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Air source heat pumps seem like such an expensive faff to get up and running. I'd dearly like to get away from having a gas boiler and gas hob though. We just paid for air conditioning in the house last month. Half tempted to keep the heating off as it gets colder and see what the cost of using them to control the temp is like over a week or two as they do heating. E: upside down catte tax 
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Probably a CDN issue, assuming they're big(ish) sites - they tend to be localised (often to just a single geographic area for one ISP) and give random, intermittent faults. Around that point of time, I was running a number of university websites (clubs and other orgs) using a machine with 500mb ram, 10gb storage and Pentium 75 CPU. And it was all pretty snappy (The 10mb ethernet uplink certainly didnt hurt, I had previously been running sites on a 128K ISDN line on a 486 and slackware) . drat thing actually survived a slashdotting once (story about censorship of student activists we ran on the student newspaper site got picked up). Its. *very* different internet these days.
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moment - Anyone else remember the days when SA was big enough (and the internet small enough) that we could knock websites offline just by all of us trying to get to it at once? Ridiculous, really)
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NoneMoreNegative posted:A Bread Climp, you mean. Good username imo
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Cread Blimp
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duck monster posted:Around that point of time, I was running a number of university websites (clubs and other orgs) using a machine with 500mb ram, 10gb storage and Pentium 75 CPU. And it was all pretty snappy (The 10mb ethernet uplink certainly didnt hurt, I had previously been running sites on a 128K ISDN line on a 486 and slackware) . drat thing actually survived a slashdotting once (story about censorship of student activists we ran on the student newspaper site got picked up). Its. *very* different internet these days. You can still do that. All you have to do is to not have 20kB of CSS and 5MB of javascript and 2MB of fonts and 20MB of 300dpi high-res images fit into your header, all to display three paragraphs of text. You can serve a nice looking static site to hundreds of thousands of clients per minute over a crummy 1Gbps link on a tiny VPS that costs 7€/month without a problem. It's ridiculous how far you can get with todays hardware if you cut out all the bloaty garbage.
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Antigravitas posted:You can still do that. All you have to do is to not have 20kB of CSS and 5MB of javascript and 2MB of fonts and 20MB of 300dpi high-res images fit into your header, all to display three paragraphs of text. Nah you just let cloudflare handle it all for free 👍
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Sep 20, 2021 09:22
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NoneMoreNegative posted:A Bread Climp, you mean. Thanks for reminding me of a fun time
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blunt posted:Nah you just let cloudflare handle it all for free 👍 Anyone have an estimate for the percentage of CO2 emissions that are caused by bad JavaScript?
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Sep 20, 2021 09:32
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Not sure which is worse, how stupid Johnson thinks the average British voter is, or how often he's proved right https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1439722180430999552?s=19
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not sure which is worse, how stupid Johnson thinks the average British voter is, or how often he's proved right The "worse" part is how sycophantic Kuenssberg is.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Not sure which is worse, how stupid Johnson thinks the average British voter is, or how often he's proved right It's the latter. Seems like a good time to diversify power generation even more. Somehow turn the Home Counties into nothing but windfarms and hydro plants. Turn London into an island. Obviously don't worn the residents of Hertfordshire before you flood it
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Sep 20, 2021 09:58
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A huge part of the problem right now is that there isn't any wind
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CW: Rosie Duffield isn't *just* transphobe, she's also a biphobe! https://twitter.com/Seunte/status/1439872238145228800
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Bis-exuals have to date exactly one man and one woman at the same time otherwise they're faking it for David Bowie points. Join me for this and many more exciting Rosie Duffields tonight at 8pm, September 20th 1981.
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Boris Johnson: "The Corbynistas demanded a four day week, but with my government we want to go one better, with a three day week!"
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radmonger posted:Anyone have an estimate for the percentage of CO2 emissions that are caused by bad JavaScript? Unironically, statistics like this are meaningless when things like the cruise industry still exist. Should probably worry about shutting down crypto mining before webpack optimisation strategies too. edit: vvvv lol blunt fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Sep 20, 2021 |
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Unironically, statistics like this are meaningless when things like the cruise industry still use Java.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Thanks for reminding me of a fun time Did... did you put a bread climp on your penis
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https://twitter.com/Milo_Edwards/status/1439881706270609411?s=19 Seriously, what the gently caress is this poo poo, and how have the LibDems managed to turn posting cringe into a political ideology
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blunt posted:Unironically, statistics like this are meaningless when things like the cruise industry still exist. Should probably worry about shutting down crypto mining before webpack optimisation strategies too. unironically, moaning about the cruise industry is meaningless when we still burn fossil fuels for most of our electricity, heating, and transport.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:unironically, moaning about the cruise industry is meaningless when we still burn fossil fuels for most of our electricity, heating, and transport. You’re going to poo poo a brick when you learn what cruise ships burn 
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Nothingtoseehere posted:unironically, moaning about the cruise industry is meaningless when we still burn fossil fuels for most of our electricity, heating, and transport. unironically, moaning about fossil fuels is meaningless while our greatest enemy, the Sun, continues to warm the planet day after day Seriously, what the gently caress are you talking about?
