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by IvyMike 4y ago
Regarding measuring to avoid profiling the filesystem: You can run fio against the raw block device to avoid this.
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by IvyMike 4y ago
This use of dt, etc, is pretty cool, and I understand the point of this this blog entry was an exploration of those tools. But in the wider world of SSD performance, you're going to want more. fio (written by Jens Axboe, who's re
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by IvyMike 4y ago
"The CAISO is one of the largest ISOs in the world, delivering 300 million megawatt-hours of electricity each year and managing about 80% of California's electric flow." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cali
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by IvyMike 5y ago
> I rack my brain for any scientifically indefensible convictions I may hold myself. Me too... except for the jinx. If someone says "This project is going great" it strikes terror deep in my soul.
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by IvyMike 5y ago
But things should be cooling down fast. There's a lot of different bits that all have different temperatures; here's a 2019 projected timeline of where we expect each bit to be. (We should be around day 30 today) https:/&#
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by IvyMike 5y ago
People are already starting to debunk various bits and pieces of this article. For my part, let's look at Eric Clapton--the article claims that he has "lost the use of his hands almost completely" after getting the AZ vaccine
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Substack is very hands-off with moderation. People and organizations that have been deplatformed elsewhere have realized this. https://www.wired.com/story/substack-future-chris-best/ https://www.isdglob
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by IvyMike 5y ago
I lost a loved one to dementia, and articles like this one make me want to scream. Every experience is different. But most people think "oh, they just start getting forgetful", but as the mind decays, everything, everything , go
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Until people don't have a center speaker hooked up.
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by IvyMike 5y ago
The article asks: > Imagine if a DNS cache your computer (the client) had been relying on to lookup bleepingcomputer.com's IP, returned to you an incorrect IP address instead of ours? A "certificate not valid" error would
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by IvyMike 5y ago
I should have added "question is for people who support the given statement". :)
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by IvyMike 5y ago
"DNSSEC is vital to the security of the internet." If this is true, I'm curious: in the six years since this post, what attacks or security incidents occurred which could have been prevented by DNSSEC?
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Scan all paper documents using a ScanSnap; it produces searchable PDF. Throw those as well as any digital documents into my google drive. If I need a document, it's just a search away. Literally zero time organizing or filing; I just
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by IvyMike 5y ago
This is the future of the metaverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eix7fLsS058 Jokes aside: at some point, we all thought the future would mean transitioning from audio calls to video calls. But for a lot of people, it t
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Covid-19's Impact on IPv6 Traffic(ivymike.dev)
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by IvyMike 5y ago
They have explicitly stated that are ok with retrying recent overlooked stories just in case a story got missed or buried for whatever reason. They are also ok with reposting year+ old stories that did get significant attention at the time,
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by IvyMike 5y ago
From the FAQ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html > Are reposts ok? > If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates.
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by IvyMike 5y ago
One thing you could do is desalinate water in Los Angeles, and thus keep the water in the central valley rather than pumping it over the grapevine. I'm pretty sure agricultural use of water in CA dwarves urban use, so maybe it wouldn&
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Realizing this was exactly what I learned when playing around with the C64 SID chip in 1983. Neat!
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by IvyMike 5y ago
I didn't hit a paywall but the article was originally published at https://dangoslen.me/blog/changing-how-i-review-code/ ; maybe that will work for you.
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by IvyMike 5y ago
I mean it's mostly a kids dancing app, so that's mostly what you get by default. Follow Tom Silva, Mr Barricade, Soft Pourn, Woodshopdiaries, Scott Hanselman. This will get you a bunch of interesting content. It might not be wha
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Leela : Didn't you have ads in the 21st century? Fry : Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games... and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts, and bananas and written on th
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Companies I've worked at always had a few "floating holidays". This is so that you can take these on a day they are meaningful to you. So one way companies will not give any more time off is by just saying "feel free to
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by IvyMike 5y ago
'Nother thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27466374
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by IvyMike 5y ago
There is a major biasing factor; it's trivial to ask a question like "Have you looked at the data in VAERS that shows tens of thousands of adverse vaccine reactions??" It's not so trivial to answer the question in a way
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by IvyMike 5y ago
I agree, and that's why I try to answer questions with friendly answers. It wasn't so much that I was advocating for dismissing the question, I was just trying to explain why experts have gotten really, really tired, and might do
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Yes: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/How+the+Immune+System+Works%2C+6...
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by IvyMike 5y ago
There are a LOT of anti-vaxxers who disingenuously couch their advocacy as "I'm only asking questions". It's no surprise when you've seen a 10:1 ratio of bad actors to good (or worse), one might get a little exaspe
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by IvyMike 5y ago
As seen in "The Martian" by Andy Weir. (Spoilers!) > “At the microscopic level, the protein cubes were solid food particles suspended in thick vegetable oil. The food particles compressed to less than half their original size,
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by IvyMike 5y ago
Does http://ai./ (declaring the name as fully qualified) work on those systems?

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