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hook54321
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OrIdow6
Going about as well as I expected
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OrIdow6
I did get a sort of "we're going to show you rubes how it's really done" feeling from this after it was discussed in -bs yesterday
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OrIdow6
Oh, didn't even see they were using the EU flag
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Craigle
Well, you don't understand. He's some guy, from some company, and he's like a billionaire, so he could totally do it if he wanted to.
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Craigle
Also, he works at Nintendo, and totally gives me all the new games before they come out
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atphoenix
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kiska
Looks about right
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atphoenix
at that single home density, almost without yard, I think townhomes/rowhomes or condominiums would be better.
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atphoenix
youtube.com/watch?v=RlpyNTfX0ic Interview with the Inventor of the Turbo Thermo-Encabulator Max - Joseph Lstiburek of Building Science Corporation
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flashfire42
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flashfire42
BRUH
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atphoenix
flashfire42, where is that from?
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flashfire42
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flashfire42
I mean good on them but thats gonna save fuck all in todays internet
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atphoenix
no kidding. But it'll save space!
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atphoenix
they could just move the word HTML into the first sentence, and remove the last sentence.
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atphoenix
then the whole internet might fit on a floppy
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thuban
the lost secret of jan sloot!
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kiska
At first when I saw archive.eu I thought the IA setup some sort of eu domain thing
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kiska
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JAA
I love their 'we chose our name independently' defence. lol
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atphoenix
Jan Sloot's compression algorithm may have something in common with write-only, read-never memory. I have unlimited capacity in /dev/null. Or maybe it worked like a book...you read 8 kB of words, and your brain makes the movie.
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» Wayward wonders if that .ods will prove useful to anyone. took ages to scrape.
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Wayward
atphoenix, those aerials of australia look like mexico, without the bleached concrete.
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atphoenix
proposed motto: "Moving forwards, by moving backwards". Also applies to the linking fight with Google and FB.
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Wayward
so much for their migration policy: "There's room for everyone!"
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atphoenix
well, it started as a prison colony...
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atphoenix
via 'transportation'
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Wayward
♪ ♫ back to back, belly to belly, it's a housing jamboree ♪ ♫
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atphoenix
Rant: articles that do not understand the difference between energy (kWh, calories, gallons of fuel) and power (kW, calories per hour, fuel burn rate) bother me. Especially when they try to explain things. If you really *know* these concepts, reading such articles may drive you mad as you try to deduce what they're really intending to say. At the same time, such articles add additional garbage into the information pool making it all
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atphoenix
the harder for those who want to learn the difference, or understand how to make sense of it all. There is a parallel in tech: bandwidth vs latency. Without further adieu:
activerain.com/blogsview/4193068/wh…ctrical-energy-users-in-your-house-
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Wayward
It surprises me how many people can't wrap their head around kWh. And this coming from someone who admididly struggles with ohms law.
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Wayward
fortunately, the bandwidth and latency duality are getting public awareness as the government and SpaceX talk about rural broadband and funding requirements (speed > 100 Mbit, latency < 32 ms.. i think)
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Wayward
While Amazon reviews are still littered with millions of complaints about "Only getting 10.5 TB but the listing says 12 TB!!! F--"
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atphoenix
I think the 'hour' in 'kwh' throughs people off. They try to say per-hour but that is meaningless there. Might be easier to just use kilojoules (kJ) instead of kWh. AND to also use that unit for other things too to show energy content.
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Wayward
I explain it to people thusly, and it seems to automatically make sense to them, or they pretend to agree. "Well, your space heater uses 1500 watts, or 1.5 kW, constantly. After one hour of use, that's 1.5 kWh added to your electric bill, or about 35 cents per hour."
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atphoenix
or $15 in TX, if you have power and Griddy is your electric retailer, and you didn't understand that wholesale rates carry additional risk with them and are only suitable if you have your own backup power supplies.
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Wayward
hehehe
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Wayward
yeah, that shit's insane. $9 kWh
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Wayward
I can't wait to see the $10,000 electric bills at the end of the month
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atphoenix
I wouldn't mind the Griddy plan myself...IF I had enough backup power for my critical loads.
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Wayward
it's almost like living in Europe!
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atphoenix
and had an automatic way to switch my loads over upon price spikes
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Wayward
"here's one nanolitre of petrol sir, that'll be 9 metric dollars."
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atphoenix
Europe rates are a bargain compared to $9/kWh
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atphoenix
TX chose to run their electric system the way they did. TX can figure out if, and how, they'll respond to the system weakness, and whether they'll bail out (retail) customers caught up in the wholesale price spike. I bet many Griddy customers did not clearly understand the downside of devil's bargain that is wholesale electric rates, and that's compounded by not understanding the difference between kWh and kW, and the inability to
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atphoenix
read, or focus more than 15 seconds on anything.
