CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@jgilbert OK by this metric the joyless souless husk is me, not you. But I still think things have gotten blown way out of proportion here. I'm just trying to counter the myth I see all over the place asking for automatically detaching chargers when batteries are full based on a belief that it is more efficient to do that (because it is a mistaken belief).

@jgilbert What? (What does ejecting a perfectly useful charging cable have to do with being a joyless souless husk?)

@jgilbert Why do you want to create more battery wear like this?

@horenmar It seems reasonable for weight to be included somehow, though I am told almost no consumer applications are heavy enough to matter much. (The heaviest 'consumer' vehicle I know of is Silverado EV which is around 10'000 lbs/4'500 kg, while semis' limit is 82'000 lbs/37'000 kg. Yes semis have more axles but we're still talking 50% more weight *per axle* than the whole vehicle...)

@horenmar It's a proposal to replace the federal gas tax with a vehicle registration tax based on weight.

> Simple distance? Then you have no incentive for efficiency.

I don't think road infrastructure *needs* to be funded in a way that incentivizes efficiency. But I do think it should be as proportional as possible to one's use of the system.

@horenmar I strongly disagree. Living somewhere that forces you to commute a long distance to live in the 'burbs' is a choice. The status quo is that we subsidize the shit out of sprawl and suburbia by having almost no 'user pays' on the infrastructure.

I don't know, having people who use the system more pay more for it seems appropriate to me.

@xkcd @catsalad paging @vitaut

@whitequark Billy reading this: “why did she switch to a scale out of 6 instead of out of 10 in the middle? Ohhhhhhhhh”

@eniko maybe this is a hot take but I think having employees can be a lot like this which is why it doesn’t raise red flags for managers

@looopTools I mean, comparison between what?

@meetingcpp /cc @streganil

@vitaut Sure, I meant as a "well THIS time" when it didn't give you what you want there's no cost to *you* to try one of the other models in the dropdown

@vitaut have you tried GPT-5.4? It seems to ignore what I ask for a lot less often than Claude

@whitequark I have a spare Heatkiller 4 sTRX4 block which should work but pretty sure shipping it to you would exceed the cost of a new one given the current... international trade clusterfuck. ( https://shop.watercool.de/HEATKILLER-IV-PRO-for-Threadripper-COPPER-NICKEL_1 )

Most of the pre-mix coolants are water based but do have additives intended to reduce conductivity of the coolant to reduce the potential impact of leaks.

@web3isgreat oooooo that Patrick Boyle video hits even harder now XD

OMFG https://theonion.com/ice-agents-swab-passengers-hands-to-test-for-immigrant-residue/

@chansecodina That would require having people outside the project paying attention to the sock puppet campaign, which was clearly not the case.

You can't show that the sock puppets are related with cryptography.

I agree that you can't solve social problems with technical tools. But that's kind of @coderanger 's point as I understand it.

There has been absolutely nothing proposed that would have stopped JiaTan.

@coderanger It doesn't matter if they were "bullied", the fact is that they did it. JiaTan being able to push a release was not a surprise to the original maintainers.

@coderanger They *did*. That's how JiaTan got maintainer status on the xz project's repo.