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This doesn't really make sense. The modern WAN operates on multiple independent networks - SD-WANs, multiple transit providers, fiber-ring MPLS, EVPN etc. If you propagate a bad network change throughout your autonomous system or backb
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>"There isn’t a concept of a transaction or a rollback. You just enter a command, press enter and it’s live." This hasn't been true for a very long time. Juniper router's have rollbacks, commits and revisions: https:
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4y ago
Your CEO sure doesn't seem to have much empathy when it's someone else though: https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/1143182575680143361
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The article states: >"The capsule was not lost through cartoonish buffoonery, but through an almost cinematic series of events." It then goes on to state: >"Although the truck made the journey from Jan. 12 to Jan. 16, t
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This looks great. Relatedly, Werner Herzog made a documentary on the Taiga: "Happy People: A Year in the Taiga": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/
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Wow, what amazing pictures. I had a few questions if you don't mind: What type of wild life did you encounter? How did you manage to find and rent the cabin? Did you travel solo?
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The README states: >"The common theme is to identify and resolve self-reference in systems code which is seen as the key challenge when teaching systems engineering, hence the name." Could someone explain what is meant by "
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This is great. Cheers!
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>"But maybe that's fine." Oh I think it's more than fine :) Your goal wasn't to write a C++ or Python app it's was to create almost everything from first principles. I also don't think anyone would doub
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This is a really fantastic read! I wonder if the author might consider including links to the git source for the entire project?
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What does unison provide in this strategy. I remember the old Keepass, is KeepassXC the next generation in this?
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From the top of the reddit post: >"For those that may not have seen it, since instead of a new post they “updated” the one from November…Looks like it’s even worse than they first let on" Can anyone say if they notified their c
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Not only does he bury the ledge in his self-referential philosophical drivel but he closes the layoff announcement with: >"Finally, I hope you will join me tomorrow for Unplugged." He seems like a caricature. Tone-deaf seems to
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The WSJ article on this announcement states: >"OpenAI was in talks this month to sell existing shares in a tender offer that would value the company at around $29 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported, making it one of the most
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The post states: >"Azure’s unique architecture design has been crucial in delivering best-in-class performance and scale for our AI training and inference workloads." Can someone say what is unique about the Azure cloud archite
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4y ago
From the second sentence of your link: >"It was an intimate gathering of 50 or so people, including the company’s top executives, who got to while away the evening listening to a performance by the musical artist Sting, said people
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A few things that jumped out from the original source in the WSJ[1]: >"... CEO Satya Nadella would explain in a blog post, reflected the need for the company to adapt to a global economic slowdown." >"On Wednesday, he w
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>"A good leader knows when they’re facing a tough problem that they don’t have all the answers for and they need help solving it. Reaching out for that help rather than trying to muddle through on your own could be the difference be
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>"I don’t relish explaining to my son why he can occasionally catch me absent-mindedly whistling Stephen Foster’s “Shortnin" Bread” but will never, ever hear me sing the lyrics." This really seems like an odd comment. &quo
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>"God I wish we could just do a Land Value Tax and be done with it." Can you say what this is and how it would address the housing situation? The housing bubble certainly is a slow moving one at this point. It seems like there&
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Thanks for the link to the blog post series! What a fascinating career you have had. I was curious about your statement: >"Lisp machines were marketed as productivity enhancers with an emphasis on (old fashioned) AI." Could you
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>"I did early Lisp development on Symbolics Lisp Machines back in the day. Wrote 3D graphics on them." Interesting. Symbolics Lisp Machines seem almost mythical to me. Are there things about 3D graphics development that lent th
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>"The Itanium design was to encode multiple instructions in very long instruction words, where all of the instructions in a given word can be executed at once. I believe you are describing VLIW architecture here? Is that correct? &g
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>"The instruction set is complex, convenient, high level, and slow." Could you elaborate on how The DEC VAX ISA was complex yet also convenient? I feel like those two characteristic are at odds with each other. Or does complexi
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>"The Algol 68 Genie project preserves and promotes Algol 68 out of educational as well as scientific-historical interest, by making available a recent checkout compiler-interpreter written from scratch by Marcel van der Veer, toget
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Since you seem to have experience with both VS Code + LSP and CLion, could you or anyone else say how these two stack up? Is CLion worth paying for compared to what's on offer from VS Code + LSP?
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>"Whereas my plant takes half a decade to establish, then produces $10 of fruit in a good year." I would be interested in hearing more detail about the economics of the $10. Is this price you get from selling your grapes to som
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>"Smalltalk is a programming language (+runtime, GUI, development environment) that originated at the Xerox PARC research center in the early 1970s ..." I'm curious was it used as a standalone OO language outside of GUI de
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The README states: >"Smalltalk-80 for Raspberry Pi version 0.2 This is a bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi." I was curious what "bare metal" means in this context. Does this just mean that the Small Tal
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Ah neat, this is fascinating. I had never really thought about where they actually came from. I suppose I just assumed it was Java. For anyone else who is curious - the roots of bytecode are in the BCPL compiler and the intermediate O-codes
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