TheSmiddy

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by TheSmiddy 1y ago
they may have updated the website since the numerous comments here but the about section acknowledges all the libraries they use Libraries A big thanks to FFmpeg (audio, video), libvips (images) and Pandoc (documents) for maintaining suc
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by TheSmiddy 2y ago
> I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other I'm confused by what you mean here? Don't they just use the network like any other computer? I haven't had to do any special configuration to get my VMs
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by TheSmiddy 2y ago
it works in the terminal on a headless server
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by TheSmiddy 2y ago
How so? They're in the same ballpark as digital ocean and linode who would be their primary competitors, each of which are roughly a 3rd of the cost of AWS/GC/Azure.
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by TheSmiddy 2y ago
The population right now is 4x what it was 100 years ago which itself was 2x what it was 100 years before that. so even if our per capita emissions haven't grown (they have, drastically) the graph of total emissions would still be stac
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by TheSmiddy 3y ago
I also had this same issue and found this on the official microsoft blog which also contains info on how to actually enable the new features. wsl --update; wsl --update --pre-release https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandlin
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by TheSmiddy 3y ago
Ford owns several single letter trademarks for the purpose of selling cars. This doesn't prevent people from using the letters for other purposes.
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by TheSmiddy 3y ago
The elevator pitch does a pretty good job of explaining the use case imo.
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by TheSmiddy 3y ago
It's a perfectly fine objective if you trust your drivers to meet a minimum standard of a good job. It won't work in an adversarial system like Uber where drivers are just numbers but if the drivers are also invested in the succes
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by TheSmiddy 3y ago
China is rapidly decarbonising their transport, faster than any other country. They also produce the vast majority of the world's solar panels.
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by TheSmiddy 3y ago
Yeah I am joking about the yearning as it's obviously not a thing people think or care about. The hallway shuffle happens while walking down a hallway when someone is coming at you so you move to the left to let them pass but they move
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by TheSmiddy 3y ago
An an Australian who's travelled a little I can tell you that in their hearts of hearts people yearn to drive on the right. In no other country do I find myself doing the hallway shuffle more than this one. If we drove on the right tha
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by TheSmiddy 4y ago
https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-el...
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by TheSmiddy 4y ago
The most reliable grids in the world are made up of a large number of small generators rather than a single source which when taken down takes down the entire grid. If you were to start a new city disconnected from the rest of society then
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by TheSmiddy 4y ago
Perhaps Google has begun practicing Last Thursdayism https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism
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by TheSmiddy 4y ago
>> If you’re doing a micro-startup, you need valuable tools and insight today. You don’t care about 12 months from now. You certainly don’t care about $99 twelve months from now… Exactly, the value is in the present, not in the future
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by TheSmiddy 4y ago
DKIM has been around for close to 2 decades now and fastmail has been rolling out out by default since 2009 [1]. This change only affects fastmail users who manage their own DNS rather than letting fastmail manage it and either set it up a
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
It has bluetooth support as well! I use the MX master but it's the same system. There's a button on the bottom to switch between up to 3 devices.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
In Australia the system is called Osko and we link our mobile phone numbers or email address to it.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
vultr lets you install custom ISOs, can also pxeboot.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
Extremely lazy MSPs will port forward ports to BMCs instead of using a VPN or SSH tunnel.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
Healthcare is easily solved by letting go of the requirement to live in the United States and living almost anywhere else.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
OK the main discrepancy is from the Data center calculation. The Galaxy PDF lists the top 100 banks as owning $70Tn of deposits. I calculated using the galaxy energy number but divided by total deposits wheras I should have only used the da
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
Thanks for working this one out, unfortunately you're off by a factor of 1000. Your calculation comes out to 1.028 TWh 1 TWh = 1,000,000,000 KWh
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
Ok cool. Let's double the energy used by banks then, still 100x as efficient as Bitcoin.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
In a disgustingly inefficient way. Global Financial System: 263.72TWh Bitcoin: 113.89TWh - GFS deposits: US$404.1 trillion Bitcoin: US$1.1 trillion - GFS energy per US$: 0.65 Wh Bitcoin energy per US$: 103.53 Wh And this is calculated just
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
The thing about most SaaS companies is a majority of your support calls come from your lowest tier customers. In a service like email where a huge number of problems are a mystery due to other mail servers possibly mishandling email Fastmai
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
Doesn't matter. Under Australian law they can still be compelled to install backdoors.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
It would be a hell of a lot easier for the west to understand China if China would let their citizens interact with the wider internet.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
It's following some business wank advice to stand out from the crowd like printing your resume on A3 card stock.

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