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[TIL] Florida had a smaller official population than West Virginia until the 1950 census. In the 2020 census, Florida had just over 12 times the population of West Virginia.
  • 1901, designed to lower humidity in a print shop to keep the moisture from affecting the paper. Then to textile mills and other manufacturing facilities.

    I think it was installed in a residence in 1915 for the first time, then in 1931 the window unit was invented. They became available for cars in 1932, but the first factory units didn’t come out until 1939 from Packard.

    If you don’t count only powered AC, passive air conditioning methods have existed as long as we’ve been building structures. There has been a big push towards these passive cooling methods again.

  • Frostpunk 2 releases in 1 hour!
  • New one is a lot different. Instead of individual buildings, you’re building districts. I never really got into the first too much, but I played for 8 hours yesterday. If you’re into city building with politics, it’s pretty great.

  • Cybertruck putting out 120V through its body and wheels while charging
  • We can shit on Tesla all day, but this is on whoever installed the charger. Live and neutral are reversed, this could be faked for the video or pure incompetence.

    I agree otherwise, just not because of this.

  • Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed
  • Pressed optical disks, yes. Dye-based writable and re-writable do not last very long at all.

    Depending on the disc, they can last anywhere from 5 to over 100 years. The over 100 year ones are (were?) marketed as archival, and only CD-R. Do not trust any random writable disc to survive very long.

    I tested some backup DVDs from 2012 a couple of months ago and they were completely unreadable.

  • The US finally takes aim at truck bloat
  • Not sure why you’d lie about something like this? Not exactly obscure knowledge that the Rangers first model year was 1983. Before that it was a trim package, if that’s what you mean that’s still a full size F-series.

  • M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable
  • Winget is built-in, doesn’t require an elevated command prompt, and will actually update stuff installed from outside of winget if you want.

    I use chocolatey for some kubernetes tools (fluxCD and helm) because they get updated a little bit faster (like a day or less) but it’s pretty much been made obsolete for my use.

    That being said, if my job didn’t require me to use windows, I’d probably just use NixOS full time.

  • How can I keep my forwarded port secure?
  • No, SSH is fairly vulnerable and not very secure at default, it’s a big target. For your Minecraft server you should be fine on the default port.

    I have run a pair of MC servers for about a decade with no issues, survival on port 25565, and creative on 25567.

  • How can I keep my forwarded port secure?
  • Why is port 22 open? Is this on your router as well or just the server?

    This is SSH, which you should pretty much never have open (to the internet! Local is fine) MC is by default 25565. You will have every bot on the internet probing that port.

  • The First Nuclear Clock Will Test if Fundamental Constants Change
  • The Idaho researchers observed that reversing the intrinsic angular momentum, or “spin,” of thorium-229’s outermost neutron seemed to take 10,000 times less energy than a typical nuclear excitation. The neutron’s altered spin slightly changes both the electromagnetic and strong forces, but those changes happen to cancel each other out almost exactly. Consequently, the excited nuclear state barely differs from the ground state. Lots of nuclei have similar spin transitions, but only in thorium-229 is this cancellation so nearly perfect.

    Basically, thorium-229 can be excited by conventional lasers instead of gamma rays. Instead of millions of electron volts, it takes less than 10, which means it’s more reliable and more precise.

  • Power outage worries
  • You're saying that data centers are replacing batteries constantly...just imagine the labor costs on that (and the down time), not even considering the material cost.

    I’m the tech doing the battery replacements. The big boy UPSes are typically a 3-5 year replacement cycle. Something like this:

    (I just picked the last one on my phone so not a great picture, they’re about the size of a small refrigerator)

    On rack mount and desktop style UPSes 18-36 months isn’t unreasonable. Some of the smaller UPSes, like APC 750s, go through batteries even faster. My personal theory is that they just get and stay too hot.

    There is typically zero downtime while servicing any of them, every critical system has redundant power supply and battery replacements usually don’t interrupt power output anyway. It would take multiple failures to cause any sort of significant downtime, and if it would, we just do them during scheduled downtime.

  • Big oof: The Google Pixel Watch 3 can't be repaired, only replaced
  • I’ve worn my Series 4 every day since September 21, 2018. My son is still using the Series 3 I gifted him the same day. I bought that one September 22, 2017. I don’t baby my watch in any way

    Thought about an upgrade a few times, but haven’t had a compelling reason to do so

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