Biggest dream of mine but almost impossible if you're married. Women hate it out it in the middle of nowhere.
Not all women. I'm married and have four children.
Readit Newswopwops commented on How I Left YouTube zhach.news/how-i-left-you... · Posted by u/dhashe
> In the software engineering world, we exist on a ladder. We call this ”Leveling”.
Career is a made up game. There are no true levels or ladders in life that you have to chase. Nobody will care or remember what you did or what level you were given enough timespan. Take the bits that you want (money, skills etc) to live life, but don't get too caught up trying to win the game.
I said "F-this" 20 years ago, moved to the middle of nowhere, paid cash for my property and live on next to nothing. Best decision ever.
wopwops commented on Why aren't smart people happier? theseedsofscience.pub/p/w... · Posted by u/zdw
Once I moved to the middle of nowhere and limited my contact with people---besides my wife and children---I became very happy.
wopwops commented on How to build a solar powered electric oven solar.lowtechmagazine.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
Why do the images look like someone took pictures of dotmatrix printer output?
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Update: for whatever it's worth, I just asked the Magic 8 Ball (Perplexity):
Low-tech Magazine uses the option to display images as dithered primarily to reduce the energy consumption and data load of their website. Dithering is an old image compression technique that reduces the number of colors in images to just a few shades of gray (black and white with four levels of gray), which dramatically decreases the file size. The black-and-white dithered images are then recolored via the browser’s CSS, which adds no extra data load.
This approach makes images roughly ten times less resource-intensive than full-color high-resolution images, which supports the magazine’s goal of having a low-energy, solar-powered website. However, some images, such as graphs or those with crucial color information, may become less clear under dithering, so the website offers the option to turn off dithering for individual images to reveal the original, heavier images. This balances energy efficiency with the need for clarity when visual information depends on color or detail.
Thus, the dithered image feature is both an energy-saving measure and a distinct stylistic choice that aligns with the philosophy of reducing the environmental impact of web usage while maintaining visual storytelling appeal.
wopwops commented on Microsoft is open sourcing Windows 11's UI framework neowin.net/news/microsoft... · Posted by u/bundie
Does this mean that we will be able to get the Quicklaunch toolbar back?
wopwops commented on California now has more EV charging ports than gas nozzles latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
The equivalent wattage of a gas pump is something like 1-2 megawatts, based on energy transfer per time. (Internalizing this fact is important for understanding why gasoline is hard to displace!)
"EVs convert over 77% of the electrical energy from the grid to power at the wheels. Conventional gasoline vehicles only convert about 12%–30% of the energy stored in gasoline to power at the wheels."
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/evtech.shtml
EV charging doesn't need to deliver anywhere near the amount of energy contained in gas to displace gas.
wopwops commented on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information tldw.tube/... · Posted by u/pkaeding
"Too long video" lol
Why does the logo feature an eyeball?
I'm glad that we learned from this and took measures to prevent the US government from carrying out any more abhorrent secret operations on its own citizens. All the extra accountability and transparency that's been woven into our institutional frameworks since this was discovered makes me much more confident that it won't happen again.
I think this is sarcasm.