SomeoneSomewhere

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[–] SomeoneSomewhere 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

As a person in neither Georgia nor Georgia (nor the US at all), I agree that it seems like an easy mistake to make.

But for anyone in Georgia or a neighboring state, it seems like something that should be pretty well known. Especially if you work in marketing.

I'd normally expect these kinds of ads to be produced by the local party branch but this suggests that either the local Georgians don't know there's another Georgia, or the ads came straight out of the national HQ or Moscow.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tumbleweed, at least per marketing spiel, is rapidly updated like a rolling release distro,(e.g. Arch) but has good testing and stability like a conventional fixed release distro.

It's not quite lived up to that fully for me, but I'm pretty sure the times it's broken have mostly been my fault.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Any hard drive can fail at any time with or without warning. Worrying too much about individual drive families' reliability isn't worth it if you're dealing with few drives. Worry instead about backups and recovery plans in case it does happen.

Bigger drives have significantly lower power usage per TB, and cost per TB is lowest around 12-16TB. Bigger drives also lets you fit more storage in a given box. Drives 12TB and up are all currently helium filled which run significantly cooler.

Two preferred options in the data hoarder communities are shucking (external drives are cheaper than internal, so remove the case) and buying refurb or grey market drives from vendors like Server Supply or Water Panther. In both cases, the savings are usually big enough that you can simply buy an extra drive to make up for any loss of warranty.

Under US$15/TB is typically a 'good' price.

For media serving and deep storage, HDDs are still fine and cheap. For general file storage, consider SSDs to improve IOPS.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't remember if they fully closed the loopholes, but there are inputs that programs cannot catch unless you actually replace the OS.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 1 points 2 months ago

Livestock aren't an efficient use of land in the first place, and you can absolutely graze around turbines, at least according to this: https://www.windenergy.org.nz/resources/for-developers-and-landowners/how-to-host-a-windfarm

It appears there are even advantages to crop farming under turbines: https://agupdate.com/agriview/news/crop/wind-farms-impact-crops/article_bb057e6c-e58b-5990-b4d5-62640803121f.html

Obviously can't do any aerial crop dusting around turbines.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 84 points 2 months ago

You don't normally need to specify that the sides are parallel if you specify four right angles.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 4 points 2 months ago

It looks like the WLTP range is about ¾ the Chinese range on these vehicles. Assume a faster highway speed and you've basically got the difference.

It's 30% lighter than a model 3, not a third. Still ~1200kg.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Here in NZ they do a factory reset on your calculator at the start of every exam.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 41 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Exercising eminent domain can mean a long and expensive legal and media process. I'm not sure about Texas (or the rest of the US, for that matter), but many projects in the first world do everything possible to avoid using it.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. But my point is that the IRS has a process for declaring and paying tax on income that you got illegally, whether it's from being a mobster or working without the right visa.

Capone didn't follow that process, so got done for tax evasion.

These illegal immigrants are paying their taxes, and therefore a) they aren't exposed to prosecution for tax evasion, and b) the IRS won't rat them out to ICE.

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 2 points 2 months ago

In a follow-up statement this afternoon, Potaka clarified that, in keeping with the Government’s policy, he’s changed his name to Tim Pawlenty.

*A current version of this story incorrectly referred to Tim Pawlenty as “Tama Potaka”

[–] SomeoneSomewhere 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, satire 'news' site, hence being posted to The Onion.

As with all good satire, there's a very tiny kernel of truth at the bottom of it.

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