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by perlgeek 3y ago
Doesn't the software/hard water mode just affect how much the ion exchanger (filled with salt) is used?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I guess the reasoning goes: * I can't make enough money out of it * do I keep this as a side project? * if yes: development mostly stops * if no: OK, shut down * now that I don't fear competition, I can Open Source it (not comment
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I don't know about Iceland in particular, but often state of emergency makes it easier to... * shut off roads or regions * use the military for aid * access emergency funds * quickly do things that otherwise require lots of bureaucracy
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> Do other careers have such a vast gap between the platonic ideal and the actual lived experience? In the past few years I've got the impression that when I go to a doctor with a slightly unusual symptom, they are very much lost. I
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by perlgeek 3y ago
There's one source of bugs that the author doesn't mention: time, and how our understanding shifts with it. Sometimes the understanding of what a business object (or one of its attributes) represents sometimes shifts, over the cou
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I imagine the moon regolith and the micro meteroids (no atmosphere to stop them) would be pretty harmful to a balloon.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I misread the title, and thought he compulsively built gears (as in, gearing mechanism) :-)
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Imagine this continuing for another 20 or 30 years, holding back our financial institutions even longer. Maybe it's time to force the banks to replace code they cannot maintain.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
What kind of resolution are you hoping for? Or asked differently, what kind of threads do you still see as open? For me, the biggest bummer was the lacking security culture that let a cert validation component to not properly validate certs
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Wait, you want to do a gravitational perturbation mission with 5kg, for a body of > 10^18kg? You'd have to do super duper precise measurements to notice anything (much more precise than anything we can do at the moment), and the rea
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by perlgeek 3y ago
This vaguely reminded of the time where our self-hosted installation of JVM-based app worked fine in DEV and QA (on vmware-based VMs), but in PROD it would error out the time with "out of memory", even though the machines (bare me
432.
by perlgeek 3y ago
Yes, and watering plants with drinking water could also stop.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
To get an idea of the scale: the average residential water usage is around 120 liter per person and day in Germany, around 300 in the US. Assuming you get around 8 hours of operations out of such a box per day, that would be 3m² of land usa
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by perlgeek 3y ago
There are still printed documents, and I guess they'll use an office raid as a way to gain access to employee's emails.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Thank you phys.org for putting an actual link to the scientific publication, something that is missing far too often these days.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I understand the frustration, but do we really want to shame payment processors for not being perfectly moral gatekeepers? Afaict not allowing sex work isn't Stripe's choice, but requirement of the credit card processors they work
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by perlgeek 3y ago
I could very well imagine that NSO charges per device exploited, and charges more for zero-click exploits used. Each exploited phone raises the chance of the exploit being found and burned, so they really have to incentivize their customers
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> [0] Even the fact we consider wind/solar "renewable" is evidence of how slick the marketing campaigns are for these companies. Solar panels and wind turbines have limited life spans, require rare earth metals that have t
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by perlgeek 3y ago
It is a distraction, but it's also a real issue for wind farm operators. I've visited a wind farm and got a tour by one of the engineers who was involved with the permits and construction, and he told us that due to the population
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Feature flags give you orthogonality. When you have an `if False:` or equivalent in code, you have to deploy to enable a new feature, so if the current state in the test environment isn't good, you either have to wait for it to be fixe
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by perlgeek 3y ago
How does that compare to similar existing tools like StackStorm?
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Doesn't sound too credible to me. If it were true, it would be a pretty major discovery though. I've studied physics but working in a different field now, just following the news and some science podcasts.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
They are higher in less developed countries, but still falling. Go to https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate and select some regions, see for yourself. Africa as a whole has declining fertility rates. Even if you look a
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by perlgeek 3y ago
It does, but on a global scale this only works as long as there are enough countries with high birth rates. And birth rates are going down basically everywhere.
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by perlgeek 3y ago
This is a very blunt tool, but `engine.echo = True` prints all SQL going to the DB. (I don't have any experience with AsyncSession, so cannot contribute something more specific)
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Remember the early days of COVID-19? There were some scientists that predicted exponential growth, and I was torn between "it's not really bad yet, maybe there's still hope" and "every exponential growth feels very
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by perlgeek 3y ago
So, people have blamed the vendor's API... but have they opened a ticket with them, raised the issue, escalated it? I can emphasize with not wanting to work around the bugs of an upstream provider, but just sitting on it when it causes
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> Putting solar panels on roofs doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Per kWh, rooftop domestic PV costs can be unto 10 times more expensive on a levelized cost basis [...] compared to a ground based utility/grid scale installatio
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by perlgeek 3y ago
> probably will not do it just because there is not a single contractor who does it and nobody who has it installed to give me advices. And this is why subsidiaries for pilot projects are super important. As a society, we really should t
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by perlgeek 3y ago
Ever since I've learned that cold solar panels are more efficient, I've dreamed about water-cooled PV that uses the heat for warm water supply. One thing I'm worried about in such an integrated solution is water leakage. It l

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