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Comment · 1 month ago
High voltage AC uses multistrand aluminium cables. But AC travels only on the surface of each conductor.

DC travels in the whole metal, and while DC is more complex to manage and transform, HVDC transmission is the future

Comment · 2 months ago
They would have rewritten all commercial software better - or if we are to believe the fantasy and hyperbole, you could patch your Windows 11 kernel live with some frontier model to fix every bug known and unknown.

First of all they cant - second of all they wontr, because their goal is money.

Comment · 2 months ago
If you are doing 1000 commits a day, whats the point of git?

Does the AI ever look back at the shit trail it left behind?

Diffs are no longer diffs, they look like largescale delete and rewrite

Comment · 3 months ago
How hard is it to do plain search first for crying out loud.
Comment · 3 months ago
You need help.

Get off the computer and mobile, take a hike, do some gardening or something.

Comment · 5 months ago
Comment · 7 months ago
gitk and git gui
Comment · 10 months ago
Just out of curiosity, what is the reasonable range of pay for an engineer of your caliber in the UK?
Comment · 10 months ago
By forcing oil to be bought with dollars, the USD was pegged to oil demand, especially from developing nations whose consumption was growing.

Also SWIFT being a means of control of movement of funds.

Comment · 10 months ago
Copy and paste are handled by applications and the OS shell Any program is free to define the formats it is willing to copy or paste - like mime types.

Software sucks, not because its bad, but because people wont implement things

Comment · 1 year ago
This article (and entire book) actually posits that US will remain the primary producer and consumer of copium worldwide and thus the #1
Comment · 1 year ago
Maybe I'm really dumb, but it should be obvious that replacing a section of rope in one knot with another, is intuitively not going to simply "add the unknotting numbers"
Comment · 1 year ago
May I humbly request you to join the dwitter.net community?
Comment · 1 year ago
This is why Stallman is so vehement on GPLv3

Commercial entities will always exploit your work - you need to force them to give back, they will never do the positive sum game by default

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