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by vz8 6y ago
Did you mean Irfanview? Thanks for the tip. Mostly emacsing via X, but good to know.
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by vz8 6y ago
We've tried Jitsi multiple times (as recently as a month ago) and the experience has been uniformly bad at anything beyond a handful of people. When we scaled to > 20 it was completely unusable (feedback / echos, delays, stutte
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by vz8 6y ago
The real missed opportunity here is the one-two combination of reducing avian fatalities and advertising with LEDs: https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB15.LQMVXXXXXNXpXXq6xXFXXXZ/GTF... But seriously, is there a way to
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by vz8 6y ago
Context: 5000 sf, 12' ceilings. 4 HVAC units. Large family, lots of animals, always at home, 9-10 workstations + 1 rack server running. Thermostats are set around 75-76F.
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by vz8 6y ago
Thanks for this food for thought. I've commented a bit on costs in sibling threads. Our home is relatively large (square footage and high ceiling heights compound that) and since we both work and teach at home, the cooling systems are
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by vz8 6y ago
Very high: for the hottest months of the year, power is $1100+/mo. Average for the last 24 months is just under $900/mo. It's a larger 1-story home: we've tried to address insulation, low-e glass, and AC SEER ratings. Wo
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by vz8 6y ago
The per kWh cost may be low, but the high humidity and heat = constant cooling demand. We work and teach from home (pre-Covid) so the cooling systems are in use throughout the day.
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by vz8 6y ago
The last time I had an estimate for solar, the break-even was 18 years, so it made no sense whatsoever, financially speaking. When you mention after 25 years they would have paid for themselves many times over, based on what criteria? I&#x2
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by vz8 6y ago
Pledged.
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by vz8 6y ago
Remember the Mayan calendar brouhaha over 2012? They just forgot to carry the 1. And here we are.
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by vz8 6y ago
Gui Emacs via tramp+ssh is awesome. Terminal Emacs over ssh is, well, just like anything else in a terminal over ssh. Can't say I notice the latency unless the datacenter is on the other side of the country.
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by vz8 6y ago
Every so often, I look at a headline and think to myself before clicking: To VPN, or not VPN: that is the question.
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by vz8 6y ago
Fakespot is my go-to for some kind of signal to noise for real vs. fake reviews. Example results include a letter grade, and a few fortune cookies of content like: Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 58.7% of the reviews are reliabl
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by vz8 6y ago
My solution whenever focusing on goals / deadlines: edit hosts file (as root/admin, when necessary) 127.0.0.1 reddit.com www.reddit.com 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com 127.0.0.1 twitter.com 127.0.0.1 other social / news do
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by vz8 6y ago
Die-hard fan of Iosevka[0], a narrow monospace font family (regular and term) and nerd-font patched varieties [1]. Just love how they display in emacs gui on a 4k display. [0] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [1] https:&#x
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by vz8 6y ago
How much RAM did their test workstation have? I can't seem to spot it.
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by vz8 6y ago
Dropbox may be unwieldy, but the document version history has been a lifesaver. I'd love to find something for an environment where there are many people (many uncomfortable with technology) sharing a folder full of code, documents, an
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by vz8 6y ago
The buffet analogy is interesting, but flawed in the sense that: 1. your selections don't radically change what the buffet offers in real time like, say, Google search. and 2. Unless you take pains to anonymize, your buffet options are
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by vz8 6y ago
Is there a good way to spoof screen sizes and fonts? ... asking for a friend.
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by vz8 6y ago
I rarely look into my side mirror without thinking "OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR." Thanks, Mr. Larson.
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by vz8 6y ago
Highly recommended for keeping things clean: Metro Vacuum ED500P DataVac 500-Watt, 0.75-HP Electric Duster. I've had one since ~2012 and it helps me maintain a small fleet of laptops and workstations for my large family (with many pets
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by vz8 6y ago
@captainmuon I appreciate your sentiment, that viewing politics through a dirty lens is a disservice to democracy. But it is exceptionally difficult to get past the constant battle for share of voice, for power, my tribe vs. your tribe, an
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by vz8 6y ago
Everyone in politics has an agenda. Not everyone in politics is willing to be honest about what that agenda is, and rarely are they held accountable for misinformation used in pursuit of that agenda.
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by vz8 6y ago
Thank you. There are numerous sites I go to regularly incognito to log in as an admin vs. end-user: several have low-profile, low-contrast cookie warnings which disable all other menus until you acknowledge them (without an apparent overlay
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by vz8 6y ago
Same. Never had an issue with Thinkpads nor Dells of all stripes. Now the Surface Pro on the other hand, was a disastrous time sink.
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by vz8 6y ago
Thanks for the reminder of Worm. I mispla... correction, I buried my bookmark in the underworld that is my Chrome bookmarks. Much appreciated. Bookmarked again, higher in the stack in a folder titled "NEXT UP" with only ~200 entr
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by vz8 6y ago
My son and I are learning Blender together. I was an avid 3DS Max user for many years (Kinetix, then Autodesk), and Blender is both impressive and a comfortable next step. Never did much with Maya, though there was a detour to Softimage for
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Alleged pictures of the upcoming GeForce RTX 3080 graphics cards(videocardz.com)
2 points by vz8 6y ago|0 comments
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by vz8 6y ago
I would love to see a set of (enforced) policies that are blind to the user in question, if such a thing could be. For example: 1. If a post is flagged for review, the account name/owner, social score, social graph, ad revenue, all of
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by vz8 6y ago
Very nice. Thanks, looking forward to playing with this over the weekend.

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