wuffwuffwuff

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[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Your comment six hours ago had a claim that eastern Canada and New England were cooled by the amoc. I think that was the only thing the other poster was going against. Your recent comment now agrees that eastern Canada and New England would be colder without the amoc.

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

I did not use the word "only", as you seem to have imagined. This is not the gotcha you thought it was. You're attacking a straw man argument you made up, not what I said.

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

judging people for their politics is not a bad thing.

people's politics is the best thing to judge them on.

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i had a bag a few weeks ago.

the point is that the flavours, shapes, and colours are all mixed up, so an orange piece isn't likely to taste of orange, a yellow one isn't likely to be banana or lemon, etc.

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

i'm sure someone has made a KDE theme or a Gnome theme that replicates MacOS, let's pretend that's what's happened.

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 weeks ago

Commodore Oh agrees the humans are illogical.

spoileryes, i know. shh.

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm not in favor of megawatt data centers being used for mostly-bullshit AI in general, but as I said "if they're going to be built anyway", then they'll do less harm in the ocean than most other places.

(That's assuming they can avoid problems due to saltwater corrosion.)

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

A 20KW data center is utterly feeble, barely worth the name, by ground-based data center standards, which easily go into tens of megawatts.

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

this is the current real solution on the ISS - three main computers doing everything.

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The effects of heat are all due to temperature, which is reduced by dilution.

The alcohol molecules represent heat energy (Joules), and the ABV% represents temperature (Kelvin).

Rivers are small enough to be negatively affected by data center waste heat, but oceans really aren't. They are being affected by the greenhouse effect though, because that is on a scale of petawatts, a million times the gigawatt scale of all global data centers together.

[–] wuffwuffwuff@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

About half of solar energy passes through the atmosphere, that factor of two isn't a good enough reason to use space-based solar panels for ground-based power grids.

Even though the microwave receiver power station in SimCity 2000 looked so cool.

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