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  • I’ve used them for probably 2 decades, getter in because of the $1/month for a year deal.

    I think I’m on the top, or 2nd from the top, tier. Has unlimited disk space, but it’s not open access from the start. Every so many tens of GB you have to call to get the soft limit raised. They are trying to keep a bot from just filling the space up.

    I use their hosted WordPress, so that they handle the upgrading.

    I also have run a few wiki sites on there. Those install and run fine.

    I wish I could figure out if I could install OwnCloud or such on there. I’m not great with Linux. You don’t have rights to the OS, but anything you access through a webpage or FTP you can put there. You should have access to chron jobs, but my skills aren’t there yet.

    I mainly use them to host my own email domain, that I then access from gMail.

    Biggest problem I’ve had with them is they will charge extra if you use a phased-out version of Python. So you have to make sure you keep anything using Python updated.



  • We could keep the 0 hour as the “middle” of the night and 12 being the “middle” of the day (though I’m not sure if that’s really the sun’s high spot for the day for any places).

    But with fully controlled mirrors, we could make it exactly 12 hours, so we could just then switch to the 0 hour being when the sun comes up.


  • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlWorst is UTC vs GMT
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    4 months ago

    It’s pretty simple, actually. A village somewhere in Europe that is completely in the shade all day for part of the year has already proven it.

    Mirrors.

    We just need a ring of motorized mirrors around the Earth.

    At hour 0, the mirrors will rotate to show sun all across the entire Earth.

    At hour 12, the mirrors will rotate to put all of the Earth into night time.

    That lets the entire Earth have the exact same synchronized time synchronized with the daylight.

    The mirrors will block the sun from parts of the earth facing during the night.

    The mirrors will constantly be rotating to keep the proper amount of sun light facing each part of Earth as the Earth rotates.

    The mirrors will be solar powered.

    This will fix it, right?







  • Education of people is always(?) better, I’d say.

    It’s good to exercise the mind, just like exercising the body.

    What if 25% of car drivers could handle their own car maintenance? The one downside people will scream at first is that fewer mechanics will be needed.

    But that is too short sided.

    More home mechanics will need to buy more tools, so that’s more store jobs and more manufacturing jobs and more shipping/trucking jobs.

    And more people who understand mechanics mean a better workforce who can invent new/better products or processes. And can do more research into manufacturing science, which would improve society.

    This would also lead to safer cars because they are better roadworthy, and car manufacturers would have a harder time using low quality parts.

    So all of those changes would apply to technology when more people know how to use technology.