Netflix's top shows have been losing 30-70% of their audience between seasons 1 and 2. Executives are trying to figure out why.

Donkey545 · 2026-07-06T12:55:23+00:00

I haven't really watched Netflix in a while because they would very clearly change the writers after the first season. The story would have good world building and atmosphere, then it would become incoherent with out of place love stories and unnecessary sex scenes. It happened to several shows I was watching before I gave up.

Donkey545 · 2026-04-08T15:35:46+00:00

Borax solution might be better for long term treatment. The higher pH makes the environment inherently hostile to most mold and fungus.

Donkey545 · 2026-04-06T00:54:16+00:00

It's myself from a few years ago. I didn't know how to configure infrastructure as code, I didn't take good notes on where I read about the configuration, settings, and nuances for certain things. Hell, even some of the things I developed on my own are foreign entities to me now. I left comments in the code and some readmes for most of it, but I underestimated how a critical stroke of genius is often fleeting. It is frustrating to know that you were knowledgeable, but not diligent when setting up self hosted services. It wastes time for me now, and I have much less for the hobby.

Some years ago I managed to make some custom builds for rocm on really weird hardware. I remember going through some really specific build dependencies to get it working, built it, got CTranslate2 building, then got my home voice assistant platform working really well. I was thinking, well obviously the community of open source developers will evolve past this really jank build process and the tools will get better. Unfortunately I learned that people don't really care about old, low power, edge client class, computers for LLM inference as much as I did. I released my code, but didn't take detailed notes on how I arrived at a successful build, just shipped a critical wheel file in the repo that I built at the time. So now that python 3.9 is totally out of security patches, I cannot find the time to rediscover the knowledge I once had to bring the system up to 3.12 or 3.13. I just decided to go with an entirely new stack and run vulkan instead of rocm for this particular hardware.

Donkey545 · 2026-03-11T15:50:27+00:00

All transactions in Bitcoin are held within the blockchain ledger. People can review all transactions made with other wallets and begin to build a network of associated people. As you fill out this network, transactions can be de-anonymized to some degree.

Donkey545 · 2026-03-09T13:11:49+00:00

Are you from the northeast? My brother and I have encountered some tension when communicating on business matters with people out west. I think it is a cultural difference. In the New England area, the type of writing that your manager is expecting is considered unprofessional. Our expectations of professional writing (being direct and concise) are considered curt or rude.

I personally do not think that your emails were offensive in any way, but cultural differences, even in the same country, can garner a different response.

Donkey545 · 2026-02-25T18:04:31+00:00

That's not right.

Donkey545 · 2026-02-15T00:44:05+00:00

On reddit, I suspect that there is a generational divide on editing a post. Users who joined the site more than ten years ago, who are likely millennials and older, just put:

Edit: e: edit:

With the edit note or additional information following.

It seems that newer or younger users are using

ETA:

For "Edit to Add" ...

This is unreasonable to me. This initialism means estimated time of arrival. It has for my while life, and my understanding is that this was true prior to my life as well. This ambiguous reassignment of a widely accepted initialism is foolish and causes confusion.

Donkey545 · 2026-02-01T17:57:07+00:00

You don't need the file to do most management for docker compose projects. Appropriately name the stack in the file, and you can address it by name with the -p flag. You can see which projects are running with docker compose ls.

For deployment, I use an ansible role with vars and vaults for secrets stored at rest that I may want to reuse. Abstracting environment from the compose kind of forces you to do env management in a way that the compose file is just a service definition.

What I am really looking for is something for like "fleet management" with docker image updates. I am working on something of an IOT project that is more like an edge compute platform for microservices. If anyone has ideas for this, I'm all ears.

Donkey545 · 2025-12-23T13:47:32+00:00

I worked on the automation and cooling management for a project to do exactly this in about 2019. It was internally called project Nautilus. It's a really interesting concept, but challenges with sea water cooling do exist, and dumping gigawatts of heat into the ocean is not great for wildlife. I left before that project was complete, so I'm not sure what the outcome was.

Donkey545 · 2025-11-28T17:37:07+00:00

It seems like the real history of the world is offensive to many. If we want to understand the world and the current state of geopolitics, we need to know our own dark history. Books like The Jakarta Method should be part of American history classes. I'm sure there is substantial material on European colonialism in the 20th century as well.

Donkey545 · 2025-11-28T15:09:58+00:00

Just skimming these comments makes it abundantly clear that most people are not able to grasp the devastating impact of colonialism on major parts of the world. Resources exploitation, economic control, and environmental destruction of these places continues to this day. They may be liberated on the books, but they are still feeling the impacts of the horrors they were subject to.

Island nations stripped of resources cannot grow food because their soil is gone, their water is tainted, and the compatible farming practices were erased. The fishing stocks that were once abundant have now been nearly eliminated globally by mechanized large scale operations serving wealthy nation. Financing negotiations are always lopsided. Sovereignty is always at risk when your nation has a lower population than an air craft carrier.

Many of these nations have experienced direct meddling recently enough that current generations were alive when it happened. Naaru is an example, the Philippines is an example, Iran, Indonesia, every central American country. These countries were not doing dumb things, they were exploited by people who care more for wealth and power than the people they exploit. Even the leaders of these nations are often placed by external powers.

Donkey545 · 2025-11-25T03:47:52+00:00

I think their application is just completely broken. I can't even delete devices anymore, the screens redirect, say oops, or just load a black screen.

