mark3748

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[–] mark3748 5 points 2 months ago

Winget is built-in, doesn’t require an elevated command prompt, and will actually update stuff installed from outside of winget if you want.

I use chocolatey for some kubernetes tools (fluxCD and helm) because they get updated a little bit faster (like a day or less) but it’s pretty much been made obsolete for my use.

That being said, if my job didn’t require me to use windows, I’d probably just use NixOS full time.

[–] mark3748 4 points 2 months ago
[–] mark3748 21 points 2 months ago (20 children)

Why is port 22 open? Is this on your router as well or just the server?

This is SSH, which you should pretty much never have open (to the internet! Local is fine) MC is by default 25565. You will have every bot on the internet probing that port.

[–] mark3748 4 points 2 months ago

Yep, there’s a hall-effect sensor in there. My watch band does the same thing to several laptops. Pretty annoying but not really a problem.

[–] mark3748 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, it’s spelled with an ö, not an ő. They aren’t even from the same language. The double accent is Hungarian.

[–] mark3748 11 points 2 months ago

The Idaho researchers observed that reversing the intrinsic angular momentum, or “spin,” of thorium-229’s outermost neutron seemed to take 10,000 times less energy than a typical nuclear excitation. The neutron’s altered spin slightly changes both the electromagnetic and strong forces, but those changes happen to cancel each other out almost exactly. Consequently, the excited nuclear state barely differs from the ground state. Lots of nuclei have similar spin transitions, but only in thorium-229 is this cancellation so nearly perfect.

Basically, thorium-229 can be excited by conventional lasers instead of gamma rays. Instead of millions of electron volts, it takes less than 10, which means it’s more reliable and more precise.

[–] mark3748 3 points 2 months ago

You're saying that data centers are replacing batteries constantly...just imagine the labor costs on that (and the down time), not even considering the material cost.

I’m the tech doing the battery replacements. The big boy UPSes are typically a 3-5 year replacement cycle. Something like this:

(I just picked the last one on my phone so not a great picture, they’re about the size of a small refrigerator)

On rack mount and desktop style UPSes 18-36 months isn’t unreasonable. Some of the smaller UPSes, like APC 750s, go through batteries even faster. My personal theory is that they just get and stay too hot.

There is typically zero downtime while servicing any of them, every critical system has redundant power supply and battery replacements usually don’t interrupt power output anyway. It would take multiple failures to cause any sort of significant downtime, and if it would, we just do them during scheduled downtime.

[–] mark3748 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You made a post in an open, public forum and you’re confused why others would like to discuss the things that you posted?

[–] mark3748 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is false. Ben Franklin was nearly 70 in 1776. Only a handful were even below 20, let alone early 20s.

[–] mark3748 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I put it on at 7 am, it’s 12:19am now and I’m at 37%

And I’m still at work… fml

[–] mark3748 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I’ve worn my Series 4 every day since September 21, 2018. My son is still using the Series 3 I gifted him the same day. I bought that one September 22, 2017. I don’t baby my watch in any way

Thought about an upgrade a few times, but haven’t had a compelling reason to do so

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