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I was thinking more in the sense of an exercisism.

No JavaScript, just HTML and CSS. Basically no images. The heaviest page dumps 50 rows of logs in a table.

It’s admittedly a fundamentally simple frontend, but we all know of frontends with a simple job and a not so simple frontend.

AJAX everything is icky. It’s part of what’s made browser tabs take more RAM than a typical desktop had in 1998.

I exercised all client side JavaScript from an app I maintain. It’s fast, clean, and the back button always works. I just checked on one of the more complicated pages, and according to Firefox’s memory profile, it takes about 2.6MB of RAM.

Where PHP really goes wrong is mixing HTML and code by default.

It’s worth noting that some data reporting issues mean OS X and macOS are sometimes split, even though macOS is the newer branding for OS X. When combined, Apple’s desktop presence is around 24%

If there’s higher redundancy, then they are already giving up on density.

We’ve pretty much covered the likely ways to calculate parity.

Not necessarily.

The trouble with spinning platters this big is that if a drive fails, it will take a long time to rebuild the array after shoving a new one in there. Sysadmins will be nervous about another failure taking out the whole array until that process is complete, and that can take days. There was some debate a while back on if the industry even wanted spinning platters >20TB. Some are willing to give up density if it means less worry.

I guess Seagate decided to go ahead, anyway, but the industry may be reluctant to buy this.

Thanks. There’s way too many people who don’t see the problems with rooftop residential solar. Commercial/industrial rooftop can work out, but fields are the cheapest electricity you can get.

My numbers were wrong:

https://www.nrel.gov/solar/market-research-analysis/solar-installed-system-cost

Hardware costs (module, inverters, etc.) are about half the price of the installed residential cost. The rest is “soft costs”, and labor is included in it, but it’s a pretty small fraction of it. The “other” soft costs are the big thing–stuff like permitting and planning and sales taxes. Better efficiency might somewhat lower it, but not a lot.

Notice that when things get to utility-scale, those soft costs shrink a lot. The best way to do solar is in large fields of racks, and it isn’t even close. The solution to this is community solar, where you and your neighbors go in on a field. Some states ban this, and that should change.

IIRC, this sort of thing has been floated before. The issue is that you can’t just focus that much light on the solar cell. It’ll burn out.

Honestly, we don’t need the technology to get any better than it is. It’s nice, but not necessary. Labor costs of deployment are the biggest limiting factor.

I think that’s what they mean, but it’s not a well written headline.

Do you leave auto formatting on and deal with Confluence making bad decisions, or leave it off and have to manually set all the formatting?

I go for the second option, but I’m not sure it’s less irritating or not.

GitHub tickets are fine.

Jira is complicated because PMs want it to do everything. It can, but there’s no good reason for it.

I get to say that I’ve truly made it as a programmer. The reason is that I wrote around 75 lines of Rust, came back a year later, and I could see exactly how it works.

In case you’re wondering, it’s a command line Slack client for sending notifications. Colored highlights and everything.

My company sends out emails like “vibe it up” with links to their vibe coding workshops.

I’m getting the impression that people need it explained that “vibe coding” is not supposed to be a complement.

Why are all my variables suddenly named after SS officers?

Meh. Even hosting static files in a RAM disk over localhost, you’re 99% as good as you can be by using the sendfile() system call. The kernel can copy data from one file descriptor to another faster than any userspace program can. Implementing the Length header is a stat() call.

If you’re not on a RAM disk and not on localhost, then disk access or network throughput will predominate.

Assembly is not magic go faster sauce.

The issue is putting power back onto the grid. If power is out otherwise, the guys who come out to fix it want to assume there’s no power on it. If someone’s solar panels are still putting power into the local connection, it can be dangerous for those workers.

It is possible to have an automatic disconnection so that in a grid outage, your house will still be powered, but nothing is going out to the grid. They usually don’t put those in unless you also have a battery backup. You may be able to ask your contractor to put one in, anyway.

This goes for generators, too. You’re supposed to use a power transfer switch with those.

It’s unsustainable to keep prices lower than costs. The Amazon example didn’t have low prices forever.

My question is if we could attach an induction loop to a standard T8 bulb. If a bulb has burned out its electrical contacts, perhaps it could still be reused as it is.

I’d guess that even if it were possible, it needs a lot of special electronics. Not worth the effort compared to getting an LED bulb.