PCs have almost never supported CEC. PCs use a different signalling method to indicate to the monitor that they’re on/off.

That is sort of what sponsored segments are, and what sponsorblock is quite effective at dealing with.

If they’re injected on the fly at variable time points, it gets harder, but I suspect fingerprinting could work well enough.

TVs often do a bad job at switching on when the computer turns on, then off when it turns off/goes to sleep. Drives me spare. That was fixed in like 1995-2000 for normal monitors.

The Science of Discworld novels are a fun mix of science and wizardry.

Thief of Time is not wizards but underrated Buddhist Time Monks.

The early wizards books didn’t really grow on me as well as the later other books.

Use of Weapons, Look to Windward, Surface Detail, and Hydrogen Sonata are all reasonably sex-filled (if not entirely sex-positive) too.

Definitely hits all the points of Luxury Gay Space Communism.

Desire-to-die is potentially a reasonable way to describe 15 hours in an economy airline seat, or stuck in/as traffic.

I.e. so fed up with this that you’d rather be dead.

I feel like the axes need better labeling. Putting the labels on the negative is confusing.

If we expect to be remotely large, sorting by new only is infeasible.

Coefficient of performance (i.e. energy efficiency) at decent delta-T is always the most important factor and rarely mentioned.

Modern cooling equipment generally has the largest environmental impact from energy consumption, not manufacturing or refrigerant leakage.

Especially with ultra-low-GWP propane or butane refrigerant, though that’s not usually used in large-scale systems.

You’re probably not going to save 95% of the trees given the major earthworks likely needed for managing sewage, stormwater, and other utilities. You’ll probably save most of them, though.

40k looks pretty optimistic for the size and number of buildings, too.