thyristan

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by thyristan 11mo ago
Depends on the location, but around here solar for heating is completely useless. In Germany (which is farther south than the nordics and gets far more sunlight), solar panels are already insufficient for heating half of the year. On a typi
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by thyristan 11mo ago
It is true that the heat can be used if it is there anyways. But usually not in a big city-wide network. Instead a more localized, larger consumer is far better, because running the hot water network is far too expensive. For example, large
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Steam and hot water pipes are extremely expensive to install, far worse than electricity, fibre, water or sewage. You need to be more leak-proof than cold water pipes, because loss of pressure with steam and hot water is much more of a prob
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Because for timing-sensitive code, those are important. If a variable is really a register, cache-based timing attacks just don't happen, because there is no cache in between.
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Nonetheless, you are expecting other people to know the manpage and read it for you. That is a game you may be able to play with paid support, but usually not even there: They will be more wordy and polite, but in essence tell you to RTFM a
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Only locally, only for you, and only short term. You are wasting the time of the person you are asking, and you are learning absolutely nothing about the context of the answer. When the next question arises, you won't even know where t
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by thyristan 11mo ago
You don't need to turn off STP, usually it's enough to set the forward delay to a very small value ("port fast" in cisco commands). If there is a loop, the port will usually still detect it, you at the most get a handful
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Yes, but then you need to select the proper menu option at boot time. Sometimes just moving the hardware stack one to the left and swapping the cables is quicker.
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by thyristan 11mo ago
There is a blender addon called Bonsai for this: https://bonsaibim.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXRpDka6gLI Strong plus is that you can render views of the finished room in Blender. Big problem is t
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by thyristan 11mo ago
SMS and MMS followed that flow, yes. But since all the networks since 4G, there is no more low-level network support for things like SMS. Everything, including voice and messages, is IP- and packet-based. So the only thing the carrier does
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Git ergonomics were far far better than the rest because of one reason that all the supposedly more ergonomic projects like Bazaar, Mercurial, SVN, ClearCase and lots of others failed miserably at: Performance. Since the CVS days, Version C
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Yes, of course. But you usually don't put your important webserver doing bazillions of requests per short interval on dynamic IPs. Especially if you need to avoid any downtimes.
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Traditional non-cloud, non-weird DNS providers have sufficiently long TTLs, not the "60 seconds and then it's broken" crap that clouds do to facilitate some of their services. Something like TTL 86400 gets you over a lot of o
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by thyristan 11mo ago
It might not be as bad as it sounds. A few comments over someone had a preliminary permit application which described the technical details. The gist of it is, the reactor is a 500MW pressurized water reactor, Gen3/3+. Not any fancy ne
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by thyristan 11mo ago
The reactor is still to be developed by Rolls Royce, which is hidden in mid article. The don't have plans, not even a working prototype yet, so expect delays to at least the mid 2040s.
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by thyristan 11mo ago
I've used Ceph together with Proxmox VE excessively. No problems whatsoever. And in related news, Proxmox VE is often probably a more sensible thing to use for a private cloud environment, because it is far more flexible and easier to
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by thyristan 11mo ago
struct packing also isn't guaranteed by the C standard, everything around that is implementation defined, as it is with bitfield packing. __attribute__((packed)) is however implemented in any sensible C compiler implementation, and thi
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by thyristan 11mo ago
> This stuck out to me as rude. Very much so, and I'm German ;) In my experience, and in my feeling as someone reading such things, you need to tone-match. The resignation message was somewhat formal, structured and serious in tone.
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by thyristan 11mo ago
I've been a typical IT person for a very long time. In the last few years, I got into contact with salespeople, by being basically a sales engineer. And I've learned that there is a reason to make a call besides the publicity aspe
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Any website implementing a form for data entry is expected by any sane user to autofocus the first form element.
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by thyristan 11mo ago
DIV isn't a button with features disabled. DIV is something else entirely, and you have to emulate most of the features in Javascript, badly. As the original article explains...
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by thyristan 11mo ago
> The proper way of dealing with this is a "Skip to Main Content" element: > > https://webaim.org/techniques/skipnav/ No, it isn't the proper way. That only works if you can see the skip l
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by thyristan 11mo ago
That is correct. From your link: "tabindex="0" means that the element should be focusable in sequential keyboard navigation, after any positive tabindex values. The focus navigation order of these elements is defined by their
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by thyristan 11mo ago
> That's the same behavior as a <button> without tabindex, like the author is proposing. Yes, but often you have elements with taborder > 0. > It's generally advised not to set tabindex to anything but 0 or -1 and l
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by thyristan 11mo ago
> - tabindex=0 doesn’t affect ordering, does it? Of course it does. tabindex=0 doesn't sort naturally into the automatic tabindex order, it sorts AFTER everything. So you are jumping through all the other tabindex elements, then you
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by thyristan 11mo ago
> They should focus on streamlining actual workflow of actual people. If you streamline a shitty process, you will have diarrhea... Unfortunately, most processes suck and need improvement. It isn't actually IT's job to improve
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by thyristan 11mo ago
Calc is far better than Excel. CSV import in Excel sucks. LibreOffice Calc is far better there. Best feature of all in LibreOffice Calc: highlight current row/column, so you have a cross-like cursor. Easier and better embedding of Pyth
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by thyristan 1y ago
Maybe I'm too old, but are there people that really didn't know that any ssh access is sufficient for using git?
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by thyristan 1y ago
If you want your own hardware to be OPEX, just do leasing. Every enterprise hardware seller will make you an offer for that.
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by thyristan 1y ago
Maybe. But it was, as i've understood and answered it, a question about /my/ needs, not what my guess about the majority is.

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