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by foobarian 6mo ago
Not sure how Hetzner works, but do they have IDRAC type access to their servers and/or remote hands available to fix stuff? Guess you'd be on the hook for that sort of thing here, making the Hetzner price more appealing if they do
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by foobarian 6mo ago
I got into software because being an introvert, I always had trouble dealing with people and here were computers that always unquestioningly and faithfully obeyed all commands and that level of control always appealed to me. Yet I like plan
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by foobarian 7mo ago
It's worth mentioning that in many cases there is also the incentive to get away from Google's stranglehold on incoming traffic. Every app install is a path to your product that does not go through Google's SEO or SEM funnel
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by foobarian 7mo ago
My cynical take is that the 20th century exhausted the major scientific discoveries that move various global needles, and now doing well at fostering science matters less. In the past, if you neglected your institutes and academia, what hap
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by foobarian 7mo ago
> Batteries have gotten so cheap Any pointers for a regular Joe Shmoe homeowner looking for a backup battery? The Tesla Power Wall stuff and similar costs are halfway to six figures.
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by foobarian 7mo ago
If they manage to bag a platinum asteroid all bets are off
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by foobarian 7mo ago
You jest, but I ended up getting a lot of use out of being able to do this in software for a dimmable LED lamp. Dimming the LED required PWM, and the potentiometer resistance -> PWM frequency map ended up fairly intricate to make the kn
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by foobarian 7mo ago
I picture a scene with Richard Crenna knocking on our old fogey's cabin door to ask us to come out of retirement and help hand-optimize software in this new environment
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by foobarian 7mo ago
> sink two or three tankers to shut the whole thing down. How so? The narrowest point is still 20 miles wide. Is there a deepwater lane that's narrower than that, but still impacted with a wreck?
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by foobarian 7mo ago
I stayed away from the management track but friends who didn't tell me one of the metrics they are graded on is retention, i.e. if your reports leave at a more than average rate you will have a problem.
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by foobarian 7mo ago
My favorite aspect of it is the keyboard shortcuts. It makes things so much faster.
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by foobarian 7mo ago
But, isn't the albedo of a solar panel farm still way dark? It means the radiation is still being captured rather than reflected back up.
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by foobarian 7mo ago
I think the problem is every tribe/nation/area has a percent of psychopaths (the estimates are 1 in 25), and if they run unchecked they end up doing evil things. This can then echo as the other side seeks retribution, etc. It ta
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Mi smo Titovi, Tito je naš!
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Kusturica's movie "Underground" captures the Yugoslav vibe quite vividly, highly recommend
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by foobarian 7mo ago
I can't take seriously any talk about performance if the tools are going to shell out. It's just not a bottleneck.
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by foobarian 7mo ago
I keep wondering why we can't have 2000s software on today's hardware. Maybe because browsers are de facto required to build apps?
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by foobarian 7mo ago
I love it when I get my Robloxhead daughter to test drive some of the games I play on my 5090 box. "Ooooh these graphics are unreal" "Can we stop for just a moment and admire this grass" :-D
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by foobarian 7mo ago
The really awesome thing about the 1/10 power consumption is that the existing circuits/wiring/sockets now suddenly support 10x the light without burning down your house. I'm a sucker for well lit space and these lights
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Only allowing TCP will break a lot of stuff. I was wondering why even bother with the transport layer, instead of just focusing on IP directly
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Same, I find shared history not very useful. However what I do find useful is eternal history. It's doable with some .bashrc hacks, and slow because it's file based on every command, but: - never delete history - associate histor
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by foobarian 7mo ago
How about don't call stuff that travels faster than sound a "fasterthansoundic missile" if you don't want people to confuse it with all other old stuff that also travels faster than sound!
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by foobarian 7mo ago
I was just thinking how much this situation benefits China and their solar power industry.
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by foobarian 7mo ago
My biggest problem with a service like pest control is I can't tell what it does. I'm not talking about getting rid of a hornet nest or squirrels in the attic, I'm talking about the door-to-door salespeople who want you to s
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by foobarian 7mo ago
And Greek! Don't forget Greek -emacs user
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by foobarian 7mo ago
> I find LLMs useful in regurgitating one-liners that I can’t be bothered to remember I found LLMs make a fabulous frontend for git :-D
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Makes you wonder. Coffee is tasty, so we drink it, and find out much later it also has these awesome side effects. What if there are plants out there that have even better health effects, but we'll never get decades worth of data on
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Sadly it's fairly common in the Northeast as far as I could tell while househunting in the 2010s and 2020s
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Sadly I think it's kind of accepted by this point that overnight charging is a prerequisite to a good experience with an EV.
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by foobarian 7mo ago
0.0021. I find it helps to bob your head around like when you are watching your food in the microwave

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