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| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-09, 19:24 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
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Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities In other news, Aston Martin just found a factory-sanctioned option for their car owners to heavily devaluate their expensive sport cars. Really, why in the hell would I want to electrify a car made for the tracks? The fact those things are street legal and can be driven every day don't really imply that every single Aston Martin owner is buying one for commuting to work, doing your grocery shopping, or -God forbid- working as a taxicab. You buy those for enjoying weekends at the track, full stop. The fact some cities are giving way to the tree huggers don't really impact those cars, which are unlikely to be driven on public roads anyway. Reminds me of that Wheeler Dealers episode where they bought that '80s Maserati Biturbo someone (poorly) electrified. Instead of restoring it, they went for the "cool" factor and upgraded the electric motor and batteries (I'm actually surprised of the fact that they were able to sell THAT at a profit!). Nice car, but not my first choice for the electro treatment, with oh so many cheap cars out there that would be better targets. Like a Beetle. Or a VW bus. Fuck Tesla, I want a electric Beetle! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| jjndig |
Posted on 18-12-10, 21:15
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Banned
Post: #5 of 28 Since: 12-10-18 Last post: 1416 days Last view: 1416 days |
Honestly it makes me sick that they are trying to ban petrol cars by 2030, I hate how they say it's to "protect the environment" when we can't really reverse what has been done! |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 18-12-10, 23:25
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Posted by jjndig Worked with the ozone hole... My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
| funkyass |
Posted on 18-12-11, 00:15
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Since: 11-01-18 Last post: 667 days Last view: 23 days |
ozone was an easier solution to implement. It magnitudes smaller problem than global warming. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 18-12-11, 01:15
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Custom title here
 Post: #117 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 9 hours |
Posted by funkyassBurn less coal, eat less beef, plant more trees. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-11, 01:42 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #74 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 3 days Last view: 4 hours |
Butbutbut electric cars are the one and only true solution! Muh batteries! Nevermind that you still need dead dinosaur juice (often coming from communist shitholes like mine!) for all those plastic parts (which on modern cars means pretty much everything except for tires, powertrain, and frame), also lubricants (cars have wheels, and by extension, moving parts), and mining all that lithium involves dealing with all class of nasty poisons (but who cares about those poor Australian/Chilean/Argentinean miners anyway?). And of course all those electrons that you have to squirt back into your batteries have to come from somewhere else, yet nobody wants cheap nukes because MUH CHERNOKUSHIMA ISLANDS, and you can't put hydro dams in most of the world, so let's keep burning dirty coal on Someone Else Backyard while we pretend that solar/wind are the definitive silver bullet (hint: they aren't). But hey, banning internal combustion engines is so much easier, and as a bonus, it attracts voters and enlarges Musk ePeen... Too bad fuel cell vehicles are so impractical and expensive as hell, otherwise we would all be driving awesome cars like the Toyota Mirai while drinking fresh water from our exhaust pipes. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| KoiMaxx |
Posted on 18-12-19, 22:31
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18th century portrait rendered using only CSS Even tried different browsers with differing results. :D I still have no idea what I'm talking about. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 18-12-20, 07:25
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Custom title here
Post: #140 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 9 hours |
Posted by tommanI really wish people realized what you are saying here. Electronics manufacture is NASTY, and the end result is simply a consolidation of emissions, not an elimination of them. In fairness, emissions at a large building are easier to control than emissions off the back of a vehicle. You can attach equipment to a smokestack that just isn't feasible for a car. But electric cars are only "zero emission" in a narrow, pedantic sense that has no meaning at all in the larger picture. That said, natural gas is cheap these days(WHOO FRACKING!1111) and burns cleaner than coal, and the US is producing most of its oil locally again. (Incidentally, the natural gas boom has stalled plans to expand Texas's Comanche Peak nuclear plant. Wind and solar are also booming in my state, as both are rather reliable power sources 'round these parts. ) --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| Covarr |
Posted on 18-12-20, 15:59 (revision 1)
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Posted by KoiMaxx using chrome's element inspector, i added .bottomlip {display:none;} and now she's making this face:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Screw_Yall |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-20, 19:51 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #89 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 3 days Last view: 4 hours |
Aside of the fact that it chokes to death my Seamonkey on my old C2D laptop, all I have to say is: HOLY SHIT! Also, I wouldn't bother tampering with it using devtools, if only to keep my sanity intact :O In other news: Forget the dotcom bubble, 2019 will finally be the year of when Internet stupidity reaches a new rock bottom https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/12/20/191219/forget-dot-com-2019-will-finally-be-the-year-of-weird-domain-names Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Broseph |
Posted on 18-12-20, 19:58
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Posted by tomman Yeah, I'm all for more energy-efficient, less polluting stuff but 'tis true: most people only think about the end result or whatever they're emitting themselves whenever they're driving. It's nice and all not generating much emissions whenever driving but if there's the fabrication process you gotta think about: if you're eliminating the pollution while the vehicle/object is being used but you have a very costly/polluting fabrication process, then you're just moving the pollution around. |
