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by mnw21cam 4y ago
No, that sort of thing only matters if you're going to have a lot of people watching the video.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
That's not hard. On my backup server, I have an account with a restricted shell that my backed-up machine has an ssh key for. That restricted shell is simply the following script: #!/bin/bash cd ~/backups tar --r
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Sibling comments point out some pretty serious conditions that have been caused by antibiotic resistance. However, antibiotic resistance is more likely to cause isolated problems than pandemics. We haven't had antibiotics for very long
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
There's definitely a benefit to placing a decent telescope outside the asteroid belt. From Earth, we get a lot of light reflected from the Sun from dust orbiting somewhere between Earth and 2 AU from the Sun, which pollutes our space i
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
A lot of people think that computer science is just a branch of maths. But when I was doing my doctorate, I was a computer scientist, and my three supervisors were a mathematician, an engineer, and a meteorologist. The difference between us
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Plus you can also use the waste heat from the power plant to heat some more homes.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Yeah, I hate this. The title (with the words "cold climate"), the numbers (below 20 degrees) and then talking about Finland (where degrees are definitely Centigrade) just creates too much cognitive dissonance. If you're writi
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The pan doesn't have a heating coil in it - it's just a solid slab of metal. However, that acts like a single turn of wire in a "coil" shorted out.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
TBH, I don't care if your names are cute or descriptive, but for the love of God, can they please be Google-unique? I don't want to search for a particular software tool and end up getting loads of results about hamsters.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It's specifically and explicitly illegal. You can't distinguish service based on consent, because then your consent is no longer consent, it's extortion.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
> Maybe then they'll be replaced with more honest business models. Which, incidentally, can include opting in to ads based on personal data if that is what people knowingly choose. The GDPR requires that consent to use of personal d
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It doesn't matter to the person using the software.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
There are no sensible storage methods that would allow you to store enough energy from summer to make any reasonable contribution towards winter. Batteries a great for powering your house for a few days. Not really beyond that. Unless you b
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The dark asphalt has stored heat, and is in good thermal contact with the bottom of the snow. Grass insulates the snow from the ground.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
But they'll produce for less time each day in the winter.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
There might have been solar optimisers in there as well. They're one per panel, and they're expensive, but they tend to be pushed by installers.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It varies. A lot of solar installers will push the benefits of microinverters or optimisers, because they can make your system cope better with partial shading or panel failure. However, the microinverters or optimisers are expensive, and c
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I would suggest the Debian Project and similar distributions as a fairly good scaffold on which to build such a system. All it needs is a notarisation mechanism, so certify that a person has had eyes on the code and says that it is ok. Plus
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Nice. On an aside, I'd recommend the YouTube channel Huygens Optics https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics for all sorts of stuff to do with grinding decent optics.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
While we're talking alternative LoTRs, it's worth having a look at The DM Of The Rings https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=612 which manages to use all stills from the LoTRs films and tell a comple
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Try consent-o-matic instead. It allows you to select the level of consent that you want to give web sites. I currently have it set to none, and I haven't seen a consent dialogue for a long time.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Terms and conditions do not override law. Coerced consent is not consent. By law, the user experience must not be different based on whether the user has or has not given consent for tracking. Registration implies consent to process informa
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
This should be very simple. If the cat doesn't have a microchip or a collar/nametag, then it should be fine.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
This is a massively insightful comment, thanks. It also describes a world I never want to live in.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The standard PC floppy drive (if you can still find one of those) is technically incapable of reading Amiga disks because the method to encode bits is different, and the PC floppy drive does the decoding in hardware before the software gets
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Seriously, what is it with wireless? My printer connects to my computer via USB.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Turbine blades are the bits that whizz around really fast and are subject to extremes of temperature and force. Established engine manufacturers go to interesting lengths to make turbine blades made of interesting materials like single crys
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
> US banning any social media is bad for US citizens [Citation needed]
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Yeah, I don't have synaesthesia, and I don't attribute different emotions to different parts of my body. If you do, good on you and I hope you find this web page very useful, but you're weird .
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I have some such AAA batteries. Not for the extra capacity - I'm not convinced they actually have any better capacity than the NiMH I was using before, but because they hold 1.5V for the duration of their charge, and for some reason my

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