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by drewg123 2y ago
We stopped sufficient investment in public, post secondary education. I attended SUNY Buffalo in the late 80s / early 90s. I found some old bills when cleaning out my attic several years ago. Tuition was $1,350/yr. At that time
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by drewg123 2y ago
I've had FSD for years, and, well, it is awful. I keep hoping it gets better, but it doesn't. The best way I have to describe it is: Picture a timid new driver, then give them 10 cups of coffee and make them really nervous. No
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by drewg123 2y ago
I use firefox, and I've never seen this before. Turns out that it's because it seems to be tied to using a chrome based browser. I just tried chrome and chromium, and it happens to me on chromium and chrome when I do a google se
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by drewg123 2y ago
I'm confused about: First, how strongly is it tied to glibc? I run emacs on FreeBSD and MacOS, and neither uses glibc. Heck, I remember building emacs on ULTRIX in the late 80s, and marveling at the clever undump thing. I don&#x27
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by drewg123 2y ago
My theory is that companies choose workday because it saves them money. If I have an expense below a certain threshold, I just eat it rather than dealing with workday's insanely complex expense report flow. I was railing against workd
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by drewg123 2y ago
https://archive.is/vFFsm
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by drewg123 2y ago
This is from a talk I gave in 2021; not sure why its on HN today.. The original discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584738
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by drewg123 2y ago
A layoff generally means "business is slow, so we don't need you anymore" (its not you, its us), where firing for cause generally means "you're not performing up to minimum standards" (its not us, its you). In
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by drewg123 2y ago
Have mass layoffs ever wound up working out well for a tech company? I was at Google from 2013 -> 2015 as an FTE. My impression was that there was a mix of dead wood and high performers. I knew people that basically did nothing but com
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by drewg123 2y ago
Thanks. Now I know we can give up, and just never get apple care again. I don't know why any of the 10 apple people we talked to didn't mention that.
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by drewg123 2y ago
As a BSD guy, the whole concept of the initramfs is one of the most foreign and annoying things about linux. I far prefer the FreeBSD way of having a bootloader that fully understands the root filesystem (even ZFS) and can load any needed
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by drewg123 2y ago
There is a big thing in the reporting your phone lost & asking for a replacement that says it will wipe it...
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by drewg123 2y ago
Apple support is useless. My partner lost her phone with AppleCare loss & damage coverage. She hadn't synced to iCloud in quite a while, so she delayed reporting it lost/stolen (as that flow wipes the phone). After ~4 months
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by drewg123 2y ago
The big problem I have as BSD person who occasionally needs linux for something is that the google search results are terrible. Even when specifying the OS, I often get incorrect results that show how one would do what I want to do 8 years
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by drewg123 3y ago
Oh, cool!
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by drewg123 3y ago
I was recently looking at porting a cool OpenBSD feature to FreeBSD and was wondering how the locking could possibly work in terms of ordering. It turns out that all the OpenBSD locks boiled down to a global netlock rw lock for the entire
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by drewg123 3y ago
It would be nice if they included the part about why they had the PDP-7 in the first place, and what inspired them to start hacking on it: Because Ken Thompson wanted a cool machine to play "Space Travel" on. See https:/&#
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by drewg123 3y ago
I spent many all-nighters in freezing cold temps in Buffalo NY waiting in line on a sidewalk for the ticket office to open in the mid 80s. It was unpleasant, but fair. I think artists should reserve a small fraction of their seats for &quo
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by drewg123 3y ago
The downside is its so expensive it might as well be made out of solid gold...
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by drewg123 3y ago
It can be operated w/o a host. It offers the ability to connect 16 lanes (or is it 32?) of PCIe Gen5. It has a 1 GbE management port, a BMC running OpenBMC, and a 400GbE NIC that does crypto offload. The debug environment is FANTAST
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by drewg123 3y ago
Nvidia Bluefield3
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by drewg123 3y ago
I have a board with a 16 core A78 serving static content via 100Gb/s (encrypted via ktls, offloaded to the NIC). My arm fu is not good, so I'm not sure how a quad-core A76 compares.
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by drewg123 3y ago
Too bad it doesn't have PCIe slots. It could be interesting as a low-end 10Gb/e storage/web server if it had enough I/O.
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by drewg123 3y ago
How do we know it doesn't? I didn't see any info in the linked page about the system firmware, though I could easily have missed it.
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by drewg123 3y ago
You're missing the point. Netflix is fast in these situations because your client can access the server in the ISP's data center and video traffic remains local to the ISP and doesn't traverse the congested link to the IX.
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by drewg123 3y ago
I just made a big file (something like cat /usr/share/dict/words >> /tmp/zot a few times) and then just cat'ed that at the commandline
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by drewg123 3y ago
Personally, IDGAF about latency. I'm used to typing things into servers that are two crossings of a continent away (one for corp VPN entry, and then another one to get to a server 50 away via the cross-country VPN hop). What gets me i
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by drewg123 3y ago
100% this. Libtool is awful. In the early 2000s, I ripped libtool out of a product that built on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, Aix, Tru64, Mac OSX and Windows.
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by drewg123 3y ago
Its orthogonal. Grafting would not work if apple trees had the same issue with shortening telomeres that humans have.
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by drewg123 3y ago
The mention of grafting in the article made me wonder.. Are Apple trees genetically immortal? Eg, they don't have the problems that humans and other mammals have with ever shortening telomeres, leading to eventual death?

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