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New comment by philjohn in "Linux 7.3"

philjohn — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:19:43 +0000

Correct. TrueNAS uses Samba, which has supported this for a while. On TrueNAS it also creates a ZFS snapshot after a successful TimeMachine backup which is really nice for the times MacOS decides to corrupt a TimeMachine volume for no apparent reason.

New comment by philjohn in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

philjohn — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:37:24 +0000

And domestic providers like Octopus are also incentivising voluntary reduction (e.g. during saving sessions, which were National Grid experiments), or consumption when there is a glut of renewables with free energy, so if people want to save money they CAN load shift.

And with more and more houses installing solar and battery, opting into shoring up the grid for a decent uplift in standard export rates would be of interest to many.

New comment by philjohn in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

philjohn — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:38:20 +0000

Indeed - we don't know all of the mechanisms of Tylenol, yet we know it works, and is safe when taken as directed.

New comment by philjohn in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"

philjohn — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:36:06 +0000

Especially as it has planning permission for two dwellings - a 5 bed house where the pool currently is, and a three bed house where the workshop is located.

New comment by philjohn in "House with 15m underground tunnels for sale for 300k"

philjohn — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:33:47 +0000

New comment by philjohn in "Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?"

philjohn — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:28:05 +0000

It's more likely they wanted to buy something that isn't able to be purchased with food stamps. Probably alcohol. Or smokes. Something to let them journey to oblivion and blot out their reality.

New comment by philjohn in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

philjohn — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:57:57 +0000

Except Intel has Fab 34 in Ireland which would say it's not borderline impossible.

New comment by philjohn in "Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard"

philjohn — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:07:03 +0000

temu sans is beautifully on point

New comment by philjohn in "Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station"

philjohn — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:05:26 +0000

And the general store also has bottles of wine costing 10-30 a bottle. I did always chuckle at the bottles of 1972 Petrus in the "fancy wine" section.

New comment by philjohn in "Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station"

philjohn — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 08:03:43 +0000

I'd have to push back on that somewhat. When I worked there I saw all sorts of people emerging from the flats around the power station. Young familes, young professionals, none of them appeared "wealth obsessed".

In fact, looking at rents on RightMove, it's not out of whack with typical rents for a nice area of London.

Let us not forget this area of London (Nine Elms) was previously a pretty grotty industrial wasteland that you tended not to go to, and the power station itself was at risk of collapse.

New comment by philjohn in "JetKVM Mini"

philjohn — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:20:49 +0000

I have two and one stopped working, but they were great and sent me a replacement motherboard and a toolkit to swap it over. Did you try reaching out to them?

New comment by philjohn in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

philjohn — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:16:21 +0000

haha, yes, was typing too fast! MWh indeed.

New comment by philjohn in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

philjohn — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:56:18 +0000

I bought 32 and wished I got another 6 for the south west aspect of the house ... but still, producing 11mWh a year in the UK on an east/west aspect, electricity bill for the year (even with all cars in the household being EV's) is negative. Battery makes the difference - load shifting is doing the heavy lifting in the winter.

New comment by philjohn in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

philjohn — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:37:31 +0000

Also this is why I like dark mode in everything. They're much less noticeable.

New comment by philjohn in "Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off"

philjohn — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:46:12 +0000

also jet engine

discovered penicillin

New comment by philjohn in "Most countries provide between 20 and 40 paid days off"

philjohn — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:35:20 +0000

Also post war Europe had to rebuild, the US didn't - and lots of scientists headed west.

New comment by philjohn in "Dates That Don't Exist (2015)"

philjohn — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:34:13 +0000

Library and Archival management systems

Lots of written work pre 1582 that needs to be accurately catalogued.

Source: I used to work on one of the first computerised library management software systems, and plenty of our academic customers had manuscripts dating back that far.

New comment by philjohn in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

philjohn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:21:09 +0000

Yep - it's a game changer on the Pendolino trains I get to work as they tilt going around corners. Most people seem to be fine, but for me, it was impossible to get some work done on my commute until vehicle motion cues were a thing and I got > M2 MBP for work.

New comment by philjohn in "Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API"

philjohn — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:07:19 +0000

I thought Mythos was rumored to be around 10tn parameters? Kimi k3 is 2.8tn.

New comment by philjohn in "Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach"

philjohn — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:26:25 +0000

Her youtube shorts are also good bite-sized explainers. The one on why "ghost" traffic jams occur was illuminating.