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Re:Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment on Saturday January 18, 2025 @02:31AM (#42746600)
"personal carbon footprint" is a term invented by BP and is the single hack that derailed the environment discussion by making people personally responsible and removing the actual polluters from the discussion.
Re:How to Succeed in Mrbeast Production (Leaked PDF) on Monday September 16, 2024 @08:36AM (#41555444)
I think this is exactly the point that MrBeast is trying to make.

By being best YOUTUBE videos it means to focus on whatever appeals to the algorithm. It doesn't mean you are better informed, or better entertained, as long as the click-through-rate is great and the minutes people watch the video is maximized.

You could say the same thing is true for Xerox, for them the best doesn't necessary mean that they sell you the best most reliable copier, but the highest grossing product, with a guaranteed post-sale income.

And this is why we can't have nice things.

Re:Replacing Ansible with salt-ssh on Thursday October 22, 2020 @05:49PM (#24863672)
you write states per purpose. you can import, you can extend, you can define functions in one and reuse them somewhere else...
Re:Replacing Ansible with salt-ssh on Thursday October 22, 2020 @05:36PM (#24863560)
What people don't get about salt, is that its literally kubernetes (as in orchestrator) for your infrastructure.

It takes the "operator" concept to a very new level: You can tell it to react automatically and enlarge a disk in a machine due to space constrains, reschedule workloads according to load, configure a loadbalacner according to rules you write once, create resiliency rules, deploy new machines or containers...

It scales ridiculously, i have seen 30000 minions to a master.

Why you would use it via ssh other than bootstrapping is beyond me...

btw: you can run ansible via the salt bus transport = salstack in the ansible.cfg, be amazed.

Re:Reasonably priced color e-ink display on Monday July 20, 2020 @07:10PM (#23902844)
The display has an SPI interface with a 15s per page refresh rate and is only useable for sinage.

There is however the Hisense A5C phone with Color E-ink Display now on the market and it features a decent refresh rate.

https://forum.xcsoar.org/download/file.php?id=1113

Re:Wagtail on Monday April 20, 2015 @08:17AM (#9407482)
Oh no! Not another scrolling CMS... whitespace seems to be trendy.
Re:Show HN: Add “Magic” to Your Business on Monday February 23, 2015 @04:41PM (#9097259)
So someone was watching too much "Eden of the East",Noblesse oblige.

Explenation: In the animee there is a phone that can call a number which makes anything happen or done. You have a billion credit. Too bad you die if you use all the money.