browsers did vertical tabs in the 90s and it flopped

There are extensions for that. Which are worse than they used to be because they didn’t provide APIs enabling to do that properly, about 10 fucking years after they dropped the old APIs. There are a lot of other feature requests from back then open, often even filed years before they went through with dropping the old APIs. The best way of doing custom keyboard shortcuts in Firefox is still injecting Javascript into each page, with all the shortcomings this has. Usability of Firefox is way worse nowadays than what it was 10 years ago - and I do understand (and agree) with the decision to dump the legacy APIs, but you can’t just break functionality lots of people use, and not provide APIs in over a decade to fix that.

I’m trying other browsers now and then, but every single one is a dumpster fire. At least the Firefox dumpster fire is a bit less out of control - but that’s the most positive thing I can say about it nowadays.

Dazu habe ich zumindest schon mal die Meinung gehört, dass das finnische Endlager von der Herangehensweise her veraltet sei und die Schweiz ein moderneres Endlager plane. Sicher ist nur, dass Dland bei dem Thema bisher komplett versagt hat.

Hast du da mehr Infos? Hab da auf die schnelle nichts gefunden - und der Zyniker in mir wuerde das dann als “na, wir bekommen das auch mit weniger Aufwand als die Finnen hin” lesen.

Auch da weiß ich nicht so recht. Olkiluoto-3 scheint durchaus immer noch Probleme zu haben und EDF als Bauherrin scheint mir ein Pulverfass zu sein.

Die Aufsicht scheint hier etwas besser zu funktionieren als in Deutschland. Hab aber gerade keine Quellen mehr greifbar.

Die eh-da-Kosten (Mitarbeitys, Wartung, Abschriebung, …) können an der Stelle nicht durch Gewinne wettgemacht werden. Ansonsten ist es halt das ewige Problem: “Mein, dein, das sind doch bürgerliche Kategorien.” Unternehmys haben den Anspruch, mit ihrer Investition Gewinne zu machen. Die wichtige Frage ist die nach dem gesamtgesellschaftlichen Nutzen.

Die laufenden Kosten bei so einem Wasserkraftwerk duerften sicher zu den geringeren bei einem flexibel zuschaltbaren Kraftwerk liegen, und bieten sich daher an, egal wie man das jetzt dann finanziert. Was aber eben nicht akzeptabel ist ist dass man das jetzt runterfahren muss weil Strom aus Norddeutschland kommt den eigentlich auch Sueddeutschland (oder evtl. auch Suedeuropa) gerne abnehmen wuerde - aber nicht kann weil es innerhalb von Deutschland keine Leitungen gibt.

Hier von Finnland aus stimme ich zu dass das Kabel aktuell besser nicht gebaut wird - aber das wars auch schon wo ich mit dem Autor einer Meinung bin.

Atomkraft neu bauen macht keinen Sinn mehr. Haben wir in Finnland gemacht, war sauteuer, und ewig verzoegert, und die laufenden Kosten sind zu hoch. Wir haben Endlagerung hinbekommen - in Deutschland wurde das massiv verkackt. Mit diversem anderen Zeug was da schief gegangen ist bin ich durchaus froh dass Deutschland keine Atomkraftwerke mehr betreibt (und habe wenig Bedenken mit denen in Finnland - nur dass es eben keinen Sinn macht neue zu bauen).

Der Autor stellt korrekt fest dass eines unserer Probleme schnell zuschaltbare Erzeuger sind um Solar/Wind auszugleichen. Die Wasserkraftwerke bei denen er bedauert dass da Wasser ablaeuft (das “ihr Wasser” zu nennen ist Bloedsinn - die sind im Fluss gebaut. Die Formulierung suggeriert dass dadurch Kosten entstehen) waeren dafuer gut geeignet.

Auch nuetzlich waeren gut verteilte Windkraftanlagen damit man nicht das Problem “hier in der Gegend ist gerade Windstill, aber wir haben unseren einen grossen Windpark genau hier” nicht so stark hat. Und da kommen wir jetzt dazu wieso ich das Kabel auch nicht will: Die Blockiererei gegen Nord-Sued-Stromtrassen innerhalb von Deutschland, und der NIMBYism gegenueber Windkraftanlagen gerade im Sueden ist nicht akzeptabel, und traegt zu dem Problem bei. Wenn Deutschland die Leitungskapazitaeten gebaut hat dass wir nicht nur Norddeutschland kompensieren, sondern auch ueber Deutschland nach Zentraleuropa leiten koennen (oder umgekehrt), dann konnen wir wieder darueber reden. Ohne das importieren wir hier oben nur die teuren Strompreise.

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)

I personally prefer bzip2 - but it needs to be packed with pbzip, not the regular bzip to generate archives that can be extracted on multiple cores. Not a good option if you have to think about Windows users, though.

Nowadays it matters if you use a compression algorithm that can utilize multiple cores for packing/unpacking larger data. For a multiple GB archive that can be the difference between “I’ll grab a coffee until this is ready” or “I’ll go for lunch and hope it is done when I come back”

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not just that - intel did dual core CPUs as a response to AMD doing just that, by gluing two cores together. Which is pretty funny when you look at intels 2017 campaign of discrediting ryzen by calling it a glued together CPU.

AMDs Opteron was wiping the floor with intel stuff for years - but not every vendor offered systems as they got paid off by intel. I remember helping a friend with building a kernel for one of the first available Opteron setups - that thing was impressive.

And then there’s the whole 64bit thing which intel eventually had to license from AMD.

Most of the big CPU innovations (at least in x86 space) of the last decade were by AMD - and the chiplet design of ryzen is just another one.