wazoox

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1. 901.▲
   by wazoox 6y ago

   Parking in Paris costs 3€ and upwards per hour (24 to 60€/day) unless you're a resident with a special pricing. Hardly free...
2. 902.▲
   by wazoox 6y ago

   For instance in Vienna (Austria) you can park your car cheaply a few miles away from the centre in large car parks and go easily and quickly to the inner city by tram. There isn't anything remotely similar in Paris. There are undergrou
3. 903.▲
   by wazoox 6y ago

   I have a desktop at work and use the laptop for working from home or elsewhere. Though my new laptop (4 cores, 8 threads, 32 GB of RAM, Vega graphics) is markedly faster than my desktop now :)
4. 904.▲
   by wazoox 6y ago

   Unfortunately the USB-C is only USB 3.2, not Thunderbolt capable. It's not a thinkpad, it's sold as a "gaming laptop" that's why it's cheaper.
5. 905.▲
   by wazoox 6y ago

   Yes I've looked at these ones first, but they were more expensive and I went the safe and cheap route with Lenovo.
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   by wazoox 6y ago

   I have no much use for a 4K display, I don't own any (I'm both myopic and old anyway). in fact for me the worst point is that it could have a 1920x1200 panel, but carries a FHD one instead, with a large useless black band below, t
7. 907.▲
   by wazoox 6y ago

   Supposedly 8 hours running Windows but removing Windows was my first action; about 5 hours under Linux (running Pop_OS 20.10 with 5.8 kernel). Everything works great under Linux but the driverless fingerprint reader. Also you need to instal
8. 908.▲
   by wazoox 6y ago

   I've replaced my aging and failing 2013 XPS with a Ryzen 5 IdeaPad S540, cheap and slightly bigger but has a second internal M.2 slot, SD card slot, RAM upgraded to 32GB, and full size HDMI and USB A connectors for less than 900€. I&#x
9. 909.▲
   by wazoox 6y ago

   ... provided that you can store a sizeable amount of energy (what do you do when there's no sun for a whole week, which is absolutely not uncommon in Germany?). There isn't any technology up to snuff, unless maybe flooding a very
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    by wazoox 6y ago

    Negative power prices are only possible because there are other resources to provide the production baseline. As there exists no system to store power at scale, production must match exactly consumption at any time; so when the wind blows o
11. 911.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    We can relatively easily solve the problem of electricity production using nuclear, renewables and therefore make carbon-free electricity. But electricity is only 30% of our energy consumption.
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    by wazoox 6y ago

    Wood didn't give way to coal that gave way to oil. This is a terrible fallacy (albeit very commmon, even Vaclav Smil fell into it in his "Oil" book). The world currently consumes more coal than it ever did. Wood consumption i
13. 913.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    I do. In fact, all of my work emails are GPG-signed by default. But I never liked Thunderbird, I've been using claws-mail for more than 15 years.
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    by wazoox 6y ago

    I developed an interactive voice service in the early 90s running on SCO Unix. It was stable and efficient, and didn't require expensive hardware. Of course Linux wasn't really a workable option in 92/93 :)
15. 915.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    But do you realize that everything you're damning Russia for, the US is doing exactly the same right now ? Case in point: Assange persecution, war in Afghanistan, Irak, Libya; "targeted assassination" of various people, mor
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    by wazoox 6y ago

    The version control system your subconscious mind recoils in horror from is the dreaded Visual SourceSafe , one of the worst-named product ever.
17. 917.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    I've read this as a rant about why we should want a fancier SVN. Unsurprising coming from someone working at Github, but hardly representative of what git was made for and can actually do. Centralisation is easier, but generally the wr
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    by wazoox 6y ago

    I'm running Pop_OS on my IdeaPad and have very few problems. From time to time, the Wifi doesn't come back up after resume (particularly when I've let it in sleep overnight, or switches networks while sleeping) and I have to
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    by wazoox 6y ago

    I want to tell you an amusing anecdote about that program. DaVinci was originally developped 30 years ago on very expensive SGI hardware, with very expensive dedicated controller hardware. Back then and for many years, DaVinci booth was a m
20. 920.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    > Perhaps what we call globalisation is a poorly designed, tax-evading, fragile, energy-wasting system. Oh boy yes indeed.
21. 921.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    It doesn't minimise the impact: coal mining and burning kills several thousand Germans every year, alas. It's the usual safety bias, like being afraid of flying but driving fast on the motorway.
22. 922.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    Of course I mean all energy. I don't understand why everyone think only of electricity. Globalisation relies on transports, and transports rely at more than 90% on oil. Oil is the blood of our global world, and there's no credible
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    by wazoox 6y ago

    Almost all of it. Rockets, computers, internet, almost everything of any significance has been bootstrapped by governments. Particularly in the US, government spending has been the root of all innovation since forever. The legend of SV gara
24. 924.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    > Merkel shutting down Germany’s nuclear fleet, for example, remains popular [1]. Alas, I know. But in that case that really was a terrible decision because the public has been thoroughly misinformed for 40 years (I'm a staunch nucl
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    by wazoox 6y ago

    The important idea here IMO is that "free markets" don't exist and don't drive anything. States create policies (Ideally, these policies would be entirely democratically chosen, alas that's rarely how it works). Mar
26. 926.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    This is an interesting experiment, but it doesn't work for me (Firefox on Linux). The virtual C64 doesn't respond to my entries, and seems to constantly receive random inputs.
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    by wazoox 6y ago

    The Sandisk Sansa Clip Jam seems to be close enough, and cheap.
28. 928.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    I was thinking more of the ordinary startup than of large organizations.
29. 929.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    Then you remember that for years, Stack Overflow ran out of a couple of well administered servers. YAGNI. KISS. People forget the basics because "infrastructure astronautics" is fun, and it probably helps make a beautiful resume,
30. 930.▲
    by wazoox 6y ago

    I have it on my IdeaPad with Pop_OS, too. The buttons work as intended and you can easily mute/unmute at any time whatever application has the focus.