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by dabiged 3y ago
I built one of these when at university in 2008. The AP was up the other end of a long hallway and through many rebar concrete walls. Whenever I needed to download a dataset I would stick it out in the corridor. It was the first time I purc
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by dabiged 3y ago
I am surprised that condensed matter and solid state physics is considered a supplement/elective.
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by dabiged 3y ago
SATA was released in 2000. You can still buy new drives or motherboards with connectors. NTFS was released in 1993. You can still use it with off the shelf operating systems. If I have an NTFS formatted SATA drive from 2002 I can plug it in
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by dabiged 3y ago
All of what you have said is correct. None of what you have said is going to happen at a bank, insurance company or media shop who need to comply with all the corporate legislation post-Enron.
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by dabiged 3y ago
I think a lot of people have also been burned by the continuous new rollout of tape formats. People invest in tape because it offers long term offsite storage, but vendors only offer drive life spans in the order of 4-6 years. After this th
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by dabiged 3y ago
If you are interested in a field or technique I highly recommend articles in the physics review journal. They publish around 4 articles every quarter and each is a 45-70 page deep dive on a subject.
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by dabiged 3y ago
Get a copy of Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach by Jim Kurose. Read the first 500 pages until you get to the physical layer. Skim the back half of the book on funky protocols like Bluetooth, satellite and cell phones.
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by dabiged 3y ago
I had a lto4 (max capacity 800gb) last year that took over 5tb of data. The data was ASCII log files from a server that had been running for years. Lots of repetition (time stamps, everything ok messages, you have mail messages) and the dri
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by dabiged 3y ago
I work in the tape restoration space. My biggest piece of advice is never NEVER encrypt your tapes. If you think restoring data from an unknown format tape is hard, trying to do it when the drive will not let you read the blocks off the tap
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by dabiged 3y ago
Are talking about open source only? Because there are loads of options available. Veritas has two products (netbackup and backupexec). There is also commvault, veeam, ibm spectrum protect and hp data protector. Admittedly only netbackup and
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by dabiged 3y ago
Related, I was going to say lack of growth in packet size. I work with magnetic tape and have seen tape block sizes grow from ~512 bytes in the early 1990s, to 10s MB today, resulting in huge performance improvements. Network packet sizes h
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by dabiged 4y ago
My first OSS project contributions went like this: * Start using some software that I liked * Read the documentation and notice poor grammar, punctuation, typos etc. * submit PR for documentation (man pages, comment lines etc.) * get PR mer
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by dabiged 4y ago
A lot of my favorite physics classes were Applied Physics. These were great as you used the building blocks from 1st/2nd year level to show complex phenomena in the universe. It is a shame this list has none of these. Things like: * St
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Boeing 737 Fireliner crashes in remote Western Australia(abc.net.au)
10 points by dabiged 4y ago|6 comments
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by dabiged 4y ago
It was extremely disappointing to finish a book which truly altered the way you saw the world, and not have a cohort of people to share it with.
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by dabiged 4y ago
From start to finish it probably took around 7-8 years. The booklist I had, started out pretty easy going (i.e. you were expected to read The Illiad in about 2 weeks), towards the fourth year it is frankly delusional how fast you are expect
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How the tiny missing radioactive capsule was found(watoday.com.au)
3 points by dabiged 4y ago|0 comments
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by dabiged 4y ago
Not an alum, but in an effort to improve my written and spoken english, I picked up the list and read the about 80% of the content. I was kind to myself and skipped any book that I absolutely found a slog (there were only a few, Aristotle&#
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by dabiged 4y ago
I think you are missing the context around nuclear anything in Australia. We have no nuclear powerplants. We have no nuclear submarines. Large portions of the country are staunchly against mining uranium. Most people don't know We ope
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by dabiged 4y ago
Teams on Linux.
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by dabiged 4y ago
AWS Pro level Cert.
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by dabiged 4y ago
Emailled.
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by dabiged 4y ago
Can anyone comment on the brands of tape you can purchase? Given it is an open format what sets the brands apart? Are there records of failure rates like backblaze has done with HDDs? Currently for LTO8 tapes you can buy the following bran
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by dabiged 4y ago
I used ChatGPT to generate a basic Azure ARM template for spinning up simple resources in Azure. Worked flawlessly for simple infrastructure like VMs.
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by dabiged 4y ago
There is a Sydney team in the Australian cricket competition that is bright pink.
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by dabiged 4y ago
I played this game with physicist friends and the favorite word was 'shadow'. It was the only everyday object not composed of something in the standard model. It stumped everyone.
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by dabiged 4y ago
I am running Coreutils 8.3 on Linux mint 20. It is also in Coreutils 8.22 in RHEL7. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dd.1.html Edit: I just found this in the coreutils 9.0 changelog: dd now counts by
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by dabiged 4y ago
I am running Coreutils 8.3 on Linux mint 20. It is also in Coreutils 8.22 in RHEL7. Edit: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dd.1.html Edit 2 : I just found this in the coreutils 9.0 changelog: dd now
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by dabiged 4y ago
I only found out because I use dd 1000's of times each day and have had to prototype some really esoteric data pipelines using it. I have even compiled a few custom versions to do various tasks. One other nuggets of wisdom which is ver
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by dabiged 4y ago
skip, seek and count default to counting the number of blocks. So if you want Megabytes 50-60 of a file you can do either a 1 byte block size: > dd if=/tmp/file1 bs=1 skip=50000000 count=10000000 or you can use any block size y

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