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by fbdab103 3y ago
>...while energy consumption has been growing enormously over the last 10 years. Unless I am grossly misreading this chart[0], it looks like US energy consumption has been flat since 2000 at ~100 quadrillion BTUs. Which would align with
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Do they publish the questions/data anywhere? Would love to have an informal competition among similarly minded friends. Of course, I would try to do it in Pandas and get crushed.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
>We have essentially perfect audio codecs, if only we could get people to use them What audio codecs should we be using?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Indeed. According to this in 2022[0], Stack Overflow is still running off of 9 web servers. [0] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/stack-overflow-st...
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by fbdab103 3y ago
+1 to Alconox. That stuff is just amazingly effective. A little goes a long way, so if you buy a container, it can last you a long time.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I consider it good practice to run anything from itch within a VM. That's just good digital hygiene.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
If the software side no longer mattered, I would expect all three vendors would magically start competing on available RAM. A slower card with double today's RAM would absolutely sell.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I have taken to running this anytime I start a jupyter notebook using more than a trivial amount of data. It has only fired off a couple of times, but I have been grateful for the safety net. Anytime I can consume my 64G of ram, I was proba
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by fbdab103 3y ago
It also has a mind-boggling 12 seasons, which is going to shoot up the total hours watched.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Now that seems needlessly elaborate. I am willing to imagine some amount of implausible hi-jinks occur when you are trying to make a death look like an accident. A car chase plus explosion does nothing to conceal the plot. Why not gun them
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Given the relative infrequency with which high level leaders die in office, it does feel like these assassination tools are more James Bond than real world. Seems more straight-forward to arrange a car accident.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
There was a story in 2015[0] where someone was able to reproduce the fingerprints of the German defense minister from a photograph. >Jan Krissler, known in hacker circles as Starbug, used commercial software called VeriFinger and several
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I get technology is always advancing, but I do wonder what the landscape will look like in 10 years when a lot of these patents start to expire. As a consumer, it feels like we have been hitting diminishing returns for a while now. Sure, th
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by fbdab103 3y ago
>Also in 1997, the facility was renamed Qualcomm Stadium after Qualcomm Corporation paid $18 million for the naming rights.[8] The naming rights belonged to Qualcomm until 2017, after which the rights were purchased by San Diego County C
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by fbdab103 3y ago
That heroin is illegal and prosecuted is going to massively skew the number of people who are likely ever try it or could develop a safe habit around it.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
People complain about credit card fees in the range of 2%. 30% lost to the ether could absolutely kill some otherwise profitable ideas in the crib.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
If the profitability situation is about to change, seems like a poor time to reveal killer ideas.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I thought this was the case where Google execs deliberately went off the record to avoid having their chats recorded for discovery. Hiding documents during a legal hold does not make the justice system happy. Unless I am confusing trials, t
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Ah duh, keep the public part on the device. However, that very quickly gets into the problem of untested backups. I am then relying completely upon a private key which has never been validated to work.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Big fan of WH40k as the exemplar of massive scale. This article[0] defines a super volcano as >The size of volcanic eruptions can be expressed by the volume or mass of magma released (table 1), with super-eruptions yielding in excess of
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Given what would likely be billions of dollars to build such a plant, I am not sure why the transmission infrastructure is more than a footnote on the project. There is a lot of engineering know-how on moving electricity large distances. Le
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by fbdab103 3y ago
No FUD intended, was genuinely asking. I recalled this 2018 article[0] titled, "The default OpenSSH key encryption is worse than plaintext" and was wondering if it is still true. Safe practices are a moving target. One on which I
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I must be missing something. If this novel key only exists inside my backups, it is not registered with any external services, and it cannot be used in the event the primary key is lost. For me to register the backup-only key with other ser
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by fbdab103 3y ago
While it is perhaps a hamfisted way to approach security, I am getting closer and closer to installing Qubes OS onto my personal machine. A VM boundary between profiles seems the most practical way of keeping private data on my machine. Eve
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by fbdab103 3y ago
It is about being prepared for disaster. If I use ten services registered with my private key, and the single authenticated hardware device goes poof (dies/lost/stolen) -is there an out of band mechanism for me to regain access on
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by fbdab103 3y ago
>Because secrets in the Secure Enclave are not exportable, they are not able to be backed up, and you will not be able to transfer them to a new machine. If you get a new Mac, just create a new set of secrets specific to that Mac. I cons
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Does ssh-keygen use a good/modern algorithm by default? My unfounded suspicion is that owing to its age and backwards compatibility, the password could be brute-forced on a modern GPU. Would love to hear differently. Edit: To put it di
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by fbdab103 3y ago
That right there is the real winner. I already get queasy when my dependency list gets too long. Invoking an extra collection for what is mostly developer quality of life is not a trade-off I like to make.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Neat trick, but I still desperately wish that there was a way (I certainly cannot ascertain how) to copy the QR code contents without opening the link. As far as I can tell, iPhone will only give you the option to open in Safari if it is a
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Woof, those charts say to me that recreational dosing amount is probably all over the place. Variability on species + drying + stem vs cap percentage + accuracy of consumer scale = no consistency between doses.

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