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Sep 20, 2021 11:02
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 ban it and throw everyone who ever worked for it into a lime pit.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:unironically, moaning about the cruise industry is meaningless when we still burn fossil fuels for most of our electricity, heating, and transport. We should improve the environment somewhat.
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keep punching joe posted:We should improve the environment somewhat. start by banning high resolution images
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Miftan posted:CW: Rosie Duffield isn't *just* transphobe, she's also a biphobe! loving hell Duffield is a piece of work. Stupid, vicious bigot. Nothingtoseehere posted:unironically, moaning about the cruise industry is meaningless when we still burn fossil fuels for most of our electricity, heating, and transport. No it's not. It's really loving not. Being mad about one doesn't preclude you from being mad about the other. We honestly can't really afford to just be mad at one horrendously polluting thing at this point. Cruise ships generate 4 times the CO˛ per passenger of planes & I'm already massively in favour of cutting down air travel pretty dramatically (last time I flew was 1998, never flown as an adult). I like the abstract idea of cruise ship. A floating hotel where you can wake up in a different city every day? It's a cool idea. But they are unjustifiable. Yeah, personal consumption has limits because the big polluters are corporations but that isn a free pass to be loving wasteful.
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https://youtu.be/tzKFpeEUl0k
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Kerbtree posted:You’re going to poo poo a brick when you learn what cruise ships burn people?!
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Gen X and Millennials:keep punching joe posted:We should improve the environment somewhat. Boomers: 
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If the planet is gonna burn either way, might as well be colourful flames imo
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Jel Shaker posted:people?! Yep, I watched a document called “Titanic” on it the other day.
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Bring back sailboats.
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We're bringing back
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Singling out indervidual acts of consumption as wasteful or not wasteful is pointless and simplifies the issue into "good" actions and "bad" actions, when the vast majority of carbon emissions are not under our control. Only when governments force our economic system away from burning fossil fuels is meaningful change possible.
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Miftan posted:CW: Rosie Duffield isn't *just* transphobe, she's also a biphobe!
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Singling out indervidual acts of consumption as wasteful or not wasteful is pointless and simplifies the issue into "good" actions and "bad" actions, when the vast majority of carbon emissions are not under our control. Only when governments force our economic system away from burning fossil fuels is meaningful change possible. Nah. Some things (eg food production, transport infrastructure, global communications networks etc) are necessary for society. Others (the cruise industry) are frivolous luxuries that are lovely but are disproportionately horrific to our environment relative to the value they provide to society. We have to reduce emissions across all aspects of society, but there are some entire industries that should just go in the bin right now.
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*5 minutes later* we regret to inform you that the bins just get emptied into the sea and the boats are back again
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They can have cruise ships when they start putting nuclear reactors in them again 
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Singling out indervidual acts of consumption as wasteful or not wasteful is pointless and simplifies the issue into "good" actions and "bad" actions, when the vast majority of carbon emissions are not under our control. Only when governments force our economic system away from burning fossil fuels is meaningful change possible. Nobody in this thread is arguing that individual acts are going to be enough. Doesn't mean it's pointless because it has a knock-on effect. Governments are captured by capital & capital has no motivation to change things without "rational self-interest", which apparently doesn't include climate conditions changing drastically without activist & consumer pressure. We've been talking about climate change as a scientifically accepted theory for most of if not my entire life, & it's been a serious concern going back more than 2 decades before that, with people like Glenn Seaborg & Edward Teller. LBJ spoke about CO2 having a green house effect in 1965. What has been done in that timeframe? Not a gently caress of a lot, because ultimately capital isn't interested in anything but the bottom line, & fossil fuel profits still go up. And politicians don't want to risk a cushy directorship, post-parliamentary career (or during it in the case of Nadhim Zahawi, who was a Chief Strategy Officer for Gulf Keystone until he got a ministerial job) with oil firms or think tanks funded by oil firms. Putting your faith in loving Boris Johnson & Sir Kieth Starmer to make a difference is a bigger folly than expecting individual consumption to magically solve the climate crisis.
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