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by briffle 3y ago
Oh god, DivX.. I had almost forgotten. Lets write a new video compression algorithm that is super efficient - great this lets us compress movies so they can fit on cheap CD's, instead of DVDs. - great We can now give those CD's a
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by briffle 3y ago
But then the vendors would not be able to differentiate (ie, markup) their products. They currently charge thousands more for adding $75 of memory.
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by briffle 3y ago
The sad thing is, there is no way for an incoming new customer to know that.
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by briffle 3y ago
They all have their own streaming platform, that doesn’t always have their own shows. I remember being so frustrated trying to find the actual correct spot to stream Yellowstone. (Been a few years, trying to remember)It was on the paramou
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by briffle 3y ago
The 2 old datacenteers are still sitting there with Mandiant doing a full investigation since the attack started. They have been migrating all their services for that business they bought to the cloud, and have already started turning up se
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by briffle 3y ago
> That from a "tiktok is bad for you" perspective. From a security and economic perspective there's a big difference between the company behind it being Meta or bytedance. No, not really, they have proven time and again th
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by briffle 3y ago
My Asus zenbook 14 is around that price, has a 1TB disk, and 16GB of ram. I'm sure the processor on the M3 is faster, and probably a fair amount more battery out of it, but now I'm comparing a $1000 zenbook to a $1700 13' mac
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by briffle 3y ago
In some areas, a green nozle means diesel. In others, a yellow one means diesel... And different states have different levels of ethanol added that can mess with your older hoses and fittings. But most of us got quickly used to that
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by briffle 3y ago
The private school in my town with a $1B endowment is still one of the priciest west of the mississippi, and spent last week with no internet, because of a cyber-attack. I guess it mainly matters what their priorities are.
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by briffle 3y ago
In addition, Every centralized storage, and every cloud provider lets you take a snapshot of a database's disks. We can restore a 10TB disk in about 12 minutes. its much faster to snapshot, do migration, then if necessary, drop disk an
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by briffle 3y ago
I don’t like the percentage profit they take in the US, they can sell a drug outside the US for $50, but charge $300 here. Either we are subsidizing other countries, or they are fleecing us for what they can get, often on the back of resear
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by briffle 3y ago
as a potential client, they were also night and day different. I had great sales conversations with Auth0, and they had so many easy to follow examples, tutorials, etc. Very helpful engineers on the call, who asked questions about our env
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by briffle 3y ago
I'd be fine with getting money for healthcare from my employer (especially if it was in a special pre-tax account, like a 401k that I could then use to purchase healthcare), but my being tied to whatever 2-3 plan options the head of HR
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by briffle 3y ago
I'd be very interested as well. My gas furnace is only a few years old, but my AC system is probably 10 years old. If I could replace just that with a heat pump, and leave my gas furnace in place as a backup, that would be ideal.
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by briffle 3y ago
As a quick reminder, in most police departments, because of their Union Agreements, Police officers cannot be questioned unless they have their lawyer present (they HAVE to be present), and a union rep, and have to be shown ALL video eviden
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by briffle 3y ago
I have a friend that was on the over-winter IT team.. he has great stories of his winter there. Datacenters where you open a valve to let in super cold super dry air to cool the servers, rathan than think about AC.
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by briffle 3y ago
EPIC is flashy, has a gorgous campus in Madison, WI, and has lots of marketing. but at its core, it runs on MUMPS as both a language and database. I know many people that have worked on their integration teams, and could not imagine having
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by briffle 3y ago
its not like weather forecasting has been a key feature of many historic battles. [0] Or for importing into rocket and artillery systems for accurate targeting. Or for flight planning of aircraft. [0] https://www.ksat.com/w
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by briffle 3y ago
surely they upgraded their OS, and the packages to patch security vulnerabilities, right? Long uptimes aren't always great, when it comes at the expense of security.
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by briffle 3y ago
Or scour through these breaches, thinking of how to embarrass the lawmakers with info you find in them. Maybe when it affects the fancy people, they will start making laws to protect themselves, and hopefully include us in it.
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by briffle 3y ago
I remember the forums (and slashdot comments) just hammering valve for thinking of creating steam and introducing DRM to their games, and that they would never, ever use it because of that. But Valve has had an awesome record of using it re
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by briffle 3y ago
And if your American, getting a $275 bill for the privilege, that you hope your insurance pays most of.
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by briffle 3y ago
I believe the new Xeon SP processors coming out are also based on the 'chiplet' design like the Epyc ones.
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by briffle 3y ago
The first time i did a commit, knocked myself off the system, and it automatically rolled back its config 5 min later because I didn't do a 'commit confirm' was kind of mindblowing.
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by briffle 3y ago
and all the storage vendors they have aquired over the years. LeftHand, Nimble, 3par....
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by briffle 3y ago
My $100 brother laser printer I bought 6 months ago has printed everything I asked (dozens and dozens of pages) from Windows, Linux (well supported linux drivers!) and our families mix of apple and android phones.
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by briffle 3y ago
taking out a drone with an expensive rocket is a bad choice, but taking out the drone launching crew and site with a rocket (or even better, a good size naval canon) seems like a much more cost effective choice. Its easy to launch things w
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by briffle 3y ago
I don't undertand why the EU isn't all over this. those containerships are mostly going to them. I'm also curious how long this route around africa is the best option, since right now, its summer in the southern hemisphere..
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by briffle 3y ago
You still need to manage backups. You’re trusting everything to the vendor. I run a docker image weekly that pulls my google photos, copies to my USB drive in my pi, and also copies to backblaze b2.
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by briffle 3y ago
That was the case for a few years, but its turning back now. It used to be anything over 7500lbs was exempted from mileage standards, plus, they could be depreciated faster on taxes if you owned a small business. that is why so many small

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