bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 12 hours ago

China was a really backward country 50 years ago. I expect that China has paved a lot of roads which are still in good shape. Europe by contrast has had paved roads for a long time and those older roads via normal wear and tear are wearing out. The question then becomes when do you patch, recover, or replace - this is in order of both cost and how nice the road is after. Give China a few more decades and their roads will become less smooth because it isn't worth the cost to make them perfect.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 7 points 22 hours ago

good tents are worth the money. The heavy canvas ones are great if not too far from a car, but too heavy to carry far.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 22 hours ago

Depends on the tent. Some stakes first some last. Dome tents stakes last, most everything else first

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At the time germany was hesitating to send their tanks which would be more useful. This gave cover that it would be escalation

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The Abrams tanks were sent in large part knowing those objections, but by sending them it encouraged sending other tanks that are more useful.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

I have a tuner app, drum machine, and recording apps on my phone. I like to pretend I can play trumpet, mandolin, piano, hammered dulcimer... which means I practice something nearly every day.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

there are different systems with different efficiency ratings. However even the worst don't use much water - you don't drink much water in a day.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

it goes to the sewer system which needs to be able to take care of things anyway. The amount of waste water through a RO system insignificant - your toilet flushing needs will use more water than your RO drinking water needs. (a typical low flush toilet, though some camping toilets use less)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 14 points 2 days ago (5 children)

A reverse osmosis filter will run you $150 for parts - plus install and yearly filter changes. Start with that for costs. I would assume eu costs are similar but that is sometimes very wrong.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If you don't have a sensor then that is cheaper in the short term, but it quickly wastes a lot of energy running when the humidity is under control. For a dehumidifier you need more energy to get lower so the room well generally will be fairly consistent not too low humidity even as outside humidity changes, but you will use a lot more energy than a system that turns off when humidity is good.

there are purely mechanical systems that used to be used. However they have some weird machining requirements so it isn't clear they are cheaper than a digital system (this partially depends on volume - make more and the machining gets cheaper per unit). The digital system is as we already have established is very cheap and lets you put buttons and LEDs on the unit for a few cents more - this is far more valuable to marketing than the possible savings (if any!) from a mechanical control.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Almost no cars, trucks, or tractors are steam based anymore. I believe most ships are ICE as well, not to mention rockets, and animal/muscle power. As such I'd need a very deep analysis of the situation to believe any claim. (deep because in an ICE a large part of the power comes from burning fuel producing steam, so we can start debating how much of an ICE is steam - have fun).

In any case my local electric utility generated more power from wind than all customers used last year, so I can make a good claim most of my power isn't from steam. If your utility isn't in the same situations or close you should be demanding they get with the times.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 10 points 3 days ago

Tap complete got worse when llm replaced the AST for tabs.

 

I was working on my new server and decided my network connection what setup wrong so I adjusted the settings file. In a moment of unusual clarity I realized this was the connection I was using to access the machine via ssh and if something went wrong I was in trouble - so I verified that this machine was also reachable via ssh from the other ethernet interface that was directly connected to my NAS. I was right, my first config changes did break the network, but I still had the backup connection option and so I was able to recover.

#bsd #linux

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