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miunau commented on UK government advises deleting emails to save water   gov.uk/government/news/na... · Posted by u/bifftastic
AvAn12 · 15 days ago
Serious question. Is there any technology to capture the excess thermal energy from data centers and run some of it back into the grid? Or drive some kind of desalination process? Or do anything else useful with this “surplus” heat energy?
miunau · 15 days ago
Helsinki has many DCs connected to the district heating network, but it isn't realistic in places that don't have an existing network as creating one in the first place is a huge political/nimby issue. Amsterdam has been trying and failing for years.
miunau commented on How I use Tailscale   chameth.com/how-i-use-tai... · Posted by u/aquariusDue
em-bee · 20 days ago
Speaking of SSH, Tailscale has special support for it whereby it handles any incoming connection to port 22 from the Tailscale network, and deals with authentication itself. No public keys or passwords: if you’re logged into Tailscale you can be logged into the machine. This is particularly handy when you SSH from a phone, as proper credential management is a bit of a nightmare there.

this has me worried. i would not want that. i use zerotier, not tailscale, but the principle is the same. i have my laptops and my phone connected to my servers. given that all of those machines are already on the internet, connecting them into a virtual network does not add any risk in my opinion. (at least as long as you don't use features like the above). all i get is a known ip address for all my devices, with the ability to connect to them if they have an ssh server running. when i am outside the primary benefit is that i can tell which devices are online.

miunau · 18 days ago
this is for teams where you don't want to create passwords or keep track of ssh keys for everyone by hand. it greatly simplified our server usage as we can simply ssh user@machine and it just works. you can create access controls for it as well.
miunau commented on Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard   code.blender.org/2025/07/... · Posted by u/dagmx
miunau · a month ago
For anyone who misses the Second Life-style camera controls in Blender, I made this during the weekend: https://github.com/miunau/blender-secondlife-camera-addon

It makes navigating 3D spaces so much easier with keyboard and mouse.

miunau commented on Canyon.mid   canyonmid.com/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
skrebbel · 2 months ago
I don't think this is true in practice anymore. Given that most sources are 16 bit wide, and afaik most OSes internally use 24 bits these days in the OS mixer (at least my laptop does), the information loss is negligible (just some rounding errors and that's it).

I'd be much more worried about 44.1khz sources being resampled to 48khz if that's the OS playback rate. I mean you won't be able to hear that either in practice but at least it's not negligible.

miunau · 2 months ago
You're correct, with Realtek AC97 devices the resampling used to sound absolutely horrendous. Like they picked the worst possible algo. It's not as big of an issue these days though.
miunau commented on Canyon.mid   canyonmid.com/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
brudgers · 2 months ago
Why not use a compressor?
miunau · 2 months ago
Compressors destroy dynamic range. The idea is to normalize, not limit.

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miunau commented on Material 3 Expressive   design.google/library/exp... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
amluto · 3 months ago
It’s remarkably common for some floating UI element to obscure the bottom portion of something scrollable. You can’t work around this by scrolling because, if the region in question is on the screen at all, it’s at the bottom.

Even Mobile Safari messes this up on occasion — sometimes the URL bar at the bottom obscures the bottom of a page, and, while one can temporarily reveal it by dragging up, the content rubber-bands right back down when the user lets go.

miunau · 3 months ago
This is solved by using dvh (or svh) instead of 100% for height in the CSS.
miunau commented on How to live an intellectually rich life   utsavmamoria.substack.com... · Posted by u/TheLadyParadox
bpshaver · 4 months ago
Why are you conflating "best" with "what you would recommend a friend"?

Many of the best things in life are hard. And you wouldn't necessarily recommend them to a friend.

When you consider specific domains, often the best instances of X tend to be harder versions of X. Or, when people become familiar with many instances of X they seek out the "best" instances of X. Its natural that those best instances would be difficult for people unfamiliar with the domain.

miunau · 4 months ago
How did you find Ulysses, was it a good read for you?
miunau commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup   pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike
MisterTea · 4 months ago
> from the days when spinning rust was the limiting factor

How did we get back to this though? We have gigabytes/sec with NVMe and stupid fast CPU's with at least 4 cores in even low end models. Yet a text editor takes so long to load we need to load it up on boot... Such a frustrating field to work in.

miunau · 4 months ago
There are no financial or career incentives to optimise existing, working things in these institutions. The structures which these large companies use are for people working on new things, so that's what we get. Making office faster doesn't create headlines, but a new product that does the same thing somehow will.
miunau commented on Attacking My Landlord's Boiler   blog.videah.net/attacking... · Posted by u/ericvolp12
Cthulhu_ · 4 months ago
I'm still of the opinion that a dial works best. Especially in modern homes (in Europe at least), there seems to be a school of thought that you should just leave your thermostat at the same temperature at all times - the theory being that warming up a cold house in the morning costs more energy than maintaining a stable temperature.

Anyway, my ideal setup would be to install 'smart' thermostat taps on every radiator in the house, either manually turn them down when you're not in the room or have them automatically detect activity or open windows and adjust accordingly. But each one has the authority to trigger the central boiler if needs be, instead of only the master thermostat in the living room.

miunau · 4 months ago
We've used the Tado system with a central boiler and smart radiator knobs for a few years. It's worked fine and hooks up to Home Assistant and can do the things you describe. I'm sure there are some alternatives.

u/miunau

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