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newtonianrules··on People who tell you 'AI is changing everything' are lying
How many of these articles do we really need?
newtonianrules··on Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar
Yeah that’s my worry. Curling iron, hair dryer, etc. Never more than one at a time though.

Could I move the outdoor one to a separate breaker? Or would that require rewiring everything?

newtonianrules··on Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar
Does any know how these kind of setups work for shared GFCI circuits? Like if I have a couple bathrooms on the same circuit as an outdoor GFCI plug I’d like to use with 1200 watts of panels, is that doable?
newtonianrules··on A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands
Oooof. I pity the poor fool who has to pay taxes on their 300k annual salary.
newtonianrules··on Why We're Dropping Basecamp
And he’s as cringe as ever.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-m-sorry-dave-380ec27d

newtonianrules··on Three workers digging in a field outside the data center
Fucking weird.
newtonianrules··on Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU
I’ve never worked with Silicon Valley people before now, and now I get why so many projects are abandoned and rewritten when they could just use open source. The whole culture is promo driven.
newtonianrules··on Lindsey Graham has died
When courage was required, Lindsey Graham always succeeded in failing to have any.
newtonianrules··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Why is that?
newtonianrules··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
Sorry but the last people in the game industry that should be complaining are Blizzard. It's been what, a decade? since they've released a new property? How many Hearthstone card packs and Diablo 4 expansions can they milk out of customers before they finally just shut the whole thing down.

I know it's cliche, but what are the thousands of people that work there doing all day?

newtonianrules··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Their co-founder (not just an employee) is bankrolling a party that’s leader has called for the expelling of all immigrants. This fact is not in dispute.
newtonianrules··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Thanks that makes sense.
newtonianrules··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Does Proton keep logs? I’ve heard good things.
newtonianrules··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
You can protect your “culture” without deporting all non-White people. If your culture can’t be protected without that, maybe that culture doesn’t need protecting.
newtonianrules··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Yeah I just expected better of Mullvad as a long standing customer. They seemed pretty politically neutral which I prefer.
newtonianrules··on The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool
Could you imagine how destroyed people like this would be if they faced actual adversity in life? Like if they had to live through the Spanish Flu, or the Great Depression, or hell even lose a loved one to something as now trivial to treat as tetanus?

Oh, the horror, having to type to a system that will do your job for you while you sit in an air conditioned office in a comfortable chair listening to a podcast while you work.

newtonianrules··on GTA 6 will cost $80
What a disappointment that was. The open world aspect was neat but the whole game could have been an indie production tech wise.
newtonianrules··on Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models
Petition by resigning. Tomorrow. Stop supporting this company.
newtonianrules··on Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
What has Trump done that makes a meaningful positive difference in the lives of people making less than $250k/year?
newtonianrules··on Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
while I’d say that was true in most elections, this one the choices for the future couldn’t be more stark. The dude just had a UFC on the white house lawn, for instance, and fell into the Iran/Israel trap every previous president had avoided. But yeah, Kamala and Trump are the same level of turdness /s.
newtonianrules··on Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society
Half of Americans voters elected Trump. Most people are idiots, I wouldn’t use that as a gauge yet.
newtonianrules··on 2026-06-16 Robinhood Layoff Translation
I challenge a CEO to just post the translation instead of the garbage they usually spew.
newtonianrules··on Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
If they don’t support Steam Deck (basically a proxy for Linux support), I don’t play them.
newtonianrules··on Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund
Because Democrats are held to different standards. I mean just look at the last year.
newtonianrules··on America has lost its war with Iran
If anything I think that demonstrating how worthless all this “war materiel” is, well it s a good thing. Can we please cut “defense” spending in half and just let me keep more of my own money or better yet stop going into so much debt?
newtonianrules··on Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
> Games with kernel anti-cheat.

This one’s easy, if they don’t support Steam Deck (basically a proxy for Linux support), I don’t play them.

newtonianrules··on Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything
Just install Ubuntu already (if it supports the apps you need, most of which probably have web versions) and be done with it. Ubuntu 26.04 had a significantly better install experience than Windows 11.
newtonianrules··on Anthropic staff to meet White House officials next week
Wonder how big the payoff will be.
newtonianrules··on Meta’s chaotic AI strategy
> It's literally the gulag,” one of the employees claims. “You have zero purpose in life all of a sudden, you barely interact with anyone, you just have these tasks every week." Another employee describes some of the tasks—generating puzzles to test how reliably AI models from Meta and other companies can solve them—as easy compared to the software development work they had been doing previously. But the new projects feel menial, and “almost all” employees seem unhappy, they say. “Most people find the work soul-crushing,” the third employee says.

Then quit your fucking jobs you entitled assholes. You’d be shocked how many people would gladly do that for $300k/year.

newtonianrules··on Why are there so many canines in fine art?
Because dogs are awesome. Next question!
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