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lgcmoon Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers

Natural monopolies are always the first suggestions to keep public owned. And you can't have 2 water suppliers piping into your apartment from the source

lgcmoon What I self-host

And I must also add that docker containers are not actually that heavy.

I have a 10 year old, dual core, 8gb DDR3 laptop serving somewhere around 20 dockers for different kinds of services and it runs just fine. Even 2 clients transcoding some media usually works ok.

PS: It is not currently on, more due to it being a clunky machine with structural problems then the hardware itself. I should get it a 3d printed desktop case

lgcmoon What I self-host

This is all hypothetical, isn't it...? All academic?

lgcmoon Babylonian Lamb Stew with Beets (1750–1730 BCE)

You may be interested in tableofgods.com (also cool yt shorts)

lgcmoon Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM

Awesome! I was looking for something like this, and I thought I've got it with Crixet (now OpenAI Prism). I had to compile a rather heavy presentation template and Overleaf would simply time-out, Crixet being client based was the only option.

Great to see a FOSS version!

lgcmoon As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing

Not that this does not work, but there are services for that you could run. If you got (or plan to) a homelab, that is a nice add

lgcmoon São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest

Another related Brazilian interesting fact is that almost all greenery in Rio de Janeiro is replanted, since must was coffee plantations.

The last emperor of Brazil decided to replant it all, since it was affecting wellbeing and water supply to the city at the time

lgcmoon Should you wash your solar panels?

I have worked in the solar industry, and "soiling" is highly dependent on soil, weather, proximity to roads, etc.

And I've seen cases where it made a 30% impact. In other locations, it is a non-issue, but vegetation was a hassle.

lgcmoon Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs?

I don't have more than 15 at once. Only when selecting hn posts to read at once. If they linger much (or anything at all) I will put the "important" ones at my raindrop with the false intent to read some day

lgcmoon Kode Dot Programmable pocket device for makers, pentesters and geeks

So refreshing to see a page that is simple and yet cool. Too tired of 100% claude designed websites in hn

lgcmoon How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner

HN effect

lgcmoon Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it

I believe he means that he does not do astrophotography. So no photos to share

lgcmoon .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting

I opened in work desktop. I'm waiting the IT call now

lgcmoon Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown

I was a teacher assistant circa 2023. I required every student to submit the assignments typed digitally, since grading a single handwritten one would take as much time as 5 typed. I saw a single fully AI generated assignment and it was laughable and an easy zero. I wonder how I would do it now.

lgcmoon Wolves are reconquering Europe. Can people learn to live with them?

My grandmother would tell me how her mom was terrified of wolves in her small village. It was a true problem back in the day

lgcmoon Chili peppers of the world: cultivars, species, and heat

Great site and drawings.

A interactive map with that info would be awesome!

lgcmoon Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future

What's your experience like?

Lot's of people say that's a mess to maintain and too broken to actively use.

I often doubt if that's due to actual problems, or mix with that and bad decisions on the setup. Is dockering, keeping the data handling itself outside of it and a few other easy (or not so much) precautions enough to have a somewhat smoother sailing?

Also, how much time do you need to keep things from failing apart?

lgcmoon The Case for Free Online Books (2014)

In our system, the university libraries filled 90% of our textbook needs. Some books were highly sought after, especially physics and calculus, which were common for all STEM majors.

In those cases, we would run to the library first thing to get the books. If you missed out, someone would give you the PDF.

Professors would email the reading list before the first class with their recommendations, and even tell the students which libraries had each book. Other professors would have their notes and handbooks available on the website, and have some of the copy shops sell them for the cost of printing.

lgcmoon Show HN: Gravity – Interactive solar-system simulator, from Newton to Einstein

Very cool!

Just one note about the moon orbit around the Earth, it is far more subtle; almost just orbiting the Sun alongside Earth. I can't explain better than minute physics, highly recommend: youtube.com/watch?v=KBcxuM-qXec

lgcmoon Stop the Apple Music app from launching

Let me change the default music player

lgcmoon Doing nothing at work

So many factors are envolved in this that it is hard to begin the answer. I would spend some time discovering the main points and answer them.

One that is very important: Do you have another opportunity to accept? There is nothing better to get a job than being employed.

If you do have a offer, consider if you take; but if you don't, try to get one while you are employed and jump ship when it's a better one; repeat.

lgcmoon Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

Yes yes, boils down to network effect (that comes from those historical aspects).

lgcmoon Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

There is no supply chain of baseballs and baseball bats in Brazil. That would be considered a "exotic" choice of sport, with those supplies only available at expensive stores with imported goods

lgcmoon Clothing, not air conditioning, should be 1st layer of response to extreme heat

It's not X, it's Y It's not X, it's Y It's not X, it's Y

C'mon guys, ask the LLM to avoid this structures

lgcmoon Running 'Doom' on E. coli cells slowly

Some cool sh*t!

lgcmoon Elon Musk Laid Out 602 Goals. We Counted How Many He Hit

https://archive.is/c2u4U

lgcmoon Odysseus – self-hosted AI workspace

Librechat?

lgcmoon I'm Getting into Mesh Networks (Meshtastic, MeshCore, and Reticulum)

I really like the technology and almost jumped in, but quickly realized the lack of the _network_ effect in a community.

I live in a dense urban area, and yet I see very few nodes nearby, where I image I will be left in starvation. Without a proper mesh, I couldn't send a message to a fried 2 miles away with no los.

lgcmoon I analysed 20 years of my chats

Very cool analysis. There is already a selfhosted CRM for personal relationships - monicahq.com

PS: but please, just live your lifes