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bluGill

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    What used car a broke person can actually afford to buy?

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  • Are you sure - it might be this year but what about next year after those things are fixed. I see lots of people get this wrong and end up with payments for several years for a one year higher than normal bill.

    cars do wear out but it isn't near as fast as nost think.

  • Why do libraries define their own true and false?

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  • True is not one in C. You can always compare a value to 0 if you need false but comparing to any single value for true is wrong. Often functions will return some calculated value which would be zero for false and who cares - it isn't zero so return it for true. Thus all defines of true are suspect.

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    What used car a broke person can actually afford to buy?

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  • What is wrong with your current car - keeping that running is almost always cheaper. People give up on cars that just need a little work ane falsely claim it is a money pit.

    use your local transit system and ditch the car is best but that may mean going to public meetings and demanding service.

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    Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'

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  • Give me reasons to stay. I ret really annoyed by all the garbage my friends share and thus how little value you provide. give me value and I'll stay. Simple as that.

  • Seagate Ironwolf or WD red plus drives

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  • One of each. There is a small chance that drives made in the same factory will fail at exactly the same time for the same reason when used in RAID 1. While this probably won't happen (if it does it would be in the first month and you will hear about others with the same failures), why risk it. Besides you want hard drive makers to stay in business - all hard drives will crash in the future, the only question is when.

    I didn't take my advice for a RAID I built years ago. I just placed the order (one hour ago) to replace a WD red with a Seagate. God only knows when the next drive will fail. I've overall been fine, but I only have one disk redundancy in my zfs system until Thursday.

  • What are devs displaced by AI going to do in the future? Is there an actual plan?

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  • Unions in the us have ruined any interest in joining. Other countries have different imblementations. If I could start from scratch but laws favor the existing taking over.

  • Mini pc arriving tomorrow

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  • Unfortunately janky media files seem to be the rule.

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    In your opinion, what's the ideal work schedule (workweek)?

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  • I have about 6 hours of mind work in me per day. To fill up an 8 hour day I need to have 2 hours of meetings. I don't know how anyone can do 10 much less 12. Those long days work for mindless labor where you are just putting pegs in holes but if I need to think I can't do long days.

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    What are your thoughts on people who didn't vote?

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  • If you trust them. Where I live the bar chooses the person on the ballot and we only get a up or down. Thus any evaluation they do is by definiton a conflict of interest.

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    What are your thoughts on people who didn't vote?

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  • Better than voting for who looks the best on TV, or any of the other ways people vote without being fully informed. I'm sometimes forced to leave sections blanks because I cannot find anything about the candidates (I don't know why my state vote on judges, the only way to find out if they any are good is to spend 100% of your time in court rooms, reading decisions, and so on all year)

  • Cold-weather range hits aren’t as bad for EVs with heat pumps

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  • If it is rare enough and you don't have an emergency that is the right thing. Odds are the rest of your city doesn't have the ability to deal with those temperatures and so you going out will make things harder for emergency workers who must get out. If your city deals with this often then everyone will know how to deal with it and expect you to deal with it. You cannot shutdown your life for something that happens every single year, but if it is just a day or two every 5 years it isn't worth being knowing how to deal with it other than the minimum emergency needs (that is make sure your HVAC system at home can handle it)

  • Cold-weather range hits aren’t as bad for EVs with heat pumps

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  • You still need resistive heat as heatpumps don't work below about -20C and those temperatures happen to at least some car buyers.

  • How active is Lemmy now?

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  • No. Federation means I'm on a mbin serner and still interacting with lemmy. If a community goes big there is no way to enforce who goes to which split.

  • Solar powered server rack

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  • You can maybe stretch that 4 hours to several days. However you must get enough solar in 4 hours to provide more than 1 day of use. You will probably get to 6-8 hours of production from your panels, but the production is reduced in the off hours and there are almost always a few clouds reducing your output even at peak times so until proved otherwise just count on 4 hours. (prove can be several years worth of data, or careful local climate calculation possibly with various devices to handle the sun moving)

  • Solar powered server rack

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  • How reliable do you need to be - https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ often goes offline because there wasn't enough sun to keep their servers up - would this be acceptable for your servers? (you should spend a lot of time on that website when it is up - it will teach you more than anyone else here)

    Will you allow yourself to plug in the backup if there isn't much sun for a few days (either yourself or some automatic system) - just the ability to go 20 hours on battery and enough solar to recharge the battery in 4 hours on a sunny day would get most people to 90% solar and will be a lot cheaper than chasing to 100% solar all the time - but that might not be good enough for you.

    The general rule of thumb if you never can go down is you need to be able to run for 2 weeks without any sun, and enough solar to then recharge those batteries when there is 4 hours of full sun. Of course the weather where you live makes a difference. If you live in the desert your worst possible day will always be followed by a day where you can completely recharge the battery so you need much less batteries; while those who live in arctic locations will not get any sun for a couple months and so need a lot more storage.

  • How active is Lemmy now?

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  • Do you mean just Lemmy, or do you also want users from mbin or others fediverse instances that can access lemmy discussions?

  • How active is Lemmy now?

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  • There is a point where a forum is too active and you need to either split it or implement weird and complex rules so things don't get too large.

  • Fences around schools: yay or nay?

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  • Depends. I went to a exurb elementary school and it didn't need a fence - walk through the woods until you get bored. However I've also seen schools where there is a busy road nearby and they need something to stop the kids that would run that way. (older kids would not, but very young will run without looking and a few special needs kids have no sense of what is safe)

  • What else should i invest in besides saving to buy a home?

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  • You need enough of a nest egg in case you live to 130 - but odds are you will live to just under 80 like everyone else so that should be the majority of your planning. (unless you have a specific family history/genetics).