locustous (u/locustous)

locustous commented on Deadly global heatwaves undeniably result of climate crisis, scientists show theguardian.com/science/2... · Posted by u/myshpa

nologic01 · 2 years ago

We are in a bind. Sustainability is a social, economic, political and emotional challenge of major proportions - maybe even unprecedented in human history.

Understandably, people don't want to give up their existing comforts and habits.

Understandably, people that don't have these comforts feel its only fair that they too get access to them.

Understandably, people don't want to see wind or solar parks or other intrusive installations in their backyard.

Understandably, complex and less that 100% certain science tackling long-term effects and phenomena will be questioned by people with limited trust to institutions of tarnished authority.

People just want the magic tree of energy driven consumption to go on as this is the dominant model of a "fulfilling" life.

What is brewing is a toxic cocktail of denial, blame shifting, panic, snake oil salesmen, speculators etc.

We certainly haven't seen the end of history.

locustous · 2 years ago

Understandably, some of us just don't trust scientists wholesale.

locustous commented on Time is running out on the Climate Clock theverge.com/2023/7/22/23... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

dTal · 2 years ago

There is only one solution to the climate apocalypse, and it's not popular:

Fossil carbon extraction needs to be halted. Worldwide. Close the coal mines, shut down the oil rigs.

Everything else is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It's very, very simple: at the beginning of the Paleozoic era, atmospheric carbon was 20x higher than today, a level that the current biosphere cannot survive in. Gradually, over the next few hundred million years, that carbon was sequestered into the ground. We are now digging it back up and burning it, thus returning it to the atmosphere, within a span of decades. You can talk about LED lightbulbs and carbon credits till the cows come home, but the only thing that can halt this is preventing people from burning carbon that came from the ground - and the only way to stop that is to ban its extraction.

"But what will we do for energy?" Lots of things. We have options. Personally I'm a fan of the magic green rocks that give energy forever.

"But how will we power things that need high energy density / make plastics / lubricate my e-bike chain etc" - Oil. We can make it from anything carbon based. It's not even hard. We just have to stop digging it up and burning it.

locustous · 2 years ago

We had experienced serious reductions in carbon utilization in the 2008 recession and COVID restrictions and there wasn't any kind of pull back signal from the temperature record that I can make out. Real global "experiments" that do not back up these extreme positions.

If you really want to make changes it seems to me that the best place to put effort would be pro nuclear rather than cutting industry to the ground. Serious investment in thorium seems a good place to start.

locustous commented on Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption 9to5mac.com/2023/07/20/ap... · Posted by u/samwillis

sebzim4500 · 2 years ago

>Make no mistake: if Apple needed to get someone killed, they would.

Ok, I'll play along. Suppose Tim Cook wakes up tomorrow and decides for some reason he wants me dead. How exactly does he do it?

locustous · 2 years ago

SOP is to have a team "suicide" you.

locustous commented on Git-landmine – Create local malicious Git repo github.com/jwilk/git-land... · Posted by u/pabs3

jabbany · 2 years ago

That doesn't work if . is at the end of $PATH though? Since the real ones would take precedence due to how executable searching works...?

locustous · 2 years ago

You never type sl on accident?

locustous commented on Turning Joe Rogan down was the right thing to do vox.com/2023/6/22/2376853... · Posted by u/Anon84

locustous · 2 years ago

People want questions they have answered instead of ignored. It's like a tone deaf corporation ignoring customer complaints while speaking platitudes about how much they care and how right they are.

locustous commented on MrBeast has become a viral sensation for his acts of altruism nytimes.com/2023/06/12/ma... · Posted by u/gaws

locustous · 2 years ago

It's not altruism of he is getting a payout in cash or Internet points.

locustous commented on Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs wccftech.com/apple-m2-ult... · Posted by u/jacooper

MBCook · 2 years ago

Do you have a source showing idle numbers? I’ve never seen a comparison. The ones I’ve seen are always about max power.

locustous · 2 years ago

It's not apples vs apples. Literally and figuratively. The I/O or board features on PC boards will eat power. So you will end up with a 15-30 W idle vs probably 5-8 for the Mac. I doubt the PCIe on the pro does much to the power unless there is an extra I/O die on system, you need active chips to eat power. That is vs Intel.

AMD will add a bunch more watts to the idle number as their multi CCX CPUs just eat more power at idle. You'll be closer to 30-45 W idle. This is a guess, it's widely acknowledged but not really quantified that I've found.

AMD monolithic dies are more in line with Intel. IE the laptop/mini PC line will be nice and low.

The difference is vastly diminished when you add the display that's using 80 Ws. So that's 85 vs 100 W total system power? 15% difference that gets bigger when you peg your processor.

Apple numbers are better in pretty much every way on power. But we're talking a handful of watts. Even at really high power rates it isn't going to add to up much.

Sources: I have a Mac mini and an Intel raptor lake desktop. I take measurements. And I have read various sources. This is my best information.

locustous commented on Ask HN: Advice on starting a YouTube channel? · Posted by u/mr_o47

locustous · 2 years ago

Have a purpose. Have an intended audience to fulfill that purpose. Cater to your audience.

If you wander about aimlessly, well, you will be aimless.

locustous commented on Apple M2 Ultra SoC isn’t faster than AMD and Intel last year desktop CPUs wccftech.com/apple-m2-ult... · Posted by u/jacooper

daneel_w · 2 years ago

Citation needed? Do you live in some alternate reality?

> "... the difference of a few 10s of watts doesn't really make any difference, unless you have numbers to back up your very strong claim."

We have a billion power-hungry PCs running on the planet. Power-efficiency matters for economy and for environment, because power isn't free and only a tiny speck of the world runs on clean energy. It always mattered.

locustous · 2 years ago

Most of those systems sit at idle, when they are on at all. Idle power is not the same as TDP. The idle difference is not so great that it's a big deal.

locustous commented on Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset theverge.com/2023/6/8/237... · Posted by u/astlouis44

spaceman_2020 · 2 years ago

Honestly, at what point will you need regulators to step in? It’s pretty clear that we have a little porn addiction epidemic. And there’s increasing evidence of the harmful effects of porn.

And that’s happening with the current state of porn - often viewed on small phone screens in less than even HD quality.

I can’t imagine what would happen to young people once porn is viewable in a lifelike virtual reality. I can imagine an entire generation of young men dropping out of society altogether (something that’s already happening)

locustous · 2 years ago

The reality is that the phone is, and will be, the far more dangerous a vector for porn because of how ubiquitous and convenient it is. The wow factor of this device won't move the needle much here, particularly at this price.

Yes, some will use it for this. Porn use is never satisfied so the addicts that are always looking for bigger hits will find some here. But they are already in it's grasp. Very few to nobody will start it on this device, and that is where the primary battle is located.

Kids, on phones, far away from the supervision of their parents.