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by extraisland 1y ago
I have some quad core celeron board integrated thing. It draws 15watts. I added a PCI-E sata which gave me 6 extra ports. I am sure you can buy better ones. I used a Fractal Node Case that has 6 drive bays. Installed TrueNAS Scale on an SSD
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by extraisland 1y ago
I know what the issues are on a large CSS codebase. I specifically mentioned them. You are over exaggerating the problems IMO. Yes it is a pain when you are left with a mess, but there are ways of dealing with that.
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by extraisland 1y ago
> I suspect, as with programming languages, some people think in a way that makes it easy for them and others think in a way that makes it hard. No that often isn't the case. What is usually the case is that people don't bother
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by extraisland 1y ago
> Intuitive function names like __new__() and __init__()? Or id() and pickle.dumps()? I use python for some basic scripting and I don't write anything huge. Most of these do roughly what I would expect. > __new__ is a static meth
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by extraisland 1y ago
No they shouldn't have done. The Browser API Implementation doesn't exist in TypeScript. It exists in the browser. TypeScript shouldn't be fixing how the browser behaves. Think about what is happening. When you build to the b
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by extraisland 1y ago
Generally most Linux distributions are literally the same thing underneath. I have recently done an LFS build (using version 12.3 of the book). The same files were in the same directories in Debian, Arch and LFS for the most part. I even ha
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by extraisland 1y ago
I feel like I could have read this article back in 2004. The main benefit is that you get to choose. The other two big operating systems don't really allow much choice. > Meanwhile, the Linux community spends enormous energy on deba
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by extraisland 1y ago
Totally agree. Dash To Dock + App Indicators seem like they should be part of Gnome. I end ups changing to the icons to Papirus as I prefer those. They make Gnome really nice to use.
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by extraisland 1y ago
People talk about politics all the time in some form or the other, in fact it wormed it way into almost everything unfortunately. So I think that just isn't true. You seem to insistent that it should be talked about at the work place,
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by extraisland 1y ago
> I dunno, at the place of work because that's where power is exercised - which is what politics is? That isn't what is commonly understood. Especially in the scope of this discussion.
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by extraisland 1y ago
> That seems like an incredibly selfish way of thinking. Not at all. Many times you will find yourself wanting to take action but it would be counter productive. e.g. I had a superior leave a bunch of papers on my desk. I assumed they we
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by extraisland 1y ago
If you need to get your power from elsewhere. This raises several issues: - This increases demand on other sources of energy. If there is a sudden change in demand you have a price spike. This leads to an increase in price to consumers. - I
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by extraisland 1y ago
> The person didn’t ask if you know, they asked if you had looked at reports. Obviously not. I said as much. I've listened to good arguments for and against it and I don't know what to believe. My comments were simply about the
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by extraisland 1y ago
> Have you looked at the government subsidies for nuclear in the UK and the massive lifetime cost? In terms of offshore wind - initially it was subsidized to get it up and running - but now it's established those have dropped and dr
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by extraisland 1y ago
It is more likely they just don't care about the oil industry and focus their attention elsewhere. I would wager that most people assume that large corporations have dirty secrets. e.g. I listen to a guy that goes exposes the conmen in
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by extraisland 1y ago
Those are the weaker arguments. In the UK, I've heard many more convincing arguments against wind power. e.g. - Often wind typically need to be subsidised heavily by the government and are not cost effective over its lifetime. - Typica
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by extraisland 1y ago
No it isn't from a specific worldview. The vast majority of people see their work as something that they need to do so they can pay the bills. Many have children to provide for. As stated in the article, you have everything to lose and
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by extraisland 1y ago
I saw a BBC archive video about AMSTRAD. AMSTRAD owned a PC manufacturer called Viglen. In the archive the CEO of Viglen was having a video call to someone offsite presumably on what looked like Windows 3.11. This was 1995. https:/&#x
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by extraisland 1y ago
It depends what you are looking for. If you care about overall price you don't buy brand new. I want something that can run an Linux, IDE and some tooling that I can stick in my bag and not care too much about it so I buy refurbs. Ofte
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by extraisland 1y ago
AMD cards are plug and play for 99% of cases with Linux now. Everything just works out of the box. The only issues you may run into if you distro doesn't include the firmware. e.g. This was the case with Debian 11 and you had to enabl
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by extraisland 1y ago
> No, some of that is horrible advice even at a healthy functional organization. You don't want to break rules silently, defiantly, or row in the opposite direction. Breaking the rules Silently/Defiantly is being a diva and tha
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by extraisland 1y ago
I've read some other posts on there. I agree the advice is dubious. There is a bunch of caveats to everything and he doesn't make it clear what caveats are. I know what those caveats are. However if you are more inexperienced you
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by extraisland 1y ago
It is a Chesterton's fence type argument. You need to understand the rules, before you know which ones you can break and when you should break them . > Plus every developer believes they're a special and insightful little pe
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by extraisland 1y ago
> The two worse pieces of advice in the article are breaking the rules and making your own decisions on what to work on. If you read some of his other pieces that are linked. There is other dubious advice and analysis on that blog. >
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by extraisland 1y ago
Is this similar to data locality? https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/data-locality.html
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by extraisland 1y ago
All of this advice here is ok as long as you work in a functional organisation. However it should be used strategically, sparingly and only when you have gained the trust of your superiors. If you work in a dysfunctional organisation I wo
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by extraisland 1y ago
I am the opposite. I've regretted every Apple computer purchase I've made. Their phones are well made - iBook g4 12 inch. GPU died. Known fault. - Mac mini. Ended up using this as a build machine for iOS. Had to replace the hardri
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by extraisland 1y ago
The consumer ones yes. The business are very reliable, and easy to repair. I always buy second hand / refurb of repairable models. I've been burned by Apple before. Not touching their stuff again.
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by extraisland 1y ago
> My experience over two decades has been that running Linux is like having a car you need to spend every weekend in the garage tinkering with to keep running well. MacOS is lower effort. It depends. I've been running Debian since 2
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by extraisland 1y ago
> Keeping windows around in any capacity takes more time. No it doesn't. I honestly not sure what people are doing when they claim this. I have to do a reinstall every 5 years. I do use chocolatey as package manager. I do run the de

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