At least those are handling actual data you’re doing serious work with.

Chrome is something I’d mostly be using for a few bits (well maybe Kbits) of reference text. I blame the websites as much as chrome itself. I assume the OS is smart enough to cache that somewhere though when I want the ram for something else.

MS teams is just siting there eating c.1gb for nothing but to be an annoying pos. Outlook doing the same but not as much resources I think.

But it’s true when I have to kill a task it is much more likely to be one where I’ve knowingly put several GB of data into ram to do stuff with.

Well, its on lemmy and you’re several comments deep.

You’re almost bound to hit a vein of unsolicited socialism/communism by that point - it’s basic geology.

It seems to me that quite a lot of people want flies and that’s why quite a lot of resources are put into that type of shit.

I was trying to explain to this dude in the pub - who didn’t understand my explanation that I don’t have a hairstyle - that I thought vanity was a waste of resources, and he looked at me like: “but everyone wants to look good, right?” He was confused. I was confused.

I tought you had to play blackjack/ pontoon/ 21 to count cards?

I disagree that it’s conservative. It’s nazi/ authoritarian/radical. For 50 odd years afer ww2 the cons knew this was a daft tactic. Prior to that (well prior to 1790 ish ) con/feudal/landowners managed their serfs and peasants, they didn’t want infighting. (outfighting, thats a different , maybe lucrative albeit lottery).

Cons are just common or garden cunts. populists are serious, they can mobilise labour .

The traditional cons wil ride the wave because they have no choice and no friends. until they realise they’ll be expropriated eventually, which the nazis won’t do until after they have critical mass. Fucking con Niemollers

cheap and easy.

It’s many thousands of years of solar power , concentated in to a storable, portable and fairly accessible and transmutable form.

Countries don’t “generate” coal and oil, they suck it out of the ground. It was generated by thousands to millions of years of life and accumulated geological processes.

I think it’s vehicle count not passenger count.

Many buses in CoL will carry 50+ people at peak times so probably move more people than cars or bikes.

But walking was the most common by a fair bit, just not in that graph.

Look up figure 5 and you’ll see how people really get around in The City of London. They walk from station to office.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLC-Tu8n7tE

I don’t want them to wait 'til death. The death isn’t important the land ownership reform is.

Do you hoard TVs so that people can’t buy their own, and charge people fees to watch?

Exactly, many people rent because they’re credit constrained - they can’t borrow the lump sum even though they have enough to pay the rent each month.

Banks are shit at supplying houses because they like to protect the (over)value(d) assets of their balance sheet - plus they ration credit inefficiently. (source some papers by joe stiglitz et al).

Council housing / social housing / rent controlled is the thing to fill the gap, the government can borrow againts its much more secure asset and pay the construction workers. Govt should not care about crashing a house price bubble; in fact it should want to - oh hang on . . . govts are controlled by landowners too.

Definately land (ownership) reform needed hopefully to democratise governments at least a wee bit more representative.

Yep I remember the black snot days in the late 90s.

Red Ken ftw! Good luck to NYC with their CC too.

By all accounts, it was even worse the 60s though before clean air acts, gas central heating and when all those art galleries were power stations. I don’t think Alec Guiness actually did blackface, he probably just walked around in the smog for a few hours (/jk).

Things really have got better if you look long enough.

Yeah.

China does hydro too - which is the best by far. In the west we’re far to precious about landowners.

We have a whole area in my country called the lake district used for nothing but tourism and a few sheep, and lots of godawful poetry. (plus maybe one coppermine).

We really need to make it live up to it’s name, flood the whole thing into one giant lake and run the worlds largest hydro off it. Stop pissing around with piddly little windmills, and putting solar panels over perfectly good arable land in s country where we have a lot of cloud cover.

Hmmn, as far as I can tell they’ve not presenrted any de-rated capacity data. I much prefer de-rated capacity for planning electricity supply. Unless you’re doing detailed half-hourly despatch simulations. It’s probably still a large share but I doubt the exagerated growth shown here. Solar in particular needs to be scaled down in relation to say hydro and nuclear for planning purposes.

That’s why the green bit in this supply chart most likely won’t grow as sharply as the OP graph. (Ok it’s change in stocks vs total flows too.) https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2025/supply

Hydro and nuclear and geothermal will scale near 1:1 from capacity to output. So they are a lot better. Solar will only average 4:1 and wind at about 3:1 from memory.

Here in the UK where there is a lot of wind gen they’re already runnung some pumped storage motors into effectively operating as inertial stabilisation most of the time. It is very interesting that the grid is preferring frequency stabilisation instead of the “battery” function that pumped storage is really designed for. We really need more hydro and pumped storage capacity a lot more than wind and solar. If you only like uplifting news please don’t lookup the recent news about Cruachan power station.

I don’t see it as a paradox, but as rational. But there are people who I think do hold tolerance as some sort of moral compulsion, and get offended by the notion that it might just emerge from people figuring out how and why to cooperate, without any high and mighty guiding morality.

These people will also object to using rational models to understand/describe human behaviours, because they can point to many examples of people acting irrationally. Many of these examples are psychology lab “experiments” so are irrelevant to the real world. But plenty of real examples of things like loss aversion and risk (mis)percepion, sunk costs, time-inconsistent decisions and so on where individuals clearly do behave “irrationally”.

I often come across people who believe that this undermines anything any “rational model” has to say. And so I do try to use such reasoning with those people, or even challenge those observations with examples where collective rationality does seem to emerge as a social (not individual) phenomenon, then I’ll be derided as some sort of neo-conservative capitalist fascist or whatever.

So I find that it’s generally good practice to chuck in some insult about one type of political zealot or other every so often, so as to quickly establish where I stand. I’d rather be vague than waste my breath with zealots.

WTF “vibe coding”? I’m not even wasting the electricity to googgle that one.

Social contract not a moral imperative.

Or seen as a repeated prisoners dilemma, play tit-for-tat, or maybe (N*tit)-for-tat (where N gives a ‘punitive’ damages expectation for breching the accepted norms).

Quite a lot of lefties don’t like thinking about what is “rational” though because “people aren’t cognitively rational” so rationality based social equilibia can obviously never have any relevance.

I’m sure by windows 12 or 13 coprolite will be so good they will get rid of both control panel and command prompt/powershell. The best ui is no ui.

In any case, the users won’t want to mess with settings once the OS already knows which advert they want to see next.

Remember this one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1759791.stm

Agreed bad example, I think there are better cases to look at.

I think there’s plenty to be learned from safer cities like Oslo and Helsinki.

I think they reduced traffic deaths by a combination of road/street design and building alternatives but they do also cite speed limit reduction and enforcement.

I do like what they’re trying to do in Wales: https://walesupdates.uk/news/welsh-road-deaths-plummet-after-20mph-speed-limit-roll-out Hopefully it continues long enough to get some more decent stats on it before they are forced to relax the policy.

Scotland also has some pretty extensive 20mph zones. I also like that the 40mph that often extends out from villages for a km or so before the 20mph zone. That makes it a lot easier for occasional drivers like me to get my senses accustomed to what speed I should be going - and i can keeep my eyes on the road not so much the speedo. I’ve not seen any decent stats on reductions in deaths from those specific changes. I just feel a bit safer (and less dangerous) driving through a small town in Scotland than in England for some reason.