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  • He has the nerve to complain....

  • I appreciate it, but what I appreciate more is that you saying that means your the kind of person someone whos just starting to get sober would be lucky to run in to. Keep that up.

  • Data center fees trickling down to citizens

  • It can depend, also this little snippet doesn't say if it's energy or delivery. Some utilities really like expanding delivery because the projects are revenue, and they don't make much, if any, on the delivery. But in some cases those delivery expansion projects have a long payback time, so they avoid them until they're critical, and also lose if after building the demand they were serving goes down.

    It also varies a ton by state (Texas being the most extreme example). As well as, someone noted below, how the energy purchase goes. In my state there's an independent not for profit that is not the utility, and not the energy producer, that just coordinates purchase of power from the broader region (across multiple states). They'll mix whats coming into the grid in the state going "call Ohio and buy XXYY megawatts for ZZ hrs from that coal fire joint". The control room is cool as hell. They seem pretty ethically clean, but purchasing that power is a bidding process (like, real time), and your bid has to be competitive.

  • He has the nerve to complain....

  • As a yank my favorite thing about breakfast in europe is it has... vegetables. I skip breakfast a lot because it makes me sluggish, but after a trip to Amsterdam for work, I started doing what I had at the small hotel there: some combo of cold cuts, one or two bite sized pastries like in the picture, some sliced tomatoes with a bit of salt, some peppers or green beans, some cheese, and a hard boiled egg. Occasionally some kimchi or saurkraut, but that I never had with breakfast in europe.

    My only real gripe about EU breakfast is the coffee. Absolutely delicious but gone to fast. Even if inferior, I need volume. Coffee is my emotional support beverage to get me through the first half of my day. It's either that or a pitcher of bloody marry's and I've been sober a while now.

  • If you had to start today, would start collecting CDs or Vinyls?

  • Mini discs! They never really took hold in the US but I had one and LOVED it. Rewritible media, but better quality than cassette. Sony made a killer player that only somehow sipped a single AAA battery, which was a big deal for a kid.

    All hail MD.

  • Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more

  • Yeah I'm sober a year now due to drinking myself into severe heart failure (ejection fraction of 17%, up to 47% now) and this is correct. If you can enjoy it great, but the second people start making excuses it's over, it's just a matter of how long the slide takes.

  • Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more

  • I destroy those since going sober. I think it's that carbonation itself has a flavor, and in cheap beer that carbonation was actually the majority of the feel/flavor. Occasionally I'll feel silly buying so much, but then I remember how much I used to spend on booze without batting an eye and grab another 12 pack for $2.85.

  • Resistance is futile

  • "You owe the companies nothing. You, especially, don’t owe them any courtesy. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs." Banksy on utilizing ad space.

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  • Despite doing an awful lot with ESP32s, Home assistant, and a bunch of LoRa stuff, I know very little about BLE. Would it be possible for folks to voluntarily add their MAC to a data base on gitlab, and have a ESP32 program that:

    1. Spammed out whatever the max reasonable number of random entries from that database is
    2. Updated it every-time it was on a specified WiFi So that every time I drove by one of these, not only do I look like a spacehulk of TPS, headphones, cars and cellphones, but I'm specifically helping someone appear somewhere not their location as well?

  • TIL that half the visual information from each retina goes to one hemisphere of the brain, rather than one eye per hemisphere

  • Another fun eye/brain fact: There are two "outputs" for each eye. One goes to your occipital lobe, in the back, and really processes the image ("That's a cup, it

    <holds liquid>

    <is firm with a medium weight>

    .." etc) and one goes to your brain stem, which processes movement.

    It's possible to have the connection to the occipital lob severed, but not to the brain stem. It's a condition called blindsight. The result is that if you showed someone a cup, they wouldn't be "see" it; they wouldn't know what it is and wouldn't register you were showing them anything at all... but if you tossed it to them they could catch it.

  • me_irl

  • I was interviewing for a position that they made a big deal about "100% in office". I'd be doing manufacturing R&D, which is usually conducive to a pretty nice "when we're here it's an intense 14hr day(s) executing a run, the trade off is when we're planning we do it from home in pajamas". I was disappointed they weren't open to that. It was a start-up using toll manufacturing which means a small team planning runs, and usually a sparsely populated, poorly provisioned office. Get to last round of interviews with the CEO, the day before the interview I'm told "<Mr.Smith> will be joining remotely". I canceled and withdrew my application.

