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by vamur 10y ago
Retail solar power is not viable currently. Cheapest reputable panel on aliexpress is about $1.2K for 1KW. Lead-acid on Amazon is about $500 per 1KWH (not counting shipping). Assuming backup of 30KWH it would require about $16.2K without in
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by vamur 10y ago
It is not viable until there is an order of magnitude cheaper storage (e.g $1/1TB) and cheaper/faster bandwidth. For the latter it is becoming more expensive and slower lately.
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by vamur 10y ago
Except there are a lot of OSS and side projects hosted on github. It will take a long time for these to find their backups and move to another service. And some will lose source code due to faulty or outdated backups.
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by vamur 10y ago
In that case you should consider Galaxy S7, it has somewhat smaller dimensions than Pixel, but has a bigger screen. BTW, this is another con for the Pixel a 5" is a DOA for most users these days.
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by vamur 10y ago
No threat to either iPhone or Note 7 and incredibly overpriced. Pixel is basically a mid-range phone for high-end price. OnePlus 3 for $400 in mid-range or Meizu M3 Note for $140 in lower end are much better deals.
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by vamur 10y ago
Nokia has only themselves to blame for the downfall of their brand. There was a time then a Nokia phone was a status symbol. Now it's a gimmick at best. If they didn't jump on a DOA platform and instead concentrated on the high-en
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by vamur 10y ago
Well, Fringe should have been cancelled after the first season as it became a boring mess of plotholes. And Fox is generally terrible with scifi shows - see Terranova, Being Human. So it's a good thing they cancelled Firefly, otherwise
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by vamur 10y ago
It's called rocket science for a reason. Looking into sabotage usually indicates that they have no clue what happenned and are looking into saving face. Hopefully, Emdrive or a similar technology works out - otherwise, spacefaring is g
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by vamur 10y ago
This has nothing to do with SteamOS, X11 or Wayland. Game performance on Linux has everything to do with the quality of the port and/or game engine and hardware drivers. For example, Rocket League performance on Linux is on par with Wi
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by vamur 10y ago
Strange decision. If the goal is to save resources, then the effective solution would be to remove support for NPAPI plugins and move PDF.js to an addon. Especially as there are plenty of excellent PDF viewers on all platforms and Flash is
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by vamur 10y ago
It will fail if they don't improve performance and home UX. Adding APK support would also be a huge feature.
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by vamur 10y ago
You can easily disable Google services on most Android devices. Or purchase a Cyanogenmod compatible device and use a third party store.
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by vamur 10y ago
Good move by Mozilla. Hopefully they continue to aggresively cut other non-core products and concentrate on improving Firefox.
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by vamur 10y ago
Gnome Web works great on Linux+Wayland now, apart from lack of 1080p on youtube. Meanwhile Firefox still does not work on Wayland and is generally slow on Linux and one has to enable multi-process flags to speed it up. And even then its spe
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by vamur 10y ago
According to Netmarketshare Linux is now above 2%. And if ad-blocking users are accounted for numbers should be close to 3%. Additionally, the number of games for Linux on Steam is about 2700 and should be 2800 by the end of the year. So Li
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by vamur 10y ago
Using private mode and a RAM disk is a quick solution for this issue. Easy to setup on Linux and there is a free RAM disk utility on Windows as well.
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by vamur 10y ago
Lithium-ion batteries require an expensive materials and overly complex manufacturing (Gigafactory). They are also dangerous as evidenced by the Samsung Note 7 debacle. Hopefully, there will be advances in making lead-acid and hydrogen fuel
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by vamur 10y ago
Snappy/Flatpak are overly complicated solutions. Easier solution is to distribute using Steam or use an installer (e.g Mojosetup) that will deploy a zip/tar archive with executable, data, dynamic libraries and necessary desktop e
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by vamur 10y ago
Maybe people don't want the hassle with dual booting and a $100 Windows license to play games. Instead, they can save $100-$150 more and get 480 or 1060. And thanks to 2500 games on Steam there are plenty of games on Linux now. And Lin
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Linux desktop usage share is now above 2%(netmarketshare.com)
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by vamur 10y ago
In that case they should have required users to also login to bitgo and approve any withdrawals. Otherwise, what's the point of Bitgo?
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by vamur 10y ago
Also, looking at reddit, they moved to a new datacenter recently. So could be that a datacenter employee stole code and database and then submitted the withdrawal requests from the stolen code to Bitgo. Not even sure how to protect against
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by vamur 10y ago
Maybe create a new address type on protocol level, where transactions from that address can be reversed within 36 hours with backup key(s)? Normal users wouldn't accept from these addresses but should be good enough for most exchanges
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by vamur 10y ago
TeamViewer has been a vector for hacks for a few years now. Nothing was done about it and people still use it and likely will use it even after this bigger hack and company's ridiculous attitude.
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by vamur 10y ago
Systemd sounds good in theory until you cannot disable systemd-journald and it grows to 50M RAM. And out of nowhere dozens of gvfsd* processes are spawned for no apparent reason.
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by vamur 10y ago
Could be due to HTTP/2 switch - e.g in the morning it was working in HTTPS and now it's HTTP only again. BTW, it's interesting how much bloat there is in their HTML code.
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by vamur 11y ago
Postgresql's greatest advantage - no headache from dealing with BS from Oracle or MS.
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by vamur 11y ago
Venezuela had a mostly positive balance of trade last 10 years. So they had enough money to ask for financing for a nuclear plant (usually 5-10bln) to stabilize their grid. Instead they wasted money on the ridiculous gasoline subsidy, creat
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by vamur 11y ago
The new government will also be corrupt. And they have agreed to repay questionable old debt by taking on new loans, and will probably receive kickbacks from the vultures.
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by vamur 11y ago
Why would it be a disaster? The plants would be built and operated by an outside company - e.g Areva, Rosatom. And hydro power they have today is not reliable. So they would need to use coal or natural gas. And both of these pollute compare

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