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by hughrr 5y ago
It’s definitely a legend. The amount of usable power you can extract from a radio signal is minuscule even fairly close to a transmitter. The incident radiation on his property was definitely nowhere even near watts let alone hundreds of
572.
by hughrr 5y ago
There a video of someone burning one on YouTube https://youtu.be/pkvQ-BJD2rU
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by hughrr 5y ago
It was a love hate relationship with me. I had an intel MacBook Pro and hated it for a couple of years. So went and got a Ryzen based T495 thinkpad. This was pretty good but I got seduced by the M1 so jumped in. I had three major issues wit
574.
by hughrr 5y ago
You’re probably right for synthetic benchmarks. But none of my workloads work on macOS. So the point is moot. I did have an M1 MBA and mini until recently for reference.
575.
by hughrr 5y ago
I just ssh into my desktop if I need more grunt. That’s a lot faster than an M1.
576.
by hughrr 5y ago
I had a problem with the lighting in my Logitech mouse. I desoldered all the LEDs :)
577.
by hughrr 5y ago
This. Same with my ex wife. I’m now looking after the kids and have a full time job so there’s no option to take a flight or even go into the office.
578.
by hughrr 5y ago
The cheap gigabyte cards are fine. I’ve got a bottom end 1660 and it has been good. But I only use the stock nvidia drivers with it. Just the power supplies are dog crap.
579.
by hughrr 5y ago
I got screwed by Sony for a smart TV that was abandoned within a year. Then none of the streaming sticks worked on it due to HDCP compability issues. In the end I bought a broken Samsung 32" 1080p mostly dumb TV on ebay for £0.99, fixe
580.
by hughrr 5y ago
They're fucking shit. I've had to replace once twice here and it's less than 50% of the stated load. There's a Be Quiet unit in there now like the rest of the PCs in my place.
581.
by hughrr 5y ago
Yes this. Life is getting progressively better now Twitter, Reddit and Apple pissed me off. I’ve got more time, money and a healthier outlook on life. Now if only I could shake HN.
582.
by hughrr 5y ago
We’ll find a creative new stack of shit to run on it that will make it miserable again in about five minutes flat.
583.
by hughrr 5y ago
I believe the low quality low hanging fruits of my life are being slowly squeezed out by stupid corporate and government policies. But it’s a glass half full for those aware and able to see it for what it is. The end game is me sitting unde
584.
by hughrr 5y ago
It is but that assumes that the ops guys who are using it actually keep it up to date which is why we no longer use it. Always the human factors that kill something.
585.
by hughrr 5y ago
They’re not that good. I just put a ryzen desktop together which runs rings around my old M1. The killer is that I can no longer lug it to Costa.
586.
by hughrr 5y ago
Yeah we sold out our entire component manufacturing operations here to Philips in the past who then sold it on to the Chinese. Same with ARM and SoftBank. We needed to retain this stuff about 40 years ago.
587.
by hughrr 5y ago
I’ve already left. They doubled down on it straight away. Then wheeled out Craig to tell us lies. They’re not on my side. I don’t have to be their customer. The dangerous part is they have advertised this capability. Now regimes may make th
588.
by hughrr 5y ago
It's really not. The cost of production was too high compared to other markets which reduced demand. Which is exactly what happens with all government projects.
589.
by hughrr 5y ago
Indeed. Only time that happened was in East Germany and it didn’t work out too good.
590.
by hughrr 5y ago
I think the extreme cost and risk to enter the business is the key issue.
591.
by hughrr 5y ago
This is post 1.0 and without any plugins for consul. Vault has been a persistent point of failure. It’s a good idea in principle but it’s not got a good ROI
592.
by hughrr 5y ago
Easy you push the configuration to every target. Then they are logically consistent. We did this for 30 years fine before someone invented this stack on deployments much larger then the average consul or vault deployment these days. I had s
593.
by hughrr 5y ago
Look higher up the problem domain and solve it without requiring a consensus protocol.
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by hughrr 5y ago
We had some massive problems including complete cluster collapse requiring rebuilds from scratch, eternal leadership elections and occasionally nodes would just entirely stop responding to KV requests causing cascading failures outside. Vau
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by hughrr 5y ago
It uses Raft underneath as well which means there's a bunch of non-determinism and hell for anyone who invokes it as well from experience. The thing is cursed. Source: several years dealing with vault and consul.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Extrapolating my father's Model S purchase into this domain: "look I spent $50k on this android - it makes fart noises and tries to jump off the pavement into a bush every few days"
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by hughrr 5y ago
Don’t sweat it. We used to have to go to the library or book shop to do that and buy CDs which was a pain in the ass and expensive. I’d rather be an internet addict than go back to those days.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Please ignore all the other weird advice here about medication and therapy. HN has an unhealthy obsession with fixing symptoms not problems. All things in life come with practice and experience. That includes socialising with people and mak
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by hughrr 5y ago
Avid hikers are more likely to travel light and source water on the way. Me I’d rather lose a couple of kg of weight and carry it in water instead.
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by hughrr 5y ago
Completely agree. However exercise is essential for your mental and physical health so you must keep doing it. I found a weird side effect though. I lost a lot of weight. Then didn’t find exercise difficult and quite enjoyed it. Now I do a

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