Posts by MatthewSt 377 posts • joined 12 Jun 2013
7kwh for home car charging (11-22kwh if you're lucky enough to have 3 phase). A lot of home chargers now support being remotely guided to charge during "green" times. No harm in PCs doing the same thing though. It's not always about renewable, but the supply and demand too.
Have a look at something like https://carbonintensity.org.uk/ for details
Back in my early days I was working on an application hosted on Windows on a Virtuozzo cluster (which was sort of containers before containers were a thing). We hit a bug that was resolved in the latest Service Pack of Windows so out of hours I started the update process on all 6 servers that made up the environment. When the first three restarted, they didn't come back.
Turns out Virtuozzo used some crazy single instance features (or something like that) where each server "ran on top of" and used the same code as the underlying host. By running the updates I completely hosed the environment. I was given a very stern talking to by my manager (but I gather not as stern as the talking to he got from his manager) but thankfully that was the worst of it.
What people seem to overlook in these kinds of scenarios is that if the person means well, they'll treat it as a lesson. They're not going to want to make the same mistake twice! You just have to work out what the intent was, and whether that person is capable of learning from it
Not sure why the article chose to highlight this tweet, but panic was the cause of a lot of problems. Supermarket shelves were emptier than they should have been because people were panic buying more than they needed
Disagree with a lot of things he said, but that's not really one of them
I've got one currently with Microsoft. We're using Azure CDN (to cache stuff) and it's throwin an error. They've done some diagnosing, and it turns out the error goes away if you disable caching (so it still queries the source for every request). When I asked what the next step was they said "I'm glad to hear it works, you can leave it configured like that"!
Technically they've fixed the problem, because there's no longer an error...
Have you checked https://www.plus.net/member-centre/broadband/firewall ?
Plusnet have a configurable (by you) firewall at _their side of the connection_ which you can use to block ports etc.
See https://www.plus.net/help/broadband/about-plusnets-broadband-firewall/ for details
Edit: Might not make a difference as it's supposedly inbound connections only, but still worth a shot
The problem with your numbers is that the dividend has to be paid out of profits, which have had corporation tax applied to them, so the same £5700 that you're saving in scenario 2 needs adding to your £1860 from scenario 1, taking you up to £7560
That puts them back into more or less the same ball-park
Not suggesting that at all. Every generation of processors goes from Celeron to blazingly fast, so even though an i7 from 2012 (what I happen to be typing this on) is the same speed as an i3 from 2020 they've got different features. Like you I have no intention of replacing mine while it's still fast enough, but I'm not being "forced" to upgrade before 2025, by which point the performance (not to mention reduction in power consumption) will probably make it worth my while to upgrade.
If you've just spent a couple hundred million updating everything to run Windows 10 and the hardware won't run Windows 11 then you've been ripped off by your hardware vendor.
So let's say you did it 4 years ago (because hardware from 3 years ago can run Windows 11), and Windows 10 is supported until 2025, that means your hardware will be 8 years old by the time you're "forced" to upgrade.
Not the longest refresh cycle I've seen, but it's up there!
> What Cloudflare is saying out of the box is not only can we do this cheaper, but we'll do it on your behalf automatically
I'm not quite sure this is what Cloudflare is saying. I think they'll be cheaper than the most expensive tier, but I don't think you're going to have the option of (for example) archive storage at a reduced rate. The way I read it is that Cloudflare will have one pricing tier, and they will balance performance internally and invisibly for you.
I'd love to be proved wrong though!
Jetbrains do this with their subscriptions. Once you've paid 12 consecutive months for a version you get a perpetual licence for that version.
MSDN subscriptions (and old Software Assurance model) work in a similar way. Your year one fee is high, then year 2 onwards is lower but you have a perpetual licence to use everything even when you stop paying
Additionally, I'm not quite sure what a conversation could have produced for this. With Parler it was a chance to get them to change what they're doing so that they were no longer breaking the TOS. Something they could have done but didn't want to.
With NSO, there's not much left if they remove the malware!
That may be so, but people tend to use the term "politics" nowadays for all sorts of things. You think police shouldn't shoot black people? Can't talk about that at work, it's too political. Think women should be paid as much as men? Sounds like a political issue to me.
Apart from that's not what autopilot means. Autopilot is a pilot aid, designed to take the mundane tasks away from the pilot. Eg the "cruising" part of the flight. It doesn't change altitude because of turbulence, it doesn't route around weather, it just flies in the direction you've told it to.
Hence why 2 pilots are still required on commercial flights.
What Tesla are marketing _is_ autopilot, it's just no one outside of aviation seems to realise how limited autopilot actually is
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