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by jakedata 5y ago
Perhaps this will cut down on the fraudulent domain names being used to impersonate real companies that invariably end up being hosted on Namecheap? Support has stopped answering my tickets even when I provide all the material requested in
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by jakedata 5y ago
Starfish is getting great traction in universities and labs. It can do amazing things for storage analysis and migration across filesystems and cloud buckets. https://www.starfishstorage.com
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Yeah, but there's no "atmosphere" any more...
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Nor is greater electricity consumption strictly a downside. Using more responsibly sourced electricity could be considered a good thing if it offsets charcoal sourced from a rainforest. Dying 30 years earlier certainly can reduce your lifet
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...replying to myself here to possibly avoid being downvoted to oblivion: This is an example of sarcastic critique. The goal is to illustrate the entirely arbitrary nature of the green vs red labels given to various categories such as elect
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Oh goodie! If I lived in Chad I would use 99.9% less electricity, clearly a win. I would also die 31 years earlier - why isn't that one green too? Dying early is clearly much better for the environment than hanging around using up reso
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by jakedata 5y ago
Apparently there is now an emoji for churrascaria. Yum...
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A Navy buddy of my father took my family on a personal tour of the Smithsonian Udvar-Hazy center. We got to the Polaris missile exhibit and he paused, checked the date and appeared to do a little mental math before telling us how he spent a
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by jakedata 5y ago
My takeaway is that I will try to use the word "epiphenomenon" at least once today, probably during our morning standup.
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If that machine still exists it should be relocated to the front court of a science museum as a lesson to others.
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Unfortunately I was unable to find any video of that marvelous contraption in motion. Even if it does not violate any of the three guidelines of thermodynamics I think it might be quite pretty to watch, much like a kinetic sculpture. Perhap
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Two or more of whatever you are using to perform the calculations? I mean it won't appreciably shorten the search time but it would double the processing rate.
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Pornography, of course. Porn funded much of the Internet's growth. Eventually people found other uses for the Internet but the porn is still there.
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There seems to be some homage being paid to the old L-3 system by the company that has been named variously L-3 communications, L3 Technologies and L3Harris "for the last initials of its founders". Probably an inside joke for thos
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I found the article linked at the end to be quite informative. https://www.soundguys.com/what-is-dither-23700/ Basically you add noise to reduce noise. Fascinating...
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Here in the states we do not step 240v down to 120v. Typically a home has 240v split-phase service with 240v available L1 to L2 and 120v by using L1 or L2 to neutral. Our circuit breaker panels alternate L1 and L2 bus connections internally
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by jakedata 5y ago
One of my relatives recently lost IPv4 but not IPv6 connectivity through Comcast. She actually e-mailed me that her Internet was down. Of course GMail was the only site she used that supports IPv6, everything else was timing out. After powe
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I am a biodegradable battery.
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I still have an Imation 128 MB "floptical" drive and some disks in the back of the lab somewhere. I assume it will be critical to read such media some time in the future. Probably...
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I am assembling new storm shutters using multiwall polycarbonate sheets rather than plywood. They let light in and are much easier to handle.
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I was an early user of the .storage TLD and registered a domain for three years. Fortunately I did not build my core business around that particular domain - a new registrar took it over and wants thousands of dollars for the renewal. I don
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by jakedata 5y ago
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/power.html The website is powered entirely by solar and is currently consuming 2.44 watts. With that massive power consumption they are probably mining bitcoin too.
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https://www.fark.com/ still has snarky headlines and offbeat content but the selection of articles is quite varied, and the comment section still has quality content. Certainly better comments than the WSJ troll-fest.
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And, what is to stop the same ant from falling back down the hole again after glimpsing the sun?
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This sounds vaguely like a sci-fi premise where some sympathetic interdimensional researcher places an interdimensional yardstick (the higher dimensions use imperial units) between our isolated, diminished existence and the place where we c
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example: https://www.reddit.com/r/chia/comments/nl94th/psa_potential_...
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The interesting part is watching people learn to become junior sysadmins - running Linux for the first time, teaching themselves a bit about storage, learning some shell scripting, dealing with firewall ports. Also learning the hard way not
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I cancelled my preorder and they refunded my deposit very quickly. The killer for me was the power consumption of Dishy McFlatface and the associated router. My location is limited to solar and batteries off-grid. According to early testers
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Even cheaper material converts electricity into heat!
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Some years ago I obtained a "barn find" vehicle that still had some 1970s leaded gasoline in the tank. After much work getting things ready to run, I decided the best thing to do with the old gasoline was to install a disposable f

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