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by axiolite 5y ago
> I'm not confident that the Faraday cage would be sufficient. Faraday cages are not intended for that purpose. Magnetic shielding is a well understood concept. What you need is some thickness of ferrous metals. https://e
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by axiolite 5y ago
> local electromagnetic event then I'd prefer to have a backup that can handle that. First of all, the magnetic gauss needed to flip bits on LTO media is huge. It's not a practical concern unless you're choosing an incred
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by axiolite 5y ago
> This seems to repeat the trajectory of VP9, where it exists and is supported solely thanks to YouTube, while the whole world is utilising H.265 for everything else, including recording video VP9 came too close on the heels of VP8. Tha
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Washington and Oregon aren't just cloudy skies. The eastern half of both states is a rain shadow with a desert climate and plenty of sunshine. That's not the only reason solar panels aren't a good investment. Higher lat
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by axiolite 5y ago
> the areas that are deep-red and red is where Solar is both economical and environmental positive. Orange, may be environmental positive area. The rest of it is, mis-allocation. That's greatly oversimplified. One of the best place
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by axiolite 5y ago
Strange because x2go performs better than anything else. Though you have to set the "Connection" settings correctly for your use. Setting for too low a bandwidth is just as bad as too high. "WAN" with "256-jpeg&q
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Meaning, I log in to my desktop at home, I leave and log in via RDP and get the same desktop session, which I can again resume when I get back home. This is either not possible or doesn't work well last time I tested xrdp and fri
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by axiolite 5y ago
Only one I know of is xrdp. It usually works.
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by axiolite 5y ago
As are NiMH batteries.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> when my power goes out I can use a match to boil water A generator is a small investment to fix this and many other problems, without causing indoor air pollution.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> No economy. No infrastructure. No housing. Little of value except a concept Coastline could be the answer to all of those. Ships are housing and have their own self-contained infrastructure. Fishing and transport are a few major econ
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by axiolite 5y ago
> There are "teflon engineers" out there who can get virtually nothing done and make one mistake after another, and get away with it for years. That would be Wally from the Dilbert comic strips... I have seen that when the empl
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by axiolite 5y ago
Japan has a strong culture of pacifism too. What happened 80 years ago doesn't change the facts on the ground, today.
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by axiolite 5y ago
The privacy issues are horrid, the app is irritating, and the data is awful, with gas prices randomly sampled at different times and days, hardly ever accurate. For better gas price data in a lighter faster app without the crud, see Gas Gur
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by axiolite 5y ago
> The most geopolitically stable supplier of heavy and super heavy crude oil is just north of our border. Canada. The pipeline that was meant to bring their crude, the keystone pipeline was cancelled after its permits were revoked. You a
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by axiolite 5y ago
> SOMEONE would have a US-flagged ship running oil up and down the coastline A US flagged ship means following US regulations, too. Can't pay slave wages, can't have an awful safety record, etc. Increases the cost of shipping.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> “This family has drastically changed their lifestyle and have left their faith and extended family for a quiet, secluded life.” > So they're saying that they are getting rid of her because she is too religious at the age of 10
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by axiolite 5y ago
> how someone can read an article like this one, support the death penalty I don't understand how someone can consider the death penalty monstrous, but forgetting someone for decades in a brutal, hopeless prison environment is perfe
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by axiolite 5y ago
As it happens this was the most recent topic on Skeptoid: https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4821
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by axiolite 5y ago
________________________________ / took me a minute to create a \ \ /usr/share/cowsay/dog.cow file / `-------------------------------- \ \ /^ ^\ / 0 0 \ V\ Y /V
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by axiolite 5y ago
> You must have heard of cowsay . But why remain restricted only to cow? `_______________ < cowsay -f tux > `--------------- \ \ .--. |o_o | |:_/ | // \ \
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by axiolite 5y ago
> I can’t think of another analog-to-digital transition that also maintained its outer form so thoroughly. Keyboards. TV cameras. Hi-Fi stereo systems. Movie theatres. Desk telephones. Headsets & Ear buds 2-way radios. Magnetic tape.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> The trick seems to be to store them cool, but not cold. Probably 50s and 60s F (and in the dark). There is no such environment in a typical home That's just slightly warmer than a typical household refrigerator.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> regarding auto updates, I disable them basically everywhere because I seem to have buggy experiences too often With Play Store I agree. With F-Droid, I do not. You can easily install older revisions if you find a problem, which I alm
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by axiolite 5y ago
> right around the corner if energy use keeps going up exponentially and we keep reducing earth's albedo. That's a big if. In fact things like deforestation increase albedo. And when we get closer to that point, we can start
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by axiolite 5y ago
"if we confine ourselves to the Earth’s surface, we exhaust solar potential in 400 years" -- https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/ Equally interesting: https://dothema
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by axiolite 5y ago
> We can pump heat into the core when it is hotter in the surface. Were you expecting a massive meteor impact in the near future that the rest of us are unaware of? If not, exactly how were you planning to get enough heat at the surface
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by axiolite 5y ago
> that tech is coming from oil and gas. An industry with a track record of leaving the land they enter in terrible shape. I think coal and most other mineral extraction industries would love to have the relatively good environmental reco
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by axiolite 5y ago
This could be good for consumers if implemented reasonably. If Intel can save money having just one product line, selling i7s at Celeron prices with cores just disabled in software, it could be good for everyone. Their method of disabling
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by axiolite 5y ago
> pouring more water into the bowl from a bucket or jug will work. Which is what they did, so I fail to see the point of your comment.

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