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No, 100W is without heat (I should have mentioned that) and without hot water.

I was talking explicitly about electricity only. It's clear that I depend on so much more for all the surroundings to work. But the figures I pulled out are for electricity only and our country has 26% of its electricity generated by gas, which we could get rid of if people would use less electricity, which I believe is totally possible.

I haven't talked about anything else. But even this tiny area can make a difference. This is where people have most or even all the control.

True! Our heating is to a large part based on fossil sources, but we started to move towards more renewable sources, like wood briquettes - which would be CO2-neutral. Indeed we could switch at least 50% of our heating to climate-neutral sources right now.

Here residential energy accounts for 26% of the overall energy consumption - but even if we only adjust in this field, we can already make a difference.

Yes sure. For example, I cannot even give you exact numbers of the footprint of the food we eat or the electronics we use. That would probably a good number to put on a lot of things, in terms of allowing people to make decisions not only on price and quality but hidden costs.

The problem is that externalities are what the name says: things you are not required to factor into your price (something or someone else takes a hit).

One part is generation, the other is consumption.

I did the math. I live in a European Country that wants to get rid of Russian Gas, and right quick. If every household would use the same amount of energy that we use (and used over the past years, 3 people, we average 2.4KWh per day - or the equivalent of a continuously burning 100W light bulb), we would not need 90TWh p.a. (the country produces around 490TWh p.a) - which would allow us to get rid of Gas for energy entirely easily.

This is war, but everywhere I look the lights are on and people only save if there's a price spike.

We live comfortably on low energy, we use modern appliances like a dish washer and $400 washing machine which has a good footprint (worked for over 8 years, only one cosmetic repair necessary). We have laptops, tablets, smartphones, router, I used to run a webserver 24/7 for a while too. There is nothing that we miss and our footprint is below average. It's not difficult, in fact, it's liberating.

I hope people start to wake up.

PS. I could go on how good it feels to live on a low profile. Lucky us, we never owned a car and require one only a few times a year, and we use a car share service for that. We care for our electronics and use smartphones and laptops for at least five years or more. I own two pairs of shoes and try to go shopping for clothing only once a year. We do not fly, unless absolutely necessary. We try to buy and eat local food, try to be low on meat consumption. And the list goes on and on and on. We are doing this for years and I could not be happier about it.

At this point in time (2022) I consider everything below say 40TB not big (textual) data at all. It can be compressed 40TB -> 10TB (or less) and that fits fine on a single 16T drive.

For many questions, you won't need all the raw data, so you end up with some form of projection of the data that is maybe 1/10 in size, so 10TB -> 1TB. Heck, if you tune GNU sort a bit, it will blast through that TB quite quickly.

This. While I believe the part about chaos and surprise and fake reports it also makes it seem that Russia is weak - which is probably dangerous to assume (of any undefeated opponent).

However, one positive note to get out of this in any case is that with the current trajectory, even without any further outside intervention going beyond the current state of affairs will likely bring the Russian special operation to an end, be it that supplies are running out or people just start to lose overview or just that you cannot succeed if maybe 20-40% of your forces are gone even before you capture one bigger target. Russia supposedly already lost 10% of their attack army and they don't have a lot to show for it. It also explains their attack patterns getting more weird, uncivilized and cruel (e.g. "we have to do something", even if it is firing on nuclear power plants).

Next step likely will be Belarus troops and supplies entering the game, which makes it more obvious that Moscow was absolutely clueless. Belarus was on the brink of a regime change just last summer - the order to go to war with Russia against Ukraine will send Belarus over the edge, I am virtually certain about that.

I switched from a normal school to a gifted school at age 12. The biggest plus was that when all your peers have measured iq 130 or more, you do not have to feel ashamed to be "just curious" - which I believe most kids there were, albeit on very different levels.

People there really hacked themselves into all kinds of things, be it making your own PCB, learning six different languages, caring for paedomorphic salamanders, writing lyric, or building your "own" copies of popular software products. None of that seemed particularly strange to us young teenagers.

My predication, for the record: Putin is mad, old, and he certainly would not care to die these days looking outside the window into a sea of mushroom clouds. I'm virtually certain that he had at least one dream about this in his sleep - maybe long time ago, in the '80s.

So he is mad, surrounded by yes-man with a populace that is used to being lied to all the time, used to the feeling that they know more than what is allowed to say publicly, you can read The Master and Margarita, written about hundred years ago, that describes this same exact feeling.

Ukrainians, in an act of fatal heroism will fight; all that gets bloody. Kiev stands; Russians will try to starve the city to death; won't let any humanitarian help into the city; West will try to not lose their cool about the atrocities; but then something happens; some image that just surpasses the cruel picture of war we already have; people in West will demand justice; it will be hard to be bystanders when millions of lives are at stakes so obviously. That will be on a Friday. On Sunday, we defconned our way back to the stone age; world population will be back to 500M to 1B within this year.

And a new world will be born.

Every company that hires three junior developers today will need one senior developer in a year or two. It's great to be a developer today, even better, if you are a senior dev.

I did the back-of-the-envelope math once. You get a Petabyte of storage today for $60K/year if you buy the hardware (retail disks, server, energy). It actually fits into the corner of a room. What do you get for $60K in AWS S3? Maybe a PB for 3 months (w/o egress).

If you replace all your hardware every year, the cloud is 4x more expensive. If you manage to use your getto-cloud for 5 year, you are 20x cheaper than Amazon.

To store one TB per person on this planet in 2022, it would take a mere $500M to do that. That's short change for a slightly bigger company these days.

I guess by 2030 we should be able to record everything a human says, sees, hears and speaks in an entire life for every human on this planet.

And by 2040 we should be able to have machines learning all about human life, expression and intelligence to slowly making sense of all of this.

Rip, Lorinda. I'm using bc almost daily.

Just for a moment imagine a world without any ads. I for one do not have to imagine that, but just have to remember back, when I grew up in the eastern block.

What you wanted to buy was available in the stores and you could always ask someone, if you needed something very special.

If an ad were merely a statement of existence - but that not what ads have become: "brand refresh", "pivot", "awareness", "emotion", or any other subtle or not so subtle message that wants to influence you. I see so many people driven to "buy" things they do not need and then "buy" again books on how to clean the mess up. From where I'm standing, this is all just very ridiculous at this point.

Note that I am not saying there is a free will, not at all, but hey, do I want to this endless mostly senseless stream of unneeded stuff let influence me or something a little more grounded?