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New comment by entropicgravity in "The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997)"

entropicgravity — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 20:58:28 +0000

Musk is the Bazaar.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Sri Lanka scrambles to restore power after monkey causes islandwide outage"

entropicgravity — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:51:58 +0000

I presume the monkey got fried.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships"

entropicgravity — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 05:32:19 +0000

Studies have been done comparing gasoline vs. ammonia and while there are differences overall the dangers and mitigations are about the same.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships"

entropicgravity — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:43:00 +0000

The future of shipping is ammonia. It has, pretty much, all the attributes of fossil fuels but being NH4 it doesn't produce an earth warming byproduct.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Why everyone missed solar's exponential growth"

entropicgravity — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 05:35:56 +0000

log log has been a thing for several decades.

New comment by entropicgravity in "First wave of M4 Macs, including smaller Mac mini, coming November 1"

entropicgravity — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 21:12:55 +0000

Can you put Linux on a mac Mini?

New comment by entropicgravity in "NASA's $5B Europa Clipper mission may not be able to handle Jupiter's radiation"

entropicgravity — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 07:41:19 +0000

You don't know until you try. Going to Jupiter is not like going to the corner store for milk. Let's call it the "Musk Approach".

New comment by entropicgravity in "What's the difference between a motor and an engine? (2013)"

entropicgravity — Fri, 24 May 2024 12:25:46 +0000

Yes, but in the marine realm they are consistently called outboard motors and not outboard engines.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Maybe it is the year of the Linux desktop: on Elon Musk's support of Linux"

entropicgravity — Fri, 24 May 2024 11:58:29 +0000

I recently had the experience of wiping windows of an Asus laptop I bought and the process was trickier than usual. It turns out that the 'USB Image Writer' that comes with linux and that you use to create a USB drive with the linux of your choice is no longer up to the task. The bios of the laptop would not allow the USB to boot up unless I created the USB with an entirely different software, in my case I used the balenaEtcher software (I believe other software will work too) to create the USB and only then would the USB boot up and allow me to wipe and reconfigure the partitions on the 'hard drive' (which in this case was an SSD).

It took me an extra couple of hours to get this to finally work. At this point I'm not sure if it's only the new Asus bios that are doing this unfriendly thing or if it's an industry trend.

A real pain in the ass in any case.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands"

entropicgravity — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 20:34:24 +0000

And casinos apparently.

New comment by entropicgravity in "EU data shows PHEVs emit 350% more CO2 than tested values"

entropicgravity — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:14:45 +0000

The battery can also be charged by regenerative braking, which also allows the brakes to last much longer.

New comment by entropicgravity in "LG Smart TVs have security bugs that could let hackers hijack them"

entropicgravity — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:49:50 +0000

I have a LG Smart TV that I use as a dumb TV that's driven by a Asus pn51 "palm of our hand" computer running Linux Mint. Finally a Logitech MX Ergo 'thumb ball bluetooth mouse' allows me to sit on the sofa across the living room and happily browse the internet, watch movies, youtube and almost anything else you can think off. (All the details here are just in case someone else would like to do something similar, this could be a starting point.)

New comment by entropicgravity in "Ivy League College Costs Soar to More Than $90k a Year"

entropicgravity — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:47:00 +0000

Yes, that's for the legacy students (now pushing 50%) who can well afford it. The gifted students get a subsidy so they can afford to attend and everyone is happy, almost.

New comment by entropicgravity in "A disk so full, it couldn't be restored"

entropicgravity — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 19:10:35 +0000

My recollection is that gparted wouldn't allow me to adjust any partitions until I loosened up the available space in the system partition. I guess gparted checks all the partitions to make sure everything is as it should be before it allows changes.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Ask HN: What is the biggest thing you've changed your mind about?"

entropicgravity — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:47:17 +0000

All households run on the edicts of Communism. "From each according to their ability; to each according to their need". Unfortunately, it doesn't scale.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Ask HN: What is the biggest thing you've changed your mind about?"

entropicgravity — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:39:43 +0000

Let's put credit where credit is due. VisiCalc.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Deep sea mining could be worse for the climate than land ores"

entropicgravity — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:17:02 +0000

It could be and it could not be. We won't really know until we try.

New comment by entropicgravity in "A disk so full, it couldn't be restored"

entropicgravity — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:13:29 +0000

I ran into a similar situation not long ago on the system partition of a linux installation. The partition was too small to begin with and as new updates piled up there was almost no space left to start deleting stuff. It took me about half an hour to find a subdirectory with a tiny bit of stuff that could be deleted. It was like being in a room so plugged up with junk that you couldn't open the (inward swinging) door to let yourself out.

From the tiny beginning I started being able to delete bigger and bigger spaces until finally it was clear and then of course I resized the partition so that wouldn't happen again. The End.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Too many labs run like this"

entropicgravity — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 15:29:58 +0000

Fake it 'til you make it.

New comment by entropicgravity in "Hay for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study"

entropicgravity — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:12:12 +0000

That's good news because soon enough all beef will be grown in the lab and the river water can be used for something more useful.