icehawk

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by icehawk 21d ago
What are your qualifications to say that?
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by icehawk 21d ago
How does that work when the buyers have already paid?
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by icehawk 1mo ago
Why would it be fun? What do you think could be accomplished?
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by icehawk 2mo ago
As a guy who does HVAC as a hobby, this post is hilarious, nobody should take it seriously. I can see exactly where the practical experience would be invaluable.
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by icehawk 2mo ago
> To produce a watt of electricity using natural gas actually produces less CO2 than a watt from solar that far north What about the watt after that? I still got the solar panel for that next watt, and with natural gas I have... well I
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by icehawk 2mo ago
> This is bad in that when the battery malfunctions, the energy is released at 30x the rate Got a study you can link about that?
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by icehawk 3mo ago
Hmm it says my ASN has 512 IPv4 addresses, as the guy who filled out the paperwork for that from ARIN and got a /24 (256 addresses) afterwards, I think this has some major bugs. Oh and it doesn't even properly consume the geofeed
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by icehawk 4mo ago
It's SolarOS 4 --a pretty well-layered joke.
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by icehawk 4mo ago
RIPE keeps this https://ris.ripe.net/docs/mrt/#name-and-location
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by icehawk 4mo ago
from the last rental I had, they're not good at that.
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by icehawk 4mo ago
That doesn't seem right at all, since my phone doesn't have tethering plan and I can still use CarPlay.
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by icehawk 5mo ago
Cool, I don't. iPads are so useful for drawing, and I hate having to use a terminal app on an iPad. Different horses for different courses.
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by icehawk 5mo ago
We can't build a TV from 50 years ago, much less a space rocket. Because we stopped, we get to do everything over again with hardware from this century.
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by icehawk 5mo ago
Wai how is it weaker, like genuinely?
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by icehawk 6mo ago
> and if there were it would be accused as being fake and a ploy from American enemies to discredit them. Yeah so, the soviets were pretty good at dodging things like that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_inci
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by icehawk 6mo ago
At the time they were ~57,000km out and I calculated it was at least 380ms RTT to the ground receiver, so bad but not unusable .
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by icehawk 6mo ago
I don't think you understand how a swiss cheese failure happens. They're not independent or semi-independent. Latent failures, expose active failures, like: "Committed hard to an assumption that was wrong" Then causes da
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by icehawk 6mo ago
Except that there are a LOT of people that want to work in video games (which is the supply) which then depresses the price (wages) All of my developer friends in the gaming industry have had far worse working conditions then what I've
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by icehawk 6mo ago
I may have a positive personal opinion of the GDPR, but I ignore all GDPR requests for the website I have that you can just visit, because I don't want to be seen as doing business that makes me subject to GDPR
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by icehawk 6mo ago
I live in the present, and not the past, so I'm not sure what your argument is here.
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by icehawk 6mo ago
ns1.he.net - 216.218.130.2, is simultaneously in Texas (measured from Texas): 8 port-channel13.core4.dal1.he.net (184.104.196.170) 1.830 ms 1.969 ms * 9 ns1.he.net (216.218.130.2) 1.539 ms 1.560 ms 1.555 ms Virginia (measure
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by icehawk 7mo ago
> "we don't want IP's from Frankfurt showing up somewhere in Dubai" From a network perspective statements like that make no sense. IP addresses don't have any sort of physicality,
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by icehawk 7mo ago
> That's the same argument people made about Twitter. "If it goes bad, we'll just leave." We know how that played out. Yeah, it played out with my whole social circle leaving, as evidenced by the fact that all my frie
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by icehawk 8mo ago
Picture tubes started round, and then became rectangular: https://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_crts.html They didn't really have the problem of picking an aspect ratio because motion pictures existed and that was alr
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by icehawk 8mo ago
20MWh is around what my house used in both 2024 and 2025.
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by icehawk 9mo ago
CDs can oxidize in the span of decades. I've got hundreds of burned CDs that are from 2003 that are fine (even if they have changed color) because i store them in a climate controlled environment. A vinyl record degrades every time y
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by icehawk 9mo ago
Not even a day ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454115 : > I want my browser to protect me from ALL those things. Ublock origin did precisely that, then Google went in to kill ublock origin. Ublock lite is nowhe
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by icehawk 9mo ago
It was several years after first time I heard this that, that i realized that #3 was an impression of Archie Bunker with: "Edith, get me a beer, huh.", "oh jeez look at this" and "oh who's got the terlit paper
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by icehawk 10mo ago
I have several that are not rackmount (SU1000XLCD/SU1500XLCD), and they're all loud because they run fans constantly.
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by icehawk 10mo ago
People spent a whole decade complaining about the iPod dock -> Lightning change. I'd wait to blame the EU also.

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