CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 9 hours ago:
Is this why diplomacy in the Balkan region is a long history?
- Comment on Why is us rail travel so expensive? 3 days ago:
You’re in the USA, if it’s $1000 a night.
Roads are subsidized. But the railways must pay for themselves!
- Comment on Anon makes a big mistake 3 days ago:
And pedophiles. Epstein was a fan.
- Comment on What's the best time during hockey season to visit Canada? 4 days ago:
That’s a lot of flying in 10 days. Vancouver is great but there’s one NHL team in driving range. Ontario/Quebec have 3.
Skip the NHL or book one game. Check out PWHL or even university/college games. They’re orders of magnitude cheaper and I think the play is more engaging. Games are better closer to the end of the season and the fans are more involved as the stakes go up. University/college hockey is pretty much over by now.
- Comment on Don't overthink electric car charging (we should be doing it differently) 5 days ago:
Assuming code was followed for your house wiring, nothing is at risk there.
Big assumption, because houses aren’t all on NEC 2014, or 1999. Also assumes the circuit isn’t in use for other things - garage door openers are very convenient and are supposed to be on a reserved circuit, assumes that the connections are tight, and oxidation free.
There are reports of new dryer outlets melting because while they meet code, they aren’t constructed to run full output for 12h+ straight, charging a Silverado. Never mind the 1965 Bakelite outlet in the garage.
I agree with your point in concept but in practice it’s best to get a good electrician to run a new circuit from the box in even somewhat recent construction.
- Comment on Don't overthink electric car charging (we should be doing it differently) 5 days ago:
He makes good videos in general and this one is long enough I’ll have to make time to watch as usual, but as he has ranted about extension cords in the past, I’m not sure that it’s a wise idea to make the case to just use any plug and pull maximum (12? Amps) current for 10 or more hours continuously, let alone with the potential addition of an extension cord because the garage outlet isn’t quite in the right spot.
I think for safety reasons it’s probably best for people to have a shiny purpose built high amperage circuit installed so that old work doesn’t burn the house down.
- Comment on Apple's last tower topples… and the others will follow 6 days ago:
PC gaming is a growing trend, not shrinking
Wait until we see the 2026 stats for hardware sales. 📉
Though I think the supply issues will hurt consoles just as much.
- Comment on Why are steam games a rip off in EUR or GBP? 6 days ago:
AU$120 for sit down meal 😎 CHF120 for sit down meal 💀
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
I work in tech, but not “retire at 45” tech. I’ll be working till I’m 70.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
Goals.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
Depends how you live, but yeah. It can be expensive.
- Comment on The unAbomber. Otherwise, I agree. 1 week ago:
The longer I work in tech, the more I want to move to a farm 50km from neighbours with just me, my partner, a couple dogs, chickens, and cows.
- Comment on Is cryptocurrency good for anything? 1 week ago:
Heating.
But resistive electrical heating is slightly more efficient. Heat pumps are considerably more efficient.
So - buying drugs.
- Comment on Security lines at JFK airport, NYC 1 week ago:
Let’s concentrate all the people in one place so that they can’t bring weapons onto a plane. Nothing could go wrong…
Just a half dozen bags dropped off in the course of 10 minutes.
- Comment on How come most celebs/influencers go broke with in a short amount of time earning a couple million? Why not invest in local stores or offer money for a percentage of said store why not perpetualy money 1 week ago:
Perhaps we need to work on writing one sentence clause, putting the phone down, and then finishing it once the brain recharges? Every post OP has a stroke about half way through.
In answer to question: because people do not do well with sudden increase in net worth and quickly adjust to a higher lifestyle than they can afford. Why don’t they invest in a local store? Because the rate of local small business failure is abysmally high. That’s why banks exist - at the most simple, you lend them money, and they lend it out, and pay you a bit of the profits they make. Hopefully they distribute the risk appropriately.
- Comment on Knowing that boomers had the "hate my wife/husband" humor because they were rushed to marry borderline strangers and didn't believe in therapy but can't prove it 1 week ago:
“People choose their sexuality”
- Comment on Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive 1 week ago:
I’m not sure solar panels are a higher priority than insulation in existing and new stock, but they have come down in price quite a bit over the last decade so i guess it’s not so bad. Heat pumps though are a net good thing especially with the heat waves in recent years.
Are there current plans being executed to build battery banks to absorb all this solar?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
EV? Why not ICE too?
m.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0SrxBC1xs
Vehicles are more connected than 10 years ago.
- Comment on Air Canada Express flight AC8646 CRJ-900 at LaGuardia crash footage 1 week ago:
You know I’d probably check left, right before crossing an intersection, but I’m not sure I’d check up.
The plane was doing about 40kph; I think that would suggest to me that it was already on the ground when the truck started crossing. Perhaps that’s why the ATC forgot about it.
- Comment on Air Canada Express flight AC8646 CRJ-900 at LaGuardia crash footage 1 week ago:
ATC gave the go ahead for the truck and then seconds later said stop. It’s on ATC.
- Comment on 'I was exercising at the park - the next thing I knew snipers were aiming at me' 1 week ago:
Absolute mockery of a police force.
Of course this is the same country that announces the confiscation of a chef’s knife as if they stopped a nerve gas attack in paddington station.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
ARM is absolutely serving Intel’s head on a platter these days and it’s slowly happening - Server 2025 is availableish in ARM, and the Copilot PCs are ARM. There’s value but MS would rather customers go to PaaS than rebuild eg MSSQL on ARM, I think.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
The legacy systems need to upgrade because they need security patches. It’s not an incompatible system from 1992. Windows broke stuff going to Vista, when real-time controllers like you’d find running a power plant or CNC changed in ways I don’t remember, but fundamentally you could run a 35 year old application on windows 11 with tweaks over the years. These companies are running apps written in the 70s and 80s.
Microsoft could and perhaps should bifurcate Windows into new and old, or draw a line along Server and Workstation, but I think the bulk of their windows income comes from these enterprises and the “new” windows wouldn’t sell that well - it’s effectively been free for consumers since 8. Windows was the absolute show runner for decades but since the Cloud, it’s shrank quite a lot so there isn’t the money there anymore.
ARM is an interesting experiment they’ve been working on from a couple angles over the years but never really got the buy in.
- Comment on Why is Windows still bloated 2 weeks ago:
Enterprise customers depend on legacy stuff that you haven’t heard of. And there’s enough of these 800-pound gorillas in the room that pay for enough of Microsoft’s bills that they have to listen to, that they can’t cut it. A behaviour bug from 2002 is actually used by, say, JP Morgan’s trading department as a critical part of their flow.
Also, the legacy stuff is literally decades of work and knowledge so unscrambling it is not really feasible.
They can’t nuke it because of the customers that rely on it. Microsoft’s job (and that of all vendors) is to cost less than a migration to another option.
- Comment on I'm not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. 2 weeks ago:
Is that one of the states with mandated reporting of miscarriages because it might be an abortion? Pass.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
At the local level there are many people in many cities trying to make things better.
- Comment on Human experimentation, one way or the other. 2 weeks ago:
Mormons, Jews, Protestants and Catholics, and Muslims all seem to have more children the farther down the crazy path they go. I don’t know enough about other religions.
- Comment on "I hate this place even more than I did before" 3 weeks ago:
I visited a country with functioning infrastructure and beautiful scenery for a week and returned to a new assignment at work which was absolutely dreadful and this hits home.
- Comment on German man says american are savages 3 weeks ago:
Some societies consider the welfare of others; other societies don’t.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
They’re both seafaring Europeans and got around.
Also, the Spanish Netherlands and Norway aren’t far apart, along trading routes.