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by corty 6y ago
Frequently done in Germany. Many farms have built "green humps", that is biogas vats with a green dome-shaped gas collection cover. Those can be fed with manure and any kind of decomposable biomatter, higher nutritional value is o
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by corty 6y ago
Interesting news, but it should be noted that quantum efficiency is only a part of overall efficiency. 100% quantum efficiency means that for 1 photon of sufficient energy you get 1 split H_2O. But it doesn't take into account which pa
723.
by corty 6y ago
Maybe, maybe not. As a developer I love that git gives me the ability to create my own repo anywhere on any machine, just with git installed. Repos can be synced and patches exchanged in numerous ways and any decentral copy is a full backup
724.
by corty 6y ago
> Those factories don't exist in lawless places. When it comes to labour rights, they practically do. Thats why it is so cheap to produce there. Thats why apple uses them.
725.
by corty 6y ago
darktable is magnitudes faster than lightroom on the same hardware and data. (maybe except for a few filters)
726.
by corty 6y ago
Not only in the US. 15 years ago when aircon wasn't yet standard in Germany, they added it to all cars anyways and just deactivated the controls in software. So you still get decreased mileage from weight and friction for the compresso
727.
by corty 6y ago
Creepy, but in line with what the car itself phones home. If you thought Tesla was invasive in its remote control and surveilance, BMW is hell-bent on surpassing them.
728.
by corty 6y ago
The big German car makers go out of their way to reinvent the digital wheel at any opportunity. The next series will have completely different electronics from different cheapest OEMs with a whole new set of bugs in all components and their
729.
by corty 6y ago
Delayed disclosure is irresponsible. Doubly so if the vulnerability is the same as an old one. Triply so if there is active exploitation going on. So yes, Google is evil, for not doing immediate full public disclosure 90 days ago.
730.
by corty 6y ago
There are CAA records in DNS, but those are far too weak. The CAs are supposed to check them at issue-time. To be useful, the clients would have to check them at acceptance-time.
731.
by corty 6y ago
Browsers do a crappy job in general for any CA usecase that isn't https on public websites. Guidelines for the WebPKI are, of course, very web-centric. E.g. short lifetimes may be acceptable there. Automated frequent reissuance may be
732.
by corty 6y ago
Journalism-as-confirmation is only used by people who have a strong conviction. There are lots and lots of people undecided about an issue, reading some journalistic drivel. They are most easily influenced on that undecided issue.
733.
by corty 6y ago
You buy support contracts and software from Microsoft so you don't have to care. If Microsoft fails like in this case, you just shouldn't give them money. In all cases, no need to ask anyone but Microsoft for a workaround or other
734.
by corty 6y ago
Any grace period for actively exploited bugs is irresponsible. Stuff that the bad guys use needs to be public asap.
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by corty 6y ago
There is a world of difference between "job" (try to do it properly) and "responsibility" (you are on the hook if things go wrong). If the order came from above and you pointed out the problems, it might still be your jo
736.
by corty 6y ago
OK, yes, if you are the IT dept, you are on the hook. At least if you are the ones who picked windows. But maybe you didn't and strategically protested the directive to use windows that came from up above. Then again, you don't re
737.
by corty 6y ago
At work, when windows is corporate policy, you do not need to care about exploits. It is literally other peoples' problem.
738.
by corty 6y ago
Youth
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by corty 6y ago
Install 0 clicks, uninstall 3 clicks plus slight annoyance. Multiply by whatever autoinstall Windows Store crap Microsoft is pushing at any given time.
740.
by corty 6y ago
From the same era, I still remember Excite Extreme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw9x5us4ZM4 Not useful, except for the bling factor. 3D VR search in 1998!
741.
by corty 6y ago
Correlation does not equal causation.
742.
by corty 6y ago
Friends go away, die, disappoint you. Friendship isn't worth the maintenance and ending of it, for every minute it might make your life better (and doubtfully so) you will get two minutes of misery. The only semi-reliable friends are f
743.
by corty 6y ago
GoT isn't realistic in the way that the cultures of Westeros are "real" or "realistic". Many analogies and parallels to historical cultures are stereotypical at best. But GoT is (more) realistic (than other TV shows
744.
by corty 6y ago
Wait until the cloud-fan downvote brigade hears of your post. I can already hear them stirring...
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by corty 6y ago
> shouldn't play a role. Until it does. Some future MacOS may need support of some new architecture feature, then it'll be "better buy an Arm13 mac if you want to run MacOS 2023!". Apple doesn't have a very good
746.
by corty 6y ago
Reasonable is relative to what you want to do: Cloud instances are only cheap if your machines are usually idle, and you overprovisioned your datacenter massively. Cloud instances are only cheap if there is no great amount of output/in
747.
by corty 6y ago
Linux ran on 512 processor Altix machines more than a decade ago already.
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by corty 6y ago
Nice hardware, but if I order a hundred, how many will I get? Arm servers so far have been vaporware, only available in single-digit quantities after a very long wait. There is a new announcement every half year or so by one firm or the oth
749.
by corty 6y ago
Well, absurdely high isn't really true, it is quite similar to e.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/pricing There is a some up/down depending on various rebates, volume licenses, support i
750.
by corty 6y ago
Support. Commercial software packages that you may want to run often come with a list of supported operating systems which usually only includes RedHat and maybe SuSE. Ubuntu and Debian are rarely officially supported. And although you usua

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