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ZetaZero··on How to set junior employees up for success in remote
But they are getting the same junk as everyone else...

" Everything is “reservable equipment” of garbage monitors, windows keyboards, and 400 dpi mice."

ZetaZero··on How to set junior employees up for success in remote
IMO, an expensive keyboard/mouse/monitor isn't necessary for a junior to succeed. Plenty of coders learned on much worse.
ZetaZero··on Chasing utopian energy: How I wasted 20 years of my life
> to generate comparable amounts of power to conventional sources requires huge amounts of landmass.

It would take about 0.01% of the US land area to generate all the electricity we need. Meanwhile we use 30% (over 1000x) to grow food. And if we prioritize solar on rooftops and deserts, we really are not using any useful land.

ZetaZero··on Chasing utopian energy: How I wasted 20 years of my life
How are solar and wind not sustainable or efficient? We've just recently hit the 20% mark here in the US.

I'm all for a smart blend of nuclear/wind/solar/etc to achieve clean energy

https://electrek.co/2022/05/10/us-hits-a-record-20-of-electr...

ZetaZero··on The case for unique email addresses (2020)
FastMail does something like this. Their Masked Emails are two random words plus a four digit number.
ZetaZero··on Boring Company will build a 34-mile tunnel network underneath Las Vegas
Absolutely fewer people. Yes, I agree a subway is better than car tunnel, when costs are ignored. But LV doesn't have $30B to build a subway tunnel. But a car tunnel can be built for roughly 100x less, $300 million.
ZetaZero··on The Celera 500L passenger plane gets hydrogen powertrain
Looks like the bare minimum windows needed to fly it. Windows create drag. The overall design reduces drag by "59 percent".
ZetaZero··on Boring Company will build a 34-mile tunnel network underneath Las Vegas
Why are subway stations so much more expensive? Because of the size, right? The Boring stations seem to be much smaller.
ZetaZero··on Boring Company will build a 34-mile tunnel network underneath Las Vegas
Agreed. But subways cost so much more, $1 billion per mile in many cases. The Boring tunnels look to be around $10 million per mile.
ZetaZero··on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
and no one suggested we run the entire grid on PV/batteries, except you.
ZetaZero··on The Bold Truth (2015)
The heart of the argument is evidence that Connecticut voted for the amendment, but wasn't counted, back in 1790. It's not clear to me how substantial the evidence is, nor if this count should be corrected retroactively.
ZetaZero··on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
With Vogtle 3 & 4, the only nuclear plants coming online in the US, the construction costs are now projected to be $30 billion for 2.2 GW. We'd need ~1000 of these size plants to power the US. That's not going to cut it either.
ZetaZero··on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
No one is suggesting PV alone. My understanding is that Germany already gets more power from wind. Wind still works at night and in the winter, right?
ZetaZero··on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
Is Nuclear cheaper?
ZetaZero··on Nuclear is back on the table for a green future
No paywall https://dnyuz.com/2022/06/15/nuclear-is-back-on-the-table-fo...
ZetaZero··on Dwarf Fortress Update – Tutorials and Tooltips
RimWorld has over $100 million in revenue. It's a watered down 2D DF, with a better UI and mod support.
ZetaZero··on Dwarf Fortress Update – Tutorials and Tooltips
There is a reason why Tarn asks for donations every month, and Notch is a billionaire.
ZetaZero··on Apple Passkey
> How are they going to solve the totally legitimate sharing use cases?

According to their Terms, there are no legitimate sharing use cases. "You agree that you won’t disclose your Account password to anyone". That said, Calm has a family plan (6 users) for only $30/year more.

ZetaZero··on Apple unveils all-new MacBook Air, supercharged by the new M2 chip
The M1 Pro/Max have multiple GPUs, one in each CPU cluster.
ZetaZero··on My Mega65 has arrived
The Amiga launched at $1300, while the C64 was going for $200. By the time I could afford an Amiga, I got a PC instead.
ZetaZero··on Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen portable
The average household uses 893 kWh per month. At your 4.8kWh per canister, that is 186 canisters per month, or six canisters per day. This is useless for typical home usage.
ZetaZero··on Using a catch-all domain is a mistake
My HN account email is sleepy.home9993@[mydomain]. My email provider (FastMail) creates these "masked emails" at the click of a button, with a Description field so I can identify the purpose. Each email address consists of two random words plus a 4 digit number. Then I just store the information in my password manager.

I'm not wasting time trying to fix the breaches. I can just nuke that email forever.

ZetaZero··on Using a catch-all domain is a mistake
As you found out, it is a waste of time to report the leak. But you can still get all the benefits of nuking that email.
ZetaZero··on Ask HN: Why does my '15 MacBook Air have the same RAM (8gb) as a '22 McBook Pro?
8GB is plenty for a browser with a few tabs, and a couple applications open. If you need more memory, buy more, right?
ZetaZero··on Judge orders trial in Tesla autopilot manslaughter case
Tesla is selling FSD, which claims it would steer around the mountain.
ZetaZero··on NPM Vulnerability Discussion on Twitter
If a developer doesn't know how to write their own "iseven", I don't want their product.

Maybe you could argue other for other reasons to use these packages.

ZetaZero··on There Is No CD Revival
I ditched all 400+ CDs and 300+ DVDs (and some 50 LPs). They just took up space, and never got used. I've just recently paired down my book collection to 20 from 250. I just don't need all this physical stuff that I rarely use.
ZetaZero··on Toyota warns about rushing into electrification
Toyota's points from the article: “If we are to make dramatic progress in electrification, it will require overcoming tremendous challenges, including refueling infrastructure, battery availability, consumer acceptance, and affordability”

None of these argue against EV cars. Instead, these issues will control the adoption rate.

ZetaZero··on Cytopia: Open-source city simulator with pixel-art graphics
The first image on the project page is off. Here is a closeup: https://imgur.com/a/JtkhVNH

It's 2-1-1-2-1-1-2

EDIT: on closer inspection, it is 2:1, but with a weird artifacting. It does a 1x3 segment followed by a 2x3 segment, repeating.

On the game site, the images do follow 2:1 with expected pixel-perfect rendering.

ZetaZero··on Tailscale Authentication for Minecraft
I took over IT for a small company six years ago. The previous IT admin was using Hamachi for all the remote workers to access the file server.
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