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peterashford

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peterashford
·6 days ago·discuss
how do you know?
peterashford
·18 days ago·discuss
Wikipedia suggests hundreds of deaths in various regions around the world - more common in the past, which suggests, I think, more wolves = more deaths.
peterashford
·22 days ago·discuss
You sound like someone who might be closer to one of those sides than the other
peterashford
·22 days ago·discuss
Yeah, me too. Java always seemed to consider design a lot more than C# which seems to have taken more of a kitchen sink approach to language design. That stuff piles up over time (see c++)
peterashford
·25 days ago·discuss
The guy who is on track for causing 9 million deaths? That guy is your example of someone who made the world a better place? The guy who supports far right groups, white supremacists, throws nazi salutes, pushes an AI that makes child porn and turned Twitter into a right wing nazi loving cess pool? Yeah, the world is just swell now he's here.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/world/lancet-usaid-global...
peterashford
·2 months ago·discuss
Its a reference to an Onion article about gun violence in the US
peterashford
·2 months ago·discuss
We've had deaths due to climate related storms in NZ now, and we haven't been hit anywhere near as hard as, say, Pakistan who had 1/3 of their country flooded in one go. And it's getting worse. That may not be human extinction but its definitely plausible that mass casualty events are possible
peterashford
·2 months ago·discuss
Climate change is the result of aggregate human actions. What we contribute per human is exactly the metric to use.
peterashford
·2 months ago·discuss
Java EE is pretty darn retro right now, and it was never core Java
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
This is exactly me. Been switched for 6 months. Loving it. I find I'm enjoying my computer so much more now that I feel it belongs to me rather than being an advertising surface for MS and their partners
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
Hey! Thanks for responding to my comment. And welcome to HN!
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
Even US Intelligence didn't believe they were close to getting a nuke. And given that they were in negotiations about controlling their nuclear program before the US attacked, it's hard to credit US foreign policy on this front
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
Thanks for the feedback about inverters - I was unaware.
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
I think that's the point about the lake Onslow project - its MASSIVE. So yes, expensive, but months of backup for the whole country would not be cheap even with batteries
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
I wasn't saying its fine, I was saying it was a tradeoff. And I wasn't making an argument about Nuclear, either.
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
Yup. What amuses me is that people think that decimate is to massively degrade something. I assume they're thinking "reduce to 1/10th" rather than "reduce to 9/10th". The effect is markedly different
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
The literal meaning was removing 1/10
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
And sun isn't uncommon. I was chatting with a person in Auckland, NZ. He said it was a cloudly day and he was producing much more solar power than he needed. His take: the panels are the cheapest part of the system so they just over-provisioned. We can all do that - it aint hard
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
Its local environmental damage versus global environmental gains
peterashford
·3 months ago·discuss
In NZ we're discussing pumped hydro in Lake Onslow which will provides months of backup for the country