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bluGill

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  • SpaceX satellites half the size of pickup trucks are falling from the sky

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  • The only worry about low earth orbit is something survives reentry enough to become a bomb. these are enough to destroy a house if that happens - my undertanding is this can't happen but if they did

  • Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

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  • Mini cds were never common or universial. CDs where. So were cassettes and vinyl. There were a lot of niche formats. 8track got really close to common, I will say they didn't but someon should argue otherwise and you should consider their point.

  • It's self hosting Sunday! What's up selfhosters? Infrastructure edition

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  • I did the monthly arch upgrade and had to reboot to get some service to come up. Took an extra 5 minutes this month.

  • It's self hosting Sunday! What's up selfhosters? Infrastructure edition

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  • It might be but it is risky - if anything goes wrong there goes that data.

  • Are the homelab communities dead?

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  • The problem is people don't want a focused community. They want a broad community so when they have a question they can ask and find an expert - but not so broad that the noise means they can't follow anything. We do focused communities because the world (or even internet) has too many people and so the noise of all the discussions is too much. However that isn't what we want.

  • Why is the US$100 bill the most counterfeited?

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  • It isn't the $20 is the most counterfeited. The $100 is second. However if you live outside of the US the $100 is somewhat more common so depending on where you live what you see might not match reality.

    At least according to every search I can find.

  • Some Weird Things Are Happening And The Grid May Never Be The Same

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  • Where I live the larger problem is heating the battery in winter. Cooling needs to be done as well, but batteries don't like the cold temperatures we get in winter.

  • Some Weird Things Are Happening And The Grid May Never Be The Same

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  • So far car batteries are mostly lasting except for the Leaf which has a known bad design. Everyone else has put in proper thermo management, and so while batteries have degraded a bit over time, the cars are generally considered perfectly usable. I'm sure there are exceptions, but in general there isn't demand for battery related repairs in EVs. Only time will tell of course.

  • Some Weird Things Are Happening And The Grid May Never Be The Same

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  • Maybe, but that isn't clear. Like I said, I don't have fuel source statistics, even though that is important. I suspect it is too early to gather those statistics.

    The Prius has some battery replacement, but my impression is most of them the battery lasts for life, only in a few cases is it seen as worth it to replace a battery (or just a dead cell?). EVs have not been around long enough to really develop this industry - if it ever will develop.

    The leaf is an outlier - their battery management system was poor and it killed the battery in ways that nearly every other make avoids. The leaf sold in enough numbers, long enough ago, that I'd expect to see an industry to replace the battery if one will happen and it doesn't seem to be as large as one should expect. This is a sign of something - but what it is too early to tell.

  • My pasta isn't cooked?

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  • I make my own pasta - it isn't near as hard as you have been lead to believe. It takes a little time, but I need to wait for the sauce to cook anyway so it isn't like I'm leaving the kitchen. I don't even have on of those fancy pasta machines, I mix everything in a bowl with a wooden spoon, roll out, and cut with a knife. It makes better pasta, and I never have a third party to blame issues on.

  • Some Weird Things Are Happening And The Grid May Never Be The Same

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  • I suspect he is wrong - the average car is 12 year old, which means there are a lot of cars older than 24 years old still on the road. Of course cars do wear out and get scrapped, but just looking at broad statistics we should expect most EVs made since 2002 (after the EV1) are still on the road (this is broad statistics which doesn't consider fuel source at all - even though it is an important consideration I don't have data!) Which is to say there is no reason to think there are large numbers of batteries ready to be recycled. The first EVs are only now entering the phase where they are going to start getting scrapped - and there were not a lot of any of them made.

    There likely is a good business to be made recycling used car batteries. However if you want to get into it now is not the time to expand/scale , now is still time to be designing and testing the machines and processes you will be using when you scale. Anyone in this business should expect to still be losing many - your business plan should have real data showing real data of when you expect cars to be scrapped in numbers large enough to be wroth scaling.

  • I just tried vibe coding with Claude

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  • Claude is very good when driven by someone who knows how to do the job and demands perfection. However if you give it a prompt and take the first result it is normally junk, make it iterate and things get better.

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  • There is a station I used to listen to 8 years ago when I saw heavy traffic (to decide if I need an alternate route) - this is in a tiny city which rarely has traffic issues. everyonce in a while I hear it in a store a something and I still know the song that will be next.

  • Okay if you use a password manager, don't you still have to remember your phone lockscreen and also computer passwords? How do you make this password thing as simple as possible?

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  • Rotating passwords are less secure pecause people chorse a short password and then append an incrimenting number. Thus if it leaks for any reason the attacker knows them all.

    If you only force rotation after a known breach (that you admit to) people choose a new - good - pasword. Make sure the source of the breach is fixed though or people will give up when it happens too often

  • When do Americans actually do the taxes? On January 1? Or do y'all like procrastinate till April 15?

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  • i set things up so I'm close to net zero, owe the state a tiny amount, tiny refund from the feis. There is no hurry, but I want them done late March just in case there is something weird I need to figure out (which has happened a couple times over the decades I've been eoing them.)

  • Internet shutdown in Iran is now the longest in world history

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  • I don't have a choice. Either you defend Iran for funding everyone who wants to kill the Jews, or you defend the US and Israel for attacking Iran. There is no middle ground, either way you are defending genocidal maniacs. I hate both options.

  • AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

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  • There are lots of options - if you have a few million dollars to pay the lawyers. If you win you get that back. Sometimes lawyers will accept cases on pay only if you win - but generally only if they are sure of winning which this doesn't seem to me. Still check with a lawyer if you want to consider it.

  • Internet shutdown in Iran is now the longest in world history

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  • Or you can make war and kill innocents. Or you can turn your back and watch them kill innocents.

    there are other variations, but I have yet to see an option that isn't awful.

  • AI Company Clones Musician’s Voice, Then Copyright-Strikes Her Own Songs

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  • I do not know how hard it is to get access to this. That is a good question to ask - but also read the fine print if you get access as it may not be any better than the legal process for you.