Not depleted enough

Incidentally, I must also be paid to use Windows.

I’ll gladly wait for the Node.js start menu to render on company time 👍

At least it’s an enclosed building this time and not a freestanding stack of blocks with wind sensitive construction cranes on top.

Concrete has a very high carbon footprint. The manufacturing of cement liberates a lot of CO2 that had previously been in the ground as minerals. Different reaction from burning fossil fuels but indistinguishable as far as the atmosphere is concerned. Not to mention cement plant furnaces are usually fossil fuel powered.

Since the blocks are not (as) structural, less cement and more gravel/old concrete fragments can be used which would mitigate this to some extent, but I’d still imagine this is pretty similar to electric cars where it takes a significant portion of its service life to even reach net zero from the carbon released from building the thing.

Concrete is quite possibly the worst material ecologically speaking for this application. Presumably it was chosen for its physical properties, but still. I do wonder if just using straight stone quarried directly into the final block shapes could mitigate some of this, since concrete is basically just stone whose shape and composition we can control, and either way the same mass of material needs to be mined out of the ground so I imagine they’d break even on mining ecological footprint. In fact, if you just need something heavy to store gravitational potential energy, and water is not viable for whatever reason, why not use crushed cars or something?

I get why China wants to explore this, they’re just putting some chips into all emerging technologies just in case, but I’m still of the “just use the excess energy instead of trying to store it” camp. Storing energy at grid scale is just not practical with our current technology, 100MWh is basically nothing at the level of entire countries’ electricity demands, a single city goes through that in a very short amount of time. For example, data centres could be required to only use excess renewable energy for non-real-time computation like training AI, or scientific computation, since they’re a load that can ramp up or down almost instantly. Or you can make hydrogen from water or even hydrocarbons from the air with the excess energy, for things like airplanes and rockets that don’t yet have a viable path out of burning stuff to work. Or, since the majority of the world’s electricity is still fossil fuel based, just build infrastructure to send that energy to where it’s needed because there will always be somewhere that could ramp down a fossil fuel plant and use renewable instead. I think only after all electricity is renewable can storage really become viable, and technology will have long advanced by then and all the primitive storage schemes we come up with now will be obsolete anyway, so while I do support experimenting with storage methods (which this seems to be), actually committing to building out a ton of storage right now seems premature and a poor investment of our limited effort and resources.

Two layers of “based on” in your OS is indeed a bit much.

ONLY if it’s an open standard anyone can make readers and tape for.

Especially not a fan of getting fucked over when the company randomly decides to discontinue the product line when the whole point of the product is long term data archival.

Exiting unions, as British as spotted dick.

You mean to tell me raining death and cruelty upon civilians of a country because you think they’re extremists/terrorists ends up being the reason those ideologies expand and concentrate?

Strange. That never happened with the Palestinians, why is it happening here? 🤔

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Or the (probably, IDK) more common way to do it accidentally, cd into /, think you’re somewhere else or type into the wrong shell, and then rm -rf *

I’d declare even more war if they tried shoving him on me.

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People say quantum computing is a grift?

The other two are are only “grifts” because capitalism has shoved them into things that have no business involving them and breeds opportunistic get rich quick mindsets around the technologies. So any time you hear them mentioned it’s more than likely to be a grift. They are fine in certain niches and very stupid everywhere else, like every other technology.

As it should be

Also I love how all the objectively toxic parts of East Asian culture are suddenly romanticized if it’s Japan or South Korea we’re talking about. Stuff like conservative family dynamics, overbearing work culture, predatory consumer fads, fat shaming and openly commenting on how people look, etc.

All of the “delete my information from data brokers” services IMO, especially the ones that advertise on YouTube. Always smelled fishy to me.

Either that or they’re just more data brokers trying to get exclusivity.

So basically an optical drive on steroids?

You know what I really want for long term offline backup storage? To go back to the bare discs with external readers paradigm of optical media (not sure if it’s possible with this though). Don’t have to pay for dedicated mechanical components in every drive that inevetably have a limited lifespan even if they’re just sitting in storage, and once they fail the recorded media itself is useless until you pay out the nose to get them transplanted into a new drive.

It’s also total bullshit how they can just film in a public street and include anyone that happens to pass by in their movie without paying them, in fact they won’t even warn you if you’re about to walk into a shoot and definitely won’t respond to requests to remove your face if you end up in the final movie. But as soon as a famous person’s face gets shown they demand royalties and can even force people to destroy footage of them.

His human horn got sold to the Omicronians

Turns out they only reap consequences

It’s bullshit how you can’t just ambush the king and win the game. In fact you can’t capture the king at all? What kind of stupid battle is this?