davewasthere

I'm not opposed to nuclear in the mix though. It's pretty incredible. And the South Koreans have done a pretty awesome job in the UAE with their reactors it sounds like.

If you're comparing nuclear reactors with solar panels though (which is tricky), depends which metric you go for. If total annual output? Then up it by almost an order of magnitude. 100km2+ would be needed to produce the same annual output as a 1GW at 90% nuclear station.

But we've a ton of land, so it makes a lot of sense.

But while the idea of using a stove top kettle (have done so in the past) is fine, the thought of using a microwave to heat up a cup of water for tea seems abhorent. (although it's really not)

I guess it came about because 110V not being as efficient? Or more American's are coffee drinkers?

I don't know about you, but I'm skeptical.

And, while not SciFi, I think Haruki Murakami's books are worth a read and might scratch and itch you didn't realise you had. Start with Norwegian Wood if you want a light intro, but then Windup Bird Chronicle next. Possibly 1Q84 after that?

As an unauthed user, add a habit. Then log in. Habit has disappeared. (but can create habits, which then sync just fine to other devices)

I guess I was expecting my unauthed user habit to persist after logging in.

Was always free... now people have gone to town with the source code.

But how do you organise a disparate group whose only common characteristic is that they don't believe in imaginary deities?

Fortunately I had the local police station number and was able to call that just fine, but not until a few failed attempts at the real emergency number.

That said, another good option is attempting to call 112. Which is an emergency number in many countries. (Works in the US too).

But yeah, it's not good.

Was really happy with the design, considering I just made it up on the spot. I had previously carved a few chess sets before though out of wood.

And actually, probably need to make it $1/home for the first 1000 or so just to get the site to critical mass. Not going to get many buyers for 2 listings...

Anyway, after playing around with different flavours of linux, I ended up with a rather simple solution that ended up being easy to install. Essentially it was a two line script that piped the serial port to the destination server IP address, and inbound tcp/ip piped to the serial port.

So just plugging this little (old school) 486 box in-between the serial port on the legacy system and an RJ-45 connector which plugged into the 'corporate' network and we not only had an upgraded comms layer, but we now had remote system management, which we never had before.

Think it saved $250k+ minimum replacement at next to no cost. Just me barrelling up and down the country installing the new hardware. Was a fun project in the end and started me down the linux appreciation route.

But yeah, if you're talking USD, then one could easily live comfortably for five years in Vietnam/Thailand for $20k/year. (Although you could easily live in a ton of countries if you pick your town/city/area correctly) Then smash out all those side-gig bootstrap ideas that come to mind. If you can build MRR of approx $6k, then you've effectively built up the equivalent of $1M earning 7% in the bank.

Actually, my latest company was started 3 years (and nearly a month) ago, and is now earning easily that in revenue from one of its Saas products, so yeah, it's definitely acheivable.

SLA Guarantees is spelt wrong: https://supertokens.com/pricing

We run a Saas and someone wrote an email saying that our server was down, and when we'd expect it to be up. Not having had a notification, I double checked from a couple of geographic locations that our application was indeed up and responding.

After a bit of investigation, it turns out that they have to whitelist every unique address with their corporate IT. And had only whitelisted our primary client-app URL (talks to a couple of different API endpoints), hence the strange error message.

It's been a long time since I've worked somewhere with whitelisting.

Yeah, Cruise ships are pretty nuts!

From Primary Microplastics in the Oceans: Boucher & Friot 2017

  35% Clothing and textiles
  28% Tyres
  24% City dust
  7% Road markings
  3.7% Marine coatings
  2% Beauty products
  <1% Plastic nurdles

Recently got my daughter into doing web application testing. She found four bugs in an hour. Trying stuff that I never thought of. I've created a monster. (She's getting paid, don't worry)

Mine are: https://www.davewasthere.com/ travel site I created after getting locked up in 1999 while travelling in Russia. I stopped updating in in 2014, and stopped travelling in 2019. No idea why ;)

And https://davebeer.com/ as just somewhere to write random shite, with no real theme.

Just good fun and neither have any real purpose other than a semi-public, but obscure diary.