MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on Labcoat! 17 hours ago:
Yeah… That’s just unnecessary to put a dog at risk like that, whether service or otherwise.
Also, don’t work in a lab by yourself. Have a buddy, even if all they do is sit in a corner and scroll on their phone. Have someone there in case something happens.
In the best case, you’ve maybe wasted some of their time. In the worst case, at least you’ll have company in quarantine.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 17 hours ago:
We need the rest!
For science!
- Comment on Racism restaurant 17 hours ago:
How dare!
(/s in case anyone wasn’t sure)
- Comment on Every accusation is a confession? More like everything is a confession 6 days ago:
What’s next? Operation bareback?
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Good luck.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
You’re probably right.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Well, that was the point.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
As long as we don’t end up going over the waterfall, that should be fine.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Welcome to the club. Were you able to afford the fixer upper on your own, or did you need to split the financial burden with another person?
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Welcome to the club.
What percentage of your income now goes to your mortgage payment? For me, it’s like 110%… But I have help, so my share is only like 35%
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Yeah, the market only cares about the maximum that people will pay for it. You’re not offering the maximum, so you’re not important enough for the market forces to care about.
I’m not either, so… We’re in this boat together. You want to row on the starboard side? Or port?
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Neat, go build another one down the river.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
A 50 year mortgage will be a lot like renting. Because the bank will own your shit until you die.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Never did.
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
The year I turned 40, was the year I moved into my first non-rental property.
I’m living proof that shit is fucked up
- Comment on Bank Workers, Rejoice! 1 week ago:
Like stocks, and art, they’re only as valuable as what people will pay for them.
If you want a shelter, you can use sticks and leaves in the forest and build something halfway decent at least. If you want a building to call your home, pay up dickhead.
Meanwhile, people who should be buying are renting, people who should be renting are in airbnbs or living in their cars, and the family dwellings are owned either by some jerkwad who wanted an income property, or a corporation that just felt like owning more land because they could.
I’m so proud of our society. Such progress! Capitalism is great!
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 1 week ago:
Oh. Yeah. That’s not ideal, but IMO, no less ideal than ejecting the heat into the atmosphere as steam or something… But we do that all the time. Pretty much all power generation relies on making water hot and using the steam to make things spin…
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 1 week ago:
Oh yes. There’s a ton of other considerations for sure, I’m mentioning these because I feel like they’re pretty significant hurdles to the entire idea being practical.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 1 week ago:
The design of these particular buttons didn’t allow for that. That’s usually what I prefer too.
The button itself didn’t have any conductive material, it was a small piece of metallic material on the PCB, that when pressed, deflected to connect the circuit. The rubber/polymer buttons just mechanically pushed down on the small metal disc that made that contact happen.
It was easy enough to pull the small disc off of the PCB, but I don’t think the process can be reversed, or at the very least, I don’t think I’ll be able to keep track of the items removed in order to reverse it.
I don’t actually plan on replacing the TV at all. It’s job might change, from my main TV to a spare TV in the office or basement or something, but I don’t think I’ll be getting rid of it until it stops functioning.
- Comment on I Thought I Knew You 2 weeks ago:
See, they could meet power demands in space, solar panels are much more efficient in space vs on the surface of the Earth. I don’t know that even modern panels are efficient enough to supply what is needed, but the numbers are going to be better than what we would need on earth.
But datacenters? In space? The whole idea is half baked at best. Data center equipment isn’t light; and heavy stuff doesn’t like to go up into orbit. Then you need to consider how much thrust you’re going to need to keep that stuff in orbit… The numbers just don’t work in my mind…
If we had a thruster system that didn’t require burning a skyscraper worth of fuel to get into orbit, then maybe? But we don’t, so …
I could maybe see it happening on the moon, because then you wouldn’t need to worry as much about your orbit, but then you have at least three big problems to solve, how the heck are you getting the equipment there, how are you powering it, and simple latency.
Getting it there will burn so much fuel that I’m not sure it’s a valuable thing to do at all. For power, yes, solar will be pretty good on the moon, just like in orbit, but the moon rotates. One of the faces of the moon is always towards the earth, so when it’s between the earth and sun, that face is in darkness, and if you build on the other side, it will be in darkness when it’s on the far side, away from the sun. You would effectively need an array of solar that runs a loop around the whole surface so at least something is in the sun pretty much all the time, especially considering the moon rotates every 29ish days. I don’t know of any power storage system that’s robust enough to store the power requirements of a datacenter for half a month while the moon slowly orbits back into the sunlight.
The last thing is latency. Light is the fastest “moving” thing in the known universe. We have yet to observe anything that can propagate faster than light. Some things can match the speed, but nothing goes faster. The Moon is approximately 1.3 light-seconds away. Regardless of all other factors, it will take no less than 2.6 seconds, round trip. I don’t know of many applications for data center tech that is ok with that kind of delay. Super computers, maybe, but datacenters, not so much.
The whole thing is wrought with issues from the ground up. And I’m not even a scientist, and I can see the obvious problems here.
Meanwhile, we have 2/3rds of the planet covered in water, which is basically unused space by humans. It’s vast and plentiful, and as a bonus, has built in cooling. Microsoft was testing datacenter stuff at sea and AFAIK, it went pretty well. I believe they’ve discontinued it since it’s still not as practical as land-based datacenters, but the idea is solid at least. Space based stuff is even less practical. I don’t see why anyone would want to take on the cost of something like this when there are cheaper and more profitable alternatives.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 2 weeks ago:
I was unable to find a way.
In any case, the buttons don’t work anymore and I’m fine with that.
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 2 weeks ago:
Thanks buddy.
Belly rubs
- Comment on I said, LOOK at it! 2 weeks ago:
Also, cats.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 2 weeks ago:
I still do this.
I also pulled the little contact pads off of the back of the Netflix button and the other pairs services buttons that are a fixture on my remote that I don’t use. I kept accidentally hitting them and it would rip me out of whatever content I was watching and send me to a service I didn’t subscribe to.
Not anymore.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
Oooh. That version. I forgot they called that basic 2.0
Alright.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
One of us.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
Also DOS. Now I’m a digital plumber, keeping the pipes and tubes of the Internet from getting backed up with all the things happening commercially.
Remember, the Internet is not something you can just dump something on, it’s not a big truck.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
There was a 2.0?
TIL.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
Lies and slander.
I am a system administrator and a network administrator. I abhor database management tyvm.
- Comment on A hypothesis 2 weeks ago:
I was 8 when Linus posted on that Minix Usenet group about his hobby that won’t be big at all.