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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Both. Good support is expensive and rarely a "just". Adding a new supported platform means having to train your support techs in all the quirks that come out in using said platform, and those little things add up in a hurry. On th
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Is autocomplete also handled per container? There's an awful lot of privacy sensitive info that can be gleaned from there but it's not listed as being covered.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Caching proxies are old hat. Things like squid have existed pretty much the entire lifespan of the web. Keeping things close to your servers means you don't have the inherent delay of pulling things from a remote server, regardless of
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
It lets them pretend that ops isn't a skillset you need people to specialize in. Just throw more devs and servers at the problem instead of building a good infrastructure.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Not really that hard. zfs snap tank/data@$(date '+Y%m%d') zfs send tank/data@$(date '+Y%m%d') | zfs recv backup/data advanced magic for off-system backup zfs send tank/data@$(date '+Y%m%d')
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
It's a rather huge effort by a fairly small group of people not backed by any corporations [1]. They are aiming for bug-for-bug compatibility with Windows, including the driver model. One of the reasons for it taking so long, though, w
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
I take photos miles from where there's cell signal. I write code on the bus while heading to doctors appointments. The web is about as far from a panacea as you can get. It's slow, it's bloated, falls apart when you don'
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
We don't need a universal OS. I'd go as far to say that a universal OS is bad. A universal OS leaves no place for experimentation, no place for different UI concepts, no place for people to customize things to the way they want. W
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Part of the cost is improving the peninsula rail corridor for full grade separation, along with the suicide prevention improvements Caltrain is already performing on the corridor. When it's built, there should be a lot fewer places for
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
The HSR depots are going to be downtown San Francisco, which is a lot more convenient than the pain in the arse SFO is, and LA Union Station, which is rapidly becoming a hub for rail lines going to Orange County, Santa Monica, Pomona, the S
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Both can, should, and are being done. The California Water Project is rather adequately funded. The Oroville Dam problem is due to a pretty unprecedented winter, not a lack of maintenance. The emergency overflow seems to have held, at least
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Those are covered under other bond measures. LA has a multi-generation plan [1] for building out several new rail lines, busways, etc. It's harder to find an overarching document for the Bay Area because there are too damn many countie
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Infrastructure is expensive. For example, the project to upgrade state route 99 in California, which parallels the High Speed Rail tracks for about 130 miles, to Interstate standards was projected to cost $22 billion ten years ago [1]. A lo
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Windows is pretty inexpensive, and if you want something supported for more than a year or two, the options do tend to be somewhat costly. RedHat, for example, is $50/year for the equivalent of Windows Update. There are also a number o
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
You can have both. Postgres has foreign data wrappers, with Redis as a first class citizen. So, you can push your data to Postgres, and have it trigger to publish the updates. Databases have a pretty big toolset to make your life easier whe
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
The Linux "solution" would be to yell at the driver maker to contort their driver to fit the Linux model and put it in tree. A vendor that refused would need to have their driver installer manually blacklist the kernel driver, and
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Much more than that. For example, both audio and video drivers had massive rewrites and rebuilds. Video drivers received a lot of tweaks for DirectX 10. More importantly, MS pushed the entire audio stack to use the User-Mode Driver Framewor
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Or they raise their prices to get money out of a smaller pool of subscribers. Medical care has a pretty inelastic demand curve.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Some of us have more significant medical expenses than others. My prescription medications alone would be $2k/month if I had to pay it out of pocket, and that amount's pretty set in stone. The alternatives, which I've tried,
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Or we could start funding medical research through our system of universities and the like. We have immense public and non-profit institutions that can take over. Maybe we'll even be able to see more benefit in treatment of rare and ne
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
I would argue that having Part D coverage handled directly by medicare, with the power to negotiate prices, would have a positive effect on prices for Part B medication as well. By having Medicare only provide certain medications, it makes
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
It's part of the errata for the chip. Go to: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/... and search for AVR54
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
By which metric is Linux more advanced than FreeBSD? Companies like Netflix use FreeBSD because its networking stack blows Linux out of the water. Further, how about Xorg, Apache, BIND, Nginx, etc? Significant amounts of userland tools and
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
And when EC2 falls over, like it tends to do a few times a year? Hosts fall over, stuff dies. Something the scale of Snap, you're going to be doing setups that look a lot like cloud anyways. Bringing new systems up either by cloning a
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
When dealing with embedded stuff, you don't always have the luxury of code at first sight. Sometimes you have to write ugly code like this code does, sometimes you have to roll your own print statements because using printf pulls in a
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
The author is coming from the embedded world, where saving time in an important loop can determine whether or not your code can operate in the required time windows. Keep in mind that there are a lot of micros out there that are being used
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
There's all kinds of stuff entombed in cities, just waiting to be discovered. First thing this reminded me of was the Original Spanish Kitchen [1], which was a restaurant, also in LA, which closed one day in 1961 and spent the next 44
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
However, ARMv8 also increased the power of the SIMD portion of the chip, going from a 64 bit wide set of registers to one that's 128 bits wide. So SIMD-heavy code will see a decent speedup because you can process more data per clock.
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
Yep. If it's just 32->64 there may even be a slow down as you need to pull bigger things through the various busses. However, Armv8 also brought a huge improvement to the instruction set, so recompiling with the proper optimizations
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by Sanddancer 10y ago
It uses a lock-free method of ensuring that there aren't segfaults. When it needs to move a variable because it's gotten too big, it copies it to the new location and sets the pointer accordingly with the old location flagged as o

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