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by don-code 5y ago
Could I ask for any examples of software you're buying on Linux? Outside of games (Steam), niche software (ModelSim/QuestaSim), and tools that I just don't need the full power of to justify their cost (MATLAB), I've foun
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by don-code 5y ago
About 12 years ago, some friends and I ended up rewatching the original Space Jam. 30 minutes into the movie, somebody exclaimed "THE WEBSITE IS STILL UP!" - and we promptly changed movie night over to trawling the website, laughi
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by don-code 5y ago
This was close to the way my high school chose to deal with process gaps. Luckily, the two IT guys were more than happy to help me out - I could get off scot-free if I just showed them how I'd done it. They blocked executables on flopp
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by don-code 5y ago
The network space on my university campus was flat and unfirewalled - one big /16 on which every device had more or less unfettered access to every other device. Sometime in my senior year, I read that there was a PJL command that coul
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by don-code 5y ago
The slowest modem I ever had the pleasure of using was 9600 baud, but even at that rate, it was way too fast for me to actually comprehend that there was a series of high and low tones representing bits. Back in college, we had acoustically
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by don-code 6y ago
I've seen this happen with mobile providers and ISPs in APAC, especially Australia and New Zealand. In the worst case, a migration we expected to take place within an hour actually long-tailed to a full 24 hours - where within an hour,
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by don-code 6y ago
This is a double-edged sword. I'm definitely in the same boat as you, in that I spent most of my formative years online. But the people I interacted with, and the skills I developed, really had no parallel in the real world around me.
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by don-code 6y ago
I'll go one step further: were it not for self-hosting since the early 2000s, I probably wouldn't have a career. My first "server" was a Pentium laptop with no screen. Now I run thousands of servers for a company you&#x2
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by don-code 6y ago
This is a common critique I've gotten! It was definitely something I considered heavily when buying - and is actually the reason I chose to eat the cost of staying close to the city, rather than move to some far-flung place where the c
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by don-code 6y ago
Buying a home. But not for any of the typical reasons. If you told me back in February that I'd buy a home in 2020, I'd have told you to get lost. I lived alone in a small apartment, with a "necessities" mentality, and h
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by don-code 6y ago
The answer seems to be "yes", for several reasons: 1) I also once changed my privacy preferences, but have since been opted back in. 2) I wouldn't have even known to check were it not for Hacker News, which is _not_ how I, no
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by don-code 6y ago
The PlayStation 2 is actually one of the original reasons I got interested in the computer engineering space. The EE chip is a sort of who's-who of optimization techniques - hardware decoding, vector processing, VLIW architecture (for
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by don-code 6y ago
Back before the Raspberry Pi made hobby-class computers a norm, I had a habit of collecting old PCs and "doing things" with them. The Simtel collection was a favorite for finding things I didn't know I needed in my life. In t
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by don-code 6y ago
I don't know that ERCOT has any similar program - here in the US, for areas that run a load-shedding system, load is typically dropped after 0.2 seconds of 59.5hz or lower (nominally 60hz). Some consumers may choose to cut themselves o
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by don-code 6y ago
Some time ago, I worked for a defunct energy company that provided demand-side relief in exactly this scenario - when total system load outstrips total system capacity, we'd begin taking actions on behalf of end users, not the utility.
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by don-code 6y ago
My dad was a pretty big factor. He worked for a series of tech companies in the 80s and 90s (DEC, Zoom Telephonics, etc.), so our home always seemed to be on the bleeding edge - we got DSL in 1997, Wi-Fi in 2000, etc. The 386 PC was part of
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by don-code 6y ago
I used to work for a company which used S3 as its data backend - copying lots of files in and out of S3 is how the product worked. It was also how we enabled QA/STG and the CI/CD pipelines to interact with some of that data - sani