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by cm2187 10mo ago
140 pages on coding style. This looks straight out of the CIA handbook for sabotage [1]. I am sure China or Russia have a version of that. > (12) Multiply paper work in plausible ways. Start duplicate files. > (13) Multiply the pro
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by cm2187 10mo ago
Actually more than 3y old. My servers are EPYC Gen 2 and Gen 3 mostly. But I don't think it is a hardware thing, as I see in CrystalDiskMark (which I believe bypasses the Windows write cache) performances that are close to the SSD spec
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by cm2187 11mo ago
The problem I describe is local (U.2 to U.2 SSD on the same machine, drives that could easily performs at 4GB/s read/write, and even when I pool them in RAID0 in arrays that can do 10GB/s). Windows has weird behaviors for cop
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by cm2187 11mo ago
One thing I don't understand with Windows Server is that it seems no matter how fast the nvme drives I use, or I pair/pool, I can't get a normal file copy to go faster than around 1.5GB/s (that's local, no network).
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by cm2187 11mo ago
I think the point is that if you are not Netflix, you can use AV1 as most of your clients devices support hardware acceleration thanks to the big guys using AV1 themselves.
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by cm2187 11mo ago
One difference that strikes me with the .com bubble is that I don't remember the .com companies having sustained multi-billions losses / cash burn. They were not profitable but this is quite different. If (or when) the music stops
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by cm2187 11mo ago
> acting like putting heavier and bigger vehicles with less restrictions on streets won't cause accidents is just plain dishonest Implying that I said it has no impact is plain dishonest
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by cm2187 11mo ago
Numbers of km driven in the US has increased by circa 10% [1] over that period while decreased in the EU by circa 10% [2]. Add to that in european cities the multiplication of bike lanes, and the permanent manufactured congestion of certain
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by cm2187 11mo ago
Only if you need high availability, which is probably not the case for home use. If one of your drives fails under RAID5, before you even order a new disk, you should do an incremental backup, so that your backup is up to date. Then it does
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by cm2187 11mo ago
SHR is not exactly rocket science, it is the combination of lvm and mdadm. You can do that yourself on ubuntu.
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by cm2187 11mo ago
A raspberry pi will go even lower. But as you say, not really comparable in term of functionality. I am comparing this to high end consumer NAS, which will idle at 30-40w minimum.
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by cm2187 11mo ago
Technically any motherboard can become a NAS, but there are desirable features. - low idle power consumption since your NAS will be sitting doing nothing most of the time - pretty much any desktop MB will do - fast networking, 1gbe means ~1
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by cm2187 11mo ago
I believe the default is that ZFS uses 50% of your RAM for caching
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by cm2187 11mo ago
Well, a Synology NAS would probably consume like 30-40w, so we are talking about an excess of $70-100 a year where I live. Depends on one's budget of course, but not really a big deal for me. And certainly less than what I am saving on
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by cm2187 11mo ago
Agree, but that's taking a risk with your data (whereas if a MB fails, you likely just need to replace it but your data is fine), and HDD kind of have a finite number of hours in them. Where buying them used I think makes sense is for
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by cm2187 11mo ago
HDD have to be bought new, as well as anything mechanical (eg fans). But for motherboards, CPU, RAM and SSD, there is great value in buying used enterprise hardware on ebay. It is generally durable hardware that spent a quiet life in a temp
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by cm2187 11mo ago
RTD functions are a different thing. It may be useful for certain cases but in my usage would break the calculation model, as the calls must be made in a given order, and must be refreshed by the user deterministically. I can also build som
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by cm2187 11mo ago
For writing excel formulas, while I think you can use VSTO/COM, you will get a poor performance if you do. The "right" way to do it is with ExcelDNA/ManagedXLL. But the excel calculation engine was never designed to supp
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by cm2187 11mo ago
I am not sure what the stats are but I am certain they left behind a huge number of projects. Probably a population that won't be very vocal on HN but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Even for new projects there are proble
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by cm2187 11mo ago
tbh it is lame for any program reading a text file to not support BOM. It's just one if.
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by cm2187 11mo ago
The economy has never worked like that. When you increase productivity, you create wealth and you enable other industries to appear. We have gone through numbers of those cycles. The industrialisation of agriculture, then machines in manufa
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by cm2187 11mo ago
cough cough... COM
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by cm2187 11mo ago
Not sure I agree. Also depends of the domain. The python ecosystem is of course a lot richer for anything AI. But try to open, manipulate and export spreadsheets. In python you pretty much need a different library for every excel file forma
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by cm2187 11mo ago
Snowflake has that, once you start using it, it's painful to go back.
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by cm2187 11mo ago
SSL and basic encryption isn’t exactly rocket science today. I have not used the telegram desktop app but their web app is completely broken.
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by cm2187 11mo ago
I see the same bugs. It looks like after ICQ, writing a chat app has become an impossible computer science problem (skype, teams, whatsapp,…). How did that ancient civilisation from the 90s managed to build a functional chat app? The know h
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by cm2187 11mo ago
That's the thing, you could go either way. I am not sure I can answer the question "what would a resonable person click?".
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by cm2187 11mo ago
The buses and fire hydrants are easy. It is the bicycles. If it goes a pixel over the next box, do I select the next box? Is the pole part of the traffic light? And the guy as you say. There is a special place in hell for the inventor of re
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by cm2187 1y ago
My guess is that if you need to have been there for 5y, you need to have a way to tell when that 5y starts. I presume it only matters if you apply the day after 5y. When I applied I had been in the UK for over 10y, provided 10y worth of pro
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by cm2187 1y ago
It could also be simply that as you lose weight, you have more tonus (something that I experienced myself), and activities that are inherently passive (watching TV, playing videogame) seem less relatively compeling than more active alternat

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