Hamartiogonic

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do you explain selfhosting to the non-techies in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
Like a cab, but it’s your car and you take care of everything.

If you need a car only once a year when going to the airport, a cab will be cheaper. If you need to go somewhere at least once a week week, driving your own car will be cheaper. Likewise, if you need only a little bit of cloud storage for your photos, free iCould or Google Drive might be fine. If you need a whole lot of storage, self hosting becomes cheaper.

When you take a cab, do you need to worry about maintenance, gasoline, insurance or other things? No. Same goes for cloud storage. When you throw your photos on Google Drive, you don’t need to worry about electricity bills, security updates or hardware maintenance.

When you drive your own car, you need to be a responsible driver and a car owner. Maintenance is your responsibility. Likewise, self hosting means you need to be a responsible server admin.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Political decision making is the only real bottleneck here. It’s not a technical issue.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If we invest in grid energy storage, we might be able to skip nuclear entirely. In the meanwhile though, we’re kinda stuck. The way I see it, nuclear power is an intermediary step that is hard to avoid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3150: Ping⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
You wo_ld nly ge a f_w pa_ts h_re _nd the_e.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3150: Ping⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Would love to see them try this with the Message In a Bottle protocol. Would probably take a few centuries, but still…

“Hi, I’d like to hear a TCP joke.”

“Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?”

“Yes, I’d like to hear a TCP joke.”

“OK, I’ll tell you a TCP joke.”

“Ok, I will hear a TCP joke.”

“Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?”

“Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke.”

“Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline.”

“Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline.”

“I’m sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 0% discount⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
If you’re really good at customer service, you’ll say the price just went up 10% this morning, but since you’ll get a discount of the same amount. Basically just the normal price, but it feels nicer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Here’s another exploit. You and your academic buddies could each have their own Journal and use them for publishing without any suspicious traces leading back to you. Let’s say Sally starts SPLAT, the Studies in Pointless but Laughable Academic Topics. Nelly starts NOPE, the Journal of Nonsensical Observations an Preposterous Experiments. Meanwhile Pete starts POOP, the Proceedings of Outlandish and Outrageous Postulations.

Nelly can be an editor of SPLAT, while Pete can publish all his papers there. Likewise, Pete would be an editor of NOPE and Sally can publish her papers there. Finally, Sally would be an editor of POOP and Nelly would publish her papers that way. It’s a happy love triangle where everyone wins.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s how you play the game!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Can confirm. For example, Egypt made university education free (or very cheap) for all Egyptians. Nowadays, they are pumping out countless medical doctors who get employed all across the Middle East. Probably not the highest quality medical care, but it’s still better than nothing.

Now that I think of it, many countries offer free or very affordable university education for their citizens. What’s wrong with America? Even poor African countries make education accessible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s like using a mining bot in Minecraft. You just go AFK, and when you come back you have a hundred diamonds.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
But wouldn’t that mean you end up with as much debt as a small country?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Paul Erdős found an exploit in the end game. All you have to do, is collaborate with everyone you come across. It doesn’t even matter how small your role is in each paper as long as your name appears somewhere in it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3148: 100% All Achievements⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
How do you choose when every major’s terrible? That’s the thing — you don’t. Gotta catch them all, amarite?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Double harvest: Vertical solar panels and crops thrive side by side⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
On top of that, vertical panels stay cooler, which enhances efficiency. Such a counterintuitive thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World’s first AI-designed viruses a step towards AI-generated life⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
What could go right.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I really like the idea of having my own server, where I could have a bunch of cool stuff like email, VPN, Nextcloud, and so much more. The primary reason why I don’t have a server like that, is because I can’t trust myself to follow the best practices. For a while now, I’ve been thinking that I should hire a proper professional to take care of all that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah well, passive components are nice, but occasionally you just need to spend some energy to keep the components doing its thing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers revive the pinhole camera for next-gen infrared imaging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Is that a problem though? As long as the new camera is better than the old one, it should be fine.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
That 8” mark though 😂
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I get my American slang through Hollywood and Internet, so the curriculum may not be entirely comprehensive at times.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Oh. That’s a new one for me.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Had to look at my keyboard to translate that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How fast could a human accellerate (while staying alive)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If you’re only live threateningly injured doing analysis, but die 5 minutes later, it counts as a win.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Texas under the global spotlight — 280,000 tonnes of 'white gold' under this desert⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Also, it speaks of it as renewable energy, even though it’s clearly not. Producing hydrogen this way consumes elemental iron, which will eventually run out. When there’s nothing but rust left, the reaction will stop and your lovely “renewable” hydrogen mine will will stop producing hydrogen. If we call that renewable, then uranium is renewable too.

Well, at least it produces energy without any direct CO2 emissions, so that’s a clear benefit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3128: Thread Meeting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Do people actually use the same name on every platform? I know I did, until I realized I specifically wanted to avoid people from connecting the dots.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3124: Grounded⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yes, the wings are a huge problem. Not that many roads can handle something as wide as a plane.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3124: Grounded⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
You know, those jet engines are LOUD. Sure, they can technically move the plane on regular roads too, but the noise is just astounding.

In a big airport you might not have noticed, because you were either in the terminal or in side a plane when that happened. However, if you’ve visited a smaller airport, you may have stood just outside the fence when someone reved up their jet engines. Imagine that, but even louder, and moving on normal roads. Should be fun for everyone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, the y-axis is unlabeled, but at least the title still tells you what it is: traffic. Doesn’t even have any numbers, so there’s no need to ask about the unit either.

This is more like the graphs made at the marketing department where km becomes KM, because it looks cooler. Same goes of MG, because why not. Is that milligrams or megagrams? Don’t worry about it. I mean, it’s just numbers, so who cares anyway. It’s not like anyone tries to calculate something with them. It’s well known in the marketing department that no human on earth is able do things like that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If you see sparks and smoke coming from the computer, you can be pretty sure you’re doing something wrong.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
In Nordic folklore, there’s a concept for a household spirit (nisse/tomte) that may do mischievous tricks if you don’t treat it appropriately. If mathematics can’t solve this puzzle, it has to be a computer tomte that isn’t happy with your taste in RGB or how infrequently you run software updates.