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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
The customer service desk really is the only thing about that worth it anymore for travel within the US, at least, and "worth it" has been questionable. Lounge access at some international airports is much, much nicer, but only wo
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
"CTO" in particular is almost a running gag in the consulting arena as nearly everyone over 40 seems to be a former CTO somewhere.
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
The USA, Japan, South Korea, Canada, and even Russia all had fairly successful nuclear power plant production businesses until they mostly stopped for political reasons -- Areva (France), GE, Mitsubishi, AECL, KEPCO, Westinghouse, etc built
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
In the middle of a winter storm that has shut down nearly all transportation and frozen the well-heads for natural gas production? riiight. Unless the Navy happens to have a few nuclear vessels parked in the gulf ready to hook up, it is lit
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
This was absolutely not the problem during the 2021 winter storm. There was an absolute lack of power to be sold, at any price. Raising the spot MWH prices to 9 billion USD would have made no difference in what could be brought on-line, onl
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Is fragmentation a serious issue for you? COW filesystems in general aren't great for use-cases that rewrite blocks frequently (databases usually the poster child) but I've never had much problem with it for more general cases eve
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Truly mission critical sites don't rely batteries, they have diesel or gas generators, with UPS batteries or flywheels that keep key circuits live until the generators can take over. It's incredibly cost and size prohibitive to bu
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Most of the market models have some means of pricing out spinning reserves or nearline capacity and other ancillary services that aren't necessarily spinning a meter. Unfortunately trying to determine the correct price incentives is co
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
This is great, there has been a demand for this since forever. Enterprise-y people generally didn't care much but the homelab/SMB users end up dealing with it a lot more than might be naively imagined. Always reminds me of when Ne
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
> by requiring that it presents credible evidence of weight commensurate with the impact of what it argues The people saying various vaccines result in significantly better outcomes and shorter infections from SARS have millions of man-h
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Yeah I'm going to have to categorically disagree with that. You can totally police misinformation in a fair means by requiring that it presents credible evidence of weight commensurate with the impact of what it argues, and explain to
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
The filesystem concept has changed a lot over the decades so that's really not surprising. Almost any platform young people are using is going to have a UI abstraction over the storage that typically pre-groups files by the handling ap
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Many Windows tools will convert to / if they're presenting a URL, I'd imagine there is some special case code that treats unqualified path-lookalikes as file:// minus the protocol specifier. In fact chrome produces
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
That's super cool. Visualized or illustrated algorithms have always looked so magical, to me at least.
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Syntax-highlighted ALGOL-y code blocks seem to be back in style if they're not going with the constant "toss that screen up to a hologram" bit. Sometime there will be a nice interview of such on the design that goes into that
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
It's typically considered not worth it collect methane from oil-producing wells, even though it comes out in such volume that it needs to be appropriately vented and flared (burned) which is why you can see burning torch-like pipes out
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Of course the lunatic cult existed before, but none of my relatives were at risk of getting suckered into the John Birch Society orbit before about 2010. And it seems like the PRC has been repressing Uighurs in Xinjiang since well before Ti
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Wow, that's been ten years already. If that 339M USD figure is accurate, they could have partnered with a few companies to launch a real space ship. Shades of the never-ending train of hype and mostly lies that was Battlecruiser 3000 t
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Yeah TikTok has yet to convince anyone I know that there is a globalist plot to replace white people with Jews and blacks for um, reasons? One of these is more malicious and has already been more abused than the other.
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
I'm sure there are great recruiters out there (somewhere), but totally agree on this. Had real days of my life wasted on interviews and such, sometimes only to have everyone at the table realize it was a completely bad fit with no hurt
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Why don't I get paid for my HN posts? Do I owe you for your reply? Do you owe me for this reply? You work out how we commoditize every interaction into tiny micropayments so MBAs are happy with our time allocations and let me know. Ads
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Stuff like this has been a problem in the US mountain west so long that all the big substations that are remotely near roads have been getting berms and plating around key equipment because you'll drive down any given road in rural New
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
I feel zero guilt about ad blocking. There was some period of discussion on the subject back in like 2003 but the ad companies went to war against human civilization and there's been no going back. It corrupts and twists everything it
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Been pretending I'm dead to linkedin for years and feeling pretty good about it, for anecdata.
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
See that's my point. People who understand what Merkle trees are mostly understand the various utilities in using them, but that has very little to do with what "normal people" think of when they hear blockchain.
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
The leviathan is loose and it's never going back in a pen until the whole thing collapses under the weight of the fraud. Even legal restrictions on it will only help a little bit as enough moneyed interests are invested in keeping the
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Because that coronavirus in endemic to bat populations in that part of China. Covid19, for layman's purposes, is basically slightly mutated SARS, and is called SARS-CoV-2. That's why the virology lab is in Wuhan.
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Origins was pretty bad and came off like a needlessly slavish and underwhelming copy of SC2 with little interesting added. Comically for as little of the SC2 storyline as they ended up using it could have just as easily been "Galactic
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Maybe B2? It's not something I have to looked into extensively. My needs for sharing data from GDrive are limited and if there is data I don't feel like google automation getting at I have it encrypted via rclone mounts.
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by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
AFAIK the copyright scan only happens on files shared from certain types of Drive accounts, the assumption presumably being that while Google doesn't know or care if you have rights to possess data, they can be reasonably sure you woul

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