Twirrim

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by Twirrim 5y ago
I knew it wasn't Hitachi, but you prompted me to go search for it. Ended up finding them via wikipedia under a "defunct manufacturers" list, though it notes they're not defunct, just left the business: ExcelStor.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
anecdote: I was working IT Support in academia when the IBM DeathStar thing was happening. We'd buy computers in batches each summer on a rolling replacement program, and one generation came in with what were, I found out later, reb
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Xinuos, founded by former SCO leaders filed a lawsuit against IBM & Red Hat, back in April https://lwn.net/Articles/851315/ (no, it wasn't an april fool's day joke). https://www.xinuos.co
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by Twirrim 5y ago
"I did it as a lark" has been used as an expression for a long time already, well over a century. To give a few examples, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Boy_s_Own_Annual/X7... "Sure a
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Yes, under MPM, you have a listen backlog. If there's a spare worker available to process a request, they'll be picked off the backlog. https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mpm_common.html#listen..
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Couldn't Apache httpd just do all of that for you? mod_buffer provides request buffering, and mod_proxy_balancer provides load balancing capabilities.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Likewise, but more as a way to experiment with a big integer crate for rust.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Take a look at how they filled the Mandalorian. Quite a lot of it was filmed inside a large video wall / cube. One of the big advantages for them was that it resulted in far more realistic lighting. https://www.youtube.co
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Same here, Firefox/Windows edit: ohhh. You're supposed to move the slider at the bottom right. That wasn't at all obvious.
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The Sinclair C5(en.wikipedia.org)
7 points by Twirrim 5y ago|0 comments
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by Twirrim 5y ago
https://github.com/itsFrank/MinecraftHDL came up on a google search. Factorio's advantage is the blueprints / blueprint strings, which would make it easy to transfer stuff in to the game.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
> The substance is minimal because this is a "call to arms" more than anything To do what, exactly? You point to a blurb from CNCF, but then don't say how Rust fits in to it at all. It's really not clear what the goa
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Everyone makes up their own. I can't for the life of me fathom how this doesn't subject them to all sorts of discrimination etc. claims (one of the reasons lots of companies favour standardised questions). Obviously the drawback
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by Twirrim 5y ago
I had a friend who had a similar experience to the candidate in the article, but at T-Mobile. He was unemployed. They interviewed him 5 times over a month and a half, and tried to get him on site for a 6th interview loop roughly 2 months a
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by Twirrim 5y ago
It's very true, and very natural. It's one reason why FAANG salaries have been getting so high. If I change jobs, and find myself in a good situation, and need more head-count, I'm going to reach out to people I like that I&
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by Twirrim 5y ago
100%, speaking as someone who's been both sides of the equation in FAANG hiring. Part of the problem is the sheer scale of hiring, but I think most of the problem comes down to the lack of feedback or evaluation mechanisms on the inter
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by Twirrim 5y ago
It was also on the front page of reddit this morning, after Rick posted a video to youtube just amazed about the number of views. It's going around everywhere, wouldn't make any assumptions about where OP found it.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
The main thing of interest (to me anyway) that seems to be missing from the articles I can see on this is references to energy density. Is it equivalent to Lithium Ion? Better? Worse? There's some tantalising research from a few yea
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Amazon bought Kiva a while back now to do robotics for them, and it's used heavily in their warehouses and facilities around retail side. Anything they can automate through robotics, they try to as robots can work 24x7 (other than mai
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by Twirrim 5y ago
I gave the suggestion on Twitter, but probably worth mentioning here too as people here might not be aware of it. https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/ libeatmydata shouldn't be used in producti
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by Twirrim 5y ago
The lawsuit came about from actions before Java was open source.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
There's not many licenses that let you reuse code without including the same headers / licensing blurb. You're in public domain, non-copyleft territory. WTFPL etc.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
> It becomes a charged subject matter when one works at companies like Google and Facebook and gets used to navigating performance reviews. The way things were at Amazon when I was there, posts like this would count against a Principal
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Honestly, that describes a lot of the tech hype cycle. The classic example would be MongoDB and other NoSQL solutions etc. in the early days. We can be lightning fast compared to these RDBs! Clearly they're idiots, as is anyone that
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by Twirrim 5y ago
> ... or just go with it and have it be open source? They didn't have the legal right to do so.
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Years ago, I interviewed a candidate for a role on my team. As usual, one of the ways I break the ice with candidates is to get them to talk "war stories". The team he'd worked on had produced a tool that was only ever inten
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by Twirrim 5y ago
> Vesting is every 4 months and risk is minimal. That's not the way Amazon vests your stock, unless things have drastically changed recently. They vest in single lump sums for the year, and they have a slowly ramping up vesting sch
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by Twirrim 5y ago
Does anyone actually do that other than Transmeta back at the turn of the millenium?
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Arm on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(blogs.oracle.com)
2 points by Twirrim 5y ago|0 comments
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by Twirrim 5y ago
It's a little over-the-top for my taste in this article. Would much rather something a little crisper.

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