same during shutdowns, just like it were running. Otherwise it would be quite damaging and likely reduce adoption of PV)
Point being: no, it doesn't hurt the panels and is a regular ocurence.
At least in countries with strong regulations around working with electricity this is simply not going to be feasible.
I've been in the PV business for some time now and seen a person get killed by it. It's not pretty. Still remembering that smell of burnt flesh... Now, to be fair, that was at a 12MW-installation, not on a roof. But still...
Found especially kanata a delight to use, while being both minimal, if needed, and maximally feature-filled if desired.
Instead of running against windmills, try submitting patches and constructively improving the thing - it isn't going to go away, that much is safe to say. Every day yet another distro adopts it, at a steadily increasing pace.
Build extension packs, workarounds, etc. - similar to all the tools unfucking gnome 3 did, instead of fighting a hopeless battle.
Easily the cheapest way to get decorative pictures where reality doesn't matter much - at least for now, until the law in various countries catches up to this practice.
Additionally, ToS really don't count for much in the EU, they're usually not enforcable anyway, if there's anything out of the ordinary at all. There's a whole lot of stuff in ToS nobody is ever going to be able to enforce at all.
They probably expected to fly under the radar, without making sure it's even okay everywhere. Well, that's not going to happen I guess.
Without a simple summarization for end users you can't just hide "unexpected" things in ToS-updates. And, well, a cloud-hoster deciding randomy to own your content hosted on servers you pay for is certainly neither expected nor typical.
Good luck enforcing anything of that, vultr.
I'd say all of those do some major thing that makes them stand out.
And the more angry rants we get from SV-folks, the better we know that we're on the right track.
They all have enough money to be able to fight any legal challenges. This is not your regular, poor nonprofit paying slave wages.
You always claim "precedent" - so please show me, when has the board of a nonprofit even close to as high profile as open AI ever been removed by external pressure? As far as I can tell, we're on entirely new territory here.
I for one am glad Ilya is prevailing here - sama is the typical SV sociopath pushing growth at any cost. We really don't need any more of those guys at a place this important.
>The GP may be surprised to learn, however, that on the subject of elective abortions, presumed socially liberal European countries like Denmark (12 weeks) or France (14 weeks) are closer to socially conservative states like Georgia (6 weeks) or South Carolina (20 weeks) than socially liberal states like Massachusetts (24 weeks) or Oregon (no limit). And of course, globally, fewer than half of all countries allow elective abortions at all.
Commenting just on this part, as it's something that really has to be pointed out.
This is a common talking point certain political groups use, but only true on the absolute surface-level - if you look deeper, it becomes clear that it's not that simple.
I know the german legislation the best, so that's what I'll talk about.
The first and most important thing is that you have to see those rules within the larger context of the system they are used in. In germany, visiting your gynocologist every 3 months is pretty normal for people in the relevant age group. There is typically no hesitation in regards to healthcare. Birth control is available from a very young age (because teens tend to mess around with each other).
Then, there's excellent mandatory sex-ed. Much less poverty and overall better median education level. If you get a child, you'll get a significant amount of money from the government every single month until it's 18 or 25.
Healthcare isn't an issue even if you're unemployed. Also, there is no major stigma associated with abortion, making it much more effectively accessible and possible to actually be talked about.
As a result, teen pregnancies are much, much more rare. Generally, there is no abstinence-only bullshit being taught, resulting in teens able to properly decide for themselves. And, importantly, sex-ed is done _before_ puberty, which is absolutely crucial. You want them to be informed before their hormones go batshit crazy.
Because of those points, abortions are generally much more rare, as there's much less undesired pregnancies happening in the first place.
Then, to the general rules: The normal limit is 12 weeks/84 days post-conception. In certain cases up to 24 weeks. If there's serious danger for the mother, it's unlimited. Every hospital does abortions, there aren't any stigmatization-inducing special facilities for this.
Much of that doesn't look far away from the rules in the liberal US states.
The one exception: There is a mandatory counceling session (free of course) you have to do before a non-emergency abortion. After that, you need to wait 3 days. Then it can go on. The idea behind this is to make sure the situation is properly understood and to show ideas how the situation could be resolved differently (for example ways of financial support if finances would be the main reason for abortion, etc). All this in a neutral way, you aren't being guided towards a certain outcome.
A significant amount of people consider this to be over-the-top and infantilizing women - and I certainly see the reasoning. Personally, I haven't experienced this myself, so I can't really have much of an opinion on it.
As far as I know, the situation in france and UK are somewhat similar. Maybe somebody else can elaborate on the others.
Overall, this "abortion restrictive in europe" talking point is generally just that - a talking point, created to fool americans into thinking that the terrible healthcare related to abortion they have is actually super advanced.
It's not all about number limits. It's about healthcare and support. Limits in the US have to be much wider because it gets often spotted later and the alternatives are much worse.
Additionally, leaving the European market opens up a big opportunity for EU-companies. Basically, that's the way to go if you want to wreck American dominance over the Internet (and the companies which matter know that very well, which is exactly why they are NOT dropping the EU).
For European citizens it's a win either way. That's why nobody is impressed by your threats - they just look like people pissed off because the EU is now doing what the USA had been doing for decades - meddling in other countries sovereignity. (If you want to interpret it that way, which imho is wrong.)