No specific experience with Oracle Cloud, but contract bullying on other products has led me to blacklist Oracle personally.

The author is one of the most influential NFT critics: e.g. https://amp.smh.com.au/business/companies/extortion-why-web3...

Thanks forkfork. I'm _absolutely_ not an NFT shill and my avatar is funny af because NFT/Web3 is meant to be decentralised but it's built on central platforms. The avatar/pfp that I use received a DCMA takedown thus is an doubley illegal NFT [this will make sense if folks are aware of the RRBAYC lawsuit] that I can't change. It exists in "my wallet" but it can't be used anywhere.

ps. The first ever Crypto Policy Symposium (with other critics like myself) is in 5 days - https://crypto-policy.tech/

ok that could be a bit clearer because i absolutely judged you for having a BAYC hexagon profile.. nuance is lost on first impression

I'm not sure it's "funny af," but I'm glad to hear that you're opposed to them.

NFT's (and crypto) are unregistered securities. How they are being peddled into the masses is dodgy af and is definitely not funny af. What's going down with RRBAYC (using NFT's to destroy NFTs) is funny af:

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/06/29/bored-ape...

- https://gordongoner.com/

I work for a non-Heroku tech vendor, and I have always spoken highly of Heroku to my customers from my past experience of going all-in on Heroku, and receiving a top quality of support from Heroku back in 2017-2019. I'm going to point folks to the recent Hacker News threads now.

It is difficult for me to understand why Salesforce is not aware of the strength of the Heroku brand among experienced technology workers, and how much they have destroyed that brand in the last 2-3 years.

The bottleneck is gunzipping & deserializing a huge JSON object using a very slow language (Node.js).

This was attempting to simulate the type of load I see in the wild, rather than serving "Hello world" using C++.

Yep! Inefficient, but it is what I have, and there is no risk to frying my moderately expensive laptop which I hope to keep running for many years.

Good point. There is: a HFC modem & 2x Google Wifi access points. Totals to about 15W of energy use - which only leaves enough energy budget for a Raspberry Pi.

I’ll iterate towards a good solution. This was a somewhat realistic but naive solution (I have customers doing largely what I’ve described in the article).

If I could find a way to encourage people to run their work in a power efficient way using economies of scale from this series, I would be terribly happy.

Interestingly I suspect public-cloud FaaS solutions (e.g. AWS Lambda) will achieve highest utilisation rates due to high rate of CPU sharing - but I’m a long way off from showing that with data.

I’ll try to measure this. I guess I need to purchase a shunt.

If you have a regular $3 multimeter, it should be able to measure current and voltage between the battery and inverter. Then just multiply. double check you're on the right mode and using the right socket on the meter before connecting, or you'll get a big bang!.

For the AC side, it's much harder to measure - typical inverters have rather imperfect AC outputs, and unless you have a rather expensive multimeter you won't get an accurate power measurement. A kill-o-watt will probably be okay for a rough measurement, but there might well be a +- 20% error...

Mostly clouds and rain bring this down to 600Wh/day. Washed the bird poo off the panel to get an extra 2 watts.

Author here - I’m learning as I go. I thought of talking a out the actual sunlight starting at closer to 1300W and losing efficiency at each step, but I don’t get have the right tools to do that properly.

I’d def love to hear your suggestions though as I continue to iterate this one.

I don't have experience but wishing you best of luck!