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by briffle 4y ago
Can you blame them? I just built a nice custom PC for my Son, with an 6 core cpu (with graphics, a ryzen -g class) 32GB of ram, 1TB NVMe hard drive, nice case, etc. That cost about the same as a single mid-range video card. (Nvidia RTX 307
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by briffle 4y ago
Sure does explain why the first Datacenter for Google and Facebook were both in Oregon. that is a ton of pipes to Asia.
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by briffle 4y ago
I would imagine much less time than a huge power plant, with its much more steel, copper, aluminum, concrete, etc. Don't forget the extraction process for coal, gas, or clear cutting entire valleys to make damns. You are comparing win
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by briffle 4y ago
Every Summer, the State of Oregon seems to have at least one 50,000 acre fire, which is about 78 SQ miles. last few years have been more like 400,000-600,000 acres over a few very large fires. Most of these fires are caused by lightning.
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by briffle 4y ago
it seems most of the tools for running postgresql in K8s seem to just default to creating a new copy of the DB at the drop of a hat. When your DB is in the multi-TB sizes, that can come with a noticable cost in network fees, plus a very lon
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by briffle 4y ago
If you setup Matrix, couldn't you then just use the slack bridge? https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/matrix-appservice-sl...
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by briffle 4y ago
> and are driven by compliance box ticking For many IT departments, passing audits is a huge deal, that is very important to senior management. I know for my last set of compliance audits, I had to show evidence that every employee work
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by briffle 4y ago
I live just down the street from a 'memory care' center for seniors with dementia, etc. There are about 120 'guests'. In two weeks they lost 45 elderly patients, and one nurse due to COVID. And today people are still
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by briffle 4y ago
I live in Oregon (no sales tax), and it boggles my mind when travelling out of state that the $10 item at the store is suddenly $10.50 once tax is included. Why is it not included in the price?
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by briffle 4y ago
A line that is repeated by any LSD dealer in any college town...
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by briffle 4y ago
Your missing the point. Spammers call you from a spoofed number so that you think its someone near you based on the area code. I lived just a town over an invisible line in 2009, and ordered a new phone, and got an area code that the only
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by briffle 4y ago
Then why do they spend so much more on marketing than R&D? https://www.ahip.org/news/articles/new-study-in-the-midst-of...
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by briffle 4y ago
I'd probably take that choice compared to the cost and daily dosing of the pharmacy alternative.
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by briffle 4y ago
Yep, that is how the Chinese government and industry has gotten so far ahead in Flow Batteries: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/03/the-u-s-made-a-breakt...
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by briffle 4y ago
Netflix also has production studios they now own making content.
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by briffle 4y ago
Those luxury box seats at the local sporting arena don't buy themselves....
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by briffle 4y ago
google cloud also has a metric ton of IOPs and throughput on their networked persistent disks. But what this article is talking about is latency.
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by briffle 4y ago
completely anecdotally, I have noticed in the midwest, its very common to have a large grid of windmills. But out west, some (not all) of them are placed along ridgetops in a wide line, with none behind each other.
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by briffle 4y ago
our state DOT has rented goats to clean the sides of roads along highways in some rural areas, especially when there are large amount of noxious weeds. The person they hire strings up a bunch of short fiberglass poles for a mile or two alo
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by briffle 4y ago
I live in one of the few states in the US with no sales taxes. It boggles my mind when I go to a store in another state, and buy a $0.99 soda, and the total comes to $1.07. I have also never understood why the price isn't including th
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by briffle 4y ago
One of the big differences between pickups like the F-150 of the mid 2000's and now, is almost every truck now is a 4-door. Back then, they were 'extended cab' trucks with a very, very small bench in the back. And then for a
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by briffle 4y ago
Interesting, I use my dad's old Porter Cable Router from the 80's, and its rock solid (they also owned Delta). Looks like in 2004 they were bought by Black and Decker.
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by briffle 4y ago
I used a pi-hole, but wanted it to work outside my home as well. NextDNS uses many of the same blocklists, and I happily pay $20/year for it. Also has apps for devices that roam from the house. https://nextdns.io/pric
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by briffle 4y ago
> Certainly cross country electric lines aren't going to needed as much because the energy can be produced by a relatively clean factory. With coal, we want it very far away enough away from consumers so as not to cause health conce
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by briffle 4y ago
Or, you invest in companies with reasonable dividends, instead of just hoping the price always goes up.
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by briffle 4y ago
I have a relative that had the exact same problem with a Kia Telluride. They had to pay way over MSRP, plus a 'fee' for beeing on the waiting list to get one.
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by briffle 4y ago
Mine was a cyrix "pentium compatible". I miss having 3 players in the game. I believe they got bought by Transmeta, back when Linus Torvalds was employed by them.
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by briffle 4y ago
I understand, and agree with you, but at the same time, a HUGE number of people don't have that identification. Many homeless people that could qualify for services struggle to prove who they are, and that they are able to receive it
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by briffle 4y ago
that sounds like a fun project, but you definately want to still automate its setup with something like ansible, saltstack, puppet, etc. Because someday, you'll get a new pet, with much more CPU power you'll want to migrate to. Or
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by briffle 4y ago
and a year or two ago, when I had a hulu subscription, that ad-free plan didn't mean no ads on all channels. just on their 'core' ones. If it was a partner company, they still showed ads, even if you paid for ad-free.

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