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kta

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Scientist and software engineer (#python, #c, #rust, #linux, #freebsd, #kubernetes, #geospatial, #sql, #foss). I study the intersection of technology, climate change, economics, and agriculture. Stay hungry, stay foolish.

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cassidy, to Colorado
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White people in ski town: “Dear Native American, please come paint art about the struggle of native peoples.”

Lakota artist: Paints a piece referencing Palestine, with proceeds supporting the UN Crisis Relief Fund

White people in ski town: “Stay in your lane!” Revokes residency program

https://coloradosun.com/2024/05/10/danielle-seewalker-artist-residency-gaza-vail/

kta,
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@cassidy if anyplace in the world needed it's worldview on colonialism shaken by art, Vail Colorado would be it. Danielle SeeWalker did this with their art without even painting anything in the town. So, mission accomplished. Disappointed they lost the residency opportunity. But hopefully it opens up other opportunities.

[1] https://www.seewalker.com/

kta, to PostgreSQL
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In database land today. Thinking through striping and mirroring on . Klara Systems has unpacked a lot of this:

... This means two things: solid state and mirrors. SSD drives provide far lower latency than conventional drives possibly can. And mirrors provide far better random access performance than RAIDz can—particularly when we’re talking about small random access ops, which can’t be effectively spread across tons of disks in a wide striped vdev...

[1] https://klarasystems.com/articles/openzfs-storage-best-practices-and-use-cases-part-3-databases-and-vms/

kta,
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🤔 thinking of getting a 4 port HBA (sits on an 8x PCIe lane). Sticking an array of 4TB NVME drives on it. A pool with a 2-way mirror and a LOG vdev and backups on the 4th drive.

kta,
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Any pointers on ZFS for databases out in the wild? A favorite configuration to consider?

lobocode, to Catroventos
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I speak a few languages (and none of them well). Maybe one day, I don't know how soon, I'll speak well (verbally). I was extremely disappointed because I was invited by the Foundation for an informal interview, and... well, my English let me down again... it's just so sad. :revblobfoxdead:

kta,
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There is, actually.

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/112321980599041329

@feld @lobocode

kta, to Economics
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Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare

... We leverage spatial variation in the severity of the Great across the United States to examine impact on mortality and explore implications for the health consequences of recessions... an increase in the rate ... reduces average, annual age-adjusted mortality rate by 2.3 percent, with effects persisting for at least 10 years...

[1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w32110

tulpa, to random
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It would be funny if I switched away from after ordering a t-shirt and before it gets here.

kta,
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I had never encountered this. The closest I've seen Linux go towards BSD is . TBH, Chimera looks like the devil's play thing. "Why did you build this?" "Because -- llvm."

@RL_Dane @tulpa

kta,
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@RL_Dane @tulpa

;) Possibly. But in my mind, systemd IS modern Linux. If you're looking to flee systemd and gcc/gnu utilities (I was), just run a full BSD. If you can't part with linux for your dev work, run a Linux VM in bhyve.

kzimmermann, to firefox
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As much as I hate to admit it, might actually be lighter and faster than on Linux in the .

It can even run Office365+MS Teams on just over 3GB RAM total use.

(merit for that being of Debian for the efficience, not MS's)

kta,
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I'm rooting for FreeBSD on aarch64 on Ampere. The design is better suited for compute heavy workflows that I deal with.

https://mastodon.social/@jbzfn/111947416342275587

But still cheering for IOTs and RPIs. Minor annoyance: I wish that broadcom wireless interface would work on FreeBSD.

@kzimmermann @l13u7anant @tripplehelix

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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Everyday I have to prevent myself from getting on LinkedIn and railing against everyone for being a bootlicker but I'm not trying to totally sink my career.

kta,
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@BlackAzizAnansi LinkedIn has always felt like a Potempkin Village to me. The caliber of the fake buildings and people has improved a lot since Microsoft bought it.

realhackhistory, to random
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In eight short years we’ve gone from the Kremlin employing APT hackers to steal and leak data to shape and form talking points for the American rightwing media sphere, to members of that same group simply flying to Moscow to receive and air them straight from the source.

kta,
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@realhackhistory most of the interview was rambling about the history of and lamenting its diminished place in the world. This is apparently the fault of the west -- never the fault of authoritarianism or crony capitalism and corruption in Russia. Or it's expensive and pointless foreign wars. 🙄

To his credit, Carlson did push Putin on releasing a captive US journalist. Though why Republicans want to give a US audience to Putin is beyond me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/business/media/tucker-carlson-putin-evan-gershkovich.html

kta, to random
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The US implemented quantitative easing during the pandemic. We saw inflation spike, but our unemployment rate was quite low.

