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   by api 8y ago

   We had one SSD die in production, but it was on a system whose write load was enormous... like 50-60mb/sec sustained for over one year .
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   by api 8y ago

   Yes. I must also add that Las Vegas and Dubai are in areas with tremendously abundant year round solar power. There is rarely even a cloud in the sky. When the sun is up these days upwards of 40% of the power in Southern California can be s
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   by api 8y ago

   The problem is when your empire loses its weapons but all the others still have theirs. Think China's trade policy is unfair now ? Imagine if we had no tools for monetary policy. There would be much laughter in Beijing. Only multilate
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   by api 8y ago

   Sure it is. Hard money advocates see the Fed as some kind of parasitic liability on America, but it's quite the opposite. It's a weapon of war. A sovereign currency that can be manipulated is an instrument of empire. Eliminating i
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   by api 8y ago

   ... or locally grown organic super-fresh superfood greens for a major tourist economy like Las Vegas? It could work for niche stuff, but energy costs is always what kills these ideas for the mainstream market. Sunlight is free. If we had Mr
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   by api 8y ago

   I dont know about tinc, but we've benchmarked ZeroTier which is user land and gotten results close to IPSec. The tun/tap overhead is low. It might matter if you are pumping serious traffic, like encrypting a data center or leased
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   by api 8y ago

   Maybe if we all collect our unused and expired baking soda...
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   by api 8y ago

   Ocean acidification frightens me more than climate change. Moving Miami is doable. Look at how fast Dubai was built. Sea walls and flood control are also things we know how to do. Ocean ecosystem collapse could be absolutely catastrophic an
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   by api 8y ago

   Honestly just a better package manager could work. Apk in Alpine is lean, pretty easy to build packages for, and works. Alpine is the best distro today, at least for servers.
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    by api 8y ago

    I agree quite a bit with your last paragraph. Linux package managers are awful, with the two most popular (deb and rpm) being hellscapes of haphazard poorly documented cruft. Linux distributions are also harder to deal with than the Apple S
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    by api 8y ago

    Go has the right idea: big static binary. This will remain the best answer until dependency and package management systems advance beyond the 90s.
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    by api 8y ago

    This is a huge barrier to today's decentralized systems. I wanted to check out Mastodon and looked into setting up a node. It's a nightmare of rube goldberg machine dependency hell. It's not that I can't, but that I don&
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    by api 8y ago

    This is fairly shallow. It doesn't really explain why surveillance and manipulation became the dominant business models of the Internet. I think the culprit is "free." Everything has to be "free." As a result, some
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    by api 8y ago

    What about politicians and gurus?
15. 10245.▲
    by api 8y ago

    It will also do nothing for the elite university system, which is a major system of noble title and privilege networks.
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    by api 8y ago

    I think it's a case of what is seen vs. what is unseen combined with "you get what you measure." "We're paying more for programmers than almost anyone else in the industry!" is an obvious thing a bean counter w
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    by api 8y ago

    The majority of the professional world runs on Windows. There are many advantages: (1) Stable platform that's backward compatible over long periods of time. (2) Very good rapid application development tooling, e.g. Visual Studio which
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    by api 8y ago

    I really really wish Elon would exit from Tesla and just concentrate on SpaceX. Well, after taking at least six months sabbatical where he is not allowed to do anything but sleep, hang out, watch movies, and read/write. SpaceX is the m
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    by api 8y ago

    If there is sufficient growth and economic diversity they can find different and hopefully better jobs. Would you want a job as a copy clerk? These were people who copied documents by hand before copy machines were invented.
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    by api 8y ago

    That's a pretty good contrast between productive capitalism and financial capitalism. Productive capitalism is win-win. Financial capitalism is win-lose.
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    by api 8y ago

    In other words it's always listening. The goal is clearly to get a listening device in every home to harvest ambient conversation for marketing purposes. At first we were told the device does not actually pay attention unless you say &
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    by api 8y ago

    I love this story and it underscores something I've come to believe very strongly as an engineer: Complexity is evil. The benefits of adding complexity rarely outweigh the downsides, especially when the "embodied energy" of b
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    by api 8y ago

    Nobody is thinking about security and AI. I wonder how long it will be before someone images a neural net embedded into some product and then figures out how to trick it into behaving in some way that attacks some internal part of the progr
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    by api 8y ago

    So... anyone want to link to some benchmarks hosted somewhere Intel can't mess with? I have Tor Browser.
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    by api 8y ago

    Hey if you see this can you answer one more question: How much abuse was your high availability product delivering to these cards in terms of writes? Was it something like a video recorder, database, cryptocurrency, or some other applicatio
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    by api 8y ago

    Have you tried things like jffs2? Do they help?
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    by api 8y ago

    Why is it that surprising that blacks who have succeeded would head up diversity measures to help other blacks succeed? If the big vehicle for early black success had been engineering might you see a lot of black engineers heading up dive
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    by api 8y ago

    Don't most modern SD cards contain some wear leveling logic? I did a bunch of research on this a while back and the conclusion I found was: yes, but buy name-brand better rated cards to avoid cheapo cards that do not do wear leveling o
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    by api 8y ago

    Does that remain true if you grossly over-provision the SD card? Use a 64GB card for 1GB of data and you have a lot of wear leveling space.
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    by api 8y ago

    I understand the objection but in general I support the Commons Clause-- as long as developers can easily opt out for projects where it isn't desired or doesn't make sense. Open source developers are building software for free tha