HankB99

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   by HankB99 3y ago

   Wikipedia confirms that IBM introduced this in 1958. > Separate read/write heads providing transparent read-after-write verification.
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   by HankB99 3y ago

   > You’re with your wife, your devices are often on the same networks, I'm on Fi, she's on Verizon. But I don't doubt that data miners know we're together due to consistent proximity. Neither she nor I did any Pacifica
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   by HankB99 3y ago

   I remain convinced that something on my phone listens to incidental conversations. Yesterday my wife was asking about the difference between our (past) Plymouth Voyager and the current Chrysler Pacifica. Today I get an ad in my Google (Andr
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   by HankB99 3y ago

   I never liked the Windows confirmation messages "Are you sure you ...". If I answered affirmative, it completed the operation.If I replied negative, it never ever offered help deciding.
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   by HankB99 3y ago

   That would be a good strategy if you anticipated the crash. Many did not. But in any case this was at a time when a college degree was reasonably affordable and I could cover the cost of his degree.
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   by HankB99 3y ago

   I don't recall what path his friend took. As for my advice, I don't regret it at all. But the one thing that might have made a difference was that I could afford to put our sons through college (public school, UIUC) so neither gra
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   by HankB99 3y ago

   That's when my son graduated college. A couple years earlier one of his friends was offered a job in IT rather than finish his degree. (e.g. no need to graduate, we'll hire you now.) I suggested that was a short term strategy and
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   by HankB99 3y ago

   I've been having issues with their S/W for a while now. * Couldn't select a current version of the OS to install on a Pi Zero. * Can't install the current version on an SSD that will run on a Pi 4B. An SSD install works.
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   by HankB99 3y ago

   I think that someone would buy out the failed company and then suck up all of your thoughts so they could sell that to advertisers and maybe the police.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    Interesting. I did not expect that Rowhammer was architecture specific, only that the test I found was. I also did not expect that the various defenses, including ECC, could be bypassed.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    Thanks for the link. I guess I thought wrong. But I have more questions. > with RowHammer protection mechanisms disabled I wonder what this means. Is it S/W mitigations or does it include H/W factors like disabling on-die ECC.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    Everything is at stock speed.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    I wonder how long that strategy will work. Eventually society will reach a new "equilibrium" but how many less defended societies will succumb to the starving hordes before that happens. I quote "equilibrium" because soc
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    I thought that Rowhammer was a thing of the past. Out of curiosity I found code to test for this and ran it on some of my hosts. My old desktop - I7-4770K/DDR3 - was susceptible. My old server - Xeon X3460/DDR3+ECC - was not. I up
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    SMS 2FA
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    It baffles me that with over 500 comments, no one has mentioned that `zed` is one of the back end processes that monitors health of ZFS file systems.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    I am listening to a podcast on StarTalk Radio (Neil deGrassse Tyson) on gene editing. "Unlocking Gene Therapy with Gaurav Shah." If the subject interests, it might be worth a listen.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    Thanks for that explanation. I'm ignorant of the inner workings of the aviation industry. Edit: If that warning was, in fact, an indication of the door plug problem then perhaps the reaction to that warning should be reviewed.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    Yes. > “Certain technologies like GitHub Copilot can help developers better understand their code and future-proof their productivity.” I would have never thought that. /s
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    I don't understand why you are being downvoted. The pressurization warnings are a recorded fact. What I have not heard is if the problems with the door plug are connected to the warnings.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    Is that like the line in Doctor Strangelove: > ... the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    Funny you mention that. I was wondering how effective cats are at controlling rats. I would have suggested a rat terrier drop.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    In some situations power delivery to the Pi is not the issue. It is power delivery from USB to the SSD. I ran into this myself and it was weird. * When the Pi 4B first came out, I connected a cheap Inland (Microcenter house brand) SSD, boot
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    And Pi 5s are still hard to find. But it's getting better. I wanted (and got) one for myself and one for my grandson. Edit: Too bad they didn't credit what I suspect was the original source for this information https://
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    There are repeated ads on my (Android) phone touting free solar installation in my state, apparently done by or for women with tight sweaters and large breasts. I guess the ad worked on me. :-/
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    I wonder if the internal heating of the chip would affect the reading. My related experience was positioning a temperature sensor above a Raspberry Pi Zero and the couple watts produced by the Pi was enough to affect the measurement.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    I think that any claim required evidence and pumped storage is included. We visited the "Power Vista" near Niagara falls (US side) where they have 13 turbines driven off the water that would otherwise fall over a cliff. What I did
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    I used VX-REXX as well for a back end written in C++ (IBM compiler, IIRC.) No DB2 for this one, it was a network relay for some incoming data.
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    I thought the article might be discussing the impact of CPU caches on the Sieve of Eratosthenese when used as a processor benchmark. I'm pretty sure I thought wrong. Next I thought it might be an algorithm for managing the CPU caches,
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    by HankB99 3y ago

    Then a "PL nerd" is an LL? (Language Lawyer)