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by beembeem 27d ago
This is peak HN. Two engineers running google searches without any primary sources speaking up about the issue.
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by beembeem 1mo ago
What stackoverflow should have become.
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by beembeem 2mo ago
...and Seattle
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by beembeem 6mo ago
Yes and no. Funny you mention Microsoft because I used to see bug reports for Windows. I can tell you there was a ton of low quality "SOMEONE HACKED MY COMPUTER" or similar feedback (and sometimes just unintelligible ranting) that
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by beembeem 6mo ago
Yep. On the other side of the curtain this often isn't nefarious. It's a simple cost/benefit analysis of spending time on something that one user is complaining about versus a backlog of higher business priorities. I've
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by beembeem 8mo ago
This is an often conjectured example. California allows for that, but it falls under a foreign LLC registration to get it recognized by the state. It turns out that the annual foreign registration fee matches the in-state one. So this ends
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by beembeem 8mo ago
LLC annual registration is up to $800/yr in CA, including foreign LLC's. I don't think $800/yr for privacy is a "very tiny". Not to mention you would need to pay an owner of record, probably a professional, to
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by beembeem 9mo ago
Andy has a balanced and appropriate take here.
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by beembeem 9mo ago
Though the source article was human written, the public exploit was developed with an LLM. https://x.com/dez_/status/2004933531450179931
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by beembeem 9mo ago
Incorrect, the company patched 4.4 on 12/19/25 with a special 4.4.30 release: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/v4.4/release-notes/4.4/#4.4.30-...
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by beembeem 9mo ago
Result first (kill anything not carbon-based), find rationale later. Same applies to how this admin forced layoffs at the green energy (hydro + nuclear) behemoth BPA [1] (which was funded entirely by ratepayers, not the federal government)
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by beembeem 9mo ago
Unlike solar, wind at the utility scale virtually always improves load factors, lcoe, and a host of other economics vs a personal installation. Generally utility scale solar buys cheap panels that aren't as energy dense as those purcha
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by beembeem 11mo ago
The biggest benefits are in the later years due to utility escalation rates. Compounded growth rate of 4-6% does wonders 20 years later!
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by beembeem 11mo ago
I don't think it's a fair argument to say that EVs are an ineffective use of battery capacity. They are certainly more affordable and accessible than home batteries. Have you seen the cost of home batteries? Napkin math shows thei
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by beembeem 1y ago
s/1000/10,000,000/
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by beembeem 1y ago
What hardware were you using to host it?
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by beembeem 1y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your bad experience. From your comment I take it that you weren't using a time-series collection to store data in mdb which uses industry-standard compression techniques?
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by beembeem 2y ago
let me introduce you to this hot, open source, nosql database that's webscale...
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by beembeem 2y ago
If "extending Activation Lock to other components" means what I think it does, then the phone's owner should have control over this and 3rd party repairs should be fine. It may cut out the market for unofficial parts, but doe
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by beembeem 2y ago
It's a fair point that nuclear (and all power plants) need maintenance windows where they come offline (and occasionally unplanned outages). But this is not the same as saying nuclear is not dispatchable, that's just incorrect.
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by beembeem 2y ago
> a house with high, quality, modern insulation? How much is society willing to spend collectively to upgrade our housing stock for this? Not to mention triple-paned windows are not standard by any sufficiently large builder on new const
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by beembeem 2y ago
I'm not talking about the arctic circle. This applies to Northern US, Sourthern Canada. And for that matter, a good chunk of the EU.
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by beembeem 2y ago
Firm refers to the generation profile of the power source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatchable_generation Batteries are not cost or resource efficient for winter where I live. Less than 8 hours of sunlight is no
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by beembeem 2y ago
1) Those fixed costs go down with more distributed generation. No need for large solar farms in a different zip code if many customers have it on their roof. 2) Many/most utilities don't pay retail rates for excess power, so there
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by beembeem 2y ago
First off, I know this article is more targeted at utility-scale installations, but much of the comment section is discussing or interested in residential so it's worth bringing this piece up. One of the problems for residential roof-m
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by beembeem 2y ago
I went through this for a commercial installation on a flat roof. As long as the roofer inspected the penetrations made by the installation, the roof warranty was fine. Of course, this roofer also had a business line for installing panels s
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by beembeem 2y ago
1) There isn't infinite desert land that can be used. 2) You still need firm, dispatchable power. Batteries are a bridge, not the only solution.
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by beembeem 2y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who found the title and content disconnected. Seems like the author got a chance to talk about their interest in literary history by adding a paragraph at the end and an enticing title.
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by beembeem 2y ago
Hence the reason this hasn't taken off yet. Add in the geographical requirements of heat close enough to the surface and costs go up higher. Because it's baseload power, its ouput has higher value than intermittent sources per mwh
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by beembeem 2y ago
This is a joke right? It journals updates to disk and has a well-defined recovery procedure.

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