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moooo99 commented on After ruining a treasured water resource, Iran is drying up e360.yale.edu/features/ir... · Posted by u/YaleE360

everdrive · 9 hours ago

If this is true, why have I heard about data centers demolishing local water supplies? Is this incorrect?

moooo99 · 9 hours ago

Its a thing that cannot be generalized. However, many datacenters use evaporative cooling. Especially when the DC is built in a region with relatively warm outside temperatures, it‘s basically the only viable way to get rid of all that heat.

moooo99 commented on The biggest heat pumps bbc.com/news/articles/c17... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

stefanfisk · 2 days ago

OK, but what about the rest of the price difference? Once the electrical is taken care of it should just be a matter of replacing the furnace and pulling some tubes and wires to the outer unit? You said 40k, but the heat pump itself isn’t even 10k.

moooo99 · 2 days ago

The biggest factor is almost certainly the subsidy for switching to a heatpump.

But there are other factors as well. Air to Air heatpumps are uncommon in Germany, we usually install Air to Water ones, which are more complex. Unlike other countries, our heat pumps are usually mounted on a concrete slab and not on the wall. Then there are some norms for quality of the water, etc. they aim to increase the lifespan of the system, but increase upfront costs

moooo99 commented on The biggest heat pumps bbc.com/news/articles/c17... · Posted by u/rayhaanj

willvarfar · 2 days ago

In the nordics we love heat-pumps! Something like 70% of houses are heated by heat-pumps, and 90% of apartment buildings are heated by district heating and that is often generated by huge heatpumps.

Apparently 95% of new heating installations in Swedish houses are heat-pumps these days: https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC1...

Heatpumps have been heating nordic homes for decades. Even in the countryside where many houses have small woodland attached, people I know have moved to heatpumps for convenience and because its affordable.

PS: shoutout to to the JRC, found their reports when doing a super quick dig for stats. Those reports were super easy to read :D

moooo99 · 2 days ago

As a German, I find the popularity of heat pumps in the nordics especially amusing. In Germany heat pumps were an incredibly political topic and people were pushed by some media outlets to really hate heat pumps. One recurring topic was that heat pumps can‘t work at German temperatures.

moooo99 commented on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges news.bloomberglaw.com/ban... · Posted by u/nreece

dmantis · 3 days ago

For me it's so weird nobody makes a thing you can trust. I would happily overpay 3-4x for the good vacuum without the cloud and the need to do some hacking with valetudo, with an official service and support for the device. Yet nobody is willing to take the money. They'd rather go bankrupt..

moooo99 · 3 days ago

> I would happily overpay 3-4x for the good vacuum without the cloud and the need to do some hacking with valetudo, with an official service and support for the device. Yet nobody is willing to take the money. They'd rather go bankrupt..

I feel like you are over estimating market demand based on your own preferences. Been there, done that. Most techies under estimate how little normal folks care about privacy, cybersecurity and stuff like that.

The market for privacy focused vacuum robots (at a significant premium) is probably not even going to pay for the injection mould tooling

moooo99 commented on Analysis finds anytime electricity from solar available as battery costs plummet pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/... · Posted by u/Matrixik

datadrivenangel · 5 days ago

Nuclear plants, like most large thermal plants, are almost always located near large bodies of water and return that water downstream so it doesn't really matter?

moooo99 · 5 days ago

It does when you care about the environmental impact of your cooling (and also consider the fact that droughts are an increasingly severe problem).

moooo99 commented on Guarding My Git Forge Against AI Scrapers vulpinecitrus.info/blog/g... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

xyzal · 6 days ago

Does anyone have an idea how to generate, say, insecure code, en masse? I think it should be the next frontier. Not feed them random bytestream, but toxic waste.

moooo99 · 6 days ago

Ironically, probably the fastest way to create insecure code is by asking AI chatbots to code

moooo99 commented on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/akyuu

YY876438726 · 12 days ago

Has the OEM in question been revealed yet? Likely not one of the major OEMs because they all lock their bootloaders. I'm crossing my fingers it's Fairphone but that's because I love my FP5. The GrapheneOS devs have been pretty harsh towards Fairphone because of their slow updates.

moooo99 · 12 days ago

They seem to refuse that they're working with fairphone, so it seems unlikely.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/1o3vmn5/comment...

My guess is that its either HMD or Nothing. Will probably still take a while until we learn about this

moooo99 commented on We're losing our voice to LLMs tonyalicea.dev/blog/were-... · Posted by u/TonyAlicea10

moooo99 · 21 days ago

I generally agree with the sentiment, but I can't help but feel like we're attributing to much of this change to LLMs. While they're certainly driving this change even further, this is a trend that has already started way before LLMs became as widespread as they are today.

What personally disturbs me the most is the self censorship that was initially brought forward by TikTok and quickly spread to other platforms - all in the name of being as advertiser friendly as possible.

LinkedIn was the first platform where I really observed people losing their unique voice in favor of corporate friendly - please hire me - speak. Now this seems to be basically any platform. The only platform that seems to be somewhat protected from it is Reddit, where many mods seem to dislike LLMs as much as everybody else. But more likely, its just less noticeable

moooo99 commented on Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023) creolened.com/windows-gui... · Posted by u/phendrenad2

moooo99 · 24 days ago

Windows 11 < Windows 10?

Just based on the start menu alone I can‘t think of any reason for 11 to lead the ranking