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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • it makes sense. My rationale behind putting the NAS on the MGMT and then passing disk space through mounted drives is that I can create any number of VLANs if I want, and give bits and pieces of the NAS drive through the services, without ever having to change my NAS configuration (other than creating the shares I need)

    I wanted to just add more storage space to proxmox and distribute it through the services, but considering the prices of NVMe drives, the rock5c with the sata hat was a lot more cost effective since I had 2x 2TB SSD not doing much in my computer.




  • I had an allergy reaction test with my son last week. It’s a two hours test where he eats an increasingly bigger portion of allergen to see if he is still allergic.

    We arrive 15 mins early for our scheduled start at 9:15. We are the first of the day for the test. 9:55 we finally see the doctor. The first appointment of the day starts late by 40 mins.

    The appointment before that one, we were scheduled at 10:00. By 11:45, we still haven’t seen the doctor to start the two hour test. And I’m being told that this is normal by a nurse.

    Just fucking infuriating all around.


  • There is 2 things that are measured in efficiency.

    The first thing is as you mentioned, how much of the solar energy is absorbed. 100% would mean that all the solar energy on the surface of the cell would be absorbed.

    The second thing is how much of the absorbed energy of the solar cell is converted into usable energy.

    For a square meter of sun, there is about 1kW of energy, or 1000W.

    If the solar panel of one square meter is efficient at 50% to absorb the solar energy, 500W would be available.

    Then, if the circuitry is 90% efficient at converting the absorbed energy into usable power, you would get 450W of usable power.

    The overall system efficiency is 450W/1000W, or 45%. So 45% of the solar power that hits the solar panel is usable at the output of the whole system.

    This is a really watered down version of how things really work, but that should help you navigate this article.



  • Having worked in the payment industry, there is a lot of work to be done.

    Even if you use the EMV standard, which almost all of the payment processor are based on, the challenge is to interface with the banks and making sure that every cards and terminals follow your standard.

    And that’s if you can convince banks to even accept you payment standard in the first place.