antonkochubey

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by antonkochubey 8mo ago
In Linux, it’s a CPU governor option. Set to “performance” by default on most distros, switching to “powersave” yields surprising reduction in power consumption and temperature.
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by antonkochubey 8mo ago
Right, for exactly that reason Hetzner offers brand new AX42 / EX63 servers with ECC memory and modern (Zen 4 / Arrow Lake) CPUs for just a little bit more.
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by antonkochubey 8mo ago
>That CPU is ancient, though. Over a decade old. Coincidentally so are the t3 / t3a instances on AWS that everyone loves to use especially for dev/staging environments
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by antonkochubey 8mo ago
They’re however designed and engineered for a specific jurisdiction and its laws/building codes
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by antonkochubey 8mo ago
> Besides, if you want insurance just get a 30€ per year rolling package. My credit card has a yearly fee of €36 (and it’s not like having a debit card instead would have been free). The total annual insurance premiums of all insurances
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by antonkochubey 8mo ago
Ah yes let me forego the chargeback protections (and convenience of one tap Apple Pay) to reduce merchants fee by 0.2% of transaction value, sounds great
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by antonkochubey 8mo ago
They recently enabled 3DS for business accounts, on customer ones it’s indeed still disabled
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by antonkochubey 8mo ago
What kind of power we're talking about here? I was quoted €10600 (around half of which will be government-subsidized) for 8 kWp worth of panels + 10.24 kWh battery storage, including project documentation (for subsidies), labor, and ma
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
To you – yes. But have you thought about the shareholders?
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
Someone for whom this takes over half an hour might be better off taking the train
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
because there is still 2012-era belief hanging around many people that Tesla's EV tech is superior to anything else
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
DigitalOcean is fantastic in my experience, way better than The Big Three, especially Azure.
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
walking and sitting on a bench as well, correct?
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
You don't, you pirate it. If you paid perfectly working, non-vibecoded dollars for Windows 11 Pro which became utterly broken, pirating whatever you need from Microslop to actually having a working computer is morally right.
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
> Something like this will set you back $30K-$60K per year lol, no, cloud is nowhere near that good value. It’s $3.5M annually. > The Standard_HX176rs HPC VM size gives you 176 cores and 1.4 TB of memory This one is $124k per year.
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
Nowadays the 718 might be more of a Porsche than the 911
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
Why would you care about ADAS on a drivers' car? Sure that might be useful on a Camry or another point A -> point B appliance, but I doubt Porsche buyers give any thought to those features.
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
Because in their eyes if something was not invented here, it may as well not exist :-) they haven’t managed to cure this sickness in decades.
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by antonkochubey 9mo ago
>Why is it governments job Because it’s literally the excuse for taxation?
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
It’s also illegal in most countries
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
Start menu search requires 7 web browser processes that consume ~350 MB of RAM to be constantly running.
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
If you supply ground from one end, and +24V (or whatever) from the other end, brightness will be equal throughout the strip :) But it would also be a good idea to measure voltage drop when it's powered on, and compensate accordingly, i
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
“Heavy lifting” here being running 108 MB of JavaScript to render shopping cart of an online store, correct? Or consuming 2 GB of RAM to have Teams running in the background doing nothing? Yeah, if we got rid of that as a result of RAM shor
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
On Apple Silicon devices with macOS 26+, SSH keys can be natively stored in the Secure Enclave, protected via TouchID: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46025721 It only supports sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 key format, howeve
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
On iPhones at least you can disable PWM dimming at lower brightness level at the expense of color accuracy. It's in Accessibility/Display settings.
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
VP9 is inferior to H.264
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
>Starlink requires airlines to offer it for free What's the catch?
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
At my last workplace we literally fixed this by investing a bit in development.
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
If you need much more than compute, managed k8s and blob storage, then you're architecting yourself for a vendor lock-in.
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by antonkochubey 10mo ago
First Americans invented how to ruin salads with dressings, now they are complaining that dressings make salads less healthy. Whew, how ironic.

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