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by bcrl 1y ago
There's a huge downside to poles where I'm based: permit shenanigans by pole owners that delay projects and allow incumbents to destroy competitors. Granted, some municipalities do the same thing. One local municipality I have t
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by bcrl 1y ago
I've had less than 0.5% of customers ask for IPv6 from my fibre ISP. It's not worth supporting as a result. The main reason is that any service that is not widely used will have gremlins that result in poor customer experience,
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by bcrl 1y ago
I already have a 4 x SFP+ FMC board attached to my KC705, and that is what I have used for a bunch of development. However, that is the opposite of what I want to do. I want the FPGA to be inside of the SFP+ / QSFP module to be able
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by bcrl 1y ago
I've had some fun learning how to implement various bits and pieces of networking on FPGAs as a hobby for a while, and while boards like this that focus on gigabit network are fine, the fact is that there are a lot of FPGA boards with
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by bcrl 1y ago
Resumes let the applicant paint a picture of who they are, and are a good source of background that gives ideas for what questions to ask applicants, or what projects they did. I don't want to go into an interview as an interviewer kn
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by bcrl 1y ago
I will put relevant details in a resume or cover letter that are not meant for public consumption on LinkedIn. There are plenty of people that can't go into too many details in public about their current role because of NDAs. Hiring i
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by bcrl 1y ago
Resumes provide a significant amount of relevant background information on job applicants. How do you propose to obtain this information? Not everything that happens is recorded and available online.
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by bcrl 1y ago
Online job applications forms are a great way to filter out high quality applicants by wasting their time. I'd rather spend the time which would otherwise be wasted on those forms talking to humans I know and have worked with to find
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by bcrl 1y ago
The Gnome project wastes so many resources rewriting the toolkit every 5 years, it is no wonder that zero progress has been made over the past 25 years.
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by bcrl 1y ago
The Core CPUs were excellent designs that didn't sacrifice performance while hitting a much lower power target than the P4. Intel was saved by the fact that the design team in Israel didn't go down the path of the P4 aiming for 1
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by bcrl 1y ago
I was just helping out with the network at an event. Worked great in testing, but it failed in production due to unicast flooding the network core. Turns out that some of the PoE Ethernet switches had an insufficiently sized CAM for the d
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by bcrl 1y ago
Due diligence won't catch every single problem every time. Luck is as much a part of success in business as solving the right problem at the right time. Supporting small business matters to ensure that enough people try to succeed as
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by bcrl 1y ago
Get rid of the corn subsidies and production will shift to more sustainable crops that don't result in high fructose corn syrup being overused and increasing rates of diabetes and obesity.
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by bcrl 1y ago
If Americans think Canada is the backdoor route for China into the US market, then why did Canada impose tariffs on BYD to align with US policy towards China made automobiles? Clearly actions mean nothing with the current administration. H
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by bcrl 1y ago
The Impossible Whopper tastes great to me, but it's just a bit too dry compared to the regular Whopper. The A&W Beyond doesn't suffer from the dryness, but it is much further away from a meat taste than the Impossible is (alt
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by bcrl 1y ago
There are some cases where it's obvious, but there are many cases where it is not. "Made in XXX" labels aren't sufficient for a consumer to discern at a glance whether a product is made sustainably or if the manufacture
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by bcrl 1y ago
Canada does not subscribe to the belief that platforms should be permitted to steal advertising dollars away from all local media organizations while at the same time sharing that stolen content to their users without driving traffic to the
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by bcrl 1y ago
The Good Place made the point that people no longer understand the unintended consequences of the decisions they make because of the complexity of the world that we live in. The harm is so far removed from the choice made by an individual
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by bcrl 1y ago
As Meta blocks mainstream news in Canada due to its abject refusal to pay for content the only news available on their platforms mostly comes from publishers that tend to have extreme bias in their reporting rather than the journalists that
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by bcrl 1y ago
PA-RISC clock speeds were relatively low for the time of their introduction. For example, the PA-8900 was launched in May 2005. The low end Athlon 64 of May 2005 was clocked at 2.2GHz (and eventually hit 3.2GHz) versus the PA-RISC top clo
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by bcrl 1y ago
The leader represents the country because the votes of the citizens put him in power. Nobody else in the US government with a similar amount of power has rejected or denied the 51st state rhetoric. This is what worries Canadians: nobody i
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by bcrl 2y ago
Has everyone already forgotten about Optane, too?
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by bcrl 2y ago
Intel can't even act as a functional foundry for internal customers.
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by bcrl 2y ago
> These are little bit different than than what a swappable system would entail, aren't they? From an electrical point of view, swapping batteries is fundamentally the same general problem regardless of whether they are large or sma
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by bcrl 2y ago
My point is that hot swappable battery packs have benefits that outweigh the cost of the connectors for the people that have a use case that needs them, as the grandparent referred to in Thinkpads. Not everyone fits in the constraints of d
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by bcrl 2y ago
Do you realize that one of the reasons for the swappable batteries on various Thinkpads is so that you can hot swap batteries without powering down or rebooting? I've never had an issue with the connectors for the batteries of the Thin
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by bcrl 2y ago
Back in the early 1990s I recall working on a system that downloaded Usenet news feeds over satellite. I worked for a local sysop at the time, and due to high long distance costs in Canada it was tremendously more cost effective than trans
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by bcrl 2y ago
Pretty sure France would lend Canada some nukes when needed.
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by bcrl 2y ago
I'm surprised there are no tariffs on software imports from India.
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by bcrl 2y ago
And this is why Canadians are deeply concerned. Nobody is reigning in your leaders that are continuing to frequently repeat comments about annexing Canada and using economic force to do so. I've traveled to the US extensively for work

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