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they may have updated the website since the numerous comments here but the about section acknowledges all the libraries they use
Libraries
A big thanks to FFmpeg (audio, video), libvips (images) and Pandoc (documents) for maintaining such excellent libraries for so many years. VERT relies on them to provide you with your conversions.
> I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other
I'm confused by what you mean here? Don't they just use the network like any other computer?
I haven't had to do any special configuration to get my VMs to talk to each other.
it works in the terminal on a headless server
How so? They're in the same ballpark as digital ocean and linode who would be their primary competitors, each of which are roughly a 3rd of the cost of AWS/GC/Azure.
The population right now is 4x what it was 100 years ago which itself was 2x what it was 100 years before that. so even if our per capita emissions haven't grown (they have, drastically) the graph of total emissions would still be stacked towards the present.
Ford owns several single letter trademarks for the purpose of selling cars. This doesn't prevent people from using the letters for other purposes.
The elevator pitch does a pretty good job of explaining the use case imo.
It's a perfectly fine objective if you trust your drivers to meet a minimum standard of a good job. It won't work in an adversarial system like Uber where drivers are just numbers but if the drivers are also invested in the success of the platform it's fine.
Given that drivers are driving the shorted distance/time route at the speed limit, treating customers with respect, arriving on time to scheduled pickups, etc. The next thing to focus on is scheduling/filling orders such that drive time is maximised.
China is rapidly decarbonising their transport, faster than any other country.
They also produce the vast majority of the world's solar panels.
Yeah I am joking about the yearning as it's obviously not a thing people think or care about. The hallway shuffle happens while walking down a hallway when someone is coming at you so you move to the left to let them pass but they move to their right (your left) and then you do that stupid little dance as you both swap sides at the same time two or three times before you laugh and move past each other. In countries where people drive on the right this happens far less frequently, almost everybody consistently moves to the right and it's not an issue.
An an Australian who's travelled a little I can tell you that in their hearts of hearts people yearn to drive on the right. In no other country do I find myself doing the hallway shuffle more than this one. If we drove on the right that would at least eliminate the conflict between what people want to do and what the rules say we should.
I don't think it will happen anywhere major without buy in from a few countries at once. Australia might swap if Japan ever decides to swap as they currently do supply a large number of our vehicles. Having said that I see a pretty rapid switch over to Chinese cars over the next 10-15 years as they leapfrog Japan in regards to EV powertrains so we might be willing to switch independent of that to gain access to newer models faster.
The most reliable grids in the world are made up of a large number of small generators rather than a single source which when taken down takes down the entire grid.
If you were to start a new city disconnected from the rest of society then a combination of wind, solar, hydro, and batteries is the cheapest and most reliable system to power that city.
>> If you’re doing a micro-startup, you need valuable tools and insight today. You don’t care about 12 months from now. You certainly don’t care about $99 twelve months from now…
Exactly, the value is in the present, not in the future. This is so clearly obvious that anybody purchasing it knows that there's no value exchanged for the recurring fee and thus the recurring fee looks like a shady cash grab and is more likely to result in less overall sales.
DKIM has been around for close to 2 decades now and fastmail has been rolling out out by default since 2009 [1]. This change only affects fastmail users who manage their own DNS rather than letting fastmail manage it and either set it up a very long time ago or chose not to implement all the recommended settings.
Gmails changes are not deliberately affecting fastmail at all.
[1] https://fastmail.blog/historical/all-outbound-email-now-bein...
It has bluetooth support as well! I use the MX master but it's the same system. There's a button on the bottom to switch between up to 3 devices.
In Australia the system is called Osko and we link our mobile phone numbers or email address to it.
vultr lets you install custom ISOs, can also pxeboot.
Extremely lazy MSPs will port forward ports to BMCs instead of using a VPN or SSH tunnel.
Healthcare is easily solved by letting go of the requirement to live in the United States and living almost anywhere else.
OK the main discrepancy is from the Data center calculation. The Galaxy PDF lists the top 100 banks as owning $70Tn of deposits. I calculated using the galaxy energy number but divided by total deposits wheras I should have only used the data for the top 100 banks as they did.
I think your calculation of 3.5 Wh/$ is closer to the real number. When I put $70Tn instead of $404Tn in I get 3.71Wh/$
Thanks for working this one out, unfortunately you're off by a factor of 1000.
Your calculation comes out to 1.028 TWh
1 TWh = 1,000,000,000 KWh
Ok cool. Let's double the energy used by banks then, still 100x as efficient as Bitcoin.
In a disgustingly inefficient way.
Global Financial System: 263.72TWh
Bitcoin: 113.89TWh
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GFS deposits: US$404.1 trillion
Bitcoin: US$1.1 trillion
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GFS energy per US$: 0.65 Wh
Bitcoin energy per US$: 103.53 Wh
And this is calculated just for the value of deposits, if we do it again for number of transactions it's even more scathing.
https://docsend.com/view/adwmdeeyfvqwecj2
The thing about most SaaS companies is a majority of your support calls come from your lowest tier customers. In a service like email where a huge number of problems are a mystery due to other mail servers possibly mishandling email Fastmail have probably added up the numbers and realised that dropping the cheapest plans results in significantly less support costs.
Doesn't matter. Under Australian law they can still be compelled to install backdoors.
It would be a hell of a lot easier for the west to understand China if China would let their citizens interact with the wider internet.
It's following some business wank advice to stand out from the crowd like printing your resume on A3 card stock.