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by pedrocr 1y ago
Canada isn't small, it produces almost 10x the electrical energy that Minnesota does. But I wasn't even giving it as an example of total capacity just of a neighbor that has a bunch of hydro that can be useful in some moments. And
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by pedrocr 1y ago
Why would you model Minnesota specifically when that state is part of a larger region that can tradeoff power over time? Canada's hydro is much more "here" than the hypothetical new nuclear plants Minnesota would have to buil
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by pedrocr 1y ago
"The best LLMs of the last 6 months spend their time fixing people's grammar" Doesn't have quite the same ring as a lament
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by pedrocr 2y ago
I learned of these in-band commands at Stanford and created a very short print file to be able to change the status message of any printer on campus. I couldn't push it centrally but I just queued the file into the global print queue a
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by pedrocr 2y ago
You elided the most famous quote from that diatribe. The lawnmower comparison is the expansion on: "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison"
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by pedrocr 2y ago
The web is the only platform where people routinely chide other people for wanting to use their favorite programming languages. For some reason not liking Javascript and wanting to use something else is offensive to a lot of people. In all
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by pedrocr 2y ago
This is a case of both in-band error codes and overloaded meanings of inputs colliding. Modern languages make both things much better but even in C the kill(2) interface seems much too clever. It seems it could have easily been a couple of
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by pedrocr 2y ago
I get a week of battery time out of my Fitbit Charge 5 with really good sleep tracking as well as reasonable tracking of exercise including swimming and GPS tracked runs. The screen is really nice but not always on e-paper and I can't
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by pedrocr 2y ago
That's weird. The fitbit bands that Google still sells do have that. They seem to be having a really hard time making the fitbit acquisition work in many ways so I guess that's not surprising.
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by pedrocr 2y ago
This is not the passenger vehicle. That's the second stage, this is the first stage booster. They've also landed the second stage but that did a water landing from orbit which in many ways is even more impressive.
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by pedrocr 2y ago
From a quick search: "Please be aware that if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be among the data captured and transmitted to a third party through your use of Voice Recognition,&q
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by pedrocr 2y ago
They died only 6 years before Dropbox was founded and had a plan to have cloud storage and an app store. It seems possible they could have executed well on those fronts and have nautilus "just" be a high-end frontend to the servic
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by pedrocr 2y ago
The Teams web app works very well in Chrome. I only miss being able to set a custom background to my video and popping out presentations into their own window. It seems much lighter on resources too, maybe because Chrome does more of the vi
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by pedrocr 2y ago
My understanding is that pipewire finally unifies JACK and Pulseaudio. You no longer have to decide if you want a general audio setup or a low-latency one, there's a single audio server now that does everything well. So from that list
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by pedrocr 2y ago
That's about maximum mess historically but thankfully most stuff on that diagram is no longer present in a modern install. And that's before pipewire which has further unified the stack.
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by pedrocr 2y ago
Mb is unambiguously megabits but it's a lost battle at this point. This thread includes so far MiB, MB, Mb, mb all to mean megabyte. It's often easy to find what's meant from context but sometimes we're discussing networ
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by pedrocr 2y ago
> The current landscape bears a striking resemblance to the early days of cloud computing. Fifteen years ago, it was commonplace for individuals and businesses to pay less than $10 a month for shared hosting or a VPS. This pricing model
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by pedrocr 2y ago
There's a known buffering issue with YouTube on Firefox. Apparently it's been fixed and will ship in the next point release: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1878510#c114 https://www.reddit.
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by pedrocr 2y ago
I mentioned that. There were others but nothing at the scale of what VW did.
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by pedrocr 2y ago
This is commonly believed and seems to massively let VW off the hook. Almost everyone was overfitting their optimization to the test and thus not delivering real world lower emissions. That's not illegal, just unethical, particularly s
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by pedrocr 2y ago
> You need very tiny wires through very tiny holes in locations very precisely aligned on both sides. Aligning things on the scale of nanometers is very, very hard. Do you need to align that precisely? Can't the power side have very
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by pedrocr 2y ago
Wayland has gotten it right in the latest protocols but up to very recently it still did only integer scaling and scaled down for fractional. Scaling the buffer in fake coordinates is also needlessly complex. Just start with the 150x90 buff
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by pedrocr 2y ago
> But nowadays we have this thing called HiDPI, where 1 pixel can mean 1.5 real pixels on one screen (150% scaling), 2 real pixels on the second (200% scaling), and 1 real pixel on the third (100% scaling). This is the wrong way to do sc
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by pedrocr 2y ago
I still don't get why after all this investment in AI Spotify can't just give me a seamless never ending stream of music. I need to keep selecting from playlists they generate which often repeat some songs extremely often. All I w
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by pedrocr 2y ago
Sometimes these videos have worse audio than what was actually heard by the pilots and ATC because they're recorded from somewhere else with worse reception. But it's not only that. It's amazing how much we've stretched
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by pedrocr 2y ago
Since in AM5 all CPUs have a basic iGPU, for a home server all the normal CPUs already work fine. The advantage of the APUs is they're on a monolithic die so should have quite a bit lower idle power usage which is important if you have
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by pedrocr 3y ago
They've measured that too. Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuJlgzcQWAg It's an hour long and very informative. The research seems well backed up.
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by pedrocr 3y ago
It can be done with push in cages to trap the queen inside the hive. Because there's still a queen they won't start new cells. Because she's limited to a very small area the brood break is almost complete. I think a two week
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by pedrocr 3y ago
There are some options, particularly if you want just DisplayPort. If you want to have power as well for example pretty much all the cheap adapters are HDMI only. With HDMI there are many more options and of more reputable brands usually.
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by pedrocr 3y ago
On a somewhat related note, it's very surprising how hard it is to get DisplayPort out of a USB-C connection. Although DP is natively there all the cheap adapters tend to be HDMI even though that requires extra hardware to create the c

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