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by ta1243 1y ago
For self hosted / cohosting my own kit, I buy refurbed servers from https://www.etb-tech.com/ because I can spec exactly what I want and see how the cost varies, what the delivery time is, etc. Years ago Broadberry has
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by ta1243 1y ago
I learned this as a young developer writing status pages. I had a colour-blind colleague, so text on green/yellow/red. Typically white text works better on red.
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by ta1243 1y ago
The UBI I support comes from a land value tax. Basically every citizen has an equal share of the land of the country, and rents it out to people who want to use it. If you use more than your fair share you pay in, if you use less you get pa
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by ta1243 1y ago
Gives incentives to build storage and interconnects. Maybe when people down south stop having their electricity subsidised, they'll be less likely to object to infrastructure.
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by ta1243 1y ago
The entire UK energy demand is about 10% of the kinetic energy of the wind over the UK on a typical day. You'd have to extract a lot of energy to make a measurable difference. The extra energy dumped into the atmosphere from climate ch
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by ta1243 1y ago
Already works, you tie in your battery storage to lower costs. That already works. The problem here is 1) the excess power is not near the demand 2) the cost of electricity near the excess power is no lower than where there's no excess
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by ta1243 1y ago
You clearly missed the sarcasm > Minnesota hasn't had a major school shooting since August
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by ta1243 1y ago
Microsoft of course is also a major player in Linux (via Azure). As is Amazon. Their companies depend on it. It's no longer a bazzar where random university lecturers write and run entire subsystems between classes, but it is at least
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by ta1243 1y ago
Fine Here's an electoral paper with 20 candidates. https://www.onlondon.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Screen... In this case it's even more complex as you get a second vote if your primary v
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by ta1243 1y ago
You need to compare the whole of Europe (EU, EEA, whatever) to be roughly comparrable to "the US" Finland is about the same size of say Minnesota, and Minnesota hasn't had a major school shooting since August
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by ta1243 1y ago
ffmpeg and vlc jump to mind. They certainly aren't a central org -- other than in vlc having a shared like of traffic cones. My understanding of the ffmpeg dev team is they barely tolerate each other.
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by ta1243 1y ago
You don't have to use the same system for the higher risk ballots. A foreign state isn't going to spend millions trying to subvert the vote for the head of "Wyoming School Board 45". When I was at university our student
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by ta1243 1y ago
Americentrism. America discovers that water is wet and suddenly out come the flags and eagles
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by ta1243 1y ago
Very few countries do national elections electronically (the ones most subject to interference) electronically. Sure with paper systems you might be able to swing upto say 1% of the vote without being detected (probably more like 0.1%), any
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by ta1243 1y ago
When I was 18 I got paid below minimum wage to sit in my car delivering pizzas while listening to the radio. Far better than the higher paid shop job I tried at university. Today with not just unlimited music (with no adverts), but the vast
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by ta1243 1y ago
It amuses me what's been true in the rest of the world (Vancouver, Sydney, Aukland and London come to mind but I'm sure it's not just the Anglosphere) for decades arrived in the US a couple of years ago and is suddenly a shoc
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by ta1243 1y ago
I don't understand why Americans require machines to count. Dumping the ballots into a room and having dozens of people counting them while under the watch of all sorts of interested parties scales perfectly well. For president you hav
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by ta1243 1y ago
> when in reality it is what we have been able to do on our computers since forever You do realise that's been changing right? Slowly of course, there's no single villain that James Bond could take down, or that a charistmatic
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by ta1243 1y ago
Along those lines, Dvorak layouts are more efficent, but I use qwerty because it works pretty much everywhere (are small changes like AZERTY still a thing? Certainly our French office is an "international" layout, and generally th
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by ta1243 1y ago
So at 90 most people will have died by 95, and those that don't a significant proportion have severely life limiting health events, both mental and physical (strokes, heart attacks, falls etc) What happens to 90 year olds in America th
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by ta1243 1y ago
Fortunately in important industries that attitude doesn't fly. Imagine a single person making a single mistake causing a building to collapse? Or a nuclear plant to meltdown.
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by ta1243 1y ago
It's an interesting thing. Aside from the constant complaints she's being held prisoner she's far happier now than she was 10 years ago, but the person she was no longer exists. How does that factor in to how wishes can be ex
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by ta1243 1y ago
My nan made it to 92 without any mental issues, but then deteriorated significantly over the course of 18 months, forgetting she'd ever been married, had kids, etc, just reverted to believing she was a teenager who wanted to go home to
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by ta1243 1y ago
I'd want to know why they had such a system as a single point of failure
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by ta1243 1y ago
My fortigate clusters do both natting and session based firewalls. I configure them via a pull request into git which is approved by a second person and applies the config automatically. I assume that Palo Alto have similar APIs. My routers
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by ta1243 1y ago
I made a deliberate choice to see if ipv6 was ready. I don't need ipv6, I do need ipv4. ipv6 doesn't work, ipv4 does. The alternative (dual stack) is more work for no reason. If ipv6 ever works then great. I built a test ipv6 netw
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by ta1243 1y ago
> So it is extra work It really isn't, it's the same declaration in your config, and then your automation makes your devices make it happen.
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by ta1243 1y ago
> but it's really easy to set up a network to have dual-stack v4 and v6 Why do you need v4? because v6 doesn't work. > NAT or port forwarding, both of which are terrible Why? I assume you're still using a stateful firew
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by ta1243 1y ago
Over the last 30 years the s&p with reinvested dividends has returned an average 9%, so fine, $90k off $1m assets. Median wage in the USA is globally very high at just over $60k.
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by ta1243 1y ago
Pretty much any country. If you have $1m in assets you can simply stick it in a passive fund and earn more than the average wage in the highest earning countries. You can certainly live like a king in low cost countries.

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