BrightCandle

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[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 47 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The potential problem here is that the mouse model is based on the Amyloid theory of the disease, which this year was largely determined to be wrong after a series of major frauds were found in the research implicating Amyloid. This drug might still work since it seems to act on other aspects of the condition in the bloodwork but there is every chance this doesn't work in practice.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

They are talking hectares in this and it looks like the power density is below that of batteries, but its also cheaper per MWh.

I home long term battery makes a lot of sense, I have thought for a while something that goes from water and the air into methane or even liquid fuel would be highly beneficial as it could run from a generators through the winter and act for long term storage without requiring a turbine.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Because they weren't invented in 1925? Any durability testing you do today is about assumptions where you accelerate the process for a year by heating it or exposing it to water or whatever will degrade it most to some factor above normal and then extrapolate. That extrapolation was wildly wrong with CDs and it could be with this medium too. Or it might last a lot longer. What they have not done is written to a bunch of them and stored them in a variety of ways for 100 years and concluded they last that long.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

The only detail really is that at least 2 of the N machines you are using have to be on at the time so where ever a change was made is synced to another machine that is on and this continues so that you never end up booting a machine to use when nothing else with the latest files is available. This is where having a centralised low power machine is valuable and saves having a desktop or a laptop on when it doesn't need to be.

I really wish the desktop version of the world had not become so marginalised as local programs are considerably better to use than websites, they are so much quicker, accessible and easier to use.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

They haven't completed their genocide yet, its going to continue until every last Palestinian is dead.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Making desktop applications has become a nightmare in anything but C or C# and that isn't exactly a language people really want to be programming in these days. That is a big part of the problem there aren't good GUI bindings for a lot of languages and most programmers nowadays have been building websites and working with GUI APIs is a huge step back.

Everyone is preferring server/web solutions now as its easier to charge customers for it and keep it up to date and the knock on consequence is desktop app support isn't great or considered important.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

The outbreaks started under Biden. Vaccination and countering viral spread in general has been undermined by successive governments around the globe to get people back to work despite Covid still causing damage to a lot of people, including deaths, and the main causality has been public health.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is where this all needs to go, swappable standard batteries like the 18650s being used and recharged in the device and replaced when the inevitable happens and they stop storing much charge. Batteries are consumable currently and devices without swappable ones are designed to fail within a few years.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The disaster is definitely going to be the thing that happens, because we have failed to act sufficiently for 50 years. There is no interest in most countries to do what is necessary at this point. Disaster is coming and sooner because climate change is accelerating every year.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I use a ZeroWater filter to get down to 0 Total Dissolved Solids and then third wave packets to reintroduce good minerals for coffee. Its still the case for me that this is cheaper than trying to buy distilled water or using distillation. Reverse osmosis is probably cheaper overall but a lot more initial outlay and it depends on how much water you need.

Brita and other similar small filters do a poor job of removing total dissolved solids (for me its the difference between 260 and 245 which is almost none removed) so they don't change the situation for coffee extraction all that much

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

On the one hand they were talking selfhosting and then they pull out multiple $10s thousands rack servers. People don't need a data centre at home to sync some files, pictures, email and play some media!

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The primary smart parameters are passing but its a bit concerning that such a young drive is showing read error count, that isn't a good sign even if its within the makers tolerance. What failed was just the long test you requested.

Its not uncommon for drives to fail in weird ways and the smart shows as fine. When you come across problems like a long test failing or occasional checksum problems on your raid array or a read error its a better indicator that something is wrong. Presumably something made you think you better run a long test, and then it failed. I would say Contact reseller for warranty replacement you have enough to go on showing there is something going wrong on the drive, long tests should not be failing on a healthy device.

 

The open source project I stumbled upon that allows you to run Android apps on PC is Waydroid....it takes a container-based approach to running a full Android system directly on Linux

Alas given how it works it only works on Linux.

 

A good guide on initial server setup for users, ssh hardening and firewall settings. Not just useful for VPS it is basically the same steps on a home linux install too.

 

It looks the majority of makers aren't going to pass Intel's extended warranty on. That is a real problem given they have now knowingly sold a faulty product by design.

 

The first of very many legal cases that will pop up across the globe all because Intel wont do the right thing and recall these faulty processors.

 

This is a great look at a number of games over time from launch to months after launch benchmarking the patch releases as well as drivers. The end conclusion is the day 1 drivers that Nvidia/AMD/Intel produce are worth having and they improve performance and fix bugs but later drivers don't show as helping and the performance changes after that point are attributable to the game updates.

What is wild is Baldur's Gate loosing a tonne of performance in a patch and has never recover its prior performance and it can't utilise the GPU at all well now but there are other games showing not just increases but degradation of performance as well.

 

Task Manager of prototype Intel CPU shows Core and Logical processor count are the same at 8.

This is still a relatively low end chip if its just 8 cores and a 13500 has 6 + 8 = 14 total so this is maybe a laptop processor. Hyperthreading probably doesn't make sense anymore.

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