Jason2357

The software tech bro thing started with a letter from Bill Gates to the hobbyists that despite learning to program on freely available software, and copying a freely available language with his new version of Basic, everyone needs to stop sharing and pay to use software. They all have wet dreams of pulling out the ladder and owning everything. I wouldn’t put it past them to try to nullify copyleft or something like that.

It is arson. Digging up and burning accelerating amounts of fossil fuels for decades after we all know about anthropogenic climate change due to the greenhouse effect and fighting against any transition of any kind is arson.

Not always. Wide open fields get baked dry mid summer in a lot of local climates.

Not only that, but livestock can still graze under panels, on grass that often grows just as well with a little shade.

In the article, this isn’t about pollution but sediment from very nearby construction. Yeah, that happens. Kind of why most decent municipal governments plan out stuff so you don’t have people on wells right next to giant buildings. The common exception being gravel quarries, they do regularly disrupt locals wells. This is on them. You should be building data centres in light industrial zones where everyone nearby is on city water.

There’s no way that’s not satire making fun of trumps asinine speech patterns.

Best you can do is report spam. If enough do that, it’ll give their IT dep a headache.

There are plenty of situations where that’s useful, especially if you can have group chats with images. Think airplanes, weddings, concerts, sports arenas. And if you have meshing and store and forward when nodes are moving around, you can cover a large area that may not have internet. It’s a legitimate tool that no one has done right yet - and as apple only, this is t yet either.

None of them cross the line yet to be “good enough” in practice for all the use cases of an offline messenger. Briar is probably the best, but not useful if even one of your group is on iOS.

No one has got it right yet though. Being apple only, he hasn’t either.

Not entirely the case. There are several companies that market primarily to business users that offer freebies to hobbyists -because those hobbyists sometimes eventually get to buy services for their employer.

Parquet is great, especially if there is some reasonable way of partitioning records - for example, by month or year - if you might need to only search 2024 or something like that. Parquet is great for only needing to I/O the specific variables you are concerned with, and if you can partition the records and only subset a fraction of them, operations can be extremely efficient.