drewg123

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by drewg123 5y ago
Sunny and 26C is pants weather?
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by drewg123 5y ago
Nice, I didn't know that. I did most of the work in ~2017 before TLS 1.3.
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by drewg123 5y ago
I'm super impressed that they got it to work so quickly. What I hate about crypto is that is either wrong or right, there is no "mostly working" that you can identify easily and use as a debugging aid. This drove me crazy wh
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by drewg123 5y ago
Sadly, she was a heavy smoker, and passed away from lung cancer when I was still very early in my career. The one time we "worked together" was when I got a summer internship at another defense contractor, programming in FORTRAN 7
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by drewg123 5y ago
I first played Colossal Cave adventure on a terminal in my mom's office in the late 70s. She was a FORTRAN programmer for a defense contractor, and would take me into the office on school holidays when she could not find daycare. She
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by drewg123 5y ago
Indeed, it was quite a shock. Jakov was a wonderful person and the best supervisor one could hope to have. We're all very sad about his passing, and very sad for his family.
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by drewg123 5y ago
Yes and no. The original firmware / host driver stack was open (shared?) source called MyriAPI. It was so terrible that spawned an ecosystem of uni and research lab projects to implement replacements. I worked on one such project at
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by drewg123 5y ago
Because it was CA focused, and I was remote. So most local providers were out of network. And it was not free ... Its been almost a decade, but I seem to recall that it was cheaper to add me to my (then) wife's coverage.
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by drewg123 5y ago
I think you're talking about the Alteon Tigon-II NICs (Alteon was acquired by Broadcom). Ken Merry and I modified Alteon firmware so that it supported zero-copy sockets by doing page-flipping on receive. See https://people
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by drewg123 5y ago
At least initially (~2005 or so?) we had customers who were given free IB for their HPC clusters ripping the IB out and replacing it with with paid Myrinet installations because they could never get their IB clusters to work reliably. Altho
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by drewg123 5y ago
I worked there and have evidence that this statement in the blog is not true, and I'm being down-voted?
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by drewg123 5y ago
I'm not sure that part of Scott's article was accurate. I worked remotely, and I'm pretty sure that I was offered benefits. I declined them, and used my wife's benefits because they were less expensive, and meshed bette
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by drewg123 5y ago
I worked for Myricom 2001->2013, and Google 2013->2015. And, wow, I wish I could comment on this thread.. :) EDIT: Scott's Medium blog post linked from this article is fascinating: https://medium.com/swlh&#x2F
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by drewg123 5y ago
TL;DR: A pillar widths have increased due to increased standards for rollover accidents. This leads to blind-spots that cause drivers to hit pedestrians. I've come dangerously close to hitting things due to the width of my A pillars,
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by drewg123 5y ago
The safety score based on g-forces for braking and cornering are such utter BS. Just because I enjoy spirited driving doesn't mean that I am unsafe, or incapable of baby sitting the AI. After driving like a granny for far too long, I
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by drewg123 5y ago
And for AndroidTV devices, SmartTubeNext is awesome: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
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by drewg123 5y ago
Naively, I'd say to try a VPN with multiple PoPs in different countries. Eg, the same thing that people use to get around Netflix or other geoblocks.
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by drewg123 5y ago
Yes, Ice lake is 10th gen "Intel core". PCIe Gen5 / DDR5 is a part of 12th Gen "Alder Lake". According to wikipedia, "Saphire Rapids" is the code name for the Xeon that is based on Alder Lake: https:&#x
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by drewg123 5y ago
I worked in Plymouth, and had regular meetings with folks in Crittenden. That was a ~10 minute bike ride. When I had time, I loved biking over there and back, maybe catching a meal at a cafe far from my office. It was the perfect mid-d
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by drewg123 5y ago
What drives me insane is the UEFI shell using dark blue text for some things. That's impossible to read with a black background. The last place I want to squint and guess at what something says is when I'm applying a firmware u
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by drewg123 5y ago
The thing I miss most about leaving my Android Pixel 2 for an iPhone is real Firefox for mobile with Ublock Origin and other extensions. The Firefox on iOS is nowhere near as good, and I'd love to have Firefox back. This lack of suppo
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Energy Efficiency across Programming Languages (2017) [pdf](greenlab.di.uminho.pt)
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by drewg123 5y ago
At a previous employer, we had an expense reporting system that required that every expense have an image of a receipt. So lots of people would loose receipts, and would then just include a photo of a napkin with "I lost the receipt&
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by drewg123 5y ago
" ads in-person with GPS information. They literally bring people to you " Can you elaborate? I read this like you're saying somebody is going to be somebody showing up on my door forcing physical paper ads in my face. That
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by drewg123 5y ago
If you're only interested in syscalls, then yes. But a library's memory is mmaped (syscall), which just establishes a virtual address mapping for the library file. When the library is accessed, that mmap'ed region is faulte
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by drewg123 5y ago
I'm a FreeBSD developer and run FreeBSD on my desktop, and MacOS on my laptop. I have not had a great experience with any *nix other than MacOS on a laptop. My main objection to MacOS & why I don't run it on my desktop is tha
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by drewg123 5y ago
Yes, most of the people in my group have FreeBSD desktops where I work. FreeBSD is kind of the odd-man out, as our IT folks support Linux as a first class citizen (along side MacOS and Windows). So we have to use a few workarounds, but it
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by drewg123 5y ago
I was keying off of this " The BIG TCP patch set adds the logic necessary to generate and accept jumbo packets when the maximum transmission unit (MTU) of a connection is set sufficiently high. ", which made it sound to me like th
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by drewg123 5y ago
If you read the actual LKML message, and not just the LWN article, it becomes clear this is really about bumping TSO/LRO sizes in linux, not about using link layer MTUs in excess of 64k. This is more akin to Microsoft's "LSO
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by drewg123 5y ago
The article says " Enabling a packet size of 185,000 bytes increased network throughput by nearly 50% " So they essentially tripled the max TSO/GRO size from ~64k to 185k and that resulted in more throughput, presumably due

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