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by nerdbert 3y ago
English gets you farther in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, etc., than it does in India.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
We ran FreeBSD on a few racks full of highly used web servers (and some auxiliary servers) from 2000-2012. I liked it because it was rock solid and configurations were simple and straightforward. It also made some things, like read-only bin
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Yes, it is super scary that the government is trying to communicate using platforms independent of foreign social media companies. I assume you are Elon's alt?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Are you really sure you want running water like China has?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Of course they do. But people are not trained to bookmark a slew of government pages and then figure out the right one to go to in various situations. They are, however, trained to go to Twitter and see urgent alerts collated neatly in one
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I am not going to go to 41 different government agency websites every day just to see if they want to tell me something important. But I will follow them on social media so that I can see all their updates in one place.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
This sounds really important. If we can screen for cancer earlier we will save a huge number of lives (and prevent a lot of pain and misery).
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The codebase is huge and grown over decades, I doubt it would make anything simpler to start from that.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If I were a cert company whose target market were large enterprises unlikely to use LetsEncrypt, I would do it in order to undermine my competitors who might depend more on small businesses and other types of projects that find LetsEncrypt
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Both of the Android phones I bought (not particularly cheap ones) were unsupported with new updates within three years. Never again.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
This article is a companion to the main piece, providing a broader overview of the situation: https://archive.is/kkHN4
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by nerdbert 3y ago
That's because it's still full of people who just read that you can Build Your Brand by flooding it with dumb engagement-thirsty posts before everyone's follow lists start gelling. Once you are following some people and the a
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by nerdbert 3y ago
You can't type your homework into a calculator and get the answer out (at least not after basic arithmetic). You have to understand the problem and how to use the tool. If one's understanding of how to use the tool is limited to &
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It is very important, as this continues to accelerate, that we hold to account the people who knew about this, had the power to do better, and yet did not.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> "Well, we've been learning about `conflict and civilization` for six months, and you've been trying to build a better trebuchet for a while but in order to for you to improve it any more I'm going to have to teach y
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I just get a blank screen with the threads logo.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> OP said electrical efficient so the goal is conversion of electricity to heat and it’s 100% efficient. I am not an engineer and I am only nitpicking to have fun, so don't engage me if it's not fun, but doesn't some of th
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> We'll see how this goes, but there is a pattern with Meta's photocopying machine which didn't kill Snap with Stories, and didn't kill TikTok with Reels. They will co-exist but there will be no immediate Twitter &#x2
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I think I might count that as a positive.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
For what it's worth, the Astro guy apologized and replaced the graph.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Part of this is because we build houses that are terribly suited for warm climates. I used to work in the Middle East, and their traditional structures with central pool and windcatcher/chimney design remained quite livable even when i
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Cooling on the other hand is MUCH harder, and electricity is really the only avenue to make cooling. Gas-powered fridges and coolers have existed for about two hundred years and are still a normal technology today - often used for camp
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I'm fairly certain we're near - or even past - the point where burning natural gas to run a generator to power a heat pump will use less gas than burning the gas directly for heat.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
A vanishingly tiny percentage of the world population lives somewhere that regularly reaches -40°.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Fun fact, a resistive heating device is a rare case of something being 100% electrically efficient in that all the energy it uses will be turned into heat My understanding is that you get considerably more heating per watt-hour with a
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Yes because the CIA, which is very interested in your browser settings, is going to do it via this transparent and easily audited mechanism.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If you install a fancy ceiling fan for someone and the remote is on backorder, and you're going to bring it to them next week, I don't think you've done them any major disservice. That's what's happening here. A fea
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The margin between users who can't figure out how to re-enable the extension, and users who would have imagined the existence of a password-paste-enabling-on-bank-site extension and then sought out and installed it in the first place,
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Don't get me started on how much my kids hated Scratch!
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I read that and don't feel like I have any more idea what this is. A CMS with some "community" features I guess? But all those overlapping screen shots make it look like there's been an explosion at the website factory a

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