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Did you mean Irfanview?

Thanks for the tip. Mostly emacsing via X, but good to know.

We've tried Jitsi multiple times (as recently as a month ago) and the experience has been uniformly bad at anything beyond a handful of people. When we scaled to > 20 it was completely unusable (feedback / echos, delays, stuttering, dropouts, you name it).

The real missed opportunity here is the one-two combination of reducing avian fatalities and advertising with LEDs:

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB15.LQMVXXXXXNXpXXq6xXFXXXZ/GTF...

But seriously, is there a way to illuminate the blades in a low-cost way that's obvious to birds and invisible to locals? Intensity, visible wavelength, frequency?

Context: 5000 sf, 12' ceilings. 4 HVAC units. Large family, lots of animals, always at home, 9-10 workstations + 1 rack server running. Thermostats are set around 75-76F.

Thanks for this food for thought. I've commented a bit on costs in sibling threads.

Our home is relatively large (square footage and high ceiling heights compound that) and since we both work and teach at home, the cooling systems are in constant demand.

Appreciate the ballpark figures; time to revisit the idea.

Very high: for the hottest months of the year, power is $1100+/mo. Average for the last 24 months is just under $900/mo.

It's a larger 1-story home: we've tried to address insulation, low-e glass, and AC SEER ratings. Working and teaching from home = consistent cooling demands throughout the day, every day.

The per kWh cost may be low, but the high humidity and heat = constant cooling demand.

We work and teach from home (pre-Covid) so the cooling systems are in use throughout the day.

The last time I had an estimate for solar, the break-even was 18 years, so it made no sense whatsoever, financially speaking.

When you mention after 25 years they would have paid for themselves many times over, based on what criteria? I'd love to revisit this topic -- power costs in Florida are very high.

Edit: Just curious on why the downvotes? Not enough context? Negative sentiment? (not intended, genuinely curious about revisiting solar)

Pledged.

Remember the Mayan calendar brouhaha over 2012? They just forgot to carry the 1.

And here we are.

Gui Emacs via tramp+ssh is awesome.

Terminal Emacs over ssh is, well, just like anything else in a terminal over ssh. Can't say I notice the latency unless the datacenter is on the other side of the country.

Every so often, I look at a headline and think to myself before clicking:

To VPN, or not VPN: that is the question.

Fakespot is my go-to for some kind of signal to noise for real vs. fake reviews.

Example results include a letter grade, and a few fortune cookies of content like:

Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 58.7% of the reviews are reliable.

This product had a total of 511 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 19 2020.

My solution whenever focusing on goals / deadlines: edit hosts file (as root/admin, when necessary)

127.0.0.1 reddit.com www.reddit.com

127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com

127.0.0.1 twitter.com

127.0.0.1 other social / news domains...

The little bit of friction required to undo this is enough to remind me to get back to being productive.

Also, Pomodoros for pacing.

Die-hard fan of Iosevka[0], a narrow monospace font family (regular and term) and nerd-font patched varieties [1].

Just love how they display in emacs gui on a 4k display.

[0] https://typeof.net/Iosevka/ [1] https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/tree/master/patched-...

How much RAM did their test workstation have? I can't seem to spot it.

Dropbox may be unwieldy, but the document version history has been a lifesaver.

I'd love to find something for an environment where there are many people (many uncomfortable with technology) sharing a folder full of code, documents, and media for a project -- something that acts as a robust safety net. OneDrive is ok but has failed us multiple times (failed to upload, failed to sync, filed to notify).

Can Syncthing handle anything resembling an enterprise (ok, enterprise-light) setup? The last time I tried it on Android (~2 years old), it was painful, and that was just for my own personal backup, not a shared environment.

Thanks

The buffet analogy is interesting, but flawed in the sense that:

1. your selections don't radically change what the buffet offers in real time like, say, Google search.

and

2. Unless you take pains to anonymize, your buffet options are already skewed to support your biases, say to starches.

My wife and I will research the same topic at the same time on our respective workstations and get radically different results. The internet echo chamber feeds back two very different experiences, side by side (Never mind what happens when I fire up a non-US VPN)

One of us adds a single negative keyword to their search phrase and the results are dishearteningly dystopic. Coworkers who rely on Facebook for their daily dose of tribal information have an extremely different set of 'facts' for any topic I care to mention.

What I find most disturbing about this is that few people can/will take the time to compare notes across tribal or socioeconomic divides in a meaningful way -- we're all consuming a different buffet and its becoming more difficult by the minute to be sure of the chefs and suppliers.

Is there a good way to spoof screen sizes and fonts?

... asking for a friend.

I rarely look into my side mirror without thinking "OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR."

Thanks, Mr. Larson.

Highly recommended for keeping things clean: Metro Vacuum ED500P DataVac 500-Watt, 0.75-HP Electric Duster.

I've had one since ~2012 and it helps me maintain a small fleet of laptops and workstations for my large family (with many pets).

@captainmuon I appreciate your sentiment, that viewing politics through a dirty lens is a disservice to democracy.

But it is exceptionally difficult to get past the constant battle for share of voice, for power, my tribe vs. your tribe, and down to the brass tacks of problem solving.

Everyone in politics has an agenda.

Not everyone in politics is willing to be honest about what that agenda is, and rarely are they held accountable for misinformation used in pursuit of that agenda.

Thank you.

There are numerous sites I go to regularly incognito to log in as an admin vs. end-user: several have low-profile, low-contrast cookie warnings which disable all other menus until you acknowledge them (without an apparent overlay). Just that little extra bit of friction every day adds up.

Same. Never had an issue with Thinkpads nor Dells of all stripes.

Now the Surface Pro on the other hand, was a disastrous time sink.

Thanks for the reminder of Worm. I mispla... correction, I buried my bookmark in the underworld that is my Chrome bookmarks.

Much appreciated.

Bookmarked again, higher in the stack in a folder titled "NEXT UP" with only ~200 entries

My son and I are learning Blender together. I was an avid 3DS Max user for many years (Kinetix, then Autodesk), and Blender is both impressive and a comfortable next step. Never did much with Maya, though there was a detour to Softimage for a few years...

With a GTX 1070 video card, Blender has been quite responsive on a dual-monitor HD setup. Highly recommend that users try the Nvidia Studio Drivers. We started off using the latest game-ready drivers and the system was unstable, but after doing a clean install of the studio drivers (v 442.92), its been rock solid no matter what we throw at it.

I would love to see a set of (enforced) policies that are blind to the user in question, if such a thing could be. For example:

1. If a post is flagged for review, the account name/owner, social score, social graph, ad revenue, all of it, is hidden from the review person, team, or algorithm. The only history they would have access to is violation history, influencing some kind of recidivism penalty.

2. The duration and severity of the consequences of the violation is applied to the account automatically, and the "judge" is unaware of any backlash from the user / community.

3. Any protest or appeal is sent through the process, blind again.

I realize this is isn't nuanced or realistic in the slightest. What about mistakes? What about gamification of moderation processes? What about revenue impact? How could #1 be cleaned enough to fool anyone...

Still.

Very nice. Thanks, looking forward to playing with this over the weekend.

Can you use hx-swap-oob to update multiple elements with a single call?

The haiku is a nice touch!