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penguin42, 4 days ago to random

I think I just found a #define unused in the Xserver since ~1996.

rmattila74, 6 days ago to random

The world needs nuclear energy but can't have it unless it is safe. Making sure it's safe is what keeps me going on. Not just for my current employer but anywhere where atoms are split. Always ready to share my thoughts about a design.

suihkulokki, 13 days ago to random

Some code stopped working after mayday and started working today again. Turns out there exists strptime() implemention that ignores the "leading zeroes are permitted but not required" in %d identifier for day of month...

Maybe tonight, a real Carrington event will come and fry all these bugs off the computers.

azonenberg, 1 month ago to random

After a very windy afternoon Puget Sound Energy is now tracking 140 separate outages across the region affecting roughly 22.1K buildings.

Lab is operating on generator power and some equipment shut down when a loose UPS EBM cable resulted in running out of battery before the generator started.

So much for a nice relaxing weekend. Guess it's an excuse to do some hardware maintenance I had been putting off trying to avoid downtime.

bagder, 1 month ago to random

This box landed on my doorstep. The #curl up 2024 preparations continue!

kravietz, 1 month ago to Ukraine

The EU vs #Ukraine grain debate hosts one category of participants who are just as destructive as they are tragicomically detached from reality - I call them “big farm libertarians”. Here’s one example, Alex Lissitsa, head of the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club:

Protectionism won’t save the EU’s agricultural sector, Lissitsa said. “Polish farmers are too small to be real players in the global grain market, where they have to compete with countries like Ukraine, Brazil or Russia,” he said. They’d be better off specializing in the production of flowers, fruits or vegetables, he added. “Or even marijuana.”

Every his single statement quoted here displays not only an utter arrogance but also complete misunderstanding of EU Common Agricultural Policy goals and operation. Protectionism on the EU farming market is not an obstacle, it’s an entirely intentional mechanism that prevents dog-eat-dog competition between EU member states and, most importantly, keeps the farming industry in house, thus securing a critical supply chain - food - inside EU. And it’s not only EU who’s doing it - Switzerland has one of them most protectionist farming industries in the world and Russia has just laboriously rebuilt it farming industry over the last decade to remove the strategic dependence on imports… from EU.

https://www.politico.eu/article/farm-trade-ukraine-poland-european-union-agriculture-donald-tusk/

juliank, 1 month ago to random

60 day HRV analysis. You can clearly see the 64-bit time_t migration effort totally tanking my HRV, but not sure what's going on with the easter weekend and this week.

pid_eins, 1 month ago to random

PSA: In context of the xzpocalypse we now added an example reimplementation of sd_notify() to our man page:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/sd_notify.html#Notes

It's pretty comprehensive (i.e. uses it for reload notification too), but still relatively short.

In the past, I have been telling anyone who wanted to listen that if all you want is sd_notify() then don't bother linking to libsystemd, since the protocol is stable and should be considered the API, not our C wrapper around it. After all, the protocol is so trivial

suihkulokki, 2 months ago to random

I must not reply. Stupid comments are the mind-killer. Incorrect takes are the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the comment. I will permit it pass over and through me. And when the comment has been scrolled past, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

jon, 2 months ago to random

400 documents and 300 annexes to allow Lithuania's LTG Cargo to run a freight train through Latvia to Valga, the first station in Estonia https://www.railwaygazette.com/freight/lithuanian-rail-operator-pilots-competitive-green-logistics-in-the-three-baltic-states/65990.article

And given these are 120km/h diesel lines, and all have similar technical standards... 🤦‍♂️

suihkulokki, 3 months ago to random

The latest spam wave should make it clear to everyone that federation here is fundamentally opt-out.

suihkulokki, 4 months ago to random

Fuck it's again the year when social media gets overloaded with minutiae of an upcoming election. Please spare a CW or hashtag for us foreigners filter on 🙏

jon, 4 months ago to random

Why are people writing about railways so often incapable of sorting out the basics?

