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Dennip··on Researchers have built server prototypes that re-use old components
The one downside I've found (other than noise) running a super old supermicro at home is the power consumption is nowhere near as good as the modern hardware. But my server is _really_ old, some dual socket xeon thing I got super cheap.
Dennip··on How a Gas Compressor Station Works
There was a good video on B1M related to this recently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eKsaGqUfvI

Dennip··on Boeing workers vote to strike
My understanding of stating this figure was to highlight that the cash to pay employees reasonably exists, its just being spent elsewhere...
Dennip··on A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs
I guess the principle would be that you just don't care. The cost savings of not designing a powertrain/gearbox, not manufacturing it, reduced moving parts needing maintenance, etc etc. The trade-off _might_ be worth it.
Dennip··on A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs
It would be interesting to see the numbers I guess. For one, the manufacturer is offloading that energy burden onto the owner, not themselves.

IIRC A large portion of the carbon created by a car is during the manufacture, so if you're not forging a prop shaft and machining a gearbox, is it acceptable to reduce engine efficiency by some measure? Especially given the engine won't run all the time, just when the battery drop to some margin the car feels it should start charging.

Potentially (theorising here) Your EV will last longer before getting crushed into a cube, as it can compensate for battery degradation, your engine will last longer as it will have a fairly stable usage load (revs etc) and won't be used much

Dennip··on A Uruguayan company teaches people how to turn regular cars into EVs
Is there a reason not more popular to create hybrids that have no traditional powertrain? IT seems like it would be cost effective.

i.e. the petrol engine effectively just runs a generator to the batteries. You don't need prop shafts/gearboxes/transfer case/axles/alternator/starter etc.

If you can integrate the motor assembly into the wheel hub you don't need any kind of axle at all.

If/when the batteries degrade and lose capacity, you can just rely on the engine more.

The engine won't ever have to 'work' too hard, because when you accelerate hard the energy dump can just come from the battery reserve. Like it could just idle along at a more-or-less fixed rpm.

Dennip··on NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive
IIRC They have some type of nuclear power. Not like a reactor but something much simpler that generates heat from radioactive decay.
Dennip··on How to build a 50k ton forging press
Sheffield Forgemasters?

They are actually now directly govt owned as of 2020, with future investment for a new heavy forge.

Dennip··on How NASA brought the F-1 “moon rocket” engine back to life (2013)
Dunno about OP, but old CAT bulldozers used to have smaller engines to start the main engine, before starter tech improved, iirc they were called "Pony engines(motors)"
Dennip··on Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?
SAP?

An alternative to this strategy might be to have your own software team that builds tools and processes for you to "work with" or "work around" your primary software without fully replacing it.

As others have mentioned, what you want is achievable, if managed the right way, with the migration done in stages.( Trying to replace the whole thing in one jump would be very risky.)

In the real world though its quite easy to miss requirements, some quirk of the existing software nobody really thinks is a feature, except that one person in the office who has gotten used to abusing that quirk to achieve a task.

There is also possibly a lot of domain knowledge that the software team you hire might not be versed in, which can be tricky, although this is partially solved by having a good project lead and strong communication between the teams (software and non-software)

Where is might get more tricky is if you to adhere to certain ISO/etc certifications.

Dennip··on LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear
Shame Nvidia have somewhat abandoned the Shield, great device, but no software updates for years now with several unresolved bugs.

There is a popular guide for downgrading to v8 somewhere online as that is/was one of the more stable versions of the OS.

Dennip··on Komorebi: Tiling Window Management for Windows
There are lots of very well established tiling window managers for linux, there likely would be no advantage in porting a windows one to linux, and it may even be somewhat of a fools errand given the specifics of what its doing; you may as well write one from scratch.

i3 is a very widely used tiling manager on linux

Dennip··on Manifest V2 phase-out begins
Having Firefox alive helps Google beat the monopoly charges, presumably
Dennip··on Why I use Firefox
I suspect they also want to avoid monopoly regulation noises. "hey look, this competitor exists"
Dennip··on Nuclear SMR welding breakthrough
It was my understanding that these would still be built more or less like conventional nuclear power plants. You just stick a whole bunch of SMRs in one location.

All the site prep work, concrete, electrical grid connections, steam generators, water etc is in one place.

Dennip··on Mint is shutting down, and it's pushing users toward Credit Karma
I think they cancelled it in 2023, but MS did release for a while an Excel template replacement for MS Money - I think it even had some advanced stuff like bank integration via plaid.
Dennip··on Windows 11 adds native support for RAR, 7-Zip, Tar and other archive formats
Explorer in Win11 (for me) is absolute hot garbage
Dennip··on Windows 11's default mail client will show ads starting 2024
Is this 'free' outlook different to the version that ships with O365?
Dennip··on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
I think the docs need updating but you can auto sync with banks https://actualbudget.org/docs/advanced/bank-sync
Dennip··on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
Give ActualBudget (https://actualbudget.org) a go!
Dennip··on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
ActualBudget (https://actualbudget.org/) supports open banking via GoCardless (https://gocardless.com/). GoCardless (previously nordigen) deal with meeting the Open Banking standards and connecitng to all the banks and provide you with a fairly straightforward API for it.
Dennip··on Apple's use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
Agreed. So many settings now are hidden away 5 levels deep and not easily searchable. Why is updating apps hidden away 2/3rd's down in some profile section on the app store.
Dennip··on US startup begins producing 40%-efficient thermophotovoltaic cells
Isn't the thing running the Voyager space probe one of these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_2#Power
Dennip··on Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
Its still gone up from the original price to £95 a year though, removing features now, such as ad-free video, doesn't come with a discount. In fact there is no option to totally opt out of video and pay less tha £95.
Dennip··on Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
We've been working on getting the electron app up and running, you can download beta builds of it already, and I think it's mostly there.

Yep - There is on-going work to get good mobile support on the web app too!

Dennip··on Show HN: Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
https://actualbudget.org/ Actual has OFX support! Really great tool
Dennip··on Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
Whilst I use prime video, thats only because it comes 'for free' alongside shipping, which (at least in the UK) still is pretty good in terms of next-day, sometimes even same day.

I wish they would do a cheaper tier without all these additional 'benefits' (Video, Music, Twitch etc), but I suspect the reality is that its sort of a loss leader even without those benefits.

Dennip··on We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure
They don't avoid it - which is why they were raided by the police at one point and why they're no longer offering port forwarding
Dennip··on UK’s largest steelworks given £500M to decarbonise
This money is mostly going towards converting coal furnaces to electric furnaces, to meet the govts emissions targets, with Tata also investing money (the conversion costs more than 500m). But this steelworks is not profitable, and the conversion won't solve that.
Dennip··on Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
Honestly this is what has always dragged me back to Windows when i've tried in the past; things don't look nice, and no matter how many times you see the "text is good now" posts, text never looks as crisp to me as windows or macOS.
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