philjohn

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by philjohn 1y ago
This is what a good IDE brings to the table, it'll show that $result is of type string. The pipe operator (including T_BLING) was one of the few things I enjoyed when writing Hack at Meta.
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by philjohn 1y ago
> unless they get everyone on the planet to subscribe to their $200/month plan. that would be a monthly recurring revenue of 200 x 7bn = $1,400,000,000,000 or $1.4tn a month, $16.8tn per year! I think they've be valued a bit hi
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by philjohn 1y ago
Looking at the various options, £360 is on the upper end (until you get into the insane DSLR lens one)
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by philjohn 1y ago
Also cycling accessories (less so full bikes). They already had all of the composites experience from making bikes and wheels in carbon for the western brands, and now they are producing their own designs and offering highly competitive pri
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by philjohn 1y ago
Because the refractive index of diamond is higher than that of glass, which makes it look prettier and "sparkle".
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by philjohn 1y ago
Do they have the money to do that? Are the people in charge (through political appointment) incentivised to make the service better?
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by philjohn 1y ago
Backblaze is great, but restores can be a bit time consuming, even on a fast FTTP connection. I do have BackBlaze on my desktop, but I also have UrBackup running on all the computers in the house which backs up to a RaidZ2 array, and then a
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by philjohn 1y ago
Handle subnets on your router, then in ProxMox make the primary network interface you'll be passing to VM's or Containers VLAN aware, with the VLAN tags that it'll support defined and you're good to go.
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by philjohn 1y ago
Eh, it feels like you're looking for the worst. Follow some channels like Practical Engineering or Veritasium ... both good quality, information dense. Yes, decent production values, but that's not a bad thing at all in my book.
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by philjohn 1y ago
> Once HA includes the Matter credential store in backups/restores, the experience will be the same It was more a comparison of how quick and easy adding a Zigbee device is compared to adding a Matter device. Hit "Enable join&q
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by philjohn 1y ago
Would YouTube be the behemoth it is without the plethora of content (some of it, high quality)? And if it being more lucrative for creators is what got that content, I would argue the platform as a whole is better. You could have the most w
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by philjohn 1y ago
SMLight also do their PoE sticks that can be flashed to either talk Zigbee or Thread (but you'll need a border router, such as the OpenThread border router). Their latest one has two radios so you can do both Zigbee and Thread from a s
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by philjohn 1y ago
Yes - but it does feel over-engineered in some places (for good reason, having device profiles that everyone adheres to makes supporting a new device of a given class a doddle for smart home platforms) and it is definitely more finicky at p
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by philjohn 1y ago
Yes and no. Pairing a Matter device takes much longer than pairing a Zigbee device through Z2M in my experience, and the Matter add-on still sometimes needs restarting as it refuses to allow any more devices to pair after a while. But - rat
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by philjohn 1y ago
I wonder if they were just hit with the bathtub curve? Or perhaps the fact that my IronWolf drives are 5400rpm rather than 7200rpm means they're still going strong after 4 years with no issues spinning down after 20 minutes. Or maybe I
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by philjohn 1y ago
+1 to the ability to use PCIe cards - a RaidZ2 array of spinning rust will saturate a 1Gb link without breaking a sweat, and with 10Gb SFP+ cards being so cheap it's a nice upgrade (although if you care about power then a newer card li
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by philjohn 1y ago
There's a lot of "never let your drive spin down! They need to be running 24/7 or they'll die in no time at all!" voices in the various homelab communities sadly. Even the lower tier IronWolf drives from Seagate spe
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by philjohn 1y ago
Ah, the music industry. I know of one songwriter with multiple number 1 hits that was with a large american label for a while ... then moved to another, and the original label kept collecting the royalties when they were no longer contractu
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by philjohn 1y ago
What you actually need is islanding equipment which discharges the battery for local use only, but cuts off (or islands you from) your main incoming power connection. Many of the PV systems you can buy from the big players (SolarEdge, Tesla
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by philjohn 1y ago
To be honest, that could certainly be filed under "rehabilitation". Giving people the skills they need to be productive members of society is definitely in that wheelhouse.
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by philjohn 1y ago
Yep - turns out the Nordic countries had it right all along. When you focus on rehabilitation and not just punishment you get lower redicivism rates. Who would have thought it?
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by philjohn 1y ago
They're not called "spicy pillows" for nothing[1] If they're not swelling, it's fine. If they're swelling, get them out of the house, preferaly into a metal bucket filled with sand. [1] https://www.r
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by philjohn 1y ago
Yep, been using EMHASS for the last couple of years in the UK. I have a large array (12.8kWp east/west split) but a low export limit of 5kW. In the winter it's charging overnight at 7p per kWh (Intelligent Octopus Go) and then usi
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by philjohn 1y ago
Is that the regulation that says you need to allow someone to take a 20 minute break after 6 hours of work?
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by philjohn 1y ago
If you want 2 m.2 slots you want the p330, same form factor as the m920q[1] [1] https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116583724775
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by philjohn 1y ago
The Optiplexes look nice, but I went with the Lenovo m720q's for the PCIe slot ... 10Gb dual SFP+ NICs are cheap as chips on eBay and when you can migrate VM's faster it's a nice quality of life improvement for migrating VM&#
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by philjohn 1y ago
The best bang for buck at the moment seems to be tiny mini micro machines https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic... Typically available regularly via ebay (or similar) as businesses rotate them out for
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by philjohn 1y ago
At that point, do we need to fundamentally rethink political donations by companies (outright ban them) and SuperPACs? No representation without taxation.
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by philjohn 1y ago
That's what the staging CA is for - and why it has much higher rate limits.
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by philjohn 1y ago
Main thing seems to be pluggable backends.

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