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by colinb 2y ago
I run a small home-built NAS (N100, JBOD) and the thing that surprised me* was how much power the spinning rust draws. I would love to replace it with SSDs, but I've got ~20TB and the cost would be insane right now. I'm hoping tha
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by colinb 2y ago
I heard all those names. In IOS (upper case’i’) the v4 s/w forwarding plane talked about tries. The v6 code was sprinkled with radix. Variable tree stride for different address mapping characteristics was my favourite. I was, and still
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by colinb 2y ago
Anyone know if this covers foreign earned income etc? I.e. can I, who hasn't lived in the US for many years, make use of the service?
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by colinb 2y ago
from the conclusion: "Overall, the results suggest that eye exercises have limited to no efficacy in preventing or controlling myopia progression. Until robust evidence supports their efficacy, available evidence suggests retiring the
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by colinb 2y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/oct/22/scientists-c... perhaps.
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by colinb 3y ago
I see that you exclude Azure. Are you dead set against Microsoft? I’m not a customer but my spouse is and she tells me that they definitely support GDPR/EU-only data centres. They’re used in this way by more than one EU civil service.
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by colinb 3y ago
it ain't ubiquity, but there are BYDs on the streets of Dublin. And very nice they look too. There are also plenty of MGs.
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by colinb 3y ago
I'm interested in the way covers vary for different countries. Even when the language is the same. The Josh Kirby covers for Discworld [0] were a big draw when I saw them in Ireland the UK. The covers in the US and Australia much less
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by colinb 3y ago
Me? Yes I am.
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by colinb 3y ago
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by colinb 3y ago
If you’re interested in the history then I recently read and mostly liked The Chip by TR Reid. I’d like to find something more up to date than that. Lots of buzz around Chip War by Chris Miller. I haven’t read it.
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UK ministers seek to allay WhatsApp and Signal concerns in encryption row(theguardian.com)
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What to read after T.R. Reid's The Chip?
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by colinb 3y ago
I attended a UCLA extension course he gave sometime in the mid-90's. He was clever and funny and taught well. He talked a little about the earliest days of the C++ compiler, when it was mostly horrible C preprocessor macros. It's
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by colinb 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463312 talks about some in real time uses
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by colinb 3y ago
Anathem. Or, what Neal Stephenson thinks about this.
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by colinb 3y ago
Nibbled to death by ducks. I’ve been putting off the move to Apple’s password ecosystem for some time. I think it now supports secure notes - though probably not as well as 1p, but from my pov their trajectories are going in opposite direct
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by colinb 3y ago
Didn't they recently buy Fully, purveyors of domestically acceptable standing desks? Is this a way for them to chase those delicious WFH $/€/₹?
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by colinb 3y ago
Story time. My first job out of college, working on the port of VMS from VAX to Alpha AXP. This was before it was renamed OpenVMS (Posix team in Italy!) and when Alpha was still a codename (possible alternates for final choice of product na
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by colinb 4y ago
I learned about this as a side effect of reading In The Dream House by Carla Maria Machado. So, while is tangential to this article, I recommend that book for its unusual structure and fascinatingly awful (but allegedly non fictional) story
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by colinb 4y ago
> For example, in Europe it’s mandatory to send your child to school No. No it isn’t. I don’t know where you’re writing from but I can tell you that home schooling is a thing in some European countries. Maybe all of them? I can say for
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by colinb 4y ago
That's an interesting calculation you have there. We wouldn't want something bad to happen to it. My associates and I offer coverage against unanticipated rises in gas prices. We call this prote^h^h^h^h^h insurance. More seriously
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by colinb 4y ago
(I think that) Flimsy ~= less likely to fall down in an earthquake. When I moved from Ireland to California I moved into a two storey (1940s?) apartment apparently constructed from drinking straws and toilet paper. But… a few weeks later th
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by colinb 4y ago
“Common sense” is, as the young people say, doing a lot of heavy lifting here. You know who doesn’t get saved from their demons? Dead people. Only living people get to improve their lives, find their own meaning, enrich the world with their
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by colinb 4y ago
I don’t know why Apple limit the number of timers in this way, but I do know that a single hardwire timer is sufficient to manage thousands of software timers. Look for George Varghese’s work on Timer Wheels if you’re interested. Commonly u
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by colinb 4y ago
In a (very) previous life I worked for a company that made planogram software for Windows CE handhelds. This caused me to have a (brief) subscription to The Grocer magazine. We had a contract with Transport For London (TfL) and Cadburys to
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by colinb 4y ago
I believe you. There are racists in Britain. There are all manner of bigots there. Between people who thought I was fair game for being Irish (I've heard all the potato jokes I promise) to those who don't like me for being Jewish,
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by colinb 4y ago
Compared to where? I have no dog in this fight. I'm not British. I don't live in Britain. I am certain that racism exists in Britain. But I don't think I've been anywhere that racism doesn't exist. More to the point
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by colinb 4y ago
I found your podcast after a comment here about the episode featuring the guy who built the (Apple II?) app from his cabin in the woods. I’m still a regular listener.
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by colinb 4y ago
Is it still the case that if you're in a private hospital for anything bigger than an ingrown toenail, and something goes wrong, then they'll shove you in an ambulance and take you to the nearest NHS teaching hospital, because: -

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