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by acd 6y ago
I think undervolting is good for the environment to lower the carbon footprint of CPUs. Some never multicore CPUs has TDP of +100W, it would probably be much better if we lowered the voltage and frequency for a small CPU performance hit. Th
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by acd 6y ago
Checkout Tailscale
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Will not give up iPhone 6s it is the last iPhone version with a headphone jack. With iPhone 6s and earlier one can use Hifi headphones without carrying extra headphone jack dongle.
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by acd 6y ago
Developers found out - There was servers involved after all.
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by acd 6y ago
Usenet in the Internet early days when the net was not filled with spam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet IRC before Slack took off. IRC a standardized chat protocol, there is not chat islands. Gopher, the text ve
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by acd 6y ago
A social scientist has to ask the why has the car paint colors changed question? Is it the same coloring preference for houses?
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by acd 6y ago
Great idea! List of more durable items: Stainless steel frying pan instead of nonstick frying pans where the non stick coating wears off. Cast iron even better. Plain bicycle without electric parts easier to recycle metal. Durable quality S
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by acd 6y ago
Generally on electronic platforms you buy a right to consume the content but you do not own the content. This is different from physical media where you can touch the content. Also with physical media you don’t own the content but it cannot
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by acd 6y ago
Japan never cleaned up the debt created by its banking system during the Lost decade. This enormous debt makes it harder for young people to own their own place, in effect tget rent from the bank through loans. This is despite that Japans p
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by acd 6y ago
I am happy and thankful to the developers that open source chat is joining forces. It’s the right thing todo!
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by acd 6y ago
You self censor writing and opinions since you know you are being monitored. Thus you confer to the norm. I am personally a bit disturbed that Internet seems to polarize people views. I think this may be partly due to social media algorithm
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by acd 6y ago
I have stopped buying some Apple hardware due to the dongles adapters. Carrying adapters makes it more complicated to connect external devices. Plus all adapters creates more electronic waste which is bad for the environment. Thinking lack
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by acd 6y ago
Architect/programmer here: Here is a list of how to be more resource efficient / cost effective: 1. Render dynamic assets to static html and cache them via a Content delivery network CDN. This will take far less cpu resources than
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by acd 6y ago
System engineer here. The economic system current is wrong, it does not reward keeping ecological systems in a good state! We need to fix the economic system so that preserving wild life and nature is rewarded. Well functioning eco systems
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by acd 6y ago
Very fun to use the emulator! It’s the first time I got to try UNIX on Pdp11. Thanks! Unix history which includes Dec PDP 11. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix
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by acd 6y ago
Strongly Disagree! You name things after who discovered it. In these case you name it after mathematicians like Newton, Euler, Turing, Gödel. For me its some sort of ignorance if you do not honor the one who discovered it. Other sciences ha
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by acd 6y ago
Monkey Island brings back very good game memories and who the whole Lucas Art series had good stories! I learnt a lot of English from playing text adventure games. It was a fun way to learn a language. Whenever I encountered English words I
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by acd 6y ago
I think that Parkinsons law applies to all form of administration tasks including doctors and hospitals. "Parkinson's law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". It is somet
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by acd 6y ago
I went the same route from Mac to Lenovo Thinkpads. I have not looked back since. Did the Linux swap due to Mac OS X memory pressure issues with virtualization. Basically Mac OS X got a ported feature from iOS where they froze background ap
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by acd 6y ago
I think life is about having good experiences! That is why traveling and visiting new places and food is great, your mind gets to experience news things. Running around in 80 mph+ well you tend too miss things is my experience. Life is usu
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by acd 6y ago
We need to have trees mixed with diverse crops. Trees will provide nutrients for the crops through a network of micro fungus which are living in biodiversity with the trees roots. Trees will naturally also cool the close surroundings so tha
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by acd 6y ago
I think Apple should make a developer/hacker/ifixit score 10 version of their devices. As a consumer you could then choose between the consumer design version or the hacker version. The hacker version of the hardware should have u
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by acd 6y ago
Great news, Building on this idea. Is it also possible to calibrate an electric tongue to detect COVID-19 from a breath test? COVID-19 has a very specific smell I think. Breath and saliva test would be quicker than PCR and would probably be
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by acd 6y ago
I think it would be good for people with autism to investigate probiotic food supplements. Digestive tummy issues is more common in people with autism. This is likely due to differences in tummy food metabolism in people with autism. There
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by acd 6y ago
I think fiber would be the best option for speed.
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by acd 6y ago
Can transparent oled be used to shade house windows? Ie you output black color which block sunlight.
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Effect of bromhexine on clinical outcomes and mortality in Covid-19 patients [pdf](bi.tbzmed.ac.ir)
1 points by acd 6y ago|0 comments
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Another environmentally friendly hack you can do is to use pine oil soap for machine washing clothes. Naturally you may not want to run this on your finest shirts and pants. But for other old clothes that you do not care that much about it
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by acd 6y ago
I had a friend who told me dont look down at the keys. That worked to, no special keyboard required :). You could also temporary cover keys up with post it notes until you have memorized them.
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by acd 6y ago
I have real issues with the current economic system not accounting for external cost of pollution. It’s clear that lots of satellite has a cost in that it’s disturbing astronomers work. For satellite providers there is no cost for disturbin

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