seanalltogether (u/seanalltogether)

seanalltogether commented on How does the US use water? construction-physics.com/... · Posted by u/juliangamble

adrr · 3 days ago

Biggest alarmist is movement against Nestle using water for bottled water in California. They don’t even use as much as an average golf course.

How much water is wasted on golf courses in these arid regions? Or growing water intensive crops like alfalfa that isn’t even directly used to feed people.

seanalltogether · 3 days ago

I remember doing the calculations on the Nestle plant that caused a big storm a few years ago. The plant sat on several acres of land, which if converted into an alfalfa farm, would have consumed the same amount of water. The surrounding area was littered with alfalfa farms so it wasn't an unfair comparison. Meanwhile that bottling plant employs dozens of people, far more then a farm would have.

seanalltogether commented on Prime Number Grid susam.net/primegrid.html... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

fendy3002 · 5 days ago

it's interesting that for 6 cols only the 1st and 5th column has value, ignoring first row.

seanalltogether · 5 days ago

Yeah I was gonna say the same thing. So in a base-6 counting system primes must be very intuitive to spot. Although also expanding it out to base-12 shows the primes always fall into 4 specific rows.

seanalltogether commented on Digital Foundry leaves IGN, now independent [video] youtube.com/watch?v=tl7bI... · Posted by u/zdw

seanalltogether · 13 days ago

I hope they are successful. What I appreciate about DF is their ability to explain what techniques the developers chose to use in the rendering process. Game engines are so buzzwordy these days and they're often good about showing in the videos which rendering techniques are turned on or off based on settings.

seanalltogether commented on The era of boundary-breaking advancements is over? [video] youtube.com/watch?v=hkAH7... · Posted by u/randomgermanguy

seanalltogether · 15 days ago

Do we have a reasonable definition for what intelligence is? Is it like defining porn, you just know it when you see it?

seanalltogether commented on The internet wants to check your ID newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/jbegley

advisedwang · 18 days ago

Far better to promote device controls than service ID checks.

* It allows parents to decide what age to allow kiddo to see certain content, not the state.

* It allows others to restrict content too. E.g. a gambling addict who doesn't want to see gambling content.

* It has no risk of leaks etc for adults.

I'd like to see laws mandating that service provides respect a new content restriction header or something like that.

seanalltogether · 18 days ago

I completely agree. Android devices already have rudimentary access controls for kids through Family Link. I'd much prefer governments put pressure on Google, Apple and Microsoft to provide full control of locking down devices, apps and websites that can be managed through a kind of family service. Let me lock things down using government supplied blocklists, or google, apple blocklists with the ability to selectively enable whatever i want for the kids.

seanalltogether commented on Does showing seconds in the system tray actually use more power? lttlabs.com/blog/2025/07/... · Posted by u/LorenDB

seanalltogether · a month ago

> Test Type: Idle desktop only (no applications or media playback, unless otherwise stated)

It's weird they didn't also include a simple web browser test that navigates a set of web links and scrolls the window occasionally. Just something very light at least, doesn't even have to be heavy like video playback.

seanalltogether commented on Some arguments against a land value tax (2024) lesswrong.com/posts/CCuJo... · Posted by u/danny00

scyclow · a month ago

Let's be real: if this scenario unfolded today, your land would be worth more as housing/infrastructure/commercial/etc. than as farmland, some real estate developer would buy it from you, and you'd make a lot of money without having to do anything. If there was a 75% LVT then you'd just make less money.

seanalltogether · a month ago

The reason I brought up this argument is because this exact scenario is happening all over the UK and Ireland right now. One of the houses my wife and I looked at purchasing was built about 20 minutes outside Belfast on old farmland that was converted into a new housing estate. The farms surrounding this housing estate have been incorporated into a new village.

seanalltogether commented on Some arguments against a land value tax (2024) lesswrong.com/posts/CCuJo... · Posted by u/danny00

seanalltogether · a month ago

LVT should be incorporated with an occupancy tax, it's the only fair way to fund government services. If I own a farm, and my neighbor sells their farm to turn into a housing estate with 99 single family homes, then it is fair to say that my land is now more valuable and I should pay more to keep you it, but it isn't fair to say that my taxes should rise to cover half of the local budget just because I own half of the land in region

seanalltogether commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus

ldoughty · 2 months ago

Apple App Store only. Developer has a statement about privacy concerns on Android:

https://www.iceblock.app/android

(Concerned that the information they would be required to store and handle may require they work with the government during a subpoena)

Apple also has to handle this (internally) to do push notifications, but I suppose that theory is Apple has pockets to fight the government (or it's at least out of the developers hands)

seanalltogether · 2 months ago

This clearly demonstrates that the developer doesn't know what they're talking about. If anything, android is more secure because you can

    A. Sideload an app so that google play store doesn't know you've installed it. 
    B: Run periodic background tasks to poll any https endpoint so no service provider has logs of device ids for push notifications.
    C: Create local notifications on the device.

In this case the only logs that any company could be asked to produce is server logs which only show ip addresses.