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by alexose 3y ago
Same here! I didn't learn my lesson, of course. The moment we upgraded to a DSL line, I port scanned even more machines, way faster, which led to Qwest shutting down our account, which was only re-enabled after several days worth of
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by alexose 3y ago
Another important factor is that China's workers make more money than they used to, especially relative to the West. There's not as much of a cheap-labor-arbitrage opportunity as there was in the early 2000s. Here's a chart
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by alexose 3y ago
I'm not sure I subscribe to this argument given that countries are already polluting massive amounts of CO2 (and SO2, until about five years ago), and nobody seems to be going to war over it. There are massive issues of equity wrapped
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by alexose 3y ago
Weighing all things, though, is it worse? Would an increase in acid raid outweigh the myriad health concerns over wildfire smoke? I'd rather not pollute the atmosphere on purpose, but I find that there's a moral hazard in not c
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by alexose 3y ago
1) It's been known since at least 2018 that the sudden reduction in SO2 pollutants has been contributing to a spike in surface warming https://esd.copernicus.org/preprints/esd-2018-83/esd-2018-83... 2) While
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by alexose 3y ago
I'm asking this honestly and in good faith: When do we start demanding SO2 injection? How much more of this are we going to try to brush off before we decide it's unacceptable?
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by alexose 3y ago
Yep, almost certainly this. The same thing has been happening every year out west. It sometimes takes a day or more for lightning-caused fires to grow to a size that they can be detected via satellite.
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by alexose 3y ago
It's hard to watch a whole new cohort of people have to confront this for the first time. It brings back a lot of the feelings I had back in 2020...
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by alexose 3y ago
My simple-as-dirt solution is generally to use InfluxDB + Grafana. InfluxDB provides a nice HTTP interface that all of my devices simply POST to. I write all the queries myself, because I find that it's a heck of lot easier than to t
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by alexose 3y ago
I've read that CMOS sensors perform better in low light conditions if they're kept cold. Curious if anyone has tried this with a smartphone...
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by alexose 3y ago
I tend to agree with this take. It's interesting to think about what you could do with an "infinite" screen, especially if it's socially acceptable to wear in a cafe, on a plane, etc.
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by alexose 3y ago
I wonder if part of his "effectiveness" is that he seems so willing to burn everything down. As long as he preserves this image, he can maintain a level of control that other CEOs can't. Kind of the CEO version of the Madma
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by alexose 3y ago
Fellow West Coast flame weeder here! Our weeds are especially tenacious, for the reasons you've described and for our boom/bust water cycles. They tend to store enough excess carbohydrates in their roots to re-sprout three or fou
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by alexose 3y ago
I think the world of homebrow eInk devices is set to take off. The problem right now is that while the screens have come down in price considerably, the driver hardware remains expensive and proprietary. If you want to build something for
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by alexose 3y ago
Love the double meaning. That's one of those project titles that's so good that you pretty much have to follow through with the idea.
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by alexose 4y ago
Maybe it's not a binary choice. Parents can do a better job monitoring their kids and the state can make it mildly harder for kids to spend all day on social media.
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by alexose 4y ago
> China's seemingly made a point of outsourcing their most polarizing algorithmic decisions to the rest of the world but not to their own population Exactly. We're a decade into the social media experiment now, and it's
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by alexose 4y ago
Better to use a non-registerable TLD for things like this I guess :)
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by alexose 4y ago
It really solved the problem. Last email I got from them was "Notification: Change of email address notification"
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by alexose 4y ago
I signed up for an Experian account in order to correct a mistake on my credit report-- They had listed a bank account under my name that was created well before I was born, and it was tanking my credit rating. Unfortunately I used my main
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by alexose 4y ago
This is likely competing with the Iridium 9603 modem, which offers relatively inexpensive service for their Short Burst Data protocol. If you're interested in this stuff, I highly recommend the RockBLOCK line of products from Rock7.
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by alexose 4y ago
5B is probably too high an estimate, but there are somewhere around 1.4B cars on the road today. And around 288 million in the US alone. I'm not saying everyone on the planet should own a car, but I certainly wouldn't bet on th
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by alexose 4y ago
Shoutout to the EPDIY project, which supports the ED133UT2 and is planning to support the 10.3" ES108FC1 in a future revision! https://github.com/vroland/epdiy
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by alexose 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what are the challenges in scaling algae bioreactors?
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by alexose 4y ago
I feel the same way. Maybe it's because I came to programming in a roundabout way (i.e., no formal training), but I just see JSDoc-style annotations as wasted characters. Again, maybe just me. But, my brain doesn't parse them un
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by alexose 4y ago
That's true. Maybe this idea would appeal to people's sense of moral righteousness, though. Looking out for their fellow consumers :)
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by alexose 4y ago
You're absolutely right. I wish I could edit my post, but I'm too late!
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by alexose 4y ago
I wonder if there's a startup here. Briefly: You upload your bills, we resolve disputes for you. Common problems get collectivized/turned into class action suits. I've used things like Rocket Money, but their approach is to
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by alexose 4y ago
More cynically: Roughly 2.4 tons of fuel, equating to 16.8 tons of CO2 emissions.
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by alexose 4y ago
I recently read an account from someone who manages a chemistry(?) lab that's used by multiple teams of people. He'd spent years trying to come up with the perfect storage system, only to realize that the only thing that consis

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