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SomeoneSomewhere

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  • So beautiful

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  • So beautiful

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  • Underground works well for greenfields construction, where you can map everything out ahead of time and don't have to deal with existing underground services.

    It's manageable on low-density streets where its really only three waters and maybe some telephone lines.

    It's a nightmare to underground existing infrastructure in dense environments. Underground is already full of three generations of critical comms, corroding gas, water, HV lines that will fail if you look at them wrong, and if you're really unlucky, steam pipes too.

  • So beautiful

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  • Still about a 10x cost difference, plus (particularly on transmission lines) there's issues with extra capacitive loading.

  • There Is No Constitutional Mandate for Fascism

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  • No, but apparently there's an electoral mandate for it.

  • Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.

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  • As in coal-powered steam trains? There's a moderate number in tourist service around the world.

    Diesel or electric trains carrying coal are still very common.

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    What's the biggest room in the world?

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  • The NASA Vehicle Assembly Building is also a contender.

    I'm not sure how many dividing walls there are inside Everett, but the VAB is basically one massive empty skyscraper.

  • xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales

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  • Converting between Kelvin and Celsius is simple addition; converting between Rankine and Fahrenheit is simple addition. Converting between the two groups requires multiplication, and pre calculator, that's notably harder.

    Also, all your kJ/kg/°C or BTU/lb/°F tables and factors are identical when you swap to referencing absolute zero. If you change to the other unit system, all that goes out the window.

  • Clevo reseller wants get coreboot ported, ends up throwing a temper tantrum and banning Germany, Poland, Texas and AMD over unsatisfactory experience

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  • I feel dumber having read that.

    Banning a whole country because you disliked a company?

    Dealing with stuff that's 'almost working' is often harder than starting from scratch; ask any tradesperson.

    They also apparently cannot get their heads around the fact that people might give you a discount if you advertise their brand. Ad-supported pricing has been around for a long time; it's not some voodoo.

  • xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales

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  • The other scores seem to be more about inherent cursedness, not simply 'there is a far better option'.

  • xkcd #3001: Temperature Scales

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  • I am very surprised that Rankine gets such a high cursedness score. Isn't it just the same as Kelvin but based on Fahrenheit instead of Celsius?

  • Intuit possibly succumbs to the Streisand effect

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  • Until the day comes that I get a letter in the mail from the government saying, "Here's how much you paid in taxes, if you're cool with that then please disregard", I will not be satisfied.

    NZ does that. More accurately, they email you to tell you that there's a letter available online - I don't think they send physical mail by default.

    Then they pay any refund straight into your nominated bank account.

  • Brand-new fire station in Germany burns down as it had no fire alarms

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  • Requirements often depend on the type of building occupancy and the chance of fire spread to neighboring buildings.

  • xkcd #2998: Ravioli-Shaped Objects

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  • I do feel that eating a Capri Sun with a fork seems like a better idea than installing a bulging battery in a phone.

  • Shorts

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  • Even disregarding the orientation, people hate auto-next on YouTube, but will tolerate/accept endless scroll for shorts, especially because they're short.

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    Pro-Palestine protester stands trial for racial offence over ‘coconut’ placard

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  • From article:

    He said the term “coconut” was a “well-known racial slur which has a very clear meaning” to the effect that “you may be brown on the outside, but you’re white on the inside. In other words, you’re a race traitor – you’re less brown or black than you should be.”

    That's a different definition of 'coconut' than I hear here in NZ. Here it's usually just a (derogatory) term for any Pacific Islander, because they come from where coconuts come from.

    Gotta love slang/slurs.

  • Oops. Trump’s campaign mixes up state of Georgia with country of Georgia

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  • As a person in neither Georgia nor Georgia (nor the US at all), I agree that it seems like an easy mistake to make.

    But for anyone in Georgia or a neighboring state, it seems like something that should be pretty well known. Especially if you work in marketing.

    I'd normally expect these kinds of ads to be produced by the local party branch but this suggests that either the local Georgians don't know there's another Georgia, or the ads came straight out of the national HQ or Moscow.

  • What are good harddrives to use with servers

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  • Any hard drive can fail at any time with or without warning. Worrying too much about individual drive families' reliability isn't worth it if you're dealing with few drives. Worry instead about backups and recovery plans in case it does happen.

    Bigger drives have significantly lower power usage per TB, and cost per TB is lowest around 12-16TB. Bigger drives also lets you fit more storage in a given box. Drives 12TB and up are all currently helium filled which run significantly cooler.

    Two preferred options in the data hoarder communities are shucking (external drives are cheaper than internal, so remove the case) and buying refurb or grey market drives from vendors like Server Supply or Water Panther. In both cases, the savings are usually big enough that you can simply buy an extra drive to make up for any loss of warranty.

    Under US$15/TB is typically a 'good' price.

    For media serving and deep storage, HDDs are still fine and cheap. For general file storage, consider SSDs to improve IOPS.

  • Secret calculator hack brings ChatGPT to the TI-84, enabling easy cheating

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  • I don't remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.

  • Square!

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  • You don't normally need to specify that the sides are parallel if you specify four right angles.