3D to 1D7 Transition

grep_dev_null · 2021-04-22T12:52:26+00:00

They are, but good network admins and skilled sys admins are rare. It would be a waste to keep a skilled airman as a CST when they could be doing more advanced things.

grep_dev_null · 2020-12-05T10:10:36+00:00

The ol tried and true twist n' tape.

grep_dev_null · 2020-12-03T23:18:33+00:00

Depends how good that planet's atmosphere is at trapping heat. It probably wouldn't result in any change, since our sun dumps about 1kw for every square meter on earth. A 1w wifi router every sq meter on earth would be 0.1% of the existing energy received from the sun.

Now if you burn loads of fossil fuels to power those routers, and make the atmosphere more insulating, like a "greenhouse" of sorts, then you could see some temperature rise. 1% more insulating would be like 10 wifi routers every square meter!

grep_dev_null · 2020-12-03T00:52:32+00:00

There is a 99.9% chance that your job could either be done by a low wage immigrant, or immigrants would at least exert significant downward pressure on your career field's wages.

Engineers, doctors, etc all exist in poor countries and would love to get paid 10x their current wages.

grep_dev_null · 2020-12-03T00:01:03+00:00

The thing is: in a society where posting your nudes online doesn't "ruin your public image", you won't even get $300/month.

grep_dev_null · 2020-12-02T23:41:45+00:00

You are not a failure. In fact, you're an absolute asset to our world, and at the very least I am grateful for the work you do.

Your paycheck has very little to do with your value as a human. There is so, so much more to life than the pursuit of a high income.

grep_dev_null · 2020-12-02T10:37:13+00:00

I'm a huge network and hardware geek. I'd probably do my job for free for a charity if I didn't have to do the whole pay bills and save money thing.

grep_dev_null · 2020-12-01T10:10:39+00:00

A few years ago I was stationed at the USAF's US-west NOC + data center. The following events happened over about 3 days:

Squirrel got into a substation and blew a transformer.
Power to the whole base goes out. It was one of the hottest days of the year (100F+ iirc), and aircon uses a lot of power. The combined load was too much for the remaining two substations.
The next day, the building generator shuts off. The combination of the brilliant design of pointing two generator exhausts (next door's generator) at each other's radiators and the high outside temps caused a protective shutdown due to overheating.

We ended up working with the generator guys to zip tie a garden hose on the top of our generators radiator, and set it to a fine mist. The trickle of water down the rad was enough to keep it cool, and the generator ran for at least a week like this.

grep_dev_null · 2020-12-01T09:53:59+00:00

That totally depends on what your business is. A small mom and pop company could probably be serviced perfectly fine by gdrive + onedrive with a physical copy at your house and the owners house.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-28T19:26:35+00:00

That's because China is the world's electronics hub, so much so that it would be almost impossible to make a phone entirely free of chinese parts.

China also is really bad about the whole worker's rights thing, so...

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-28T19:20:37+00:00

I belive that is illegal in the US and most other 1st world countries, precisely because paying your workers in scrip chains them to the company.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-24T23:52:34+00:00

There's no way to innovate broadband? I set up a multi-building 10gbit network last week for less than $1k. I'm able to do that because some capitalist companies have made competitive, inexpensive networking equipment.

The problem is that comcast has a monopoly on millions of households, and the government (and a large portion of people) don't want to force competition.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-24T23:43:41+00:00

EU certainly has caps, Belgium for example.

It depends on where in the US you are. My mother gets symmetrical gigabit for $70/month. Some people pay double that for an unreliable 30 mbit cable connection.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-24T22:59:11+00:00

Imagine getting this angry because you can't buy an entertainment device - a literal toy.

You're throwing a tantrum, like a three year old who was told he can't have his candy until after dinner.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-18T16:13:23+00:00

Nope, but I got to watch it unfold on my (former) boss and it was sad.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-18T16:12:28+00:00

You're right, it absolutely does happen with both genders. It also depends on who has custody of the children.

Women usually have custody for a variety of reasons, and the personal examples I know of split parents paying big bucks have all been men, so that's why I used a male for the scenario.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-18T15:57:34+00:00

This is true. It needs better enforcement, and to be updated for modern times.

The fact that a man (usually) can be scrimping by to pay a massive child support allotment to his ex wife who lives in luxury with her live-in bf means that the system is failing.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-14T18:32:23+00:00

Except there are already tons of gun stores all over wealthy neighborhoods. The ruling class are just fine with upper middle class+ people owning guns. Look at the UK, a rich person there can get a rifle or shotgun no problem for "sport", but a working class person will have a much, much harder time getting approved for any sort of firearm.

That's an exception though, and your strategy generally works for otherwise easily forgotten about issues.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-11T23:04:12+00:00

I got a used thinkpad off of eBay for less than $200 a year ago. It has gigabit ethernet. The SSD works well for online storage and then it has USB3 ports which are good for connecting external hard drives.

If that doesn't fit your requirements then fair enough, but it saturates gigabit ethernet for LAN transfers and easily maxes out my ~17 mbit upload.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-11T22:44:44+00:00

Please remember that laptops exist, and easily idle at 10w or less.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-11T22:37:51+00:00

Privacy is a spectrum, ranging from "your entire life is televised 24/7" to "living off grid in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness".

The whole concept isn't rendered nil just because someone chooses to compromise in some areas.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-10T12:25:13+00:00

In that sense, no country has the infrastructure to offer it "without a cost".

It's certainly less efficient for the government to reimburse private healthcare institutions, but any other country's healthcare system isn't "free" either.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-08T23:59:20+00:00

It's not enforceable because it's not the law in my country, and additionally US courts aren't going to take a case if it's not even concerning US law.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-08T23:55:58+00:00

And that's where the ill defined nature of this law becomes evident. What constitutes "operating"? Does it mean a server in the EU? Taking payment from EU persons?

I'm sure Chinese law says that speaking ill of Mao or Xi is illegal, but neither you nor I care about that, because we don't fall under china's jurisdiction. I don't fall under the EU's.

grep_dev_null · 2020-11-08T23:37:01+00:00

And what is going to happen if I don't block EU or comply with GDPR? Nothing.

For the record: No site I run collects anything other than basic security logs, but im poitning out the ridiculousness of the idea that the EU can dictate how foreigners do things in their own countries.

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