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by cduzz 2y ago
The article states: 1956: a 3.75MB drive cost $9k 2024: 26TB drives exist, where 1TB costs $15 I think that radically understates the cost of storage in 1956, when people used mercury delay lines, drum drives, core memory, will
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by cduzz 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "security" in this context. Identity management, role based access control, useful audit logs; all "enterprise" features, probably are very expensive to implement, and make for obvious
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by cduzz 2y ago
Sure, the SCOTUS respects congress's views, except for things like voting rights, where the congress renewed it 390–33 and unanimously and was signed by a GW Bush. So they'll respect the congress when they agree with it and overt
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by cduzz 2y ago
Wouldn't you want to have certificates and other crypto data as an input to a reproducible build harness? # build initial images # add semi-static inputs (mostly static config data, crypto data, signed inputs) # add final water
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by cduzz 2y ago
Why do computers have clocks? So they don't have to do everything at once. (the joke is that analog computers don't have clocks... Do they?)
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by cduzz 2y ago
It's common but rarely necessary for people to get the largest circuit they can imagine rather than evaluate cost / benefit clearly. I have a 240v / 20a plug next to my drive way. It cost $300 for the electrician work and $1
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by cduzz 2y ago
In the USA, in public areas where there are 120v 15a or 20a outlet -- I 100% guarantee that if you had more than one oaf with an EV charging from those plugs at the same time you'd pop a circuit breaker. Those plugs are almost always
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by cduzz 2y ago
There's a "cartel as a service" / rent fixing software system for that... https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r... I believe the correct response here is "That's won
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by cduzz 2y ago
Ever wonder about who can afford to make all-cash, above ask offers on houses? Or you can rent that house after the PE firm buys it and rents it out... https://www.propublica.org/article/when-private-equity-becom... h
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by cduzz 2y ago
Well.... yeah, incuriously shoving unsigned data from elsewhere into ring 0 and executing it is malpractice.
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by cduzz 2y ago
Which is their "One Job" ? Options include: 1. protected the systems always work even if things are messed up 2. protected systems are always protected even when things are messed up The two failure modes are exclusive; ideally yo
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by cduzz 2y ago
I wonder if "raw sewage loading" includes traditional septic systems where there's just a leach field for ... raw sewage... There are certainly technologies these days that allow you to filter the effluent to make it less har
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by cduzz 2y ago
Sure -- I use such a setup sometimes when visiting family. It's not ideal, however; it's 66 hours continuously to add 200 miles of range to an older S; for more efficient cars (that get 4 or 5 miles of range an hour) it's sti
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by cduzz 2y ago
In the US, on a 120v / 12a circuit, it'll add 3 miles of range per hour.
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by cduzz 2y ago
It's clear that an EV has a harder time with long distance travel than a gas vehicle. Gas: get in car, drive until light turns on, pull into next gas station and get gas, keep driving. EV(tesla): get in car, enter destination, car will
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by cduzz 2y ago
L3 charging requires a ton of very specific infrastructure. Around where I live tesla's got some co-generation going on near by where they've got natural gas -> fuel cell -> supercharger setups (bloom energy runs one and I f
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1990's Workstation in Your Pocket(hackaday.com)
9 points by cduzz 2y ago|1 comments
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by cduzz 2y ago
I'm so happy to see this... My first unix was Ultrix, so simple, so clean and fast... A friend had an account on some magical server with no disk quota or other limits, but also no software. I found out to get access you had to get a
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by cduzz 2y ago
We've got only a very limited understanding of exactly how the current climate works. We have (and have had for a very long time) crude understanding that more CO2 == more energy from the sun retained == more hotter overall. We&#x
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by cduzz 2y ago
Thinking is harder than most people program. Solving a problem is a complex process that has a small amount of programming even if it is a programming problem. Programming is communication with both a computer and a person. Have fun!
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by cduzz 2y ago
What's the user visible tradeoff between "an average page is so laden with advertising and tracking nonsense that it loads slowly and is covered with crap, but that crap all renders real fast" vs "JS renders at 1/10
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by cduzz 2y ago
I think all of these approaches are not "or" but are instead "and" ... We need both PV solar and "let's get some heat" solar; we need LiFePO4 and nmc batteries; we probably even need to keep fossil fuels a
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by cduzz 2y ago
I think the "db in browser" idea is interesting because it makes the user pay for the compute for many more of the typical DB tasks. Any time you're in a situation where you're in an aggregation point you need to be wary
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by cduzz 2y ago
The original purpose of dealerships was to isolate "vehicle manufacturer going bankrupt" from "organization you bought your car from going bankrupt" events. The idea was "if you buy a VinFast" from vinfast an
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by cduzz 2y ago
So Chewbacca is a Wookie, and he lives on Endor with the Ewoks? Even though he's much bigger and they Ewoks are cannibals? (Non-requiter aside -- I get that there are explanations as to how "HBO" became "Max", a
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by cduzz 2y ago
In terms of brand equity, HBO was and still is (if it still existed) synonymous for "quality content". I still have warm fuzzies for their well crafted brand noises and other signals (the static, the duha da da, da da, da dadada,
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by cduzz 2y ago
Don't forget "HBO" -> Max. Or something. Is it the whole HBO brand or the app? No idea. It's even more confusing because there used to be some other "premium cable channel" with "max" in the n
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by cduzz 2y ago
I typically use term / emoji "eggs" when referring to the zombified husk formerly known as twitter. "It's gotten hard to read eggs without an account these days" or "ever since they got rid of content mode
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by cduzz 2y ago
I read that as sarcasm. The grand-parent of this comment implemented empire on the PC, and is responsible for me getting poor grades in high school biology. I even bought a V20 CPU so my hand-me-down PC (5150) could build empire maps 30 se
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by cduzz 2y ago
Just googled it... yikes not the cryptography joke I was expecting...

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