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by kalleboo 7mo ago
The nice thing is Sweden has lots of hydro, which works as natural long-term energy storage. Every bit of solar you generate means water is kept in the dam for use later in the year. You also can't ignore wind power which should be par
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
"Code points" isn't enough. Characters like ö can be represented in de-composed (¨+o) or composed (ö) form. Even Hangul supports decomposition. Unicode defines rules you can implement to normalize these, but they change betwe
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
It's clear that there is a huge bias depending on how the question is phrased. All those conservatives who say that political violence is unacceptable would answer differently if it's phrased in terms relative to the second amendm
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
I've also never seen a link to Facebook or Instagram but I wouldn't deny they're extremely popular. (last time I saw a link to Facebook was probably when Carmack was blogging there)
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
If it no longer matters by lunch then it never mattered to begin with.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
The example of a lawnmower fuel gauge only lasting for 6 months due to a non-replaceable battery would definitely fall under the durability/repairability clause. It would count as a defect that existed at the point of manufacturing, no
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
> were already IPv6 a long time ago for the most part so it's really a non issue "IPv4 is all we need because half the internet is already on IPv6 anyway" sounds like a weird argument to me.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
It makes everything slower and more expensive.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Imagine being able to make a voice call to a friend without paying for a middle-man to proxy the traffic completely unnecessarily.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
IPv4 came out in 1982 and was designed for every device to have a unique public address. Protocols like FTP were designed to literally pass an IP address to connect directly to. As addresses started running out, the NAT RFC was published in
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
They were offering financing on new machines with the Apple Card as far back as the 1980's. Take home your new Apple IIe system the same day! https://www.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Appl
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
> I have multiple static IPv4 addresses and they have suited me just fine for decades IPv6 is for the people (countries, continents) who did not get in early on the IPv4 address gold rush. Your take is basically "got mine, F you&q
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Google.com is a lot better at searching YouTube than YouTube is at searching YouTube
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
I mean Apple had a GPU-accelerated GUI in 1990, but probably not what we think of "GPU accelerated" these days https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Apple_Macintosh_Display_Card_8-...
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
> crazy things like run an NFS server over the internet Is that so crazy? If 10G was the default, you could just plop a cheap NAS at home and nobody would need to pay monthly subscriptions for cloud services.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Does New York have great home fiber infrastructure?
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
I really wish Elon had sold off the Japanese side of X to Yahoo/Softbank. He could probably have made back everything he spent on it in the first place and then it could be its own thing.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
57 Channels And Nothin' On
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Hole-punching tricks work fine. They don't work at all of both users are behind IPv4 NAT/CGNAT.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
If a flight had in-flight Wi-Fi that cost $50 you'd pay for it? Most people I know balk at $10 even on an intercontinental flight
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
There are third party tools like BetterDisplay that unlock it as an option https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
They still use antialiasing, just not sub-pixel antialiasing.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Lightning had the contact springs in the phone, USB-C has the contact springs on the cable. This is the part that wears out, and USB-C moving to the cable is an improvement. Throughout its life, Lightning suffered from "black pin plagu
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
> what is the advantage of using a 7680x4320 buffer? Everything is drawn at twice the width and height - and then gets scaled down to half the width and height. Is there actually a good reason to do this? Text rendering looks noticeabl
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Where I live, the benefit of IPv6 is it's a lot faster than IPv4. All of IPv4 goes through various centralized tunnels and CG-NAT which adds bottlenecks and latency.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
I use a Mac which has really good memory management but still seeing that 10 GB of my SSD is clogged up with useless crap just because modern development systems are complete and utter crap feels bad. March is "MARCHintosh" month
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
What I always read was that Apple did not want to be stuck relying only on Motorola again like they were with the 680x0. And it worked out, kinda, Apple had IBM to rely on to make the G5 (until IBM also lost interest) I remember reading tha
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
And that's even coming from the IEA who have a pessimistic track record around predictions for renewable technology https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4E12AQE79Zr-GUVJcQ/art...
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
It sounds like what's meant by "public parking lots" is "government parking lots" https://view.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2025081311085933266
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Our Mitsubishi heat pump water heater has integration with some solar systems and weather services to attempt to time hot water production to solar peak. We don't have solar panels but have a solar energy plan (cheap during the day, ex

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