    I'm at a job now that's also not remote, but its 24/7/365 so, you know, it makes sense lol.

  • What are your opinions on regular drinking?

  • It's sobering (pardon the pun). As a rule any industry that can advertise help programs, or "responsible use" only exists because of the lives it ruins. They know that, financially, those that keep it going can't and won't stop regardless of what is said.

  • me_irl

  • "I find beauty in silence." "Poetic but that's not really..." "Would you like to be beautiful?"

  • Google announces it will prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles

  • That's still pretty damn cool. Got dang it... another project for the pile...

    Thanks :)

  • Google announces it will prioritize AI-generated answers in search results over human-written website articles

  • Can you give me a top level description? Is this really a self hosted search engine?? Like how dependant is this on other indexes somewhere?

  • Just picked up Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

  • I thought the meta-narrative around data structure and patterns (Enoch Root) against the Indiana Jones-esque adventures was absolutely amazing.

  • Golden hour Killdeer

  • When I was a kid, my hometown was ~5-10 miles from one of the U.S. Great Lakes. I road my bike to the library one day, checked out some books, and set up outside in an old disused train station that had been converted into a sort of park. That parts relevant because of the piled up mound of rocks that made the track foundation meeting the grass.

    As I read, I noticed a bird landed pretty close to me, I was thrilled to be watching them! But then I noticed it seemed to be limping, it's wing was broken. There was a vet not to far, so I went into my backpack for a sweatshirt, and figured I might be able to safely wrap him up, and take him to the vet, who probably knew the number of a wildlife rehabilitation center or something.

    As I approached with my sweatshirt though, it took off! Must not have been that hurt after all... I kept reading. The bird showed up again, it must not have been able to fly to far! I tried again, again it took off... repeat for hours until eventually, having made very little progress on my book, I went home.

    ... It was around a decade later I learned about the "broken wing display". He was probably as confused as I was.

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  • big whoop. With the power of migraines some of us have had desktops like this for decades!

  • apartment courtyard looking for advice

  • A wall of ivy would be nice. Maybe make some planters that straddle the wall. If you need to "bribe" your wall neighbor there you could offer to have some hang over on their side to if they're interested.

  • Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America

  • The one and only positive of stores doing this is cheap e-ink displays.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    batmaniam @lemmy.world

    NFC Tags and Wireless Charging

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
    batmaniam @lemmy.world

    Are Tuya local keys permanent (like a MAC address)?

  • Home Automation @lemmy.ml
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    Are Tuya local keys permanent (like a MAC address)?

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Flashforge AD5X, how long do nozzles last? Premature wear

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Can/should I just use a networked folder as a duplicati backup destination?

  • Buildapc @lemmy.world
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    Tips/Getting started on a custom "case"? (ESD protection, cooling, etc)

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Security/FULL self hosting? Looking for info before starting...

  • plex @lemm.ee
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    question on how multiple simultaneous IPTV users works

  • piracy @lemmy.world
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    Has anyone collected a torrent of banned/challenged books in the US?

  • Adventure Motorcycle @lemmy.world
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    Foot peg question?

  • Adventure Motorcycle @lemmy.world
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    mapping?

  • Adventure Motorcycle @lemmy.world
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    Any KTM 1190 riders here?

  • Python @programming.dev
    batmaniam @lemmy.world

    Simple average color library for video? (edit: closed, problem wasn't the problem)

  • Plex @lemmy.ml
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    How to screen a 20TB library for corrupted files?

  • Adventure Motorcycle @lemmy.world
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    Programmable bluetooth button? Any recs?

  • Plex @lemmy.ca
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    Random skipping on direct stream? Temp fix.

  • Debian operating system @lemmy.ml
    batmaniam @lemmy.world

    Noob stumbling along. Just looking for some guidance on adding a module to initramfs.

  • Plex @lemmy.ml
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    Not sure where to start. Playback from webclient is great but HTPC program is performs terribly. Same machine, local media.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Blanking on a term. I remember a protocol/firmware for wireless routers where the idea was to connect as many as possible to create a quasi internet without any ISPs. Help?