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by cduzz 3y ago
Oh I agree it's not bonkers from the perspective of "wait you want to put people on that bomb and then explode it?" You can make all sorts of rules about what's not allowed to happen, but often those things happen. I&#x2
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by cduzz 3y ago
That's bonkers. What size nuts do they pass through their engine? Every engine before it goes to space has to have a nut passed through the system? Like a 12mm "go into space" grade nut or a little itty bitty nut like I mig
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by cduzz 3y ago
I think this is a misunderstanding of the "nobody ever got fired for using tech stack X" The background is something like: 1. I'm a profitable (or governmental) organization 2. I'm doing a thing in a critical part
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by cduzz 3y ago
Even for chiplets? I'd expect that you could probably get okay yields at okay costs if you are running a process that's a rev or two behind and making smaller chiplets that are then wired together after testing -- like the pentium
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by cduzz 3y ago
bootp / tftpboot were used to provision diskless systems (diskless workstations / X-terminals) even in the very early 1990s (and likely before, but I didn't interact with them until college computer labs). On scanning my brai
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by cduzz 3y ago
One step out from "repeat successful designs" perhaps is "use the same project planning team / infrastructure from one project to the next" ? A critical flaw in US infrastructure is that the infrastructure owners ty
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by cduzz 3y ago
Now that the bios has the license key, isn't it pretty simple to wipe / reinstall from the MS image?
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by cduzz 3y ago
If intel sells a "3.2ghz cpu" and also advertises that it can run, thermals allowing, a core or two at 4.2ghz, I don't consider that 4.2ghz core "overclocked" as much as "this chip is engineered to have a var
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by cduzz 3y ago
I think "overclock" implies that the end-user is doing something that's out-of-spec for the thing they're operating. This "I can run a core at a faster speed" is a documented feature so not really overclocking.
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by cduzz 3y ago
60s / 70s / 80s -> nobody was fired for buying IBM 90s / 00s / 10s -> nobody was fired for buying MS / cisco 20s -> nobody's fired for migrating to AWS (edited to add cisco)
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by cduzz 3y ago
Characters maybe?
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by cduzz 3y ago
These days it's likely that your SAN is actually just a cluster of commodity hardware where the disks/SSDs have custom firmware and some fancy block shoveling software.
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by cduzz 3y ago
A 3 year depreciation cycle may be reasonable for some spaces but not others. I'm not going to lose sleep over not getting firmware updates; when they've got all the bugs on my stuff ironed out I don't want more firmware upda
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by cduzz 3y ago
I've seen SANs get nuked by operator error or by environmental issues (overheated DC == SAN shuts itself down). Distributed clusters of things can work just fine on ephemeral local storage (aka local storage ). A kafka cluster or an
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by cduzz 3y ago
I'm simply pointing out that a "pure bash" or other shell program is folly once you get past a trivial level of complexity. That How-to doesn't mention that shell eats nulls. If you're using shell as glue, that does
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by cduzz 3y ago
Tesla has a history of making low volume prototypes that they sell to weird early adopters and then making high volume cars. The prototypes validate the designs without as much potential for a crushing warranty bill if a technology bet is
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by cduzz 3y ago
It's not a matter of comfort or discomfort with a tool; A long time ago I wrote: a web server in shell (using either inetd or tcp_server) in 1996, and wrote a mail user agent / web server to read mail out of a maildir and display
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by cduzz 3y ago
I'm just pointing out the insanity / inanity of "pure" shell anything. There are lots of other gotchas hiding in shell that you wouldn't encounter in other languages. As glue, shell's wonderful. Reading from &
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by cduzz 3y ago
In the case of gzip -9 < /dev/random | dd of=/tmp/gibberish the shell's not actually doing anything but forking things and connecting file descriptors of processes to each other gzip -9 < /dev&
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by cduzz 3y ago
well, sure, you can use some external program do process the stdout; then it's no longer "pure bash" which is fine, nobody grades ingots of script based on if they're 90% or 99% or 70% "pure" shell. But -- impo
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by cduzz 3y ago
I suspect lots of people have written a "use tcpserver or inetd and feed stdout to a shell script" antics. The thing is, shell can't cope with nulls -- if you do something like n=$(gzip -9 < /etc/passwd) gz
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by cduzz 3y ago
I just moved them around until it was comfortable; it ended up with them being a bit further apart than shoulder width, the keyboards certainly weren't close to bumping into each other even though they were standard garbage 101 key USB
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by cduzz 3y ago
I've got a couple M keyboards floating around. I grew up using an IBM PC with the F keyboard; when I got my first computer I got a "focus 2002" keyboard that also had the mechanical (but not BS) keys. Worked a university and
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by cduzz 3y ago
If you're using a PC you can likely just get 2 keyboards. It'll use a little more desktop space but you can put them wherever you want. I've found that the mac doesn't respect "left keyboard shift right keyboard l
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by cduzz 3y ago
A bit of story telling here: IBM and Microsoft made OS/2. The first version worked on 286s and was stable but useless. The second version worked only on 386s and was quite good, and even had wonderful windows 3.x compatibility. &quot
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by cduzz 3y ago
Is it? That's clever sounding but mostly wrong. Democracy is a system where political disagreements are resolved through a set of agreed-upon rules (AKA "rule of law") instead of violence. The alternative to Democracy is ma
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by cduzz 3y ago
So -- for the purposes of locating a base station that's connected to the starlink network -- the starlink network would rely on the base station reporting it's location? Hopefully not... It certainly doesn't need to just t
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by cduzz 3y ago
I'm going to call on Cunningham's law here... (I'm not sure if I am right or wrong but I think I'm right and hopefully someone can correct me) I don't think starlink needs GPS as much as the starlink service is
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by cduzz 3y ago
The L3 EV charging setup dumps 200-900 volt at up to 100 amps into the car. People charge their car in the rain. I don't want an adapter that makes Big Clive say "oh, that's even better. That's very interesting."
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by cduzz 3y ago
On the face of it, "How can Tesla have 2x the market cap of Toyota?!?!" sounds pretty sane. Tesla owns its dealership / sales network; what's the value of those "dealerships"? Similarly tesla runs a huge charg

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