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by gh02t 6y ago
I used a 30 meter Amazon branded fiber cable for the main run with 10gtek SFP+ modules and 10gtek direct attach copper cables for the short connections. Both are fairly affordable, and the 10 gig fiber SFPs were much cheaper than I expected
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by gh02t 6y ago
Yeah I like MSG and use it at home. But I don't want it to be the only thing I taste. I really couldn't taste any other seasonings except maybe a bit of pepper.
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by gh02t 6y ago
I swear I remember KFC being delicious, though that may be rose tinted glasses. I went a few weeks ago for the first time in a long time and the chicken just tastes like MSG without much else. It was really disappointing for something that
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by gh02t 6y ago
10 gigabit is slowly becoming more practical, led largely by Mikrotik making a 4 port SFP+ 10gigE switch for $140. I just upgraded my home network to have 10gig on my NAS and my primary desktop workstation, the possibilities it opens up are
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by gh02t 6y ago
I think OP's point is that pop science reporting is more than "sometimes." Keeping up with controversial theories is fine, often ideas that turn out to be revolutionary are controversial, but it's important not to get a
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by gh02t 6y ago
It might not be worth it to organize a big order nowadays, PCB fabrication is already super cheap. JLCPCB (and others, but I have the most experience with them) will do 5 boards for $2 + shipping and the first order gets free shipping. I&#x
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by gh02t 6y ago
Yeah, this is basically what I do as well, I didn't mean to imply it is all or nothing. The practical solution is tiered backup of the stuff you really care about + some local fault tolerance for stuff you don't care about as much
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by gh02t 6y ago
I mean, is this controversial? The problem for a budget conscious home user is: where do you back up to? Doing a complete backup to a remote storage provider isn't a practical option for many users, which leaves the affordable options
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by gh02t 6y ago
Services like Bandcamp are working on a similar premise to that, but it's stuck in a bit of a catch-22. They need a lot of cash to sign licensing deals with the sort of big ticket artists that attract the numbers of mainstream customer
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by gh02t 6y ago
There's been a whole ecosystem of homebrew Kindle software on and off for a while, some of which add some nice functionality like a better PDF reader. Not sure about current status of efforts, but I played around with it a few years ag
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by gh02t 6y ago
ZFS can use that many drives, but it's not a distributed filesystem so it's intended to use within a single server. For 100 disks (or some arbitrarily large number) I'd assume you want something distributed, in which case ZFS
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by gh02t 6y ago
Regarding privacy issues, IMO if that's a problem you've screwed up big time. Stuff like lights should only use local control and not be tied into the cloud or at least it should be optional, and any lights should fall back to wor
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by gh02t 6y ago
I've also noticed this on my Google Home/Nest Hub, where it has an effect where it adjusts the image on screen to match the color temperature of the ambient light. It makes for a really weird (albeit pleasant) effect that to my ey
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by gh02t 6y ago
Based on the article I don't think those are the problem. I think the new Apple silicon is distinct enough that it needs a bit of porting effort to get a Fortran compiler running, along with the issue of quirks in handling NaN payloads
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by gh02t 6y ago
Tons of software are still using Fortran in the scientific/numerical world. NumPy and SciPy, for example, also make extremely heavy use of Fortran. As would many things that rely on BLAS/LAPACK. It's not just legacy code, eit
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by gh02t 6y ago
Yeah, stuff like Tvheadend and MythTV have been around since forever (MythTV came about the same year as Slingbox started development). Just need a basic whitebox computer with a TV tuner/capture card to host, though last I looked into
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by gh02t 6y ago
At least superficially it looks like it might be the same basic keyboard as the official Raspberry Pi keyboard that they already had. If so the experience is... not great but not horrible. It's not the worst chiclet keyboard I've
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by gh02t 6y ago
Very true, I could have it much worse. Honestly Comcast isn't that bad, but I deeply resent their ridiculous bandwidth cap when their service is so expensive.
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by gh02t 6y ago
As someone who recently (-ish) moved to Oak Ridge, TN where we still have shitty Comcast and AT&T service I really wish we had what Chattanooga has. I love the area, but I do not love the internet service providers I have to choose from
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by gh02t 6y ago
OP's linked to the relay board carrier Olimex makes but that is not really the right one, they probably meant to link this: https://www.olimex.com/Products/IoT/ESP8266/MOD-WIFI-ESP8266... It's an op
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by gh02t 6y ago
I mean they've been doing the physical incarnation of Google Assistant for a while now; it predates Homepod by more than a year. There's no arguing that Google is anything but capricious and loaded with privacy issues, but I think
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by gh02t 6y ago
Eh, this is not exactly true. Digital traffic, even encrypted, is easily recognizable unless the protocol is explicitly designed to look like noise (which is very uncommon/unheard of). It's true that encrypted data is (ideally) di
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by gh02t 6y ago
Hotspots really help with that. Even if there are no repeaters near you a cheap hotspot will let you hop on digital and talk to people all around the world with minimal fuss. People complain that it's not "real" amateur radio
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by gh02t 6y ago
On VHF and UHF. Depends on area, but there are at least as many digital repeaters as analog on VHF/UHF where I live and hotspots are also popular.
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by gh02t 6y ago
Ideally you'd like to understand the mechanism so that you can isolate and optimize the the effect, as well as predict possible interactions/side effects.
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by gh02t 6y ago
I hardly use mine, but still feel like I have to keep it around for things that only take forms and documents in physical form. I end up using mine like once a year, but when I do use it it's usually something that has to be printed.
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by gh02t 6y ago
A combination of routing the power elsewhere in the grid when possible and banks of gigantic (shipping container sized) dummy loads. As other people have noted, you don't need to dissipate the full amount of power all at once, you test
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by gh02t 6y ago
The lattice melting is probably not a major issue, you just have to cool it to remove the heat as it's generated. At a basic level you face the same problem in a fission reactor and the solution is straightforward -- extract the heat i
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by gh02t 6y ago
Not sure about the low power output. With the caveat that I'm a nuclear engineer but not a fusion expert, from what I understand the deuterium density is actually quite high compared to plasma-based systems like tokamaks. NASA's
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by gh02t 6y ago
As noted by another commenter, this is a significant result but overall still very early. It's still not even clear if it can be used for energy production at all and there is a lot of work to be done before that will even be worth ask

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