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by chgs 2y ago
You need an excess of energy to build a car centric city as it uses far more energy to shift a million people by car than by underground transport or high speed train Not sure how much energy a garden can use, could you elaborate?
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by chgs 2y ago
One larger cost you might think of with solar is land - but even in the U.K. where land isn’t exactly cheap leasing prices are about £1k an acre per year, and an acre will generate about 350MWh a year, so that’s well under 1 cent per kWh, s
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by chgs 2y ago
Euston is a special case. The lack of training/concern (depending on your level of cynicism) of ticket validity of the barrier staff isn’t unique (Paddington had this problem too), but the unique problem is the way the operator (networ
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by chgs 2y ago
Visual J++ was Microsoft’s Java
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by chgs 2y ago
Would a “a for loop in node js” or “serving an webpage in Python” get so much attention?
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by chgs 2y ago
It always amazes me in-depth HN gets on pretty much any subject, yet the most basic cursory network page gets massive response Is there simply a total lack of understanding of how networks work in the tech community?
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by chgs 2y ago
> It is, generally speaking, not possible to call AT&T and say "Hey, when I try to ping one of your subscribers in California from a Level3 circuit in New York, I'm hitting a routing loop." I’ve reported similar things
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by chgs 2y ago
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/29/tech/ai-chatbot-hallucina... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/why-a... https://apnews.com/article&
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by chgs 2y ago
It really isn’t. Worse than citing Wikipedia.
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by chgs 2y ago
Most people don’t want free speech, and no country has free speech anyway. The question is what limits are made.
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by chgs 2y ago
That’s only 75 years away, same time since the first work on developing orbital rockets. But by 2500 sure. And likely by 2500 some form of self sustaining asteroid with propulsion will leave the solar system. I used to think ince that happe
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by chgs 2y ago
So the combined lifetime of people in a large city.
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by chgs 2y ago
In which case you need 24/7 shifts on site. If you can fix a problem remotely from your home then someone can do it in Sydney.
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by chgs 2y ago
I used to have such an arrangement, but that was far more stressful. I’m far happier with the “call me and If I’m able to I’ll answer” approach. I’ve had 2 call outs in 4 years, at a 4 hour cost a piece, both sorted with in 20 minutes. By c
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by chgs 2y ago
My first 24/7 role was Mon Tue Fri Sat Sun Wed Thu on earlies Then repeated on lates Then a week of nights Monday through Sunday Then a week off I believe it’s changed now as they don’t like 7x12 hour night shifts in a row. Personally
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by chgs 2y ago
Fine, just have local authority numbers then which halved from 175k in the decade before thatcher was elected, let alone had any chance to implement policy. She didn’t reverse the trend, but she didn’t start it.
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by chgs 2y ago
If you’ve just bought a new steak knife and are going home that’s fine If you take that knife to a nightclub that isn’t fine It’s not rocket science.
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by chgs 2y ago
If that were true control would never change
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by chgs 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex... You think your limits are the correct ones. Others believe picketing funerals with hate but banning porn is the wrong balance.
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by chgs 2y ago
Starts are important, not completions, when looking at policy impact. I added local authority and housing associations together as they are basically the same concept.
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by chgs 2y ago
The number of new council house starts dropped in the 70s, before thatcher. The trend continued into the 80s but blaming thatcher and neoliberalism is simplistic at best. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity&#
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by chgs 2y ago
Sounds like a union
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by chgs 2y ago
This is the inevitable endpoint from treacherous computing. If you don’t own the equipment or the software then you are a slave. Hopefully over the next few years as we see more of this in the post zero interest rate world we will have a ne
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by chgs 2y ago
This wasn’t a contributor to OpenSSH, it was a deep level supply chain attack - something that closed source commercial companies are not immune to. Given how much closed source companies love BSD/apache/etc licenses where they ca
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by chgs 2y ago
Better. Imagine a closed source company with cost pressures employing a random developer who can commit code, perhaps without any peer review, but certainly limited peer review from harried employees. Now imagine why a nation state would wa
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by chgs 2y ago
Do you have any citation for those numbers? When dns blocks were in Turkey using non isp servers was common enough for it to be graffitied https://www.mic.com/articles/85987/turkish-protesters-are-sp...
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by chgs 2y ago
I’d expect a modern government to design something as clear and well regarded as the GDS stuff in the U.K. I’d expect a corporation like ibm etc to design the total mess we see with any large project
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by chgs 2y ago
Thus people will spend less on bitcoin than aircon Or is the market broken? In which case in which way? And why not tackle that brokenness directly.
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by chgs 2y ago
“Which USB cables are used. Some seem to be better than others.” You are imagining it.
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by chgs 2y ago
If the cost of gas isn’t covering the actual impact then the cost should be higher, doesn’t matter if the kWh is used by a bitcoin miner or someone with their AC at 70, it’s still the same externality.

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