kapone

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by kapone 11mo ago
Make self hosting fun - true. Using FreeBSD... - Seriously?
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by kapone 11mo ago
Got it. It's gonna take me some time to reply to this, because I wanna get my facts right, and on mobile right now.
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by kapone 11mo ago
I know, and yet...we were draining the SPR for some odd reason. Why's that?
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by kapone 11mo ago
Whether it is or isn't is not the point. A national energy policy has to work for its people first. If it's not working it needs to be changed. And I guess the two countries (combined) that have almost 3B people don't believe
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by kapone 11mo ago
Electricity prices are up everywhere. We're still way lower than many many places. There's many parts of the US (take a wild guess where all the data centers are going...) where electric rates are <$.10/kwh. Now compare th
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by kapone 11mo ago
What about it? What’s wrong with it? Oil prices are down, we now produce more oil than anybody else, and enjoy low energy prices domestically. Where’s the problem?
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by kapone 11mo ago
Touché. We shall see.
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by kapone 11mo ago
Can you name some examples? I have a reply in my head, but I wanna make sure I’m precise.
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by kapone 11mo ago
Buy weapons from us?? That’s your barometer? And they are not “our” treaty commitments. Treaties by definition involve more than one party. But out of curiosity, what commitments are talking here? Talking in abstracts is meaningless.
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by kapone 11mo ago
Everything, always hurts “someone”. There is no universal good. The totality is what matters, not you, not me.
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by kapone 11mo ago
> Yeah, because he was guarding them against the current administration abusing the Justice Department to go after them Ha ha. They (democrats overall) need to look inwards for that. > Same reason he pardoned Fauci and others. Fauci s
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by kapone 11mo ago
WTF is this even supposed to mean? H1Bs use Microsoft products more than others? Or they do it because they have to…or what?? Please explain yourself.
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by kapone 11mo ago
It fills a niche. What’s else does? Yes, it’s not great, but so what?
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by kapone 11mo ago
“Selfless” - what world are you living in?? Money rules. There’s no ifs and buts about it. If it doesn’t have a reasonable rate of return, nobody gives a shit.
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by kapone 11mo ago
So, now you want the likes of the Wikipedia foundation to become a rent seeking landlord??
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by kapone 11mo ago
Country bonds?? Have you looked at what they pay? You’re not seeing investment into these kinds of “essential global infrastructure “ projects, because there are NO such things. We can’t even agree on what “global” means.
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by kapone 11mo ago
That's a very naive view. WHAT should the Wikimedia foundation invest in, that's viable for a thousand years? That requires a Wall St/hedge fund and/or Buffett mindset. The Wikimedia foundation is none of those, and they
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by kapone 11mo ago
Wrong. We don’t need to build refining capacity. We just need to remind China that who’s the big dog, which we seem to be doing. They’ll fall in line quickly enough.
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by kapone 11mo ago
So, we’ll pay more and still get them. You think China is the only one that can game the system? Who’s got the money?
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by kapone 11mo ago
While I mostly agree with you... >The US Dollar has never been 100% backed by any metal. This is not accurate but the devil is always in the details. What exactly does "backed by" mean? If we mean pre Bretton Woods (1971), then
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by kapone 11mo ago
This is the most naive take on...well, currencies, gold and their relationship, that I've seen in a very long time. Imagine it was 1970. You had dollars and you had gold and they were inexorably tied to each other. Gold was ~$35/o
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by kapone 11mo ago
The damage is indeed done. If they wanted to do it the right way, they should have offered Synology branded HDDs (from whatever upstream vendor) AT COST to their customers. See the problem there...?
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by kapone 11mo ago
Your experience with SFPs does not translate to hard drives. Hard drives are very, very, very standardized. SFPs are not. Yes, all SFPs have a standard hardware interface, but the optics coding varies wildly. Remember all those switch vendo
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by kapone 1y ago
If you cannot even describe your “platform” without proper grammar…especially one that’s supposed to be about “writing”… :shrug:
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by kapone 1y ago
After quite a few years of being an employee (and the whole CV driven crap), I’m now in entrepreneur mode, stealth for now (that’s relatively easy, because I’m bootstrapping and funding this with my own money, no investors), and I made an e
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by kapone 1y ago
Well, as anecdotal data, have you folks noticed ads lately pushing Gemini/Claude/xx on both legacy media and online? If AI (and these products) is sooo great, why do these companies have to advertise to sell their wares? And Googl
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by kapone 1y ago
I'm failing to see the point of this article? I mean, people have been building dual GPU workstations for a long long time. What's so special about this one?
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by kapone 1y ago
Two words. Passive flows. Where do you think your 401K money is going...right into the S&P 500...and who gets the lion's share of allocation out of that? The Mag7 et al. If you chart the last 25 years, Gold (yes, that one...the use
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by kapone 1y ago
These kinds of phrases are...eerily similar to the phrases heard right before...the .com bust. If you were old enough at the time, that's exactly what the mindset was back then. The classic story of the shoeshine boy giving out stock t
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by kapone 1y ago
> - Learning how to solder - Learning how to use a multimeter - Learning to build basic circuits on breadboxes - learning about solar panels, mppt, battery management system, and different variations of li-on batteries - learning about L

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