The problem with renewables is the fluctuation. So you need something you can quickly spin up or down to compensate. Now you can do that with nuclear reactors to some extent - but they barely break even at current energy prices, and they keep having the same high cost while idle.

So a combination of grid storage and power plants with low cost when idle (like water) is the way to go now.

Airplanes. Plural.

Did pretty much the same with a new server recently - spent ages debugging why it didn’t find the SAS disks. Turns out, disks like to have power connected, and no amount of debugging on software level will help you.

You still had a 4GB memory limit for processes, as well as a total memory limit of 64GB. Especially the first one was a problem for Java apps before AMD introduced 64bit extensions and a reason to use Sun servers for that.

I was referring to work setups with the overengineering - if I had a cent for every time I had to argue with somebody at work to not make things more complex than we actually need I’d have retired a long time ago.

Unless you are gunning for a job in infrastructure you don’t need to go into kubernetes or terraform or anything like that,

Even then knowing when not to use k8s or similar things is often more valuable than having deep knowledge of those - a lot of stuff where I see k8s or similar stuff used doesn’t have the uptime requirements to warrant the complexity. If I have something that just should be up during working hours, and have reliable monitoring plus the ability to re-deploy it via ansible within 10 minutes if it goes poof maybe putting a few additional layers that can blow up in between isn’t the best idea.

Everything is deployed via ansible - including nameservices. So I already have the description of my infra in ansible, and rest is just a matter of writing scripts to pull it in a more readable form, and maybe add a few comment labels that also get extracted for easily forgettable admin URLs.

Shitty companies did it like that back then - and shitty companies still don’t properly utilize what easy tools they have available for controlled deployment nowayads. So nothing really changed, just that the amount of people (and with that, amount of morons) skyrocketed.

I had automated builds out of CVS with deployment to staging, and option to deploy to production after tests over 15 years ago.

Meanwhile over in Europe - went to the doctor in spring as a cough didn’t go away for ages. As suspected nothing he could do much - irritated throat, and just at the time when cold season was giving way for allergy season. So he prescribed some nose spray - and asked if he should also add some antihistamine to the prescription to save me a few eur (didn’t check, but it probably is single digits. That stuff is cheap)

Nein, die riechen nach Pippi.

Wo bekommst du Lammfleisch? Ich finde immer nur Rind oder Huhn - wobei beim letzten Deutschlandbesuch Huehnchen ein groesseres Problem war. Der dritte Laden der es nicht hatte hat uns zu einem geschickt der das auf dem Grill macht und von Hand zerkleinert, und daher immer da hat. Und Rind ist inzwischen meistens nur noch das Hackfleisch.

As a non-Windows-user I see that as a good thing. LLMs are not going away - but that kind of nonsense at least will make sure all PCs will eventually have cheap and reasonably fast AI acceleration. Which is required for killing off centrally hosted LLMs (plus nvidias cash grabbing)

Currently my mk4 is printing pretty much 24/7 with IS profiles. I’m applying some lubricant roughly once per week - sometimes I notice the printer starts making strange noises, mostly I notice when rods have zero residue between prints, and just add a bit.

Das haengt sehr stark davon ab wo du dich bewirbst.

Ich bin seit 15 Jahren nicht mehr in Deutschland - in der Zeit davor hatte ich bei Bewerbungen aber grundsaetzlich keine Urkunden oder Zeugnisse beigelegt (und auch kein Bild). Ein paar wenige male wurde nach Zeugniskopien gefragt, bei allen meinen Anstellungen hat sich aber niemand dafuer interessiert.

Bei eingehenden Bewerbungen hatten wir eine gute Mischung aus Bewerbungen ohne Beilagen, und “kompletten” Bewerbungen - wobei wir dann meistens die Anlagen einfach ignoriert haben.

Es wird sicher genug Unternehmen (gerade auch ausserhalb von IT) geben die auf sowas wert legen - ich selber hab das fuer mich immer als Filter fuer Unternehmen gesehen bei denen ich eh nicht arbeiten will.

Intel is well known for requiring a new board for each new CPU generation, even if it is the same socket. AMD on the other hand is known to push stuff to its physical limits before they break compatibility.

Das wirst du ausprobieren muessen - ich habs bei Freunden fuer mich vor Jahren ausprobiert, ich komm damit nicht klar und bevorzuge klassische Tastaturen.

I nowadays manage my private stuff with the ansible scripts I develop for work - so mostly my own stuff is a development environment for work, and therefore doesn’t need to be done on private time.

Generally yes, but you still need hardware support (mostly kernel and mesa). They upstream - but generally you currently want packages built from their git for that.

Also the installer is very mac hardware specific.

One thing I like about bluesky is that your identity doesn’t have to be tied to an instance domain - you’d still have issues if you want to change is later, but if you plan ahead and use your domain you can just move it between instances.

A lot of the Zen based APUs don’t support ECC. The next thing is if it supports registered or unregistered modules - everything up to threadripper is unregistered (though I think some of the pro parts are registered), Epycs are registered.

That makes a huge difference in how much RAM you can add, and how much you pay for it.