moomoomoo309

joined 1 year ago
[–] moomoomoo309 2 points 1 year ago

Okay, that one is hard to grok either way. Confinity and x.com merged, the resulting company, still Confinity, made Elon the CEO, where he was 6 months later fired for incompetence. Elon was the founder of x.com, but not Confinity, so it's more about how pedantic you want to be than anything else. Did the Confinity people found paypal, was it Thiel, under whom the name paypal came about, was it Musk? There's not really a clear answer one way or the other.

[–] moomoomoo309 2 points 1 year ago

Given the short distance it goes and the fact that it has human drivers currently...I'm doubtful it's going to scale at all. In its current iteration, a small train would have been better in just about every way. I wouldn't praise it for what it will be, praise it for what it is, because Elon Musk loves to promise the moon and stars and not deliver on those promises.

[–] moomoomoo309 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the capacity of the Vegas loop as compared to, say, an extra small subway or even an aboveground streetcar?

[–] moomoomoo309 5 points 1 year ago

Industry gives off greenhouse gasses that cause more sunlight to be trapped. It also gives off aerosols that reflect the light before it gets there, but those are in lesser amounts. This proposal is to release more of those aerosols into the atmosphere to counteract the effects of global warming. "Blocking out the sun" is just a clickbait headline. Read the article.

[–] moomoomoo309 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What about a web server or a file server? Both are very much on-demand, so they're chock full of idle time. Even NextCloud has a ton of idle time.

Edit: As an aside, I love your profile pic, it's a cool wizard :)

[–] moomoomoo309 7 points 1 year ago

I'd have recommended KRename personally. It uses some programming-esque stuff (format specifiers for stuff), but it's not exactly difficult to do advanced stuff with it.

[–] moomoomoo309 1 points 1 year ago

The actress portraying Elaine is actually a pretty close look-alike.

[–] moomoomoo309 1 points 1 year ago

He was riding to the bike rack. Does it really matter that he rode his bike across the sidewalk for three seconds instead of walking it? He was blocking the sidewalk less (he'd take up more space walking it) and for less time (he'd get to the rack quicker) doing that. I understand not allowing cyclists in the sidewalk in NYC, but literally on the way to the bike rack? Come on. The 30 cars blocking the bike lane should've gotten ticketed before him for that, they were stopped in the bike lane.

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