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by drewg123 4y ago
I'd never heard of COM-HPC before. In this design, it appears that the memory slots are perpendicular to the PCIe slots, and thus perpendicular to typical server front->back airflow. Is this a common design element in all COM-HPC C
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by drewg123 4y ago
I'm not sure its better then OpenFirmware.. just simpler (for me). I haven't really used SRM in 20 years, and I haven't used openfirmware in about the same amount of time. But if you boot me in front of an alpha running SRM
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by drewg123 4y ago
The other side of this is that I'd rather have the slots and a minimal on-board NIC so that I can install a 100g nic of my choosing. I hate motherboards where they force you to take 2x 10G rj45 ports that I'll never use and which
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by drewg123 4y ago
I miss DEC Alpha so much. I started out as a sysadmin for an stats department in 1993 that made heavy use of DEC Alphas running DEC OSF/1 due to their floating point performance. DEC had one of the first 64 bit CPUs on the market, and
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by drewg123 4y ago
Interesting. My house came with one of those awful GE fridges that uses RFID tags to make you change your filter, or it will stop making ice and dispensing water. It also makes you buy "genuine" $60 filters rather than generic $
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by drewg123 4y ago
I think paracetamol/acetaminophen is fine, as long as you realize the dose you are taking . However, this is harder than it sounds, as (at least in the USA), it is included in all manner of "night-time cold medicine" and &
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by drewg123 4y ago
..."you are forming a derivative work of the Kernel" Which in the case of ZFS is obviously nonsense. ZFS was developed on Solaris and ported to many other OSes. Its certainly not a derivative work of the linux kernel. This is a
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by drewg123 4y ago
Indeed. In fact, my main reason for ZFS on root is boot environments. If something breaks, its trivial to roll back the rootfs as it was in the old BE, before the upgrade. And I run ZFS on FreeBSD.
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by drewg123 4y ago
I think that is the point.. the kernel devs want to break 3rd party modules, because they don't like stuff distributed outside the kernel.
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by drewg123 4y ago
Did you actually read the article? He's proposing allowing sonic booms below certain decibel limits that are apparently below what any aircraft can achieve today. So your experience with airshow sonic booms is not directly relevant.
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by drewg123 4y ago
I use a wireless charging cradle because o It saves physical wear and tear on the lightning / USB port o It allows charging when the lightning / USB port is damaged (its the only way my fiance could charge her old iphone after an
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by drewg123 4y ago
I started donating 50/50 to both my local affiliate and the national NPR non-profit a few years ago. I realized that about half my NPR listening was via the affiliate, and half was via NPR podcasts. You can also support some of the po
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by drewg123 4y ago
Planet Money and the Indicator are excellent.
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by drewg123 4y ago
syscall numbers may be different, but the names are not different. BTW, this is a pet peeve of mine. Having different syscall (and errno) numbers on different architectures is an historical mistake from Linux's first non-x86 port, the
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by drewg123 4y ago
What does that do to your credit score? I seem to recall that closing and opening cards can both lower you score..
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by drewg123 4y ago
Can you link something substantial, like Firefox, statically on NetBSD?
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by drewg123 4y ago
The fact that it produces a single static binary is one of the nicest things about golang. This used to be easy with C (on BSD & Linux) a long time ago, but then everything started to depend on various shared libs, who then depend on ot
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by drewg123 4y ago
Its an interesting trade off. I'd argue that if you don't plan to road trip your car, and have home charging, an EV is actually far safer in terms of crime, since you never need to go to a gas station. However, on road trips, I
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by drewg123 4y ago
I took a look at their page, and they say that they "finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications" . However, their blogs/progress reports are 4 years old. Do you know how far along the
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by drewg123 4y ago
Lol. No, its more like everybody will line up take care of those more important things when they get access to a time machine, but when I get access to a time machine, I want to take care of my pet peeve :)
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by drewg123 4y ago
Ethernet switches are actually pretty complex things, when you think about it. They have to learn what MAC addresses are behind each port, and build a complex forwarding table and do table lookups in real time. The larger the switch, the
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by drewg123 4y ago
Back when I was doing a lot of ethernet driver work, I joked to colleagues about what I'd do if I had a time machine. Go back and kill Hitler? no. Go back and stop John Wilkes Booth from shooting Lincoln? No. I'd go back and
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by drewg123 4y ago
The defrag was a year or two before I joined, as I recall. The remote work policy seemed to go by org. I worked in platforms, and our VP was old-school, adamantly opposed to remote work. He'd proudly walk around the office, surveying
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by drewg123 4y ago
I was there 2013->2015. It was not viewed as "beloved" in my eyes; more like a benevolent, paternalistic overlord. There were certainly negatives. It was nearly impossible to concentrate at work, due to being in a large open
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by drewg123 4y ago
For desktop, I had exactly the opposite experience in ~2006. I had a whitebox *nix box that had a catastrophic failure and I needed to be up and running quickly. I was working 12+ hours a day, had a new baby, and I didn't have time
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by drewg123 4y ago
Rather than a blanket "Linux Preinstalled", I'd like to know about S3 sleep support. Eg, it would be nice to know which laptops still support real S3 sleep, and not just the new "Windows modern standby" mode. I wat
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by drewg123 4y ago
I've sometimes wondered if the click-through ratio to the link should/does factor into ranking stories.
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by drewg123 4y ago
What institution?
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by drewg123 4y ago
Why so expensive? It’s just a PCIe card, some PCIe switches, and a lot of m.2 slots. I could see a few hundred dollars, but nearly $3k? Why?
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by drewg123 4y ago
Twitter works for me via the web & ios app, here on the US east coast..

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