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How about some good old fans? I had a little NAS box in my garage for a few years that ran pretty hot and I was afraid of straining the hard disks. I ended up just using lm_sensors on the server to monitor temperature, and when it got it hot, kick off an SSH command to a raspberry pi sitting nearby to tell it to turn on an exterior fan (gpio -> mosfet -> relay) I had mounted to the side of the cabinet a few inches away from the server box (literally just an old PC fan).

Super ghetto but actually pretty efficient at bringing the server's temperature down.

documentation =/= presentation

> Ouch, forced to use Facebook for work... Thats rough...

Yeah the worst part is that I can't tell my boss to screw off because it's my company :D We do some customer support on Facebook because so many of our users are there, otherwise I wouldn't be touching it with a 12 foot pole either.

I'm forced to use messenger for work but have refused to download the mobile app for this reason. Voting with my download count.

Curious why you're so attached to the qmail style subaddressing. Personal preference or is there a technical advantage?

I've ditched Chrome completely in favor of Firefox (desktop and mobile). I've been surprised about Firefox's speed, but not in a good way... After all the hype I've been seeing about Firefox getting faster I've been disappointed by how sluggish it feels on my system (Linux, 20 CPUs, 32GB RAM -- yes, this is my personal dev machine :D). Chrome is still faster, but I'm sticking to FF because I believe in their mission.

It was some kind of mailing list solicitation from the author (I actually didn't even bother reading it, just frantically closed it as quickly as possible), so not blocked by an ad blocker. I'm running ad blockers and pihole and I still saw it.

> That’s not image recognition.

How do you do it? Telepathically? You're still just receiving visual input and processing it.

> Not just image recognition, obstacle avoidance, rule following, etc.

I would argue that the examples you gave are just image recognition, etc. What is your brain doing if not image recognition and obstacle avoidance?

We're not there with today's technology but eventually our machines will perform better at those uniquely human tasks you mentioned. After all, we humans and our cognition is just the output of these giant meat computers inside our skulls pulling in sensory data and running pattern recognition algorithms.

The $65,000 question is whether or not today's technology is sufficient (however barbaric) to be acceptable for the job.

From the email chain:

> Looking through the article again reportedly points to the deposition itself. I visited that URL and got a blank window. It is on Google Drive, which demands running nonfree software in order to see it. See https://gnu.org/philos2phy/javascript-trap.html > > Would you (not anyone else!) like to email me a copy of the part that pertains to Minsky? say "not anyone else" to avoid getting 20 copies.

Lol even in the middle of this discussion he sneaks some JavaScript hatred in there!

Yeah all he really wanted was a platform to disseminate his ideas. The open source community has been a great place for that to happen, and I hope the legacy of his ideas related to freedom of information, etc. get the honored legacy that they deserve.

But now that he has an audience there's nothing stopping him creating an independent non-profit to tackle these issues philosophically. There's no need anymore to be the gatekeepers of the actual code. It should be free, after all.

So that's where I'm putting my money: Stallman announces a new organization to philosophize freely, not involved directly with code, and the FSF becomes more elastic on certain topics (integrating with other toolchains, etc.).

> Either way, I'm cancelling my FSF donations for caving into this witch hunt.

If the FSF experiences a drop in donations couldn't they interpret that as people trying to distance themselves with Stallman, and he's basically synonymous with the FSF?

Pair programming is great. But as with all things, only in moderation. An hour or two per week can actually be quite enlightening and eye opening.

Kudos to the creator for the responsible advertising strategy. The "hey -- you're using an ad blocker" message was thoughtful and non-guilt-tripping. Ads are clearly delineated as such, and the actual ads aren't spammy (carbon). Online advertising needs an overhaul and this is a step in the right direction.

It also removes the requirement of distros packaging it up and users installing and configuring it. Is it's in the kernel it just works out of the box everywhere.

I'd hesitate to generalize this across the podcasting space. Tim's podcast is pretty unique in this regard. He _really_ does have unique and interesting advertisers, probably because his scale means he can pick basically whoever he wants.

Sam Harris did this same experiment recently and has stuck with the ad-free model. I listen to both podcasts with roughly equal frequency and interest and I immediately subscribed to Sam but not to Tim.

Not sure what the mechanics are going on here but bottom line is that both models seem to work well in different contexts.

Right, but how would they prevent eroding sales to people _not_ like you? That's exactly why the hardware lock-in model is so insidious.

> They could even make it a subscription.

Yes, my only point is that it would have to cost a lot more than the margin of a single iMac.

Not a great solution if your window manager groups application windows together (e.g. gnome shell and osx).

I'm afraid the markup would have to be a lot more than that. They're banking on you buying multiple pieces of hardware over the years, not just one iMac... Hardware lock-in is their whole business model...

They could factor in the repo's "pulse". More active projects get a bigger slice.

> Not only we need to redesign computers and cpu architecture but we desperately need to make that entire process and knowledge open source , available to all and more transparent.

Here's hoping OpenRISC takes off!

Well this is fun, I'm now unable to logout. I have a feeling there's more to this incident than Docker is currently disclosing...

These are actually a lot of fun to read. Kudos!

You don't have to watch his channel for very long to learn that he often does (see his video about the recent gravitational wave detection [1], plus a bunch more).

[1] https://youtu.be/iphcyNWFD10

Ah sorry just noticed that you're the extension author. Never mind. Definitely going to check the extension out because I'm really hating Gmail right now. Inbox really spoiled us :(

Do you work on Gmail? Are you saying bundles have little chance of making into Gmail? That might cement my decision to finally drop Gmail... :(

I just took your config for a spin and it's actually quite snappy for me... What exactly is slow for you?

This is what I do. $5/month. There's a great docker image that makes setup a snap:

https://hub.docker.com/r/kylemanna/openvpn

> Eclipse is noticeably faster.

You definitely had something misconfigured then...

Not saying that's your problem, emacs could do a lot more to be friendlier to newcomers. I'm just saying, don't be so quick to judge it until you've gotten with your local emacs nerd to see what's wrong with your setup.

Yeah it's pretty bad... But I also LOVE using the scooters. Hopefully a solution is found so that we can keep the scooters.