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  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eutoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are flat earthers so badly harassed and ridiculed by globers?English
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    6 hours ago

    Because it’s like now somebody came to you and asked to discuss about babies being brought in by birds instead of being born from mothers. How would you react?

    I have traveled a lot in my life. I have seen the round earth from airplanes, i have experienced time zones first hand and have been flying all around the pacific ocean as well.

    I can assure you, proof that earth is a globe is not required. What is required is get out of comfort zone and check it yourself if you don’t believe science, physics. It takes a nice clear day high altitude (commercial jet i mean) flight, and if you still are not convinced, well, take an airplane like i did from Europe to far east, then to French Polynesia, then to Easter Island, then to Chile. Woah, man, it’s round and connected! i did myself, i am living proof of that. You even get to experience the fun of living the same day twice when you spend your Saturday night in Auckland, NZ, then fly to Papeete and spend AGAIN your Saturday in Tahiti… Fun stuff.*

    But i was already sold on the “globe” thing when, almost 30 years ago, i did my first overseas trip to US and was phoning my parents with a -9 hour time difference, and it was actually real.

    /s Now, see, back to that “babies brought by birds” thing, i read on the internet that all this about mothers giving birth is a big conspiracy to keep the woman enslaved… /s

    • = to be clear, that was not a SINGLE flight, i did it over the course of a few weeks taking those flight legs separately and with flight times perfectly matching the distances covered on a globe surface, not some weird convoluted flight route that i have seen from flat earthners to try justify that it’s possible.

    As an additional note, once i also fly the route more north, going trough Micronesia and hawai… again from Europe to US. It was even an US commercial airline flight.

    As a final note, there are plenty of seamen who even SAIL still today (for fun) across the Pacific, from US to Asia.

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eutoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Cheapest 16x4tb NASEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    Yes, more redindancy is good and indeed worth having. Still 5 12tb drives are probably yet more energy and heat efficient than 10 4tb ones.

    Even if I had 10 4tb for free I wouldn’t use them. Maybe a couple for backup reasons or cold storage, but not active 24/7 for a domestic raid environment.

    I actually have 4 6tb hdds that I dismissed for the 4 8tb sdds, and I use two for local backup and keep two spares to replace them when they will fail.

    4 8tb in raid5 provide 24tb total space that its far more than I need, and the risk of a double failure is mitogated by a proper 3,2,1 backup strategy in place

    As for the higher I/o frankly I never felt the need. 1gbps home network is always the bottleneck anyway and if you require such disk troughput on your network, you are doing something wrong anyway.

    Even many 4k video streams would sturate your lan before saturating your disks unless you store uncompressed video streams.

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eutoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Cheapest 16x4tb NASEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I wouldn’t use more than 4 or 6 disks in a home environment. Specially with mechanical drivers, power consumption 24/7 would get me very worried.

    I run 4 x 8Tb SSDs, not cheap, but solid, low power AND low heat (even more important).

    Consider also heat dissipation as most likely at home you don’t have a constant temperature and humidity, so many spinning disks can suffer from heat, and that will kill them faster

    Longevity… With so much space I would expect to keep it running a decade or more… So factor in 10x365x24 hours of operation, energy consumed, heat dissipation and failure rate.

    On top of that, whatever gpu and ram you throw at it is meaningless, whatever wi work, even an Intel n100 NUC. Having enough cables and port instead… Well.

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eutoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Question about Reberse Engineered Code and LicensesEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Are you afraid that others might use your work and make money out of it?

    You want to protect freedom of access to your work?

    You want to have it available and still be able to make a profit yourself?

    You looking into ways to distribute or promote your work?

    Myself, I generally go GPLv3 because I believe that’s the right thing to do, but public domain (or MIT) is also popular. Something like LGPL or BSD might appeal if you plan to use it in a commercial/industrial framework.

    Also, are you sure that the binary you started from is actually free to use and you are not infringing somebody copyright? Keep in mind that time here is no protection. 15y or 20y old code/binaries can still be fought for by the original owners (Nintendo knows something about that kind of fights…)

  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eutoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•If you took a box of Kleenex back to the medieval time period, they'd probably think that you're a witchEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Why?

    People had less technology but where not less smart than today. If all, they where used to be smarter than us actually because they had less tech.

    Its just paper towels, that pull out one after the other with a stupid fold trick. Anybody even 600y ago would spot that after a brief looking at it.

    No, they would probably be curious about the paper itself, but that would be it.

    The fact that medieval times where “dark” its a 19th century invented lie. Actually, it’s one of the most vibrant and brilliant times of all ages, where economy thrived and people grow was substantial (until 14th century climate changes and pestilences), low population had many advantages and drawbacks. Old roman technology kind of disappeared but the society overall was far from “dark” at all.