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> “if Amazon wasn't so up their own ass about not using Spacex rockets” Amazons entire company model is to create businesses that it needs for itself 1st, and then sell the excess capacity. Why change now by using SpaceX?
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Two questions: 1. Does Unit + PHP doing the typical “initialize & teardown” that PHP is know for? Or is Unit persisting the initialization/setup, hence why it’s achieving the way faster results? 2. How is Unit/PHP architectura
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3y ago
Would you mind elaborating in more detail why.
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3y ago
Dumb question: since Bun is MIT licensed - why doesn’t Node just merge Buns code into Node? https://bun.sh/docs/project/licensing
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3y ago
Isn't it way more than that. Like all of the settings detailed at the link below: https://librewolf.net/docs/settings/
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3y ago
I like the idea of LibreWolf, but never understand why it isn’t just a FF profile setting (Eg “Max Privacy = on/off”)
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3y ago
ERCOT pays even home users to use LESS electricity even during non-emergency situations. It's way cheaper to give incentive pricing to consumers to use less energy, than it is to build an entirely new power plant.
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3y ago
WiFi While I love that ISP are continuing to ramp up the speeds beyond 5 Gbps, keep in mind that 99.99% of home user connect on WiFi which taps out at like 1-2 Gbps.
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3y ago
Is this a "disaster" because this private company is making money from their investment? or Is this a "disaster" because they are making more money than expected?
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3y ago
system_info: n_threads = 4 / 24 Am I seeing correctly in the video that this ran on only 4 threads?
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3y ago
EV's This will become a bigger issue for all as more EV's gain adoption. And with the reluctance to use nuclear, there's not many reliable options for clean energy.
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3y ago
Do you ever use your mobile phone while driving? Call, talk, text, maps, etc. How is it any more dangerous than how a typical person uses their phone today while driving? For safety: all common systems are accessible on most steering wheels
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3y ago
I’m always amazed how people eagerly want to be human crash test dummy’s to test out a feature that could kill you.
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3y ago
As a comparison: FreeBSD: ~9M loc NetBSD: ~7M loc OpenBSD: ~3M loc And this includes the base userland (not just kernel) https://www.csoonline.com/article/564373/is-the-bsd-os-dying...
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3y ago
Use case? What would be a good use case for a high-thread / low-core chip? Parallelism, like Erlang systems?
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3y ago
Off topic: Love OpenBSD. Wish so much Hammer2 comes to it because OpenBSD innovates so much but their file system is lacking. There is an attempt to port DragonflyBDS Hammer2, and hope OpenBSD accepts it. Last updated 3-days ago. https:&#x
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3y ago
> ”Disagree-and-commit when applied between superiors and reports could be rewritten as just ‘shut up and follow orders.’” The CEO isn’t just any superior, they are the highest superior. So literally everything coming from the CEO is “
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3y ago
And Linux/Android is the most popular OS in the world and all of its included fonts are free (not using Monotype fonts). The article is conflating “where fonts come from” to imply meaning all fonts. But it’s really meaning where all PA
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3y ago
Eye glasses & lens. Even bigger than fonts, one company has a virtual monopoly on all eye glasses and lens. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica
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3y ago
Food for thought … Why are people trying to use a tool it wasn’t designed for? Eg the iPad does not have a built in keyboard. Why are people trying to use it to write long form essays/books when it’s designed default keyboard is on dis
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3y ago
When did you do this routine? Morning, midday, evenings, before bed?
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3y ago
Makes sense. But aren’t power plants also a major/top producer of NO2, and more energy is used in heavily A/C used locals. https://airquality.gsfc.nasa.gov/power-plants
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3y ago
> ”Like all things Apple, iPad is great if you only use it for the exact, limited use cases it was designed for.” That’s actually the definition of a product. To create something for specific use cases. That’s not an Apple problem/
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3y ago
Correlation? There seems to be a correlation with large metroplexes that use the A/C a lot. Which is typically southern US states. Eg SF/Seattle/Chicago are large metroplexes but you don’t need the A/C as much as say Dal
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3y ago
Example.com People should just use example.com, it’s reserved and the most obvious to the end user that it’s for example purposes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com
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3y ago
> ”So it seems we are coming full circle again now.” This is common in tech. Decades ago, companies rented time slices on beefy servers. This was called “mainframes”. Today, it’s called “cloud”.
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3y ago
It’s interesting to see how “being open source” has become the new “freemium” GTM model, but with significantly more downsides for the vendor. E.g., now you don’t even know who’s using your product, how to collect their feedback nor who to
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3y ago
$9.73 renewals at Porkbun. https://porkbun.com/tld/com
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3y ago
iOS ~13 seconds to boot FreeBSD ~10 seconds to boot As a comparison point, my iPhone 14 Pro (latest phone) running iOS 16.6 (latest OS) boots in 12.7 second from when the Apple logo is displayed when you can see the wallpaper.
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3y ago
"1 files changed, 86 insertions, 91 deletions" Net reduce of 5 LOCs and it's "100x faster". Nice commit.
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