| BearOso |
Posted on 18-12-20, 23:28
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Posted by Broseph That's why we need regulations. Individuals have little effect on infrastructure, and companies are non-thinking entities with no ethics or reason to exist besides profit, so they need to be forced into doing the right thing by law. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 18-12-20, 23:54
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Custom title here
Post: #141 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 70 days Last view: 9 hours |
Posted by BearOsoUnfortunately, governments are non-thinking entities whose sole motivation is accumulation of power. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| KoiMaxx |
Posted on 18-12-22, 18:30
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Post: #35 of 159 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 213 days Last view: 10 hours |
Posted by CaptainJistuce No, tell me it's not so! D: It should be noted though that if government sees that there is significant public support of green initiatives they will be compelled to take action, lest they risk losing the next election. In other news: It seems to be that Pro-bending is actually becoming a thing. :O I still have no idea what I'm talking about. |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-22, 20:35 (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #94 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 3 days Last view: 4 hours |
Thanks for reminding me that the Korra game has been unpurchasable for at least a couple years on Steam, thanks to copyright being a total bitch :/ Here is your daily reminder about not using meme hipster "not-databases" on production websites: https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-hello-postgres Welcome back to the light, The Guardian! Who said PostgreSQL wasn't webscale!? Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| creaothceann |
Posted on 18-12-22, 22:58 (revision 1)
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Post: #38 of 456 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 51 days Last view: 4 hours |
Lots of I'm a Web developer! I don't need to learn about the underlying technology! in this thread. :) My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10 |
| BearOso |
Posted on 18-12-23, 00:36
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Post: #22 of 175 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1457 days Last view: 1457 days |
Posted by creaothceann They're just trying to avoid the disillusionment that the underlying technology isn't simply magic, and that there are many much smarter people out there who worked together to create the infrastructure that the easy scripting languages they use are based on. They don't realize the sheer energy that goes into the javascript engine that rewrites and optimizes their shitty code to make it run somewhat feasibly on realistic hardware. |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-23, 00:46
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Dinosaur
Post: #97 of 1318 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 3 days Last view: 4 hours |
I am a Java developer. I write web apps that run on a server. I still worry about resource usage, to the point that, while not exactly know about how the internals of a certain component work (and on J2EE there are plenty of those!), I've rewritten large parts of code solely for improving performance, and shaving a few MBs from the final RAM usage charts. And I still refrain from using 3rd-party client-side JS junk whenever possible. As for server-side 3rd-party code, all I can do is to report bugs when I notice that something is draining resources like mad. Sometimes that's all what you need to slim the fat fast (well, that and a good testcase). Yeah, that specific 5000+ page PDF still requires a couple of gigabytes of RAM... but at least it can now run well within those 2GB RAM with reasonable performance instead of dying with a OutOfMemoryException after 10 minutes of painful CPU grinding on code that it is not mine :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| Nicholas Steel |
Posted on 18-12-23, 05:29
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Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 506 days Last view: 21 days |
Posted by tomman What is this "source of truth" they repeatedly mention? Sounds like a cult... AMD Ryzen 3700X | MSI Gamer Geforce 1070Ti 8GB | 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 RAM | ASUS Crosshair VIII Hero (WiFi) Motherboard | Windows 10 x64 |
| Screwtape |
Posted on 18-12-23, 06:13 (revision 1)
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Full mod
 Post: #70 of 443 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 1108 days Last view: 179 days |
It's a pretty common jargon term in the context of systems that store data in more than one place. For example, let's say you run a web forum (like this one) that grows and grows and grows. Eventually, activity increases to the point where there's just not enough time for a single computer to record everything that happens while also answering everybody's requests about what's going on. I might try to solve this problem by having two computers, and telling the front end: "whenever you make a change, write to both backend computers, but when you want to read information, ask one at random". Each backend computer still has the same write load, but the read load is halved, so it can still be a net benefit. Unfortunately, this is very fragile: what if the front end disconnects from one of the back end computers while it's trying to write, so the write goes to one computer and not the other? Once this starts happening, the two backend computers represent subtly different parallel universes, drifting further and further apart until there's so many differences it's not practical to figure out what the "real" data should be. An engineer who as built (or seen) a system like that will, in future, try very hard to make sure that for any given piece of data there is exactly one place to store it, and all the other places it might be found are clearly marked as secondary caches, and can easily be dropped and recreated from the designated "original" data, and might even create regular procedures to drop and recreate caches just to ensure no subsystem's local data ever drifts too far. That one place where trusted data lives is often called the "source of truth". It's not a metaphysical, spiritual thing, like the "source of all truth", it's just a shorthand for saying "if the invoice archive disagrees with the billing database about what a customer owes, we always trust the billing database since we can recreate the invoice archive any time we like" The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. |
