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by jefurii 10y ago
This sentence made me want to try Emacs, all those many years ago.
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by jefurii 10y ago
You make it sound like solar farms are blocking off 100% of the solar radiation over the areas they cover. Have you actually seen any large solar installations? At the ones I've seen in the Mojave desert and Central Valley of Califor
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by jefurii 10y ago
> roofs of warehouses And parking lots.
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by jefurii 10y ago
Feels like the article was written by a pro-renewable reporter and edited by an oil-company exec. "Yeah they did it but you should be discouraged instead of hopeful."
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by jefurii 10y ago
So how long is your work going to last?
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by jefurii 10y ago
I thought this was going to be about the Long Now Foundation's 10,000 year clock.
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by jefurii 10y ago
I think the GIF sums up how lots of people are just willfully unaware of the problem.
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by jefurii 10y ago
Just to follow this to its logical conclusion, the webserver may be running Apache or Nginx on Linux, but there are likely to be proprietary blobs in the drivers and the firmware is probably closed. Plus, much of the hosting company'
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by jefurii 10y ago
I've also seen articles that focus on criticizing Wikileaks for publishing the emails containing personal information (addresses, SSNs) of donors. The real story is that the DNC was sending this information around in unencrypted email
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by jefurii 10y ago
Thank you for that, I really appreciate the effort that goes into writing these posts! Great job on the project!
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by jefurii 10y ago
Is there a text link for this? Video is such a slow medium. Edit: By this I mean that I can assimilate text faster than an equivalent amount of info delivered in video form.
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by jefurii 10y ago
I love the commentator's wording: "We'll see whether yes, we landed, or no, we've got more experimental data."
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by jefurii 10y ago
Seems oddly reminiscent of the Julian Assange case.
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by jefurii 10y ago
Hey at least you don't have to worry about Russian mycotoxins or hundreds of megabytes of illicit data stashed in your head, and you're probably staying somewhere nicer than Cheap Hotel.
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by jefurii 10y ago
William Gibson articulated some of the metaphors and mental imagery that became a significant way that non-technical people came to understand computing and the internet in the 1990s.
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by jefurii 10y ago
You're right, uplink is pretty much useless if you're only consuming Netflix. I guess I'm still infected by 90s-era ideals about the internet being a place for the free exchange of information, where any tech-savvy person sh
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by jefurii 10y ago
Yawn, only checks download speed.
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by jefurii 10y ago
And pick up that can while you're at it.
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by jefurii 10y ago
Time to check/update the earthquake supplies again...
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by jefurii 10y ago
No, the idea that the city should have to provide roads, utilities, etc to a huge, rich corporation and get nothing back for their trouble is terrible.
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by jefurii 11y ago
> Vastly more costly than pumped water, high upkeep costs. I dunno, large areas of land, large earthmoving equipment, and the labor to turn it into a pumped-water storage system are all pretty expensive too.
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by jefurii 11y ago
The real problem is all the alfalfa and the cows. Per pound of protein/carbs/whatever, cows consume way more water than pretty much any plant. And much of our alfalfa is just being shipped to China.
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by jefurii 11y ago
TLDNR Excess renewable energy is fed to electric rail cars which move boxes of rocks up a slope. When renewables are not producing power the rail cars roll down the slope and regenerative braking produces power. A very creative combination
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by jefurii 11y ago
I initially read this as "BMW Windmills".
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by jefurii 11y ago
Unfortunately not a review of Leiji Matsumoto's "Galaxy Express 999", or of Kenji Miyazawa's "Night on the Galactic Railroad", or even the wonderful animated film based on the latter. Even so, it's a nice
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by jefurii 11y ago
Maybe part of this deal is MS agreeing not to patent-troll Canonical?
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by jefurii 11y ago
It's also highly irresponsible to base our economy on carbon-based fuel that we know for a fact is in the process of making our planet unlivable. Sounds like a good idea to switch from enery sources that are in fact killing people to
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by jefurii 11y ago
DuckDuckGo has !github, !gh, !ghcode, and !gist. https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=github
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by jefurii 11y ago
Can't find the link now but I remember a computer educator in the UK describing how he taught the command-line to a bunch of seniors. They had been complaining about how difficult it was to follow all the crazy windows popping up every
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by jefurii 11y ago
Saturn.

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