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they may have updated the website since the numerous comments here but the about section acknowledges all the libraries they use Libraries A big thanks to FFmpeg (audio, video), li…

> I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other I'm confused by what you mean here? Don't they just use the network like any other computer? I haven't had to do any…

it works in the terminal on a headless server

How so? They're in the same ballpark as digital ocean and linode who would be their primary competitors, each of which are roughly a 3rd of the cost of AWS/GC/Azure.

The population right now is 4x what it was 100 years ago which itself was 2x what it was 100 years before that. so even if our per capita emissions haven't grown (they have, drasti…

I also had this same issue and found this on the official microsoft blog which also contains info on how to actually enable the new features. wsl --update; wsl --update --pre-relea…

Ford owns several single letter trademarks for the purpose of selling cars. This doesn't prevent people from using the letters for other purposes.

The elevator pitch does a pretty good job of explaining the use case imo.

It's a perfectly fine objective if you trust your drivers to meet a minimum standard of a good job. It won't work in an adversarial system like Uber where drivers are just numbers …

China is rapidly decarbonising their transport, faster than any other country. They also produce the vast majority of the world's solar panels.

Yeah I am joking about the yearning as it's obviously not a thing people think or care about. The hallway shuffle happens while walking down a hallway when someone is coming at you…

An an Australian who's travelled a little I can tell you that in their hearts of hearts people yearn to drive on the right. In no other country do I find myself doing the hallway s…

https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-el...

The most reliable grids in the world are made up of a large number of small generators rather than a single source which when taken down takes down the entire grid. If you were to …

Perhaps Google has begun practicing Last Thursdayism https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_Thursdayism

>> If you’re doing a micro-startup, you need valuable tools and insight today. You don’t care about 12 months from now. You certainly don’t care about $99 twelve months from now… E…

DKIM has been around for close to 2 decades now and fastmail has been rolling out out by default since 2009 [1]. This change only affects fastmail users who manage their own DNS ra…

It has bluetooth support as well! I use the MX master but it's the same system. There's a button on the bottom to switch between up to 3 devices.

In Australia the system is called Osko and we link our mobile phone numbers or email address to it.

vultr lets you install custom ISOs, can also pxeboot.

Extremely lazy MSPs will port forward ports to BMCs instead of using a VPN or SSH tunnel.

Healthcare is easily solved by letting go of the requirement to live in the United States and living almost anywhere else.

OK the main discrepancy is from the Data center calculation. The Galaxy PDF lists the top 100 banks as owning $70Tn of deposits. I calculated using the galaxy energy number but div…

Thanks for working this one out, unfortunately you're off by a factor of 1000. Your calculation comes out to 1.028 TWh 1 TWh = 1,000,000,000 KWh