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by Maakuth 5y ago
Here in Finland there's a ton of housing stock in the countryside, vacated by the urbanization. All of these houses are connected to the electric grid. There would be a lot of unused capacity to fill before needing to go off-grid. Even
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by Maakuth 5y ago
And then they cleaned up their act, sold to Hitachi and are now the most reliable disks under HGST brand, currently owned by WD. Somebody suggested you should buy disks from manufacturers that have relative recent history of a catastrophe.
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Wouldn't most of the fossil fuel commitments match this description, that the thought behind them isn't primarily to tip the scales. For example the car industry lifelines: the primary idea is presumably to save the jobs instead o
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Interesting, this does not appear to be related to Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools ( https://kk.org/cooltools/ ), which I assumed would date back to those days. Apparently the KK page was started as late as 2000. The idea
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by Maakuth 6y ago
More than half of the HN crowd refrains from commenting in order to not inadvertently break their NDA.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Wow, Nexus 7 2013 is still supported. For reference, it was a budget tablet with $269 MSRP, introduced eight years ago! I've been running some older LineageOS build on mine, but I think I'm going to do the repartitioning and insta
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Finnish POSIVA is considered by IAEA and local regulator to have solved the storage, at least for local scale: https://www.posiva.fi/en/index/finaldisposal/geologicalfinal...
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Yes, they are constructing infrastructure like office buildings and roads to the power plant area. But none of that is under nuclear safety regulations. They will only start the plant construction once the plans have approval from the regul
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by Maakuth 6y ago
It is perhaps also worth mentioning that the construction of the Hanhikivi plant has not started yet. Indeed according to their latest press release[1] about the situation, they say that 5/15 document batches of the preliminary safety
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by Maakuth 6y ago
You do know what they say about Watman - he's not the hero we deserved but the hero we need. Have a nice day!
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Ah, brings to my mind the classic talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Ah yes, creating new Symbian devices is probably an IPR minefield. Judging by the stories heard from Nokia veterans though, it might also prove practically quite challenging.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Nokia did release the code via Symbian Foundation, but it was (now obviously) too late for the open source model to produce any value for them, let alone rescue the ecosystem. So soon after "Elopcalypse" they shuttered the foundat
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Yep. It probably works quite well even between desktop, laptop and Android devices, but personally I have a home server running one instance. This allows me to always have the latest copies of files available for any of my devices and that&
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Remember that a network filesystem, can't really be faster than the network latency. If you are not in the same rack with your filesystem server, you can expect a few milliseconds of network latency. So a network filesystem that has a
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by Maakuth 6y ago
> Nobody was ever doing that. The image in question was a crafted example of what someone imagines is possible. This is precisely how it works in many countries without net neutrality. Here's a classical example: https:/&#x2F
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by Maakuth 6y ago
You can by sustainably produced tropical hardwood furniture. What sort of person prefers to have the non-sustainable option, if quality is the same? Well, I suppose it's cheaper.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Wood is likely the most sustainable material you could use for furniture - most of it is not from tropical rainforests. There's FSC ( https://fsc.org/ ) certification for sustainable wood materials.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
https://onse.fi/estonia/ here's the text of the final report of the accident. It's a thoroughly written document, recommended reading for anyone interested in the details.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
I mostly like your idea, but filesystems are probably the wrong abstraction for this - concurrency when writes are ongoing is difficult and corruption will likely result. How about something like S3, overlaid with rclone's encryption:
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by Maakuth 6y ago
If the coal burning power plants are already starting to lose the bid to wind power and photovoltaics, I doubt they stand a chance with the substantial added cost of CCS. Maybe it could be used to sort of pull carbon from the atmosphere if
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Probably the logistics for feedstock is more lax when it comes to hygiene than you apply for food, but the plant matter is to my understanding the same.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Employers are required to provide occupational healthcare, which at least in my experience - of IT workplaces - provides quick access to care, dental or otherwise. Actually this is one of the pain points of the healthcare system here, the l
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by Maakuth 6y ago
How are you ever unwinding if you do work around the clock? For me I'm quickly feeling stress symptoms if I start to do work tasks after hours. I have a family too, so in theory it would be great for me too to do family stuff in the mi
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Fair point. My notion was mainly stemming from the looks of the shell scripts in the article.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Laying out code in variable width font like a boss :). I love reading these BYTE scans from archive.org, they are from such a different computing world. Yet UNIX is the same.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Those are not under western safety regime.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
For starters, all the old designs are built with analog automation which is no longer available, so at the very minimum, you need redesign the automation system. Keep in mind, every component you install will need to be certified and tracke
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by Maakuth 6y ago
Antonov is a Ukrainian state enterprise, no problem for Russia to see them go under.
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by Maakuth 6y ago
I think it is sort of a continuum, with 95 being further on the path begun on Windows 3.x "386 Enhanced mode", or maybe it was like that in Windows/386 already (that was the branding for Windows 2.0). I have a feeling of read

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