If you haven’t needed them for such a long time, they probably weren’t all that important anyway.

Same goes for all the physical items in my home. If I haven’t needed something in a long time, there’s a good chance I never will. This is how I reduce digital and physical clutter in my life.

When I asked this question, I found out about raindrop.io. BTW, in that discussion you’ll find all the people with 500 tabs open. In this new one, you’ll also find lots of people who just close tabs regularly.

Anyway, randrop is a service where you can dump links and go through them when you feel like it. The idea is, that if you know you won’t be checking a specific tab today, you can just save it in raindrop and cost the tab. I don’t like to have lots of tabs open anyway, but there are some sites I like to save for later. Stuff like vacation planning can produce twenty tabs just like that, and I’ll just throw them all into raindrop.

Most of them are sorted into logical categories, and I’ll go through them when I remember to. For example, vacation planning will be useful later. When that time comes, I’ll start opening all those links I’ve accumulated over the months.

I’ve already paid so much money. How many people am I allowed to hit now? I still haven’t hit anyone, so I feel like I’m missing out.

Same goes for various tech articles too. You can taste the GPT while reading them.

Who knows how many hallucinations are now spread publicly and fed to the next generation of LLMs as facts. I have a feeling that factual accuracy of the output is only going to go down as more and more of the training data contains serious mistakes.

Lemvotes is a pathway to many discoveries some consider to be depressing.

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I was thinking of this scenario as dropping the Internet of the 1990s on a feudal system. If you used the Orwellian spy machine of the 2020s instead, it would probably get pretty dark, just as you said.

Why though? I think the Arab spring says otherwise.

Echo chambers would have been far more effective. Algorithm curated feeds would have amplified all extremes when further. If you think fascism went too far under Mussolini, just think how that would have looked like when everyone is scrolling FearBook and upvoting @ilDuce.

On the other hand, pictures of gulags, famine and concentration camps would have leaked out a lot sooner.

The amazing thing is, people don’t refer to their home country by a two letter acronym.

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Living without American software would be fine IMO. American silicon is much harder to replace though.

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Would it help if you were to revolt, rewrite and rebuild?

That’s just 37 floppy disks of bloat. All you really need is 1.44 MB.

Vienna isn’t even the worst place for solar power. Consider places like Ireland, Scotland or Sweden for example. No wonder why wind, hydro or even tidal power suddenly begins to make a lot more sense. IMO, solar really begins to make sense in Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey. Those places actually get some decent sunshine. Using solar power in Austria should be ok, but it’s not great by any means.

Nearby mountains probably get in the way of building large solar facilities. Maybe you could combine solar power with farming. The panels can provide some shade to more sensitive plants.
See also: Solar Atlas
Sidenote: Iceland and the northern half of Norway, Sweden and Finland aren’t even on the map. I guess Solar Atlas is trying to tell you that you don’t need a fancy map to know that building solar in places like that is a waste of money.

As a bonus, you won’t ever get invited to any boring events again. It’s a win-win for everyone!

Oh ok. So when the peak of the emission spectrum is in the IR range, the visible color will definitely be closer to red or orange. The amount of blue light emitted in that case will be very low. That’s what the thermometer experiment can definitely demonstrate clearly.

However, if the black body is hot enough that the peak is in the blue wavelength band, then the total IR output should also be pretty high, just like everything else is at that point. I wonder if it’s even higher than in the first example. Would need to calculate that properly… Anyway there will also be a fair bit of UV, so don’t try this at home. Maybe even some x-rays if the arc is hot enough.

As far as traditional carbon-arc lamps are concerned, people at the time wrote that the light was white. Maybe the arc was not hot enough or be perceived as blue. Also, the human eye is not particularly sensitive at those wavelengths, so that could explain some of it too.

LOL. With a poster like that, I expect blue to be a pretty hot color.

Europe - final countdown

Oh-oh, we’re heading for Venus (Venus)
And still, we stand tall
'Cause maybe they’ve seen us
And welcome us all, yeah
With so many light years to go

Wait, what? You’re heading for Venus, and you have many light years to go? This song was clearly written by aliens. I rest my case.