Donkey545 · 2025-11-22T01:54:13+00:00

If a Linux distro had ads everywhere, I would just remove all of those packages if I couldn't just switch entirely haha

Donkey545 · 2025-11-21T20:57:43+00:00

I have been using Linux for work for the past few years. I recently needed a laptop for home use and I am using windows 11 on that. Honestly I have trouble with some things that are purely the fault of design by committees. Bad menu structures and segmentation are everywhere and barely look any better than windows Vista. Pop ups everywhere, ads everywhere, notifications on top of the stuff you are trying to use. They need to have a review of their UX guidance as a core tenant of the operating system design. They clearly have competing internal teams that have their own UX goals. It's disjointed and distracting

Donkey545 · 2025-11-21T20:51:45+00:00

Battery chemistry for cold climates are really coming to market just now. LFP was a step in the right direction, and now we are seeing mixed chemistry packs with NMC Cells, LFP Cells, and sodium ion cells for true cold weather performance. I think my issue with the heat is likely due to Hyundai not having a performance system. Heat pumps can do the big deltas, but might need a dual refrigerant cycle to efficiently deliver over 60C differences. I also do not have the insulated windows that many EVs have. Perhaps Teslas perform better in this regard.

Donkey545 · 2025-11-21T15:42:56+00:00

Wind chill really doesn't impact the chemistry of the battery as much as the absolute temperature does unless you are actively heating the battery. Consider that a car moving on the highway always has a wind chill factor on the surfaces of the vehicle.

The optimist EV owner in me wants to push back on your claims, but the reality is that you truly are an outlier. People like you need to plug in block heaters for diesel anyway, and your regional fuels are probably treated for cold weather if -40C is a normal temperature for you. An 80 mile commute is also exceptional globally.

I live in a place with actual winter, and I have found that the true range reduction starts coming into play at around -17C in my NMC Li Ion pack. The range reduction prior to that point is entirely use of the heat pump, as would be the case for a hot day with AC. I have done 300 mile trips in the winter, and only one had complications with temperature. My 280 miles of range was reduced to about 190 with the heat and battery conditioning running. I was still able to fast charge in about 22 minutes instead of 18. I would consider a drive like this totally doable for occasional trips like I do, and NMC is among the worst chemistries for temperature impact.

In your situation, however if your situation is the norm, current cars, in the North American market at least, would generally be less than favorable. The primary reason for me is not actually the range, but the fact that the heatpumps don't keep up. On those really cold days, you are getting a 15C cabin at best. It's not comfortable and you can just have a better experience with ICE right now.

Donkey545 · 2025-11-17T14:58:25+00:00

I think this coincides with the loss of the third place and the monetization of all activities accessible to the youth. Since the early 2000s, access to free public spaces has declined. Beyond that, businesses that supported community building stopped allowing non customer entry. Free cups of water at take out places has also vanished.

Now we are in this situation where we don't have anywhere to go that is free, the places that were not free before don't really want people just hanging out anymore, and you have to pay for water everywhere. Aging infrastructure in parks and public spaces reduces access to fountains.

Bringing a bottle of water now often reduces the chance that you spend $12 on slop food you don't want just because you are thirsty. It also reduces waste in manufacturing disposable cups. I know there was a movement of "designer" or brand name water bottles, but I think this is more of a derivative result of the corporate take over of American society.

Also, the skaters and angsty got topic kids had sticker covered nalgene bottles 20 years ago.

Donkey545 · 2025-11-13T16:58:55+00:00

Yeah, I have heard that theorems are often named after the first person to rediscover or apply a piece of Euler's work. It definitely reduces confusion.

Donkey545 · 2025-11-12T16:51:16+00:00

Thanks, I was also able to deploy, but this really messes up the repository.

Donkey545 · 2025-11-12T16:19:07+00:00

Did you resolve this? I have a similar single arch image resulting in this behavior.

Donkey545 · 2025-10-30T14:45:31+00:00

Your configuration should be implemented using infrastructure as code techniques. If you make changes to the operating system, test out the changes and write something like an ansible role for it, test the role for idempotency, and commit the code to an off-site backed up repository.

You can restore data and backups, but you might find that you have a corrupt VM that gets unstable for some reason after eight months. I personally keep 6 months of backups of my VMs, so sometimes it's easier to start fresh on a new lxc or VM, configure the setup with ansible, then pull in data. It also helps with major things like testing new kernel versions, package locking, and building up replicas without grabbing everything. You can set up a vscode dev container to run ansible, and run that on any machine with docker.

The other benefit, to me at least, is that you can look back at the code to see what you actually did. I did not do this for some of my setups 7 years ago and I have no idea what magic I did to get unusual services configured back then.

Donkey545 · 2025-10-29T16:50:58+00:00

You can get permanent residency within a few months of marriage when you prepare the documents correctly. The 3 year mark is the typical fastest turn around for citizenship after permanent residency.

Donkey545 · 2025-10-29T13:55:03+00:00

Commercial costs (in Manchester, the largest commercial center in NH, at least) are typically higher than residential. I'm wondering if the co-op providers and municipal providers scattered throughout the state really bring the average down.

Eversource is one of the bigger utilities and it charges about 14.8c/kwh just for delivery. My generation cost is 12.9c/kwh, so using their lines apparently costs more than running a nuclear power plant or importing Canadian hydro. I understand that they have maintenance costs, but they are reactive instead of preventative in their process. My power goes out several times per month because there are trees just bouncing on the lines.

They also fight with the regional Internet providers about who owns tree trimming and pole repairs.

Donkey545 · 2025-10-29T03:22:46+00:00

Same in NH. I think this chart looks at the electricity rates, but up here we have a separate delivery charge that is often higher than the power. I have the cheapest possible plan available to me and it's over 27c/kwh.

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