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Re:DC Grids on Friday August 25, 2023 @06:41AM (#37260120)
For non industrial use cases there is: https://open-dc-grid.org/ which appears to be suspended for now.
Their interests are money and power, so this should be pretty self explanatory.
Re:Steam: Half-Life 2 Hardware Survey (2004) on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @09:23AM (#30931658)
When reading through your comment I had a blast from the past and remembered how I was browsing the "All-Seeing Eye" [1] to look for Quake 3 servers and then share them with friends via IRC.

Looking back at those times I remember the Internet as a much more social place (but that might be just be). I think it's because people had to get active to use services for social interaction as opposed to getting hit by a notification in your face.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_All-Seeing_Eye

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
There is a foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy that predicts exactly this happening. It was written in 1867. When reading articles like this I sometimes feel like the only thing we can learn from history is that we do not learn from history.
Re:Why can’t I go faster than the speed of light? on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:43PM (#28503175)
I always feel like this questions is really asking "What is time?". This book gives a new perspective on time which I think is crucial for understanding the nature of it: https://www.harvard.com/book/the_janus_point/
Re:A Ceph war story on Saturday April 10, 2021 @04:20AM (#26759889)
i only have experience with ceph and would argue that if you set up a cluster with version 15.x right now it is pretty close to set and forget.
Re:Tetrahedral Tessellation Experiments on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @04:55AM (#22673156)
#metoo other examples seem to work e.g.: https://www.shaderoo.org/?shader=A3X0e7