... Through the evaluation of the loose monetary policy adopted by China during Covid-19... in the period of economic crisis, adopting loose monetary policy is effective.... stimulating demand increasing total output value, and conducive to economic recovery... loose monetary policy lead to higher unemployment and higher price levels ..

https://drpress.org/ojs/index.php/HBEM/article/view/16489

kta,
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I feel like expanding the money supply in your economy through QE should always lead to lower unemployment and higher wages. Perhaps something else was going on in China that was causing unemployment increases during it's QE. Also, rising unemployment + inflation = stagflation. Not exactly an indicator of economic success.

kta,
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... China's statistics bureau published a 5.1 unemployment rate for December. Notably, that rate includes only city-dwellers who have registered as unemployed... China's statistics bureau said last month that unemployment in the 16-to 24-year-old age bracket was 14.9 percent in December—a high figure but a marked improvement over the 21.3 percent posted in June, the last month before the government stipulated a half-year moratorium on reporting...

https://www.newsweek.com/china-state-media-does-damage-control-over-stark-unemployment-figures-1868402

kta,
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... Although 40 years of reform and opening up have greatly improved the country's comprehensive strength and level of national income, as of today, the fact that we have a large population, few resources and very uneven development is still obvious, and a considerable number of residents are still close to the line...

https://www.newsweek.com/china-article-censorship-1-billion-people-monthly-income-2000-yuan-poverty-1856031

kta,
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Looming recession. Not stagflation.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPALTT01CNM659N

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petergleick, to random
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How intense was this atmospheric river storm?

Parts of central/southern California got 2/3 of their ANNUAL average rainfall over the past two days.

kta,
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"Perilous Bounty" has a chapter on the history of water use in California and touches on the state's history of experiencing catastrophic . Happen every ~100 years, normally. And the state is long overdue for one. increases the likelihood of these high flood events. They are important for groundwater recharge, but devastating for California's infrastructure, which is not built to handle flooding of this magnitude.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/perilous-bounty-9781635573138/

@petergleick

frameworkcomputer, (edited ) to FreeBSD
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News from the @FreeBSDFoundation

"A frequent request from the community and fan base is a curated list of laptops validated to run FreeBSD out of the box. To this end, we've recently begun discussions with one of our favorite laptop companies, Framework
Stay tuned!" (Edited out Puter from the bird site)

kta,
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Nice. Use FreeBSD on your Framework as your daily driver. Test the things that usually go hinky with laptops (wireless, touchpad, battery usage).

For the intel wireless, you'll use this newer driver in RELEASE and CURRENT : https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi . It could use a deep dive. A tremendous amount of work has gone into getting this intel wireless interface in working order by devs. It's been a priority with the foundation, too.

@codehead @frameworkcomputer @FreeBSDFoundation

kta, to climate
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... A national poll found a majority of Americans support Biden’s climate policies, including generating solar and wind energy on public lands (79 percent in favor), tax rebates for energy efficient vehicles or solar panels (74 percent), and funding for research into renewable energy (79 percent)...

... Democratic strategists, pollsters and analysts said the president needs to talk more often and with specificity about his climate policies...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/climate/biden-climate-campaign.html

governa, to vscode
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Drops Ubuntu 18.04 Support, Devs Feel "Screwed" :angrymsn:

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/02/vscode-drops-ubuntu-18-04-support-leaves-devs-screwed

kta,
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If you are willing to hack for a better developer ecosystem, please try . On , there are builds for flatpaks/snaps (or from source). On , there's a version of in ports that is pre-patched and relatively easy to work with. Some extensions, like remote dev environments and Notebooks, do not work (or only partially work) and require independent extensions. Consider contributing to these projects and use them, if you can.

@governa

kta, to random
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Unpacking "Wage increases = inflation"

...The weight of that evidence shows that (when the) minimum wage increases, they raise the wages of our lowest wage-workers, they reduce inequality, they reduce poverty, they reduce child poverty, they reduce gender wage gaps, they reduce racial wage gaps because Black and brown workers, due to the broad impacts of structural racism on our labor markets, are disproportionately concentrated in the lowest-wage jobs...

@epi

https://www.epi.org/blog/twenty-two-states-will-increase-their-minimum-wages-on-january-1-raising-pay-for-nearly-10-million-workers/

AstraKernel, to rust

Will this compile or not?

Source:
https://www.reddit.com/r/rustjerk/s/snEc8w5wnY

kta,
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@AstraKernel ... why would you want it to? 🤔

ai6yr, to cycling

Future cargo trailer hauling MTB... if I can get it back up to speed. But now it has shiny stickers (but no tires... yet... since the online retailer I purchased the new tires from apparently sends their packages by mule train).

Same mountain bike, still with rotted tires, but now has blindly yellow white and black reflective stickers

kta,
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@ai6yr Nice. The stickers class it up. Are you going to put a cargo back rack on it?

urlyman, to climate
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I’ve been intrigued by Aeromine bladeless wind turbine tech since I heard about them last year, but since their initial PR blast they have been frustratingly tight-lipped.

This 10-minute video from @mattferrell is by far the best overview I’ve found yet. It also covers the Powernest approach being trialled in the Netherlands

https://youtu.be/OkRqVBpO2BQ?si=uCnBiYquzAV_l8FC

kta,
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Boosting for visibility. Aeromine recently got a fresh round of series A funding. I'd never heard of the technology before, but want to stick an array of them on every warehouse in the central United States.

@urlyman @mattferrell

kta,
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@urlyman @mattferrell Yessir : https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2024/05/23/bladeless-wind-energy-innovation-aims-to-compete-with-rooftop-solar/

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