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by forkfork 3y ago
No specific experience with Oracle Cloud, but contract bullying on other products has led me to blacklist Oracle personally.
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by forkfork 4y ago
The author is one of the most influential NFT critics: e.g. https://amp.smh.com.au/business/companies/extortion-why-web3...
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by forkfork 4y ago
I work for a non-Heroku tech vendor, and I have always spoken highly of Heroku to my customers from my past experience of going all-in on Heroku, and receiving a top quality of support from Heroku back in 2017-2019. I'm going to point
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by forkfork 5y ago
The bottleneck is gunzipping & deserializing a huge JSON object using a very slow language (Node.js). This was attempting to simulate the type of load I see in the wild, rather than serving "Hello world" using C++.
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by forkfork 5y ago
Yep! Inefficient, but it is what I have, and there is no risk to frying my moderately expensive laptop which I hope to keep running for many years.
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by forkfork 5y ago
Good point. There is: a HFC modem & 2x Google Wifi access points. Totals to about 15W of energy use - which only leaves enough energy budget for a Raspberry Pi.
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by forkfork 5y ago
I’ll iterate towards a good solution. This was a somewhat realistic but naive solution (I have customers doing largely what I’ve described in the article). If I could find a way to encourage people to run their work in a power efficient way
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by forkfork 5y ago
I’ll try to measure this. I guess I need to purchase a shunt.
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by forkfork 5y ago
Mostly clouds and rain bring this down to 600Wh/day. Washed the bird poo off the panel to get an extra 2 watts.
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by forkfork 5y ago
Author here - I’m learning as I go. I thought of talking a out the actual sunlight starting at closer to 1300W and losing efficiency at each step, but I don’t get have the right tools to do that properly. I’d def love to hear your suggestio
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by forkfork 5y ago
Intentionally inefficient. I’ve seen a number of my customers doing this pattern, working with ~10 meg JSON for the model layer. Inefficient but not unrealistic outside of FAANG.
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by forkfork 5y ago
3 hours comes from averaging the daily power generation my Victron MPPT reports. I’m using a 200 watt panel and it reports and average of 600Wh since I set it up a month ago.
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by forkfork 5y ago
Author here, you are correct, not tuned. Will try your suggestions! Much appreciated.
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How much load can be served from 1m² of sunlight(medium.com)
186 points by forkfork 5y ago|138 comments
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by forkfork 8y ago
Luxury Escapes | Senior Engineer (JS) | Onsite Sydney, Australia | Full Time We curate/negotiate high quality holiday packages, and have built up a pretty large customer base of people who seem to like us (>$300m a year). We're
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by forkfork 9y ago
Lux Group | Mid-Level Javascript Developer | JS/React/Node.js | Sydney, Australia | Onsite Greenfield work in ecommerce - luxury holidays & experiences. https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/lux-gr
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by forkfork 9y ago
I'm a huge fan of these simple projects that are not attempting to create a company, but instead sharing a useful tool. A similar one I put together last year for my own uses: http://textdash.xyz/