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by nerdbert 3y ago
A lawn is a pretty boring garden.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Have you tried living in the dense cities like Mumbai, India or Manila, Philippines? I've lived in Hong Kong, which is a similar order of density, and which I loved; it was a feeling of being vibrantly alive that's hard to du
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Everyone I know who left a dense city never wants to go back Okay. I don't know who you know but it doesn't sound like the people that I know. > And worse for the people who live there. I get anxiety just thinking of livin
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I have a €500 43" 4K and it's great. But anything else feels so small now.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Mine has 16GB and I regularly use some Mistral LLM as well as OpenHermes. The only things that ever seems to get my fan going are transcoding a video or a really long compile. Never once has the fan run during web browsing or any of the man
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Better for the planet, better food and cultural options, shorter travel times for typical daily activities... in my book it definitely is.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I made a link shortener in 2010 and it was such a terrible experience. Constant notices from my hosting company about child porn links, repeated ominous emails from the FBI and their counterparts in other countries, having my server tempora
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by nerdbert 3y ago
... in a world where utility-scale battery technology doesn't continue to evolve along its current trajectory because of, um, reasons.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
When people in richer countries buy a lot of solar panels and heat pumps and whatnot, that brings down the manufacturing cost of these items, so that they also become the rational choice in poorer countries. Once everyone in America started
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It's a real site, I've used it for at least 10 years.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
And, sadly, make it easier for repressive regimes like China and Iran to block access to websites that are currently accessible thanks to CDNs' reuse of IP addresses.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I also suspect that it gets considerably worse with every bit of duct tape they stick on with to prevent it from using copyrighted song lyrics, or making pictures of Trump smoking a joint, or whatever other behavior got the wrong kind of at
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by nerdbert 3y ago
And so now nobody is adding anything new to Stack Overflow, and thus ChatGPT will be forever stuck only being able to answer questions about pre-2024 tech.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Does that tell us how reliable the cars are, or how much people are willing and/or able to spend on replacing their cars with new ones?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> a few years ago Miele changed their canister vacuum bags to force customers to replace them more frequently Thankfully they also sell bagless vacuums, our Miele bagless is working pretty well so far (though after a couple years it&#x27
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by nerdbert 3y ago
This type of machine: https://dingsmagnets.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Eddy-Cur... The rotor contains powerful magnets and when it spins quickly it induces a magnetic field in nonferrous metals like a
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> NYC is paying $4B/mile for their latest tunneling projects. So only what, about 30x as much as Madrid spent?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
In an ideal world, housing is built directly above transit stations, so people can get on the train without even having to go outdoors, leaving it the most obvious choice for almost all journeys. Look at what they've achieved with this
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I love that in Germany it's still fairly normal to get drinks in obviously reused bottles. Very rare most other places these days.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
In my locale the waste management company encourages us to toss aluminum cans in the bin with everything else except for glass and paper. They use powerful magnets and eddy current sorters to separate them from the rest of the stream.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I chose Makita for the same reason and I've loved the stuff. The tools are solid and well thought-out, the batteries have lasted for years, and I've been able to get away with far fewer batteries than I have tools which saves a bu
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by nerdbert 3y ago
But don't you have 01.00 - 02.00 EST and then 01.00 - 02.00 EDT?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I assumed that's the point - can you see things like a "normal" person does?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> you simply aren't allowed to work in any form if you are in Japan on a tourist visa You will never get the Japanese government to say this, if "any form" includes incidental remote work. And "incidental" is und
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> When I was in Thailand about 7 or 8 years ago they just recently raided a co-working coffee and jailed the 'nomads' over night That was because the authorities did not understand how co-working spaces operated, and had conclu
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by nerdbert 3y ago
My insurance paid for all of that without a quibble after my family doctor made a referral. My insurance company has many customers. So I am going to stick with "many people".
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I'm not taking a position on its legality. In most cases that's undefined because the law did not anticipate this situation and it's never been tested in court. They obviously can't prohibit people from checking emails o
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by nerdbert 3y ago
When I lived in a hot American city, the saving grace was that at both office jobs there was a shower available. After breakfast I'd stuff my work clothes in a backpack, bike to work in shorts, take a quick shower, and arrive at my des
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Japan is not particularly expensive. It's significantly cheaper than USA, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, NZ, etc. US$68,000 is enough for a very comfortable life there.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Literally never. This topic is one of those things that draws resentful ruleboys out of the woodwork to preach about something they have no firsthand knowledge of because none exists.

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