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For now they are busy locking their citizens in and closing their business

@Cernovich They also had to work their asses off (or turn to crime) instead of collecting welfare handouts.

Italians brought organized crime. Difference was you could prosecute that without being called racist, although they did try to create "anti-defamation" groups. With the post-1965 batch, they can clique up, rob, loot, commit fraud, and you're not even "allowed" to say anything.

@Areejchqoo @arctotherium42 What's fascinating, really? Brainwashing since preschool and universal suffrage inevitably lead to this, like apples falling to the ground.

@arctotherium42 Fascinating long-term trend each US generation shifting more economically left on welfare, government spending, and regulation since 1900.

Finding from Heretical Insights: since 1900, every generation of USians holds more economically left-wing views (welfare, government spending, regulation, etc) than the prior one.

@pmarca Peasants getting nostalgic for their magnates? Have they gotten bored with their Welfare State? Still the bell doesn't ring so they deserve it.

No kidding. Building those things is illegal now.

@PotassiumEnjoy @eugyppius1 So your argument was ....null. ACs are only a theme, France banned heaters at cafes, Greece banned oil boilers, and many resorted to much more polluting wood burning, etc. eugyppius1 has been critical of our "rulers" and suddenly he cant take up a bit trolling n gets defensive.

@fssmith @eugyppius1 Yes AC coverage is much higher in East+South Europe where summers hotter, showing that temperature comfort ultimately overrules cultural baggage - this will happen in North+West Europe eventually.

The stupidity of this AC discourse, from ignorant Americans and retarded German political ideologues alike, is just unbearable. – Ordinary people in Germany by and large are not opposed to AC. Beyond a few Green crazies most people would be happy to shelter in climatised rooms during a heatwave. About 20% of German households already have some form of AC at home. – AC uptake in Germany and Europe more broadly is limited by a range of cultural, economic and infrastructural factors. Non-sliding interior-opening windows making installation somewhat more difficult (particularly for vulnerable olds) is one of them. Expensive electricity is another one of them. And yes, stupid ideological messaging is still another one of them. – Germany is not Arizona, average summer highs are typically below 80F. Easily half of the summer AC is not something you think about. Then, you get hit with a heatwave, you go to the Baumarkt, and find all the AC units are sold out. You scrape by and before you can place an order the rain has started, temperatures are down and it's not a pressing concern anymore. Something like this happens to a lot of people. – Ordinary people are not dying in heatwaves, and the death numbers themselves are modeled in much the same way Covid mortality was modeled – against a hypothetical baseline. Excess heatwave deaths happen overwhelmingly among the extremely old and the very sick, healthy people are not dropping dead of the heat. – It's above all institutions, hospitals and care homes, that should be systematically retrofitted with AC. This would cost probably less than 10 billion Euro. We should do this, and in fact there's substantial support even among crazy Greens for doing this. The German state has grown so dysfunctional that it can't do anything, and so climatism narratives get brought in as a figleaf. – Similar story with anti-AC state media messaging campaigns, which I suspect have much less to do with genuine climatist concerns and are more cover for concerns about the stress widespread AC would place on the electrical grid.

@eugyppius1 @PotassiumEnjoy yeah, Mediterranioids are opposed to ACs, that's why each household has 2,3 of them. It's laughable to claim your "rulers"(and big part of the public) were retarded enough to double/quadrable your electricity prices, but they have sane policies on AC installation and elsewhere

@PotassiumEnjoy this (much like the Euro phobia of 'drafts') goes into the cultural bucket. there are some people who believe AC will make you sick, or that the transition from hot exterior to cool interior is somehow stressful or unhealthy. it's really stupid.

@GI_Joel_AZ @Kingbingo_ The last 10 years we banned R410 for the more dangerous R32 and now we are banning R32 for the even more dangerous propane(lol). US is the king with widespread central HVACs. One thing i like about minisplits is their reliability. They easily reach 20 years un-serviced.

I work with AC systems, they are not as environmentally unfriendly as the ecofreaks would lead you to believe. Generally Europe uses what’s called mini-splits which are hyper efficient (about 1.5x the energy consumed by a fridge) and can cool small spaces quickly. They don’t even use a caustic refrigerant anymore, as R410 is a pretty mild chemical compared to traditional R22 “freon” and uses a higher pressure line system for efficiency. A 2-ton mini-split that would effectively cool a 800 square foot flat is only around $3,500.00 USD installed. A fully ducted split system with a larger condenser uses about 2.15x the energy of a fridge and can transfer the cool air all over a space. If you only really need it a month out of the year it’s really not that expensive nor is it so inefficient that it would nuke the electrical grid.

