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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Take numbers with a grain of salt, e.g., this link says a 7200RPM 160GB SATA drive from 2004 is $107, or about $0.67/GB, instead of the $5 claimed in post.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not at all in this case though! Or rather, it depends on your perspective.

"Why doesn't electricity leak out the outlet?" is a good question, if you know nothing about electricity.

"Why doesn't electricity leak out the outlet?" is a little stupid, if you know a little about electricity.

"Why doesn't electricity leak out the outlet?" is a great question if you know a bit more about electricity (because it does leak out, it's just that 50/60Hz doesn't couple to freespace well unless you have a colossal antenna).

As to this question, light in moving media: https://preprints.opticaopen.org/articles/preprint/Fizeau_Experiment_Investigating_the_Speed_of_Light_in_Moving_Media/25441108?file=45147313

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 88 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It's a matter of perspective and use


high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.

I'd much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

50kW class laser.

Another source claims 1um wavelength with individual 1.5kW lasers in a hex pattern


unclear if it's a phased array (would be awesome) or just trained on the same target (source mentions they are "combined using a mirror" so probably the latter).

Sounds like maybe high power YAG?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 5 days ago

It's maybe not that bad for a "normal" person, but Bill Nye was a real hero to a lot of young folks, be they aspiring STEM types, science enthusiasts, or just curious people. So to see him sell out


abandoning scientific integrity for a quick buck


was pretty disheartening.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 6 days ago

You can!

Getting it published is another matter though...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 6 days ago

Immich looks particularly good to me.

It is! Been running it for a few years now and I love it.

The local ML and face detection are awesome, and not too resource intensive


i think it took less than a day to go through maybe 20k+ photos and 1k+ videos, and that was on an N100 NUC (16GB).

Works seamlessly across my iPhone, my android, and desktop.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

...using chopsticks of course, so you don't get your mechanical keyboard dirty.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 1 week ago

Maybe they mean four year uptime...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Exactly


this is ~10GB every 6 hours (which is probably a reasonable amount of time to run a backup while not interfering with active Internet use).

Basically the only backup-worthy content I generate is casual photos and videos, and these are nowhere near that size (Immich database backups also take up a bit but I could certainly be smarter about how I handle these backups).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I would additionally like to see fines be in units of revenue


$50M means wildly different things to different organizations.

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