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by Infernal 9y ago
Whatever happened to parallel NFS/pNFS? I know Panasas basically uses this + some of their own special sauce, but hasn't been clear to me if there is an open source implementation of pNFS that could approximate performance of Pana
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by Infernal 9y ago
It's an IBM commercial product, if that's what you mean by "IBM only". You can install it on any hardware though, we run it on a combination of SuperMicro, Dell, and DDN currently.
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by Infernal 9y ago
This makes me wonder - did the brighter light cause more crime to be committed, or did it cause more crime to be detected? A criminal must be caught for his crime to be recorded, after all.
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by Infernal 10y ago
I've always heard that adage in reference to performance/race driving or playing a musical instrument, never the military. Makes sense that it has wide ranging application though.
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by Infernal 10y ago
Oh sure - to be clear, the "better insurance to boot" was just my paraphrasing of the author. I fully agree with the idea that it is hard to directly compare whether a particular insurance in 1987 is better or worse than a particu
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by Infernal 10y ago
I would argue that far from the concept of 'freedom' not meaning anything, it means many things - it's heavily overloaded. For example - I have the freedom to reply to your comment if I choose. The concept of freely choosing
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by Infernal 10y ago
24x as much per month is also 24x as much per year...
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by Infernal 10y ago
The author has phrased it awkwardly, but he's saying his insurance costs have increased more than 24x. He pays a monthly rate that is double his yearly rate in 1987, and had better insurance in 1987 to boot.
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by Infernal 10y ago
I read this comment before the article. I also assumed that the surgeon was male - my best guess at an answer to the riddle was in the wording: the people in the car crash were "a father and daughter" not "a father and his da
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by Infernal 10y ago
For iCloud, you actually can use iCloud Drive via a web interface from other OSes - I think the biggest limitation is actually that you can't share arbitrary files, only certain types of files (Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Notes, Photos).
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by Infernal 10y ago
Consider adding a demo account to http://productivity.netlify.com/ . I don't really want to sign up/create an account to try out a demo instance. You'll get more feedback here without that barrier.
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by Infernal 10y ago
Thanks - haven't heard of Gitter, came to the comments to ask about the potential impact to Mattermost. Sounds like there's room for these two to coexist within GitLab.
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by Infernal 10y ago
And he's still got Windows XP running in his lab, based on the photo. An interesting juxtaposition.
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by Infernal 10y ago
This is the type of insight that I come to HN for. As someone who is drinking whiskey now and will be drinking coffee in 12 hours, I couldn't agree more.
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by Infernal 10y ago
More wood = bigger bow. Shoot fewer arrows harder, i.e. more resources behind fewer projects, i.e. quality over quantity.
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by Infernal 10y ago
Hmm, good point, looks like you can export individual notes as PDF, but that's it. I use the Workflow app on iOS, and I have a feeling it would be relatively trivial to write a workflow that loops through all your notes and writes them
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by Infernal 10y ago
Purely out of curiosity - what do you find remarkably bad about Apple Notes? For context, I use Apple Notes frequently but not regularly (~100 notes over four years) and suspect my use is not heavy enough to uncover limitations.
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by Infernal 10y ago
I came of age in IT around 2005/2006, and it took me a really long time to connect the "scuzzy" people were talking about with SCSI as written. I always kinda liked the pronunciation though, once I figured out what it was ref
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by Infernal 10y ago
Interesting. I wonder if the "forward slash" bit is making people start thinking literally rather than making associations to what they already know? If I'm talking about a common system location, I don't even mention th
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by Infernal 10y ago
I have also always pronounced /etc as "etsy". I'm always thrown off when people say "ee tee see" or "etcetera", but that's pretty rare in my experience. The people who pronounce /usr as &quo
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by Infernal 10y ago
Seconded. Never really thought about the word "Cisco", and assumed the logo was intended to evoke RF on an oscilloscope or some other visualization of electronic signaling.
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by Infernal 10y ago
I disagree that the pink car driver was not paying attention - he or she was likely turning to look over their right shoulder before making the lane change. The drift to the right isn't an avoidance maneuver executed lazily, but just a
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by Infernal 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "the car behind didn't show turn signal". If you're referring to the pink hatchback that ultimately rear-ended the SUV - the pink hatchback seems to be making a lane change to the right
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by Infernal 10y ago
I think this accident could've been entirely avoided had the small pink hatchback been a Tesla. My read on what happened here is that the pink car was making a passing maneuver, and just as the pink car driver checked their right-side
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by Infernal 10y ago
I think he meant "frequently the drawings are faded".
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by Infernal 10y ago
Is it just me, or does this seem like an effort to spin positive news negatively? Why not "Median income for 30-year-olds has increased since their parents were 30"? Or "Over Half of 30-year-olds earn more than their parents
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by Infernal 10y ago
The only song I can do this with is "My Favourite Game" by the Cardigans. Spent too much time as a kid playing long races on Gran Turismo 2, and it was always my favorite track. I think it's because there are really only abou
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by Infernal 10y ago
DINK as in "dual income no kids"? That one is still in common usage as far as I know, I have heard at least a couple people say it in the past month. Never heard of BoBo as far as I can recall.
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by Infernal 10y ago
There are essentially four scenarios - you make the "safe" choice and succeed, and you're smart - if you fail, well, you can't be blamed, the safe choice is conventional wisdom. You make the risky/bold/nonconve
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by Infernal 10y ago
Listen, I've read enough of these in the last couple of years. Enough! Don't fucking comment on the stupid comment if you don't like it. What, commenting about comments nobody needs to read is more valuable to the world than

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