The leftist frame on AirCon is just factually wrong. AirCon doesn't create cold or heat, it moves it. Moving heat is much more efficient. About 9x more - and the temp difference is much wider in winter. If you really want to lower energy you ban winter heating not AirCon.

@tech_tobi It just depends on the temperature setting, but, whatever works for you, have a nice summer.

@fssmith I'm an engineer; I don't just believe, i measure. My shown charts linked above show measurement results. The low power consumption during the night was in dry mode. Fact.

40°C☀️ zu 22°C🏠ΔT = 18K machen sich heute im Strombedarf⚡️bemerkbar: Zw. 500-700 W verbrauchen unsere #Daikin Splitklimaanlagen aktuell, um DG + EG zu kühlen. Nachts im Dry-Modus läuft ein Gerät vergleichsweise bei 15-20 W und im Kühlmodus bei um die 60-100 W kaum spürbar mit

@tech_tobi There is no way for an AC to dehumidify without cooling its indoor "evaporator" coil element. The exact same thing it cools in cooling mode. it just minimizes the flow and the overall cooled air. (hence the mention of spring/autumn). Powerwise I believe should be about the same.

@fssmith dry mode needs much less energy consumption daikin.com.au/article/why-de…

@lexicon_gr οκ, όμως το λιγότερος επάγεται από τις βασικές έννοιες της λέξης που είναι: μαλακός, απαλός, αδύναμος.(ήσσων προσπάθεια). Για το λιγότερος υπάρχει καλύτερη αντιστοιχία με το "ελάσσων".

🟢 ήσσων ~ #lex_etymology_of_the_day

@ThanosTzimeros Υπάρχει μεγαλύτερος κακοποιητής από αυτόν που ακρωτηριάζει(=στειρώνει) τον «φίλο» του για να τον κάνει συμβατό με την δική του πληκτική καθημερινότητα ; Ας ξεκινήσουμε τα πρόστιμα από κει, για να μην ξεχνιώμαστε σκυλευαίσθητοι...

Μακάρι να είχαμε άπειρους πόρους να περνάμε κι εμείς και τα κατοικίδιά μας «ζωή και κότα». (Ουπς! Για την ευζωία της κότας ποιος θα νοιαστεί;). Αλλά δεν έχουμε. Κι επειδή η κυβερνητική είναι στην ουσία η τέχνη τού να διαχειρίζεσαι αποδοτικά πόρους σε στενότητα, ας αποφασίσουμε την κατανομή ανάμεσα στην ανθρωπότητα, τη «σκυλότητα» και τη «γατότητα». Ελπίζω να μην αυξηθούν οι ζωόφιλοι των φιδιών και προκύψει η πιθανότητα να συζητάμε και για την «πυθωνότητα». thepresident.gr/2021/05/26/sch…

“Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.” —Roger Scruton

We don't trust you even when you report we don't trust you.

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

Hello @SpringerNature, There are many reasons why the fraudulent Proximal Origin paper should have been retracted long ago. Not least among them is the fact that its purported authors privately admitted they did not believe their own conclusions, including lead author Kristian Andersen, who confessed that “the lab escape version of this is so friggin' likely.” But let's set that aside for a moment. We now have an email from Francis Collins, then Director of the NIH, explicitly acknowledging that he, Fauci, and others helped write the paper while deliberately keeping their names off it. According to Nature's authorship policies, this constitutes a serious breach of professional ethics and scientific integrity that demands an urgent investigation. The paper should be retracted immediately pending that investigation. Looking forward to your prompt action.

@tt12514 Οι ετικέτες στην Αγγλική φυσικά. Το 95% σχεδιάζονται και τεστάρονται από δυτικούς και η παραγωγή μοιράζεται εντός και εκτός της Ουκρανίας

Αυτοσχέδια πυρομαχικά για μπάμπα γιάγκα.

@lemire @ylecun Wright brothers themselves had to compete with the "institutionalized" Langley Aerodrome project.