Tornio 🇫🇮 - Haparanda 🇸🇪

Is the infra ready?
we don't know exactly when it will be ready

Where is the infra missing?
electrification is missing, Finnish side, oh and the bridge between Tornio and Haparanda might need work

Only then should we talk about what services, if any, could run

#CrossBorderRail

https://www.lok-report.de/news/europa/item/46831-finnland-schweden-reiseverkehr-lulea-helsinki-koennte-noch-dieses-jahr-starten.html

suihkulokki, 4 months ago to random

I'm not really into supporting either side in the "copyright maximalists" vs "machine learning techbros" lawsuits.

If techbros win, copyright becomes largely irrelevant. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. But that means trade secrets become incredibly valuable. If you keep you ML model secret, you can milk the the rest of the world with API fees.

kevinrothrock, 4 months ago to random

Something I think few of my compatriots appreciate is how Russian FP analysts view the USA through a prism that Americans assume works only for Moscow. In this article, Alexander Yakovenko calls the USA an ideological revisionist driven by legal nihilism & criminal-world rules

https://rg.ru/2023/12/25/aleksandr-iakovenko-svo-priblizhaet-diplomatiiu.html

It is, admittedly, a bananas text. At one point, he says the West unleashed a proxy Ukrainian “blitzkrieg” to impose something like the 1919 Treaty of Versailles on Moscow (chronology??), before calling fascism/Nazism the West’s “collective project” to take out the USSR.

jon, 4 months ago to random

Agh damn it. Why when you read pretty much anything about international rail from a major news outlet is it so poor?

This isn’t wrong as such. It’s just superficial bla bla

suihkulokki, 4 months ago to gaming

Just finished a small indie game, A short hike. Throughout enjoyable and relaxing experience - perfect for holiday idle time.

https://adamgryu.itch.io/a-short-hike

#gaming #ashorthike

suihkulokki, 4 months ago to privacy

Walmart reports their customers on ozempic buy less food and Junk food stocks get hit. Nobodys asking why it's ok a grocery store knows what drugs their customers are on. #privacy

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/glp1-weight-loss-drugs-ozempic-walmart-stock-costco-cocacola-pepsico-2023-10

penguin42, 4 months ago to random

Does the grid get noticeably less overnight car charging on big holidays when lots of people are away at family who might not have charge points/overnight tariffs?

suihkulokki, 5 months ago to demoscene

I was today years old when I realized second reality's music was ripoff from KLF "what time is love"

#demoscene #klf

https://youtu.be/UIbYM1ecT2I?si=oJ9TJbYh4WnQW3tm

kravietz, 5 months ago to Russia

#Russia poll results among 14-35 years olds about what values are important for them. The least chosen:

• "restoration of national traditions and traditional values" was indicated by 11%
• "democratic reforms" — 10%

The most chosen values:

• "social justice" — 34%
• "fighting corruption" — 33%
• "constitutional protection of human rights" — 33%

In terms of political priorities, the most chosen were:

• "Russia should become one of the most economically developed countries" — 47%
• "Russia should not aspire for global goals" — 31%
• "Russia should return superpower status, as in USSR times" — 13%

Notably, the last one is chosen by 35% in the age group 55-65.

68% of the younger age group declares they're not ready for sacrifice for the sake of "strengthening Russia's power".

Source: https://www.rbc.ru/economics/05/12/2023/656...

osma, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random Finnish

Niissä talouksissa ja kiinteistössä, missä on onnistuttu toteuttamaan sähkön hintaan reagoiva lämmitysjärjestelmä kuten Fingrid on toivonut, kuluttajan ei tarvitse tehdä yhtään mitään - järjestelmä tulee vähentämään sähkön käyttöä klo 15 asti ja sen jälkeen kytkemään kaiken varaavan kapasiteetin täydelle teholle täysin automaattisesti.

Ja Fingrid, paikalliset verkkoyhtiöt sekä tuotantolaitokset tulevat olemaan helisemässä.
#sähkönhinta #energia