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by beaviskhan 1mo ago
Most modern batteries like this are weatherproof and can be mounted outside the home. Most modern batteries use LiFePO4 chemistry, which while not perfect, is much less risky in terms of thermal runaway than older lithium ion batteries.
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by beaviskhan 1mo ago
Not "will be": "are being" abused. Even a cursory search finds many cases of police abusing the information to stalk exes, for example.
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by beaviskhan 2mo ago
> flight times of up to 22 hours Making flight connections is never fun, but this sounds absolutely brutal.
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by beaviskhan 2mo ago
It is indeed wild that the easiest way to do large-scale logging in those days was to slap together some tracks and roadbed and run trains up the valley. And then tear it all down again when it was time to move to the next one.
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by beaviskhan 2mo ago
Wikipedia also has a list that is a bit easier to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shay_locomotive#Survivors
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by beaviskhan 2mo ago
It's a lot closer to junk (approx 2.7%) than it is to investment grade (approx 0.8%): https://www.macrotrends.net/3006/high-yield-spread https://www.macrotrends.net/3042/us-corporate-bond-spre
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by beaviskhan 3mo ago
I think you've got an extra zero in there somewhere $35k - $26k = $9k $9k / $0.12/mile savings ~= 75,000 miles breakeven
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by beaviskhan 3mo ago
We are mostly using Standard_DXds_v4
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by beaviskhan 3mo ago
Newer generation SKUs (which that one is) are often in short supply. I have plenty of bad things to say about Azure, but I've never had trouble getting capacity older than bleeding edge in eastus2 and centralus regions, at least.
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by beaviskhan 5mo ago
You'd have to be spectacularly stupid to bet on these kinds of things without having insider knowledge, because you ought to know good and damn well by now that the people with insider knowledge are DEFINITELY betting on them.
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by beaviskhan 6mo ago
> I probably have five different systems This is the story of Microsoft - five different ways to do the thing, none of which do everything, and all of which are in various states of disrepair ranging from outright deprecation on up throu
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by beaviskhan 6mo ago
Don't forget maintenance costs in the TCO calculation too. Transmissions, fuel pumps, timing belts, radiators (mostly), fuel injectors, emissions systems, etc are all out of the picture in an EV. Servicing those things may be infrequen
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by beaviskhan 11mo ago
Automatic snow chains are a thing, often seen on emergency vehicles even outside of the normal snow band. Ex: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/yus43b/wha... No idea if they're compa
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by beaviskhan 1y ago
We ran 100% of our workloads on VMWare this time last year. We'll be at 0% this time next year. We were heading that direction over the long term anyway, but the Broadcom shenanigans made us double down on that effort. They may actuall
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by beaviskhan 1y ago
Also S3 related: the bucket owner can now be configured as the object owner no matter where the object originated. In the past this was exceedingly painful if you wanted to allow one account contribute objects to a bucket in another account
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by beaviskhan 1y ago
I don't use them when it's an option - but Home Depot in particular often has zero actual cashiers. They've always got a couple people standing around in self checkout to assist when the system (inevitably?) doesn't work
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by beaviskhan 1y ago
If you take this approach, you have to reindex when groups/roles changes - not always a feasible choice
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by beaviskhan 1y ago
The font nerd / metalhead mashup we didn't know we needed - I love this!
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by beaviskhan 1y ago
This is where I read it: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery
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by beaviskhan 1y ago
> The premium they ask is substantial. You can spec out a beefy Dell PowerEdge with a ton of drive bays for cheap and install TrueNAS, and you’ll likely be much happier. Yeah, but then you have a PowerEdge with all the noise and heat tha
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by beaviskhan 2y ago
The Venn diagram of people who think it's ok to treat parents like this and people who vote "for liberty" is a circle.
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by beaviskhan 2y ago
The other reply to this post has it right. Your argument against identity politics appears to be to engage in identity politics, and that was the reason for my snarky comment. But I'll bite and make a serious reply, I'd like to th
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by beaviskhan 2y ago
"done with identity politics" "military veteran from a poor family with no college degree" okaaaay.
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by beaviskhan 2y ago
If you are a white male (I am) then you almost certainly ARE privileged at some level and imo should be aware of that. This is a completely separate matter from being ashamed of said privilege (I don't think this is reasonable or produ
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by beaviskhan 2y ago
A company with the size and financial resources of Geico ought to be able to handle on-prem just fine. I am a huge public cloud fan, but it is definitely not a great (or even good) fit for everyone.
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by beaviskhan 2y ago
Well that is true, but I don't use AWS or Azure because I want to run servers. If you treat a public cloud like a datacenter, you're likely to have a bad time.
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by beaviskhan 2y ago
Yup, and you also get to make AWS deal with OS upgrades, DB upgrades, backups, etc.
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by beaviskhan 2y ago
Probably not - but by calling out EC2 instances as the way and then failing to mention patching or configuration management, this article loses some credibility for me. These considerations are not optional over any significant length of ti
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by beaviskhan 3y ago
Also Not Awesome - AWS Config rule evaluations
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by beaviskhan 3y ago
Seriously, integrating with a single vendor is often nightmarish. And this guy is proposing some unholy vendor centipede? Harrrrrrd pass.

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