ChairmanMeow
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 1 day ago:
I think they’d nominate Newsom over Clinton tbh.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 1 day ago:
It’s only an Oxford comma if it’s from the region of Oxford. Otherwise it’s just sparkling interpunction.
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 2 days ago:
Haha I’m not Canadian and live about an ocean away from there, so definitely not me 😋. Lovely place though, I should visit sometime (and swap hardware I guess 😅).
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 2 days ago:
I don’t know what CHS is so I’m not sure what you mean by that (then again that might answer your question maybe :P).
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 3 days ago:
- Comment on Anon meets his gf's parents 3 days ago:
I actually remember this one being much longer. IIRC, dad starts yelling that he “won’t be threatened in his own house”, anon gets confused and tries to explain, mom starts yelling, he leaves the house, gf gets mad.
- Comment on Vaultwarden a Self Hosted Password Vault [tutorial] 5 days ago:
This was just merged.
- Comment on I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake 5 days ago:
PayPal passes most billing information to the store where you purchased from. Card info is excluded, but in most cases PCI compliance checks ensure that card info is stored securely (or not at all).
- Comment on Ok. Now they've done it. 2 weeks ago:
Religious fruitcake it is.
- Comment on Soup 1 month ago:
Clearly says Walt Gisnep.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 month ago:
Merkel and Schroeder gambled on Russian gas imports as a holdover to transition from the aging nuclear plants and coal plants towards renewables. They did so because according to Merkel “it made sense at the time” and she did not really see the larger geopolitical picture. When Russian gas suddenly dried up due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they had to delay the closure of several coal plants to keep the power on.
So they’re trying to replace nuclear and coal with gas.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 month ago:
The nuclear plants in Germany were too old and too expensive to maintain. At some point a reactor is just end-of-life. They get operational issues causing semi-frequent shutdowns. The reliability issues become a problem that skyrockets the costs further.
Closing a nuclear plant like that puts enough money back in the budget to afford a faster transition to renewables, which ultimately closes down the coal plants faster too. It’s about the big picture, it’s not as simple as simply saying “we’ll do less coal” or “we’ll do less nuclear”.
- Comment on rollin' coal 1 month ago:
If you close a nuclear power plant before closing a coal one, you are effectively replacing the nuclear with coal.
That’s not how words work.
And coal use has been going up in Germany. So I don’t know where you are getting these ideas from.
Your data source is outdated. You’re looking at data up to 2022, whilst his data shows 2023-2024, which is more recent.
2022 also saw problems like the Ukraine war frustrating gas supply, forcing the use of more coal. And there was covid throwing a wrench into things as well.
Nuclear powerplants in Germany were beyond their lifespan and fixing and modernizing them was not economically feasible. Just too expensive compared to other forms of energy.
Germany certainly hasn’t been “replacing nuclear with coal”.
- Comment on GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’ 1 month ago:
What the fuck are these pedophiles up to?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 1 month ago:
XD is Dubai (separate from the United Arab Emirates).
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 1 month ago:
Nobody is pushing nuclear? Strange, I wonder why in my country numerous parties have been pushing for nuclear then (mostly right-wing pro-corporation parties with fossil fuel donors).
Here’s an article if you don’t believe me: dutchnews.nl/…/let-the-state-build-new-nuclear-po…
There’s plenty of parties pushing nuclear. The fact that it’s hard to actually build doesn’t mean that there’s no lobbying effort being made. And even then, a lobbying effort now will only really result in a net nuclear gain in 10-20 years time when the reactors actually finish.
And for the record, “big oil” , does invest in nuclear. Chevron, Duke Energy, Eni, Shell and BP all investments in some nuclear research or nuclear company. The reason they don’t really invest much more is simple: it’s barely profitable, if at all. And renewables threaten the financial picture even more.
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 1 month ago:
Money spent building nuclear is money not spent on renewables. I didn’t say you said to stop building solar, but deciding to build nuclear does mean building less solar, simple allocation of resources.
Solar energy particularly has been becoming increasingly efficient and cheap. In fact, it’s ahead of even the most optimistic expectations price-wise.
There’s been plenty of studies showing that nuclear is not theoretically required to achieve 100% fossil-fuel free energy generation. And we’ve known this since 2009: frontiergroup.org/…/do-we-really-need-nuclear-pow….
Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro and energy storage solutions are perfectly capable of providing the full energy demand whenever we require it. The only issue is building sufficient amounts of it.
In fact, nuclear is particularly bad at providing base power. The reason is that renewables are so cheap (and becoming cheaper), that one of the main issues has turned into having too much power on the grid. Nuclear unfortunately doesn’t turn off and on very quickly. Many old reactors take a couple hours to do so, and even if it’s technically possible it’s financially impossible because the reactor would be running at too large a loss. When dealing with fluctuating power (mostly caused by the day/night cycle of solar, other effects mostly even out if the grid is large enough), you need a backup system that can also easily turn on and off. Energy storage and hydrogen can do this, nuclear can’t.
Then there’s the energy security argument. 40% of uranium imports come from Russia. Kazakhstan is an alternative, but even that is largely controlled by Rosatom.
Literal fucking oil shill.
Please stay civil. I’m happy to debate you but you can keep the insults to yourself. I’m very much against the oil industry. I’m not even necessarily against nuclear as a technology (I think it’s safe and don’t think the waste will be too big of an issue, also fusion is really cool science), but I have to conclude that it doesn’t make financial sense to go for nuclear, there’s practical problems integrating it with a renewable grid and we just have better alternatives.
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 1 month ago:
If you Google “is a nuclear baseload required” you’ll find plenty of articles clearly demonstrating why this isn’t true. Renewables + storage solutions can provide the base load just fine. The biggest issues have been worked out already, it just needs to be built (which is expensive, but so would nuclear be).
- Comment on nuclear fear-mongering is a ploy by Big oil 1 month ago:
It’s rather the opposite. Big oil pushes nuclear because nuclear directly competes with renewables, and because nuclear is a centralised power generation solution that they can fully own, in contrast with stuff like rooftop solar or onshore wind. Shell has a share in General Atomics, BP is eyeing investments into nuclear energy.
Nuclear fusion might truly be an answer, but there is nothing that nuclear does that renewables can also do, but cheaper and faster.
- Comment on How do I use uBlock to hide threads with certain urls? 1 month ago:
Definitely do! uBlock Origin is the best one around, and it’s completely free. Even without configuring anything the defaults block 99% of annoying ads.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There are a lot of people who are in favour of sending aid to Israel as well. Biden can’t afford to piss off either group too much. But he does know that if Trump gets elected, one of those groups gets the opposite of what they want. So he’s naturally banking on that group of people still picking him over the alternative.
- Comment on unlimited power 2 months ago:
It could perhaps turns a fan due to the air current it generates by spinning?
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 2 months ago:
The 24h cycle with subdivisions in 60 is easy for dividing them up though. 60 divides by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20 and 30.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
I recommend watching some YouTubers playing the game (not reviewing them). One Proud Bavarian has some fun playthroughs, and Laith is one I quite like too. Those videos give good impressions of what the game is like I think.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 5 months ago:
Vic3 certainly isn’t a shell of Vic2. It’s a considerably more complex and interesting game.
There are however some frustrating and obtuse mechanics, particularly related to warfare. It’s not even that bad once you get into it properly, but as a new player it’s definitely a bit frustrating and it’s definitely different from what players were used to from Vic2.