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by hedora 1y ago
If the developers can only get it to run in a pile of ubuntu containers, then it's extremely likely they haven't thought through basic things you need to operate a service, like supply chain security, deterministic builds, unit te
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by hedora 1y ago
> Kahle has been striving since 1996 to transform the Internet Archive into a digital Library of Alexandria—but “with a better fire protection plan,” joked Kyle Courtney, a copyright lawyer and librarian who leads the nonprofit eBook St
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by hedora 1y ago
Yeah, but 0-60 doesn’t really matter much for EVs at this point. Even big suv/trucks are hitting supercar numbers from a few decades ago. Cornering / handling matters. So does tire wear, and how powerful the regenerative brakin
934.
by hedora 1y ago
They’ll happily export them in car form, but the US can’t have nice things anymore.
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by hedora 1y ago
In fairness, ICE engines have been able to provide too much horsepower for those use cases for a long time. Cutting the motor weight probably matters more for smaller vehicles than bigger ones though.
936.
by hedora 1y ago
You’d need to add back in an all wheel drive powertrain. A typical drive shaft is 20 to 50 pounds (9 to 23 kilograms) The motor is high torque, so I’d expect the drive shaft to be on the heavier end of that. I’m not including the other pow
937.
by hedora 1y ago
Tangentially related: I was getting awful screen tearing in dosbox with a gl @ 4K@60hz rendering target. Switching to 1080p@240Hz fixed it. The problem was that 60Hz was close to, but not the framerate the old game asked for.
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by hedora 1y ago
Instead of using obviously corrupt measures of sustainability (that have been intentionally broken and game-able for decades) why not calculate net CO2e? (Or, better, add a toggle to the UI. That will highlight how broken carbon markets an
939.
by hedora 1y ago
Not necessarily. Take the dust bowl for example, or look at global desertification rates. We’re basically burning/eating topsoil. It’s beyond modern technology’s capabilities to manufacture/ replace topsoil, so it’s a non-rene
940.
by hedora 1y ago
The easiest approach is to charge for greenhouse gas emissions at the source. Set the price to be 2x the cost of direct air carbon capture, then put the money in a fund that pays for cheapest environmentally responsible capture first. This
941.
by hedora 1y ago
Choice of things like desktop environments matters a lot. I’m using xfce or lxde or something (I can’t tell without checking top), and responsiveness for most stuff is identical between 2010 intel and a ryzen 9. The big exceptions are thin
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by hedora 1y ago
Also, if you’re building binaries for redistribution, requiring Haswell or newer is kind of an aggressive choice. I have a box that old that can run image diffusion models (I upgraded the GPU during covid.) My point being that compiler auth
943.
by hedora 1y ago
Yet, if I write a dockerfile, and need to use perl, system perl is fine. If I need a python script, I have to arrange for all the RUN lines to live inside a virtual environment inside the container.
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by hedora 1y ago
But, why do we want to tie the agent to the user’s identity? The interface the user wants is “I pay for and obtain pizza”. The interface the pizzaria wants is “I obtain payment via credit card, and send a pizza to some physical location”.
945.
by hedora 1y ago
I don’t understand the problem they are trying to solve, and this article is long, so apologies if they actually get around to explaining. I have a credit card, and an agent. I want a pizza. These credentials do what, exactly? Prevent the
946.
by hedora 1y ago
The article says they cost ~ $0.05/kwh. Does that include installation + foundation work? Presumably, they need to anchor these pretty well to withstand 110-170mph wind. I’d guess a lot less per-site engineering (and geological surv
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by hedora 1y ago
Thanks for the summary. Note that those numbers are terrible vs. a physical disk, especially latency, which should be < 1ms read, << 1ms write. (That assumes async replication of the write ahead log to a secondary. Otherwise, writ
948.
by hedora 1y ago
We paid for minecraft java edition and have no desire to use the online features. Microsoft logs us out every damn time we close the software, which means my grade schoolers have my (now guessable) MS account password (and I scorch-earthed
949.
by hedora 1y ago
For one VM, EBS with backups gives you business continuity. You could get manual failover with a single writer replicated managed Postgres setup and a warm VM. That’s on the order of a thousand a month for a medium workload. It’s probably
950.
by hedora 1y ago
That’s like $24K a year. Assuming they have working failover and business continuity plans, it’s actually a really good deal (vs having a 10-20% time employee deal with it).
951.
by hedora 1y ago
They matter at scale, where 1% issues end up happening on a daily or weekly basis. For a startup with one rack in each of two data centers, it’s probably fine. You’ll end up testing failover a bit more, but you’ll need that if you scale an
952.
by hedora 1y ago
Their current advance offerings use AMD EPYC 4004 with on-die ECC. I can’t figure out if it’s “real” single correction double detection, or if the data lines between the processor and dimms are protected or not though.
953.
by hedora 1y ago
I’ve seen cloud slowness create weird Stockholm syndrome effects, especially around disk latency. It always makes sense to compare to back of the envelope bare metal numbers before rearchitecting your stack to work around some dumb cloud pe
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by hedora 1y ago
At another big-4 hyperscaler, we ended up with substantial downtime and a lossy migration because they didn’t know how to manage kubernetes. Microk8s doesn’t use etcd (they have their own, simpler thing), which seems like a good tradeoff a
955.
by hedora 1y ago
Reason to use AWS from the article: > You do not have the appetite to build a platform team comfortable with Kubernetes, Ceph, observability, and incident response. Has work been using AWS wrong? Other than Ceph, all those things add
956.
by hedora 1y ago
I wonder how vibe coding will impact this. You can easily get your service up by asking claude code or whatever to just do it It produces aws yaml that’s better than many devops people I’ve worked with. In other words, it absolutely should
957.
by hedora 1y ago
The security check has nothing to do with protecting trains or passengers, so your question is irrelevant.
958.
by hedora 1y ago
Legislation is required at this point. Infrastructure companies (including finance and transportation) should be required to provide web apps that have feature parity with proprietary apps. (Enforcement is simple: ban distribution of the
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by hedora 1y ago
Ubuntu controls a big voting block in debian’s organization. They forced systemd in, for example. Devuan is a good enough compromise for me. The OS is stable, and the only issues I’ve had involve hacking curl|bash scripts that fail to rea
960.
by hedora 1y ago
Ours died with a “cannot communicate with board A” error. The wiring harness (yes, an irreplaceable harness) between A and B looked fine. We replaced boards A and B, which were half the price of the machine and not returnable. Same error

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