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A $10/month VM might only have a single thread anyway. Some providers like lightsail are really slow too.

OK, so we've done animal_vehicle, how about new SVG ideas each time? I just tried "make an SVG of a man sitting in a chair at a computer behind a desk" which gives more interesting results than the animalVehicle test.

I got shingles after the covid vaccine, which is a rare but statistically highly significant risk: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35470920/ . Both covid and shingles sucked, luckily it was years ago now.

Apples and oranges, or chalk and cheese. Why would you say apples and potatoes?

Clicking "Try Aske for free" takes you straight to it, no sign up! I usually avoid clicking these buttons because they usually take you to a sign up form.

Yeah it doesn't look good. Idk your requirements but this is one of the better deals I could find https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126986603191 . For used eBay servers it's always worth making an offer rather than Buy it Now.

Have you looked at used servers from eBay / bargain hardware / ETB tech etc?

From memory, OVH and Scaleway are similar to Hetzner

Recently, I had some data for which I wanted some graphs. I uploaded the .jsonl file, and prompted "make a html page and graph this data using plotly". I wanted a report, and got a report, quicker than I could have made it myself.

I only remember that station because of the weird road

I'm not sure this is true in the UK at least, which may be because the grid operator is conservative / cautious https://www.energy-storage.news/uk-grid-forming-batteries-mi...

Old power station turbines can be repurposed as inertia services via a stability market. Example in the UK: https://www.neso.energy/news/deeside-power-station-begins-wo...

I find the scale of some companies hard to understand, they're laying off multiples of the total number of employees of the largest company I've worked at.

I'm surprised there's no mention of hot drinks in the morning.

They announced they're thinking about amending regulations to allow plug in solar at some point. Hopefully something eventually actually gets done.

If you look at the uptime graph, it's probably more newsworthy when it's up, not down.

> If you had a big enough battery, could you sell electricity back to the grid later? Get paid to charge the battery, get paid to discharge the battery?

Yes, some people do this. There's even a startup built around the idea: https://www.axle.energy/

Batteries are getting affordable too - Fogstar do a 16kWh battery for around £2000. Plus, grid scale iron-air batteries sound promising.

Demand response for things like hotel air conditioning is a thing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23343211

Iron air batteries sound promising

https://www.bgelectrical.uk/uk/circuit-protection/devices/rc... Right there, both bidirectional and unidirectional breakers.

Crude oil is over $100/barrel now, affecting almost everyone everywhere.

You could first calculate the distance of the first n bits (eg: 64, one popcountll) as a first pass, then calculate the full distance for candidates over a threshold from the first pass. It makes it approximate, but depending on the application it can be worth it.

That's useless, unexpectedly just Google gives the correct answer.

Can someone ask: "what is the current carrying capacity of 25mm multicore armoured thermoplastic insulated cables with aluminium conductors, on perforated cable tray?" just to see how well it can look up information in BS 7671?

Assuming you're talking about Agile Octopus / Time of use tariffs, if you look at the price distribution for December: https://agileprices.co.uk/?fromdate=20251231 , negative prices are very rare compared to expensive prices.

They're in a unique position where many people allow googlebot but try to block most other bots

Open to task / project based freelance work, quotes at reasonable rates. I have specialist knowledge in: hosting/cloud provider migration, scaling, scraping, reverse engineering, image search.

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The "dev notes" in the top right links to https://intervolz.com/emdash-observer-writeup/ I downloaded torrents of reddit comments, and processed them in Go, written using AI assistance. Then Intervolz did this thing and wrote it up.

From iOS 11 it auto-corrects -- to — https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2017/7/6/dash-dash-it-all