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Wayward
Californian ex-pats brought their rolling blackouts with them. It's a cultural thing.
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atphoenix
not in this case. This is all on TX. Actually California's blackouts in the early 2000s were also on TX, by way of Enron.
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Wayward
I thought California's blackouts were ongoing, without pause, for decades now.
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OrIdow6
The big blackouts of the early 2000s were caused by Enron
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Wayward
But yeah, Texas has grown 33% in those 20 years. It was doing fine as a "lone" star state.
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Wayward
from 20 million to 30 million
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OrIdow6
Blackouts still happen now, but (from what I know) they're rarer, and happen when everybody runs their AC at once, or when they don't want to start fires
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Wayward
I think the overall US population growth only raised from 300 to 330 million, or 10% (vs 33%)
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Wayward
Texas should think about building houses like they do in Australia
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Wayward
oh wait, 20 to 30 million is 50% growth ain't it
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Wayward
yikes
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atphoenix
Gov and social and operating policies that work fine in low-density areas and low populations do not automatically translate to working well in high-density areas and high populations. This can be seen all over the world. Similar patterns can be seen in managing heat and cooling of electronics... pack a lot of GPUs or hard drives in a tight case without extra cooling fans, and they'll quickly heat up to the point of probably damaging
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atphoenix
themselves. Spread them out and no extra fans will be required. These are broadly known as scaling problems.
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Wayward
Reasons to review immigration policy for a sustainable future.
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Wayward
"We don't have the resources nor infrastructure to accomodate everyone. Please wait for your application to be approved."
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atphoenix
"Please wait for your application to be approved." ... this part is very expensive (thousands to tens of thousands) and very slow (years to decades) . Most Americans have no understanding of what is involved in the process. Native born US Citizens can wait *years* for spouses to get permission to enter the US.
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Wayward
It costs thousands to immigrate to any European country. In fact, they'll require you to deposit $40,000 into a bank account to prove you won't be a burden upon society.
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Wayward
This is normal, necessary, even vital to survival.
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atphoenix
Is Lady Liberty obsolete?
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Wayward
perhaps
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Wayward
lots of things are supposedly obsolete
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Wayward
Texas will not sustain a 50% growth every 20 years. It's amazing millions didn't freeze to death from the power outage. It's no big thing when millions die in an earthquake or flood in Indonesia, and I don't want it to become no big thing when that happens in Texas. Another statistic example of over population amidst crumbling infrastructure.
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Wayward
actually the previous 50% population growth took 40 years, so the next 50% growth should happen in 2030, and again in 2035, then 2037.
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VerifiedJ
European Internet Archive has rebranded to European Web Archive.
twitter.com/ArchiveEu/status/1364205904481124355
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hexa-
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Aoede
yeah, prolly him
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hexa-
ok, thanks
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Sanqui
"[The European Web Archive] is operated by Intelligence X, a search engine & data archive. We are not funded by the EU."
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Sanqui
"For security reasons, pictures, videos, JavaScript, and other potentially dangerous codes and external references are removed. Therefore historical versions may appear "blank"."
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Sanqui
yeah, move on, this thing is dead-on-arrival.
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atphoenix
No pictures, no videos, no JS, no external references....that's not the web. Might have been okay in 1994.
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» VerifiedJ gives European Web Archive the award for the most useless archive.
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VerifiedJ
And we can pretty much just assume they are not using the WARC format.
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HCross
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56172496 how do we archive a 99 year old man?
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JAA
< Wayward> I can't wait to see the $10,000 electric bills at the end of the month -- That already happened. A story was making the rounds on Reddit the other day of a retired guy in his 70s who got a $16k bill from Griddy and is now bankrupt.
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VerifiedJ
Treat them like any other ancient fossil and 3D scan them?
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VerifiedJ
or did you want sensible suggestions?
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atphoenix
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atphoenix
theoldnet.com/~rich "my name is rich, and I don't like this new internet anymore."
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Wayward
JAA: That fast? It's only been a week
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OrIdow6
Yeah, heroku-mirahaze is Joaquinito
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atphoenix
where was our favorite troll last spotted?
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atphoenix
oh fun on github!
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JAA
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JAA
Billing cycles aren't always at the end of a month.
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Wayward
How the hell did these people use over 700 to 1000 kWh in a 4-5 day period, yet have the audacity to say "we only used the bare minimum." 700 kWh is 1 space heater running continuosly for 20 days.
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Wayward
on high
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Wayward
I've never need 4 space heaters on full blast, let alone 6 or 8 of them
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Wayward
5 days huddled up next to a space heater under a pillow/blanket fort to stay alive while your neighbors die, uses 180 kWh or a cost of $1620 tops.
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thuban
careful, fire risk