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by iso1631 11mo ago
These are in the UK as HMOs and widely used, and are known for a lot of abuse by landlords. They have stemmed part of the population problem but they still rise to massive costs. Even 20 years ago I knew the bottom of the bracket were not j
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by iso1631 11mo ago
I learned that with crowdstrike. It completely changed my understanding of what's important for C-Suite and C-Suite wannabes that want to be in middle management
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Depends on what your goal is -- minimal downtime or minimal blame A 5 hour outage when headlines say "the internet is broken" may well be preferable to a 5 minute outage related to your far simpler and far more resilient setup
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Or colocate your bare metal in two or three data centres for resilience against environmental issues and single supplier.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
The universe isn't really expanding from a single point though, not in the sense that objects were flung away from that point into a vacuum like the objects in this simulation
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Absolutely, however that's not really going to significantly change the global energy demand. It may well eventually free up a decent amount of brainpower to more worthwhile things. Remember though, most of HN users are funded from ad
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Flat Earth News, by Nick Davies, covered this in a 2008 book. He called it Churnalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churnalism
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Could be because the driver seat is a little higher, but the poing being that ripping out the maps screen isn't going to help
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Starlink has other issues. I have locations in London I can get to specific geostationary satellites, but can't use starlink there as there isn't much sky coverage
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by iso1631 11mo ago
The cost is having the satellite systems in place, working, and available. You don't save money by not using the tiny amount of bandwidth when it isn't "an emergency"
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by iso1631 11mo ago
There are two companies on HN which get massive amounts of support from poster fanboys - cloudflare and tailscale. It used to be apple.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
It's like saying you should buy volcano insurance after you get hit by a volcano
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Which will increase demand Driving can push up the low points (charge cars overnight), but heating would put a lot of demand in winter months, meaning a day time cold day in January with no wind will require a lot of dispatchable electricit
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by iso1631 11mo ago
I find it easier to drive my wife's modern car with all that than my 2005 car which has barely any internal lights (dim light around the speedo, dim light on the radio) You're not wrong, but it's a minor contribution at most.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
In the country you need decent lights on the road to spot the potholes, animals, and people. And of course you get pedestrian traffic, especially at this time of year when people are walking dogs after getting home from work. The problem is
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by iso1631 11mo ago
And HN users love it too. I've had people on this site say how great it is that their system routes 30% of traffic on the internet. I'd be horrified. That's not the internet or computing industries I grew up with, or started
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by iso1631 11mo ago
You are linking a nursery rhyme which is older than the USA to "Modern Upbringing". That's an odd example.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
That's about here, although the town is only a 10 minute drive. And people moan that some kids get taxis to school, because the government has decided that it's not worth operating a school closer than 5 miles, but when you need t
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by iso1631 11mo ago
At home I use 15,000kWh of oil for heating each year (about 10kWh per litre, 1500 litres), and 8,000kWh of electricity (we use a lot more than the average household). For driving that's another 5000kWh a year if at 4 miles per kWh. So
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Not grid following inverters, or "any DC source", as we saw in Spain in Summer
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by iso1631 11mo ago
One thing which is needed too is spinning load, the grid depends on having enough inertia to maintain the frequency. Flywheels I assume would do that.
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by iso1631 11mo ago
I'm interested in how they measure that downtime. If you're down for 200 milliseconds, does that accumulate. How do you even measure that you're down for 200ms. (For what it's worth, for some of my services, 200ms is cer
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by iso1631 11mo ago
The guardrails clearly don't help. A computer can not be held accountable, so who is held accountable?
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by iso1631 11mo ago
There's two aspect of "country" relative to somewhere like London. There's an estate in various towns, where there's plenty of actual public space, playing fields and grounds, walk into town, to shops, bus/trai
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by iso1631 11mo ago
Except LLMs provide this data all the time https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/ai-chatbots-easily-manipula...
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by iso1631 1y ago
Unchecked capitalism inevitably leads to a lack of competition, it's just a matter of who gets the benefits. The west went wrong when it stopped checking capitalism
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by iso1631 1y ago
I've only encountered a fritzbox in Germany, it's amazing how ubiquitous they are in Germany, yet so unknown elsewhere in Europe let alone elsewhere.
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by iso1631 1y ago
Whether you or I want it or not is irrelevant Over the last 5000 years it's been very rare for plebs to have any privacy. For a brief period from ww2 through to the early 21st century power shifted to the plebs, but since the 1980s tha
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by iso1631 1y ago
plebiscite -> populism -> bad outcomes People are not able to be experts in everything they are asked to vote on, thats why we delegate it, just like people delegate their healthcare, plumbing, flying to a holiday destination, growing
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by iso1631 1y ago
On paper the UK house of commons can pass a bill. In reality bills are driven by the executive. The same executive that (until brexit) drove the bills via appointing the EU commissioner and being the EU council. The reason that EU Parliamen

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