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by cduzz 4y ago
As a fraction of human endeavor on this planet, rather than using some monetary unit... What was the cost of light and heat in 1850 relative to human output? Whaling and chopping wood and digging up coal, etc. 20%? 30% I'm sure it&#
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by cduzz 4y ago
I've found that the "dedicated" split keyboards don't necessarily have a comfortable distance in the split. The two keyboards end up about about a body width apart especially if I use a standing desk. These days I use a
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by cduzz 4y ago
Windows works fine if you just plug 2 keyboards into it. Left hand on one keyboard, right hand on the other; works exactly as if you had one keyboard. Uses a bit more desk space but way cheaper and super easy to manage in an office settin
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by cduzz 4y ago
Right -- that $0.15 chip is only possible to be made at the end of the lifecycle of a $10 billion dollar asset (the fab); that fab can only be made with a $500 billion dollar development to make all the supporting stuff. You can't make
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by cduzz 4y ago
There's some reasonable demand for the lower density, more robust chips that were made in "paid off fabs". Largely, I've read, those fabs were turned off -- they were in a legacy / sustaining engineering mode before
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by cduzz 4y ago
I'm in that situation -- oil burning furnace with forced air. It's a 1980s vintage system with an outdoor double walled oil tank. I could replace the furnace with an air source heat pump. But it turns out the people in the 1970s
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by cduzz 4y ago
Getting this [1] into the hands of all the kids out there seems like a good start. And of course getting the "yeah, just use it if you're even a little worried your friend can't breath anymore; it won't make things wors
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by cduzz 4y ago
Right. You can also create a charity, which you run, and donate millions of dollars to it, and write that off against your taxes as a charitable donation. Then, because you run that charity, you can still spend the money (mostly) as you p
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OpenAFS updated (includes support for Linux 6 kernels)(openafs.org)
1 points by cduzz 4y ago|1 comments
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by cduzz 4y ago
Does anyone use openafs anymore? It seems like a really nice (or terrible?) mix of object storage and posix filesystems.
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by cduzz 4y ago
You'd probably just spend 1/20th of your time looking at hardware BOMs. Freebsd has pretty good compatibility, and if you're buying in sufficient volumes or making / integrating boards from scratch you can just stick to
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by cduzz 4y ago
I would like to propose "Grove's Axiom" which basically states: If you're failing, pivot to what your replacement will do before you fail. "In the midst of the doldrums of 1985, Grove posed a hypothetical question
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by cduzz 4y ago
You certainly can if you're in east texas!
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by cduzz 4y ago
It looks as though, to make the framework taller to support keys with travel, you'd need an entirely different case -- but so long as the mountpoints for everything were otherwise the same it seems like it wouldn't be a radical re
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by cduzz 4y ago
In the USA the roads are big, the fuel's cheap, and everyone's got a huge vehicle so you need one too to feel safe / be able to see anything; it's an arms race everyone loses. If you live some place where the SUV's
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by cduzz 4y ago
In the distant past I was of the "need more ports" camp, but with the advent of USB C hubs that have power pass through. One thing to plug into the computer. They're cheap enough that I've got one at my "normal&quot
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by cduzz 4y ago
There's a trope in car nerd circles of "We all know the best vehicle is a manual transmission brown diesel station wagon" and then of course these people only buy one that's 10 years old, so at this point no car company
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by cduzz 4y ago
This is like when I heard Roger Penrose won a Nobel Prize in 2020 and I thought for a second "wait is this his second? What? You mean he hadn't been awarded one until now? Who was in line ahead of him and for what?"
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by cduzz 4y ago
There was an article on slate.com about this same issue [1] where the tl;dr is government organizations outsource project management and any other expertise required to run a large scale (or small scale!) infrastructure project. If the orga
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by cduzz 4y ago
As was stated earlier, FreeBSD (or I'll add netbsd as well) certainly is a full fledged OS that would allow free redistribution of all the work without having GPL encumbrance, while allowing any sort of "remote telemetry" des
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by cduzz 4y ago
I'd give those other banks a call and ask. Also, per FDIC rules, the 250k is per party attached to the account, so at least for a married couple it seems to be $500k per account. But hey, I'm sure it'll all be fine and we won
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by cduzz 4y ago
You sure about that? If you have an account with noname for $3,000k and noname has 12 accounts with localcorp1-localcorp12 each of $250k -- and noname goes poof, what happens? I think, according to the preSVB rules, you get $250k from FDIC
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by cduzz 4y ago
I really have to disagree -- for what I've used it for kafka's basically been reliable and amazingly simple to manage. The use case is, I think in the grand scheme of things pretty simple -- it's an "on-prem" infras
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by cduzz 4y ago
It's like the old "Mission Impossible" reveal where there are nested masks: 1. we'll come in and replace you're idiot government goons with our idiot government goons. 2. we'll come in and punish/kill all
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by cduzz 4y ago
Sorry I should have elaborated... "test" or it's other name "[" is a program or a built in. It takes a parameter to tell it what to do. It can evaluate strings, but it can also look at the file system or do a lit
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by cduzz 4y ago
A while back I wanted to run OS/2 on real hardware -- I bought an old HP omnibook 800; the batteries were all shot but otherwise it worked fine (the laptop; OS/2 was kind of a pain to setup). That's not the 70s but it'
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by cduzz 4y ago
Oh, shell pet peev #301; shell has "case" as part of the language, and case is way better at string evaluation that the "test" built in case "$x" in (foo) echo Worked ;; esac
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by cduzz 4y ago
Antiquated unixes weren't always connectivity monsters -- some POS with a bunch of serial ports for instance. FTP and NFS are good, I'd also want ckermit / tip / tar in my toolbag... Probably not an issue these decades,
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by cduzz 4y ago
Old marine applications would use carburetors and often those carburetors weren't at all suited to changes in elevation. (Most of my knowledge is actually only of a specific family of Volvo / Penta pushrod engines) Probably airpl
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by cduzz 4y ago
Tesla is not apple. Tesla, in 2012, wasn't an incumbent automaker with any sway over anything. Also, the original "openness" of the tesla patents is debatable. Apple was core to the success of the original USB; they were the

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