foxrob92

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by foxrob92 4y ago
I'm in Perth. Our feed in tariff changed in July to 10c/kWh between 3pm and 9pm, and 2.5c/kWh at other times. Use tariff is 26.2c/kWh. I'm pretty sure our solar will pay itself back in under 5 years, but we have a 2
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by foxrob92 5y ago
Dunno if your geographic size argument holds much water. Australia is about the same size as the continental US, but we always get lumped in as one entity. Canada appears to get the same treatment.
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by foxrob92 5y ago
Except instead of being something cool like "diet coke and mentos" this is something basic that webdevs should be familiar with.
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by foxrob92 5y ago
The transaction price does not reflect the true cost of the energy, nor does it reflect the negative externalities. When ~1/3 of BTC mining is powered by coal in Xinjiang, it's horrific for climate change (source: https:/&#x
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by foxrob92 5y ago
It's absurd. repeating what I said elsewhere - my desktop at home has a 650W PSU. It would take ~76 days of full power for that to consume as much energy as a single BTC transaction.
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by foxrob92 5y ago
>The problem with people claiming mining btc is a waste It takes ~1.2 MWh to confirm a single transaction right now. My fridge at home consumes approx 300 kWh/year. Are you saying that a single BTC transaction verification provides
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by foxrob92 5y ago
Bitcoin mining is a colossal waste of energy (given it's at about 1.2MWh currently to confirm a single transaction, and that number is basically nondecreasing). People playing video games are at least deriving some enjoyment from it.
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by foxrob92 5y ago
So people aren't allowed to criticise the system they live under? Every time I see this take, I am reminded of this comic: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
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by foxrob92 5y ago
>Please support this with data. It doesn't literally burn for it; fires are down, what, 90% from a century ago? Got a source for the "fires are down 90%" statistic? I think it's pretty clear that GP was referring to c
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by foxrob92 5y ago
Google wasn't an ad machine prior to the dotcom crash. Before the crash they had a very small advertising group, and it was pretty maligned. It's also somewhat important to differentiate between "doing advertising" and s
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by foxrob92 6y ago
Seems like stock standard American Exceptionalism to me. "When we do it, it's a communications network. When China does it, it's espionage".
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by foxrob92 6y ago
> Why would you need to use "modulo and division into round/ceil/floor" on array offsets? How often you do it? Circular buffers?
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by foxrob92 6y ago
There's multiple theories of value. Labour theory of value contends that the value of an object depends on the "congealed human labour" in that object (e.g. a chair is worth more than its constituent timber because the chair
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by foxrob92 6y ago
If that were true, wouldn't the proportion of crimes involving a firearm be consistent the world over?
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by foxrob92 6y ago
While Rowling provided the creative input to her stories, they were: - Edited by other people - Printed by other people - (Films were) directed by other people - Characters in the films were played by other people - Distributed by other peo
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by foxrob92 6y ago
Why would they? Supporting privacy-preserving options is not within their business interests.
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by foxrob92 6y ago
>I guess the hardware / IoT use case is pretty small OSIsoft was bought earlier this year by AVEVA for $5 billion[1]. OSIsoft's offering is centered around storing industrial control system data (the buzzword-version is IIoT, t
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by foxrob92 6y ago
The other surprising factor is that a lot of heavy industry will have data going back decades. If they can't get all of that data in to timestream, that's a massive mark against it. I'd heard that it was initially developed f
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by foxrob92 6y ago
>If you expect a 12 hour outage, you should probably spec for 12 hours. Industrial facilities don't always expect their outages. > Additionally, you can scale the memory retention policy up and down as you see fit. So if you noti
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by foxrob92 6y ago
Sure, but if you configure your database for, lets say, 4 hours of in-memory, and you have a network outage of 12 hours (this is not uncommon on mine sites), you lose 8h of data and cannot put it in to your "master store" .
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by foxrob92 6y ago
Yeah, I currently work for a company that does a time series DB for industrial applications (think power generation, mining, etc). Backfilling/inserting old data is common. Control network connectivity is not always great. Sometimes yo
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by foxrob92 6y ago
Can't speak for Chinese systems, but I'm aware of "jump hosts" (used for remote access to industrial control systems) that are running windows server 2003 and are internet-exposed.
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by foxrob92 6y ago
>It’s an old idea that keeps resurfacing and frankly I think it misses the real problem of modern websites: they’re too bloated with code that the user is expected to run and yet isn’t there to serve the user. I can't find it now, b
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by foxrob92 6y ago
The table linked lists the following lifecycle emissions (min/median/max) * Hydropower: 1.0/24/2200 * Concentrated solar: 8.8/27/63 * Rooftop Solar PV: 26/41/60 * Utility Solar PV: 18/48/180
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by foxrob92 6y ago
This is exactly why I changed all of my personal machines to Linux. Unfortunately I'm bound to Windows at work (work is a MS shop).
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by foxrob92 6y ago
Some family friends had the "trilingual" version of this - the wife is from the French/Spanish border, so she had both French and Spanish speaking parents. The husband is from Australia, so they were looking for names that do
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by foxrob92 6y ago
My university used turnitin (I assume it still does), largely to check journal paper submissions and theses. This was pretty frustrating, as my undergraduate thesis had some publishable work in it. When I reformatted the thesis up so that i
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by foxrob92 6y ago
>I wish more smart devices offered a “run it locally on a Pi if you’re paranoid or a control freak.” Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the "smart device" (from the manufacturer's point of view)? The business model o
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by foxrob92 6y ago
>I don't "just accept" that I'm going to die But you are going to die. This[1] is a very thorough walkthrough. Wanting to live longer than your parents is one thing, but "forever" is a long time. I'd
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by foxrob92 6y ago
I feel like the author has a weird conception of what capitalism (and socialism) is. They seem to conflate market economies with capitalism, when capitalism is just a mode of economic production where the means of production are owned by pe

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