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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Speaking as someone who has to use Google Cloud Platform most days; they also do some horrific stuff, and their documentation and support are miles behind the AWS and Azure equivalents. And having worse documentation than Azure is quite the achievement.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Remove the update manager? Remove the bootloader and all kernels if you want to - you might if you're preparing a container image, it won't stop you. Remove glibc and init? Fine, if that's what you want - might have no need for those if you're prepping it up for embedded.

The price of having a computer that does exactly what it's told is that you have to know what to tell it. But that's well worth while.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah - pure functions and immutable data aren't always the right answer, but appreciating that they're damn good most of the time is a good first step. Writing obvious code that does exactly what it appears to do at first glance and not one thing more? Your colleagues will thank you when they have to work with your stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The execution of those pictures looks really good - being that good at painting all of skin, fabric, and nature is a rare skill. Subject matter when selling a house, though? Less so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The corona is indeed super hot, but also quite tenuous in comparison to the rest of the sun. The photosphere is only about 5500 °C. If our solar panels were made of diamond they would have melted at 3500, but it's not impossible to imagine a solar panel that could be positioned 'quite' close to the sun's surface - would just need to be made from some quite fancy materials.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That number didn't really seem enough to me. However, the solar luminosity is about 3.8×10^26 watts and the surface area about 6.1×10^18 m2, ie. 62.3 MW / m2. 8760 hours in a year times 62300 kW equals 545 million kW/h, at twenty percent efficiency times twenty cents each is $21.8 M/a.

The sun might seem to be really, really hot; but in fact, it is just quite hot and really, really big.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Javascript might be the most widely-used scripting language in use today, due to its browser dominance. Most popular would imply that it's not completely despised by everyone that has to use it, which is misleading. Even TypeScript tutorials are about 50% 'you have to understand what Javascript does wrong here'.

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