Always_Anon

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by Always_Anon 3y ago
It's basically Sun Microsystems but RIR (rewrite in Rust). The incumbents will eventually release similar products and will eat their lunch.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Too little to late unfortunately. Many have written btrfs off as a loss and are looking at alternatives. bcachefs is hopefully going to be the next step for file systems on Linux.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Your webpage is an ocean of marketing fluff and buzzwords. It's not clear that you have a product that competes with Oxide. It's not even clear how you're different than Dell or HP.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
No they're not unless I'm mistaken. They're not writing the firmware that runs on the NVMe drives, nor the NICs (they're not even writing the drivers for some of the NICs), etc. There's a line in the sand that you m
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Interesting enough I also ran into something somewhat related with Dell that they were not able to resolve so they ended up working in a replacement from another vendor. Nonetheless, it is quite interesting what you've built, but as th
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
And it'll be tough to provide this because Oxide does not have a bare metal instance type (VMs only) and the hypervisor is running on illumos.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Oxides biggest selling point is the API, which can be manipulated with Terraform. I see no SoftIron Terraform plugin.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
I used to run over 150,000 nodes and I agree with me.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Seems risky considering how small of a developer pool actively works on illumos/Solaris. The code is most definitely well engineered and correct, but there are huge teams all around the world deploying on huge pools of Linux compute th
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Exactly right, Apple is actually a poor example. Watch enough Louis Rossmann and you'll grasp just how bad some of their shit can be.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
It's ironic coming from a company who's CTO has harped about containers on bare metal for years. Maybe a large swath only need to deploy VMs, but the future will most definitely involve bare metal for many use cases, and oddly Oxi
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
I've been a Dell customer for decades at this rate and I know for a fact it's true. I've had support tickets open for all kinda of weird firmware, hardware, etc. bugs and they've been well resolved, even if it meant Dell
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Oxide also has various hardware components from AMD, Intel, Samsung, etc. They are not manufacturing every component.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
>I'm not speaking hypothetically. Neither am I. >If you hit a "zero-day" bug that Dell has never seen it's going to take time. If you hit a "zero-day" bug that Oxide has never seen it's going to take
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
>And you'll be down for weeks or months while they do it. Off by a few orders of magnitude. Dell on-site SLA with pre-purchased spares was about 6 hours. With Oxide, you'd be lucky to get same day service.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
>Sure you can, but then who will diagnose and fix your hardware/OS interaction problems when you have parts from five vendors in the mix? Dell is a single vendor that will diagnose and fix all of your hardware issues. With Oxide you
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Dell now ships with OpenBMC iDRACs and such. How does what you mention differ from the RoT in Dells? https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/hardware-root-trust/
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
>Right, who wants or benefits from open source firmware anyway. Their competition has open source firmware as well: https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/enabling-open-embedded-syste...
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Because they can't. Their product currently has zero GPU compute.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
A lot of your competition has verifiable open source software as well: https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/enabling-open-embedded-syste...
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
>They lost billions in Iraq You're absolutely correct, but I just want to emphasize the scale: trillion. That's over a thousand billions. It's an amount that's so huge it's truly hard to comprehend and visualize.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
According to practically any and every translation dictionary made in the last century, no, it is not.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
>Allowlist/blocklist is more clear and accurate tho? No it's not, not at all. Is "blocklist" a list of file system blocks? Bitcoin or other crypro blocks? As someone who speaks English as a second language, the first
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
How are gas prices subsidized? I'm asking in good faith because I truly don't know.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
I don't understand your shock at the question? The military most definitely does not just let anyone in.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
No children of felons for one. No children of illegal substance (drugs) users is another example. Parents must be literate to join the military is another, etc.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
>It seems like they aren’t doing fine, actually. Not to unlimited growth capitalist, no. Culturally and as a people they're doing fine. >Meanwhile those nations that embrace newcomers of all kinds are doing significantly better.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
Of course! A large portion of it went into the market, with great returns. Maxed out 401k, IRA, paid off my school loans, etc. Pandemic time was sweet financially, honestly.
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
I took the opposite approach and used the pandemic as a great way to save. No eating out, no going out for drinks, zero travel... I saved a lot, and paid a lot of debt down. I'm continuing some of these trends still. I do not eat out a
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by Always_Anon 3y ago
As far as JPMC goes, insider threats are the biggest threats they face. It makes sense from a security/compliance standpoint to "spy" on your employees, to a degree. Imagine if you could spy on your biggest enemy. You'd

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