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by rekabis 9mo ago
And here is their first overt strike to create a permanent Republican ascendency. Elections will likely still be held, but they will become strictly performative; a thin veneer of legitimacy over a foregone and pre-engineered conclusion.
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Pedantic Pete here: • The centigrade is capitalized when used after a number. There is also a singular glyph for the entire degree-centigrade convention: ℃. • There are also superscript numerical characters to use with volumes, witho
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Geothermal needs either a horrifically expensive vertical bore hole going down a few hundred metres, or a good acre of land for laid-down piping. I have neither the money nor the horizontal space. So I am thinking something compact that nee
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Ground sourced heat pumps need either a horrifically expensive vertical bore hole going down a few hundred metres, or a good acre of land for laid-down piping. I have neither the money nor the horizontal space. So I am thinking something co
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by rekabis 9mo ago
What kind of border device are you envisioning? Are we talking about literally anything down to a LinkSys WRT3200ACM running OpenWRT, or do you want to monitor more pro devices such as a dedicated server running OpenBSD+OPNsense?
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by rekabis 9mo ago
I would love to see a bus-sized version for year-long temperature moderation. Like, drop house heat into it during the summer so it can re-heat the house over the winter, and pull all the heat out of it by Spring so that it can cool the hou
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Many of us here are web developers, and can see a solution: server-side assembly of the content. As in, abandon the client-side interactivity so as to reliably serve up different content depending on who’s calling, without the visitor being
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by rekabis 9mo ago
At this point, my only viable response would be, “Please, fine me. I have been looking for a way to significantly increase my retirement nest egg, and fining me for using a generator during this storm would be a guaranteed way of doing so.
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Outside of Apartments and gated communities, they’re more rare up in Canada. You don’t see them spring up in a random neighbourhood, it’s invariably in high-density projects that require communal elements that are normally separate that the
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Give me a truck without any advanced electronics that can effectively haul 10,000kg (at minimum) across 300km. I want no advanced electronics because the more parts, the more points of failure. And there were trucks like this in the 80s and
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by rekabis 9mo ago
IMO, the one thing that made JS an absolutely horrid language is that it failed to do what every other programming - or scripting! - language out there did: deprecate the ugly/bad shite. This could have been trivially handled, even wit
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by rekabis 9mo ago
When you attack journalists, you only show that your real enemy is the truth.
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by rekabis 9mo ago
What is the difference between the wealthy leaving in order to avoid paying their fair share of taxes, and said taxes not even being implemented? NOTHING. Either they pay their fair share of taxes and society as a whole benefits, or they le
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Definitely. But until someone builds an electrical vehicle with zero DRM, zero connectivity/tracking/spyware, zero vendor lock-in, and near-100% self-repairability, imma gonna stick with the pre-2006 internal combustion vehicles t
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by rekabis 9mo ago
While I have come across the idea of information-as-entropy and gravity’s role in it, this is the first time I have read anything that stitches time into the equation. Holy. Shit. This sounds so very compelling.
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Also keep in mind that it’s not just RAM that can have issues, but also the slots it sits in. I once had a server-grade workstation (dual-socket AMD Athlon MP, 8 slots with 4Gb ECC REG apiece). Each piece of RAM tested perfectly OK by itsel
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> It's the same amount of effort to install Linux and never have to question who the owner of your computer is again. In many ways, Linux is a complete paradigm change away from what is familiar and known in Windows, requiring a com
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by rekabis 9mo ago
America in the 1950s had a 90% tax on the top tier. No-one of consequence fled the country. No matter how you tax, the asset-owning class is almost guaranteed to remain in place, because the vast majority of their assets are physical, a
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> Skepticism of institutions and consensus is the scientific method. Which is why one of the core tenets of practicing Science is “trust, but verify”. Science is based on the trust of what came before. But the fallible, ego-driven, and d
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> I gave up with Windows 10 because you needed Windows Pro in order to make an "offline" account You quit without even trying. Windows 10 and 11 can have all local accounts by using RUFUS to create the install media. And if you
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by rekabis 9mo ago
I take an adversarial approach to Windows. Which started with Windows XP and its supremely annoying zip-files-as-folders approach. Sorry, but I didn’t want that, and I still gleefully rip it out of every Windows install I touch. And then th
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Humans are fallible. Humans have egos. Humans can be intentionally dishonest. But the Scientific Method is the only functional bullshit detection system we have. When it is allowed to work, science corrects itself and excises the falsehoods
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by rekabis 9mo ago
I can do without all of my other security, anti-malware and anti-spyware add-ins. Those are all deeply secondary. But if uBlock Origin doesn’t have first-class support when this browser becomes available… yeah. They don’t even need to have
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Capitalism, greed, and laziness has dug the hole companies now find themselves in. Job seekers have been on the receiving end of “applicant abuse” for many years, now. Ridiculous skill requirements, endless rounds of interviews, unreasonabl
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Not that I have particularly bad posture, but… > Posturr uses your Mac's camera Not all of us have web cams, or are willing to tolerate them from a security perspective. [apologetic grin]
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> Junior devs at least have the option of building a portfolio of usefully software on their own machine at home, while eating ramens. Bold of you to assume today’s young adults can live without a steady paycheque that doesn’t suck up 40
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> the _perception_ that they can/will replace developers is causing a major disruption in hiring practices. Bingo. And it’s causing the careers of a majority of juniors to experience fatal delays. Juniors need to leap into their car
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Just… don’t use Electron for any kind of an installable app. That’s becoming the worst possible solution with an AI consumer-hardware crunch that may last into 2030. Build an app that uses 30Mb of memory at most, not 300Mb.
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Report to SpamCop. You need the entire eMail, including headers, but it’s worth it. I was one of the submitters, back in the mid 2000s, that forced SpamCop to increase daily submission limits (in stages) from 200/day to over 20,000&#x2
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by rekabis 9mo ago
ADD/ADHD wanders into the chat, howls with laughter at the suggestion given

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