SomeoneSomewhere

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[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Tumbleweed, at least per marketing spiel, is rapidly updated like a rolling release distro,(e.g. Arch) but has good testing and stability like a conventional fixed release distro.

It's not quite lived up to that fully for me, but I'm pretty sure the times it's broken have mostly been my fault.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 week ago

Livestock aren't an efficient use of land in the first place, and you can absolutely graze around turbines, at least according to this: https://www.windenergy.org.nz/resources/for-developers-and-landowners/how-to-host-a-windfarm

It appears there are even advantages to crop farming under turbines: https://agupdate.com/agriview/news/crop/wind-farms-impact-crops/article_bb057e6c-e58b-5990-b4d5-62640803121f.html

Obviously can't do any aerial crop dusting around turbines.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 84 points 1 week ago

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

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago

It looks like the WLTP range is about ¾ the Chinese range on these vehicles. Assume a faster highway speed and you've basically got the difference.

It's 30% lighter than a model 3, not a third. Still ~1200kg.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 18 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 41 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Exercising eminent domain can mean a long and expensive legal and media process. I'm not sure about Texas (or the rest of the US, for that matter), but many projects in the first world do everything possible to avoid using it.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 week ago

Boeing doesn't make many of the parts in the aircraft, especially things like pressurization controllers. Those come from contractors like Honeywell.

What they do is design the systems around the parts, including selecting the desired level of redundancy, and commission the custom parts needed.

The 737 is still mostly a 1960s design built mostly to 1960s rules. There have been plenty of improvements but that's not the same as a clean sheet design built to be entirely automatic even when stuff breaks.

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