Budget efficient Home Server ATX PSU

https://piefed.social/post/725113

Hash Functions with the Golden Ratio - In the realm of computer science, it’s hard to go too far without encountering has... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/25/hash-functions-with-the-golden-ratio/ #computerscience #processingtime #efficiency #fibbonaci #science #hashing #modulo #hash

Hash Functions with the Golden Ratio https://hackaday.com/2025/04/25/hash-functions-with-the-golden-ratio/ #computerscience #processingtime #efficiency #fibbonaci #Science #hashing #modulo #hash

It's Friday! Time for a quick knowledge management game...
Wishing everyone a fantastic weekend full of relaxation and zero frantic document searches!

Fill in the blank: "I spent __ hours this week searching for documents that should have taken me 5 minutes to find."
#poll #what #OpenSource #Documentation #efficiency

i am resisting the urge to discover exactly just how weirdly venn'ed i am on IT Security, Privacy, Environment, and AI. i am trying to replace the hypervisor in my house with something that doesn't suck as much power as dual xeons. oy i know i wanted the memory and cores but it doesn't have sufficient power for what i want now and it's mostly just overhead since i can't use the processor cores fully due to not enough power for compute

"This assumption that efficiency is always a good thing is ... incorrect. In a democracy, friction exists for very particular reasons and those are; 1) protection, and 2) stability. Centralised data, and centralised control of data, or ... of anything, is inherently less stable than a decentralised structure."

#EmilyTavoulareas, 2025

https://techpolicy.press/doge-and-the-united-states-of-ai

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Fairness Across the World https://openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/3184837/DP%2006.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
"… the meritocratic #fairness view is not universally accepted, and plays only a marginal role in many countries, especially outside of the Western world.
… #meritocracy is particularly prominent in richer countries
… people’s belief about the source of #inequality is crucial for whether they consider inequality in their society to be fair, but we also establish that these beliefs are particularly important in countries where people endorse the meritocratic fairness views
… It appears plausible that the meritocratic fairness view is conducive to economic #growth
… cross-country differences in #redistribution through taxes and transfers also are associated with differences in fairness views, with more redistribution in countries with a higher share of meritocrats, which highlights the importance of incorporating #heterogeneity in both fairness preferences and beliefs when studying the political economy of redistribution
… people’s view on redistribution is primarily driven by fairness considerations, the perception that inequality in their country is unfair, rather than #efficiency considerations"
#ExperimentalEcon

I put up an essay on my blog, Government is not a Business. These are things I've said before in various ways. I'm just putting them together in an easy-to-reference place.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2025/04/government-is-not-business.html

Conservatives promise 'one-and-done' project approvals to cut wait times
The plan would require Ottawa to work with the provinces to create a single office that would co-ordinate project approvals across all levels of government.
#politics #government #efficiency #Ottawa #News #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/conservatives-liberals-april-7-1.7503791?cmp=rss

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

   All men in whose character there is not an element of hardened baseness must admit the need in our public life of those qualities which we somewhat vaguely group together when we speak of “reform,” and all men of sound mind must also admit the need of efficiency.
   There are, of course, men of such low moral type, or of such ingrained cynicism, that they do not believe in the possibility of making anything better, or do not care to see things better. There are also men who are slightly disordered mentally, or who are cursed with a moral twist which makes them champion reforms less from a desire to do good to others than as a kind of tribute to their own righteousness, for the sake of emphasizing their own superiority. From neither of these classes can we get any real help in the unending struggle for righteousness.
   There remains the great body of the people, including the entire body of those through whom the salvation of the people must ultimately be worked out. All these men combine or seek to combine in varying degrees the quality of striving after the ideal, that is, the quality which makes men reformers, and the quality of so striving through practical methods — the quality which makes men efficient. Both qualities are absolutely essential. The absence of either makes the presence of the other worthless or worse.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Essay (1900-06), “Latitude and Longitude Among Reformers,” The Century Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 2

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

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