Le monde qui a enfanté @ylecun n’est pas celui d’Albert Einstein. Einstein n’avait pas la revue par les pairs ni la National Science Foundation et ses mécanismes de financement bureaucratiques. Dans la première moitié du XXᵉ siècle et jusqu’à la fin des années 1960, la plupart des percées fondamentales sont venues d’environnements relativement autonomes, souvent des laboratoires industriels ou de chercheurs individuels : - Relativité restreinte (Albert Einstein, 1905) : rédigée alors qu’il était simple employé au bureau des brevets à Berne. - Mécanique quantique : développée presque entièrement par des chercheurs individuels ou de très petites équipes dans des universités européennes modestes. Planck (1900), Einstein (1905 et 1917, alors au bureau des brevets), Bohr (1913), Heisenberg (1925), Schrödinger (1926) et Dirac (1928). Pas de gros financements d’État ni de comités de pairs centralisés. Transistor (John Bardeen, Walter Brattain et William Shockley aux Bell Labs, 1947). - Circuit intégré (Jack Kilby chez Texas Instruments en 1958 ; Robert Noyce chez Fairchild Semiconductor en 1959). - Laser (Theodore Maiman chez Hughes Research Laboratories, mai 1960). Son principe fondamental remonte à l’article d’Einstein sur l’émission stimulée de la lumière publié en 1917. L’informatique moderne suit exactement la même dynamique. Alan Turing pose les bases théoriques des ordinateurs universels en 1936 alors qu’il est chercheur à Cambridge (travail individuel). Claude Shannon établit les fondements mathématiques de l’information aux Bell Labs en 1948. Les ordinateurs deviennent réellement pratiques grâce au transistor inventé aux Bell Labs en 1947, puis au circuit intégré développé dans des entreprises privées à la fin des années 1950. Même Unix, qui influencera profondément toute l’informatique moderne, est créé aux Bell Labs à la toute fin des années 1960 par Ken Thompson et Dennis Ritchie. À compter des années 1970, l’Occident a émulé le modèle soviétique de planification centralisée et de bureaucratie scientifique (revue par les pairs généralisée, panels de financement, cycles de subventions). Une longue stagnation dans les percées fondamentales a suivi. En ce sens, @elonmusk s’inscrit dans une longue tradition d’ingénieurs visionnaires qui ont osé l’impossible et transformé le monde malgré les sceptiques. Les frères Wright ont conquis les airs quand tout le monde affirmait que c’était impossible. James Watt a rendu la machine à vapeur efficace et a lancé la Révolution industrielle. Les pionniers du moteur à combustion interne, de Lenoir à Benz et Daimler, ont changé la mobilité pour toujours. Comme eux, Musk ne se contente pas de rêver : il construit, itère et livre. LeCun se limite au modèle linéaire de l’innovation : la recherche fondamentale, bien financée par l’État et les agences, produirait mécaniquement le progrès technologique. C’est un modèle simpliste et indéfendable, construit à compter des années 50 pour justifier le financement public massif, et largement démenti par l’histoire. x.com/lemire/status/…

@ChShersh @lauriewired There is nothing in place about it. Your OS' mm would give you the same address but still has to page in/out the data. It's just an addition of another memory hierarchy before resorting to the slowest of all, the disk memory pages.

@lauriewired Fascinating. In-place compression seems like an obvious idea in hindsight, yet my brain was stuck in the "swap to SSD" mental model before reading this post.

Everyone tends to think of swapfiles being disk based. In reality, swapping to RAM is exponentially more popular. If you have a traditional model of memory in your head, this makes NO SENSE. Swap is that thing we use when the system runs out of real ram right? You know, RAM fills up, swap out to SSD to give the OS some breathing room. Why (and how?) would you swap to memory…very thing that’s full? Well, Modern CPUs are ridiculously fast at compression, especially with something light like lz4. Zswap intercepts old pages, quickly compresses them, and then crams them back into system RAM. If you’re lucky, you might be able to fit ~3-4 compressed pages into the space of 1 traditional page. Of course, this also has the benefit of not prematurely wearing out your SSD. Mobile has done this for *years*, I know Android specifically has used this for a decade+. Regular Linux is catching up, Fedora uses zram by default now. The NT kernel (windows) also has their own implementation of in-memory compression, you can see it in task manager quite easily! Anyway, it’s a fun trick used everywhere that few realize. Towards the future, I wouldn’t be surprised if inline, accelerated LZ4 starts showing up in the majority of CXL controllers.

@FamedCelebrity They are just the minstrels of the palace and they sing according to the King's wishes.

"largely peaceful". Note the date. Journalists are nothing if not consistent in their debauchery of truth.

@TrisH0x2A exceptions which most languages use for handling errors, are essentially goto's. So there is nothing exceptional in Linus' statement.

Dijkstra called goto harmful in 1968 the Linux kernel contains tens of thousands of goto statements the label out alone appears thousands of times Linus's response on LKML in 1997: "there's nothing wrong with gotos, especially for handling error cases"