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While spinning, the blades store a miniscule amount of kinetic energy. After removing power even that small amount ends up as heat through friction ( both in the bearing but mostly…

Overhead high voltage conductors are not insulated with a coating, probably for many reasons but certainly for cost and heat dissipation. That means the path through the air to som…

This view is just very extreme, it is much less zig zag. It is just mounted to the wall at the high points and slack in between. Certainly there is also a reason for the exact amou…

The money you buy stock with l goes to the former/selling shareholder, which is most often not the company. It is possible the company is holding its own stock and selling for cash…

Remember that you are supposed to replace the entire thing because the other components like the sensor or simply capacitors also age. It is a very cheap safety device and simply n…

> Couldn't LLM provider just fine-tune their model for these tasks specifically - since they are static - to get ad value? They could. They would easily be found out as they loose …

And assumption like that are probably a great source of accidents, our mind needs to take some shortcuts like that and isn't always right. Grandmas car got sold last week and daddy…

I'd guess that they used to have very good discounted contracts but are not able to renew them anymore. The cost they charge also includes the cooling, so you could see it as for e…

I do not understand why one would fetch stacks of paper from the bank if one believes toilet paper is the more valuable type of paper you should hoard and maybe also trade with. Se…

> I have a Pi 4 home server, and the biggest issue right now is that my home upload is a bit weak for remote video streaming. "To ensure that every Pi at our decentralized location…

I'm sure there is and will be demand for good static IPv4 tunnel brokers. I'm personally fine with dealing with dynamic DNS and port forwards for my home setup for now, but once I …

No, scaleway is owned by the same parent as online.net, which is a competitor to OVH. Both are french though.

There is a very large industry that specializes in exploiting the human mind: advertising/marketing. Of course the behavior/opinion changes they are after are somewhat limited and …

This is what makes this no better than any other VPN service. I still need to completely trust that the provider is not watching me. Even with full hardware access, there could be …

You would debug an unikernel just like you can debug the OS kernel. Either it brings its own internal "remote debugging API", or the hypervisor helps you with that and provides int…

Since the Eula comes with the driver, hetzner (and other hardware rentals) shouldn't be covered directly. They don't download and install the driver for you, so aren't a party of t…

As defined in the article: "when a computer is reset without following proper procedures (what’s known as a cold/hard reboot)" Even if you disagree, "cold boot attack" is the estab…

It underscores how little you should trust your own numbers (or numbers from strangers on the internet). Forget one small factor and the whole picture shifts a lot.

"And I have one particular server that we have loved for a long time." Yes, for over 10 years now! (I looked up the manufacturing date from the serial number, week 29 of 2007) I fe…

And the preemtible price is only $0.22 per GPU. Not that the GPUs used here seem to be preemtible, but this might give some hint to the baseline cost.

Well I've seen many environments, and some only ran puppet manually whenever they would before had used ssh and made a change directly. Another allowed one group of admins to just …

Puppet rules are typically applied constantly in short intervals. The installed version should always be the same everywhere, the latest available from the repository. The risk is …

We can and we have with mobile networks and wifi positioning. That's just not accurate enough for many applications, and resolution varies a lot.

To be honest monthly pricing and full year commitments to get special deals no longer do it for me. I'm sure you'll find some customers at those prices, but it does not compare wit…

https://wiki.hetzner.de/index.php/Rechenzentren_und_Anbindun... "How are the Data Centers connected to each other? The two Data Center Parks are both connected to Frankfurt (FFM) a…