[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 16 points 1 week ago

Mainly the issues are about providing ~600 kilowatts for 8 minutes to charge your typical size EV battery.

A row of 5 chargers of that size soaks up 3MW if they're all in use, and that's not something that can be quickly or easily shoehorned into a suburban electricity grid.

It's about 500 houses worth of electricity usage, for comparison. For just 5 fast chargers.

Not to say it's impossible, but infrastructure doesn't come cheap, and so it'll cost quite a bit to cram that 80 percent charge into your car's battery.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

in which case I will go one level down, to the calculateExtraCommissions() method.

In which case you will discover that the calculateExtraCommissions() function also has the same nested functions and you eventually find six subfunctions that each calculate some fraction of the extra commission, all of which could have been condensed into three lines of code in the parent function.

Following the author's idea of clean code to the letter results in a thick and incomprehensible function soup.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 15 points 2 months ago

Energy efficiency can be offset by extra computational ability though.

Eg Linux has a plethora of CPU and IO schedulers and allows you to tune the system to maximise performance for your particular workload. Getting more performance than with the generic CPU and IO schedulers provided in other OS's generally means more power consumption, unless you do some sort of "performance per watt" calculation to take that into account.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Directly from the nginx home page:

nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server, originally written by Igor Sysoev.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 14 points 4 months ago

Digg was Reddit, before Reddit came along. And then they tried to monetise it all and pushed out a site layout update that "enhanced" that monetisation aspect (sound familiar?)

Basically they fucked it up right there.

I left Digg in 2010 and never went back, and now the domain and it's remnants are owned by some advertising company.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 15 points 4 months ago

Also, things not designed for food use or human consumption don't have to follow strict rules regarding their composition, and they're not monitored.

Nobody is checking PVA glue for heavy metals or melamine or pesticides or any other number of things that will give your insides a bad day.

Nobody is issuing a recall if your bottle of glue ends up with ground up glass in it.

Because it's not food, and it doesn't matter, until you put half a cup of it in your pizza because Google told you it was a good idea.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I prefer the H.G. Wells The Time Machine style of time travel , where you affect the flow of time instead of a discontinuous jump.

You're still attached to your current location, things just happen faster (in forwards or reverse). It also means that time travel takes time, which can be a handy plot tool.

Edit: grammatical swipe keyboard errors

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 16 points 6 months ago

The partition table is just a set of pointers to various places on the physical disk where partitions should be, inside those partitions are filesystems with all your data. It's like the table of contents in a book. You can mess around with the table of contents and make the page numbers for chapters different, but all the words in the book are still there.

Now you're lucky that filesystem drivers are fairly smart these days. They sanity check things all the time. When you write the partition table to disk all the active filesystem drivers get notified of the changes, so they can keep track of things. When the driver noticed that the size of your filesystem exceeded the size of your partition, it basically was like "Hold it right there, I'm not touching any of this!". At that point the filesystem would have been forcibly unmounted and disconnected, which is why none of your commands worked after running cfdisk, they were on that filesystem.

Note that your approach was almost the right way to do it. To make your filesystem bigger you can expand the partition using cfdisk ( as long as there is physical room on the disk!) and then run a program called resize2fs , and it will expand the filesystem to suit.

Similarly, you can shrink the filesystem in the same kind of way, except you run resize2fs first and command it to shrink the filesystem to a particular size. It will do that (assuming there's enough free space in your filesystem to do so) then you shrink the corresponding partition with cfdisk to match.

Of course, as you've learned, resizing partitions is moderately risky so backups are a good idea. Having said that I routinely expand filesystems in VMs like this without backups - I make the VMs disk larger in its settings, then run cfdisk and expand the partition, then run resize2fs.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And he describes exactly what I have to deal with on the regular, "content that only sort of helps"

Hello, my name's dgriffith. I'm a Fediverse Support community member, and I'm here to help.

Have you tried running sfc /scannow and making sure your antivirus is up to date? That usually fixes the issue that you are describing.

If that does not help, a complete system reinstall often solves the problem you have.

Please mark this comment as useful if it helps you.

Regarding the death of hyperlinks, it's probably more a case of "why bother clicking on yet another link that leads me to another page of crap?".

That is, it used to be the case that you'd put information on the web that was useful and people would link to it, now 80 percent of it seems to be variations of my "helpful" text above, SEO'd recipe sites, or just AI hallucinations of stuff scraped from other sites.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You should release what you've written as a framework, that's what everyone else is doing.

<Insert XKCD standards comic here>

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 15 points 8 months ago

All those are perfectly good reasons for school uniforms in general.

And then your school implements a uniform policy that requires you to buy a blazer for $225 that your child will wear three times a year, and monogrammed socks that are 3 pairs for $45.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Modern devices try to get around it with crazy accidental touch recognition that works some of the time.

What you do is you take your thousand dollar fragile crystal oblong and you wrap it in a 30 dollar hunk of plastic that adds the correct bezels for actual human interaction and also provides a moderate amount of physical protection and strength.

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