sippingabonedry

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by sippingabonedry 6d ago
Smart people understand pragmatism, which means not throwing the baby out with the bath water in the name of ill thought-out feel-good measures.
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by sippingabonedry 6d ago
Are you saying China is doing whatever it needs to do to satisfy its power needs, hands forced by geopolitics, and not pure altruism? Say it isn't so.
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by sippingabonedry 6d ago
Which is easy to do when you live an authoritarian state with plenty of vast desert wastelands to erect solar/wind farms. Was there a village there last week? Not anymore, it was in the way. And best of all they can build it all with U
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by sippingabonedry 6d ago
> Just because funding for the infrastructure keeps getting derailed, delayed and lied about by bad actors Speaking of infrastructure, how about pushing a mass rollout of EVs before giving a single consideration as to where the charging
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by sippingabonedry 6d ago
Until the sun goes down at night or the wind stops blowing. You ignored the word "output". > Energy storage is required along with solar farms How many batteries are we going to need for that? They literally just figured out ho
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by sippingabonedry 6d ago
> All this will do is cancel out progess China and Europe is making on renewals China brought 50 new coal plants online in 2025 alone but keep telling yourself that.
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by sippingabonedry 6d ago
Sorry but you can't have EVs everywhere, WA and CA banning natural gas for heat and cooking, WA and OR sabotaging hydro plant output for salmon habitat restoration, while shutting down your most reliable sources of power. The math does
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2027 Ford Bronco Sport Lineup Drops Auto Start / Stop(fordauthority.com)
4 points by sippingabonedry 6d ago|2 comments
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by sippingabonedry 6d ago
If I'm forced to use Linux, sure. I could drop bricks on and cord pull those all day and they would not lose data. Which is a small ask for a filesystem IMO.
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by sippingabonedry 7d ago
So two filesystems that are essentially shunned from the Linux kernel and permanent second-class citizens, and one that was removed from Red Hat and has a questionable history of reliability. Oh boy which do I choose? I'm saying ZFS on
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by sippingabonedry 8d ago
A better analogy would be slipping something into her drink whilst handing her a 12-page stapled terms of service agreement in which she unknowingly gives full consent.
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Berkshire Hathaway, Inc(berkshirehathaway.com)
7 points by sippingabonedry 8d ago|0 comments
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Garbage trucks analyze homes with AI-powered cameras(popsci.com)
5 points by sippingabonedry 8d ago|0 comments
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by sippingabonedry 9d ago
> Well, the basic idea of it is not so bad. It's textbook extortion. > so telling a business when we’re unhappy and influencing their reputation is the feedback mechanism we have at our disposal. Telling a business we're goi
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by sippingabonedry 9d ago
HN needing an explanation of how protection rackets work is like looking up money laundering in the dictionary in Office Space .
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by sippingabonedry 10d ago
> If a menu has pictures, I expect the food to look like the picture. Has food ever looked like the picture, though? I find this position unrealistic outside of an Amazon return excuse.
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by sippingabonedry 10d ago
I have some bad news for you: • The pictures on cereal boxes aren't entirely real, either. They use school glue, not milk. • Your burger has never looked like the one on the menu (see Falling Down ) • I've never eaten at a Chines
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by sippingabonedry 10d ago
Spending the money you would have wasted on a flaky local artist to draw an overpriced disposable sandwich board on better coffee beans. The entitlement is off the charts. The more I read this insanity, the more I hope she printed it at Wal
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by sippingabonedry 10d ago
How do you separate the Wayback Machine from malicious bots that pretend to be the Wayback Machine? Are you whitelisting their IP blocks? Because I get a ton of scraper requests that forge Googlebot, Bing, and Yandex user-agents that are to
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by sippingabonedry 10d ago
Yeah that's not how filesystems are supposed to work. You should be able to dd /dev/zero to a file and not worry about the entire filesystem shitting the bed.
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by sippingabonedry 10d ago
You missed the XCancel flamewar yesterday. The consensus is we should be allowed to scrape data and bypass login walls if we dislike the site owner, or feel we are owed free access by arbitrary criteria, it's sort of an unwritten rule.
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by sippingabonedry 11d ago
> I dropped btrfs after the second time it hosed my rootfs btrfs fans use the "you're using it wrong" excuse a lot. I recall a failure mode that activated when you fill the FS to 100% and their response was "you shoul
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GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview(marc.info)
109 points by sippingabonedry 11d ago|61 comments
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by sippingabonedry 11d ago
GEFS: A Good Enough File System https://orib.dev/gefs.pdf
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Linux from Scratch(linuxfromscratch.org)
359 points by sippingabonedry 11d ago|109 comments
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by sippingabonedry 11d ago
Spotlight worked best in OS X 10.4. It was near instantaneous on what is now considered ancient hardware. It's been steadily downhill from there. Mostly because people still expect to use it to find "Recipe for Egg Salad.docx&quot
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by sippingabonedry 12d ago
We could split hairs about numbers or acknowledge that X (and TikTok, and Instagram) still owns the zeitgeist. No normie gives a shit about BlueSky and Threads is anemic considering they gave every Instagram user a free account. I'm be
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by sippingabonedry 12d ago
X is either dying, or this is a 550+ comment discussion about how we cannot divorce ourselves from it. It can't be both, Schroedinger's X.
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by sippingabonedry 12d ago
Remember when Obama was lauded as the first 'online' president, with everyone from Redditors to news media gushing about his BlackBerry? What is the point you are trying to make, aside from "VC-funded apps and smartphones and
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by sippingabonedry 12d ago
Suddenly I don't feel so stupid anymore for having a supply of motor oil on my garage shelf that rivals Elaine hoarding contraceptive sponges in Seinfeld.

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