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by toast0 4mo ago
China is building all types of generation because they are rapidly growing their electric network (generation doubled from 2014 to 2024). Europe's generation is roughly flat during the same period. It doesn't make sense to build a
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by toast0 4mo ago
Certainly, I don't expect the average English only speaker to be able to properly pronounce Gaelic, Polish, or Vietnamese words, or frankly even obscure English words by sight. The results are likely much better than random texts using
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by toast0 4mo ago
Sharing a writing system helps with communication across cultures, even when there isn't a shared language. > One can learn multiple scripts and almost all literate people know the latin script globally nowadays. If almost all liter
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by toast0 4mo ago
> no customer can possibly see until it's finished I'm sure lots of chip companies don't share their work in progress, but it's not impossible. Sharing simulations and prototypes and engineering samples can and does h
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by toast0 4mo ago
> Never figured out how he could tell someone's Qt version just from an strace excerpt, though. Sonames might be a big clue? Otherwise, initialization order changes maybe? Sometimes there's enough file content in an strace to b
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by toast0 4mo ago
BGP examples are easy to illustrate, although I don't have specific observations to share. BGP's default route selection is to use the choice with the shortest AS Path. If your ISP and your CDN peer in some locations, but not all,
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by toast0 4mo ago
> I thought because of RealID made just after 9/11 all drivers licenses had to be in federal database anyway? At least Washington state still issues UnrealID in case the applicant is not willing to pay the extra fee or cannot or wil
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by toast0 4mo ago
If it's something you want to do, this is your call to action. (There have been several already) There's still a few of these in passenger service, so you can easily get it done if it's important to you. Otherwise, you'l
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by toast0 4mo ago
> Maybe try to figure out why you’re feeling hungry. Is it because you’re running a 1000 kcal deficit? I know several people who are feeling hungry because they're not dead, regardless of how much calorie surplus or deficit they hav
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by toast0 4mo ago
We don't seem to care much about giving people access to caffeine, allergy pills, corrective lenses, and in many places alcohol and marijuana. Why is it a problem if there's wider access to these drugs? So far, afaik, there's
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by toast0 4mo ago
Maybe there's something that you can take to simulate IBS... I'm pretty sure when food goes right through me that I'm not getting any of those calories. Otoh, I have some idea of what types of foods (and how much) will trigge
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by toast0 4mo ago
Plenty of people can take this intelectual knowledge and turn it into eating behaviors that work for them. But this intelectual knowledge doesn't really help if your body is telling you it's hungry all the time and it's hard
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by toast0 4mo ago
Given that normies don't geneally understand tax brackets, I can understand not wanting to do more complex stuff either. I don't know how many people I've heard express that they didn't want to move into the next tax bra
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by toast0 4mo ago
I thought freedos could use usb? Get something with built in ethernet or serial and you can transfer that way pretty easy too. Or just run joe as jstar and close enough, maybe? I use joe for mostly everything, but I never used WordStar (wel
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by toast0 4mo ago
> If you have a fixed computer or NAS, stop making excuses and install a 10G fiber card in it. I mean sure, I could install a sfp+ card, but the cat5 installed in 2003 or so works fine with my 10gbase-T equipment (maybe it won't wor
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by toast0 4mo ago
Overclocking won't help with sprite flicker. Sprite flicker happens because the PPU will only evaluate the 8 frontmost sprites active on a line. Sometimes you get sprites disappearing by priority, sometimes the software will alternate
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by toast0 4mo ago
I think you can log in to activate without changing to a microsoft account for desktop login (or at least you can switch back, I have some machines on microsoft account and some not)
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> Honestly, I wish there were more urban datacenters. There's a lot of them in high rise buildings... but they come with high rise rent.
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> Surely in all the previous datacenters that have been designed there has been someone doing the math and determining what temperature things need to run at, how much energy it will use, how much heat it all will produce, etc. It seemed
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by toast0 4mo ago
The screenshot shows an Xterm, I'd assume there's an X server running?
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by toast0 4mo ago
> It also sounds like they were charging for DNS resolution before? Or is it DNS hosting? High end DNS hosting is often billed around the number of queries, number of zones, and number of records, number of special names with fancy featu
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by toast0 4mo ago
Does a hobby OS need to be useful? (If you want to communicate with other computers) You probably do want to speak IP, but if you want to do all the work, you don't need to use BSD sockets. POSIX and other such things will let you us
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by toast0 4mo ago
In the US, if the remote merchant doesn't accept a return (or is non responsive), a credit card chargeback would be in order. The customer almost always wins those. And the merchant always has to pay a fee for the chargeback, even when
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by toast0 4mo ago
I was at $0.12 3 years ago, but rates have jumped (and there's two more years of planned rate increases coming up)
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by toast0 4mo ago
> I can't remember the law in Washington. I'd bet I-5 in Seattle is bicycles prohibited, but there's no blanket prohibition of bicycles on freeways. Like you said, there's a lot of parts of Washington where the freew
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by toast0 4mo ago
I don't tow, but when I had my Chrysler Pacifica (RIP), it was rated to tow 3600 lbs. People seem to like towing stuff with their Vanagons, but I hope that doesn't involve hills. :P
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> However, in retrospect it would seem like bad business to throw resources after dead-end product lines, even if they’re valuable, because each dollar not advancing their automobile R&D was a dollar wasted on legacy stuff. If each d
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by toast0 4mo ago
Gotta move infantry some how. If they're being destroyed all the time, gotta build new stuff. Last world war, a lot of the mass production facilities got pushed into building munitions too. Harder to do that without manufacturing facil
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by toast0 4mo ago
If it shows up in the suggested price range, it's going to one of the least expensive new vehicles on the market. Yes, it has less utility than many other vehicles in many ways, but the bed length (5 ft) is longer than a lot of truck
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by toast0 4mo ago
Our local car industry is tightly related to our local military vehicle industry. Should we get into a big war, we'll likely need mass production of military vehicles and having mass production of consumer vehicles is a good start.

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