eugenekay

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by eugenekay 10d ago
2) cache validation 3) off-by-one errors
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by eugenekay 5mo ago
They would have to admit that they were wrong to switch away from using the proven Aerojet-Rocketdyne AJ-60A boosters (developed for and still flying with the Atlas V family).
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by eugenekay 6mo ago
Conferences are a long-lead-time project. The contract described here was signed in July 2023 - 2 years 9 months before the event date. Even if it was possible to setup a new event, the current contract would not be nullified. Additionally
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by eugenekay 6mo ago
> Once your event outgrows academic spaces, donated conference rooms, or theatre spaces, working with the hotels is the industry’s standard way to pay for a professional convention center space. You commit to a certain number of hotel ni
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by eugenekay 6mo ago
FreeBSD will never switch to systemd. :-) It is an old-school UNIX experience, not great for desktops but excellent for long-lived “pet servers” where long-term stability over decades of service is valued. I treasure it for running small We
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by eugenekay 9mo ago
I built a NFS3-over-OpenVPN network for a startup about a decade ago; it worked “okay” for transiting an untrusted internal cloud provider network and even over the internet to other datacenters, but ran into mount issues when the outer tun
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by eugenekay 9mo ago
Publicly available data[1] on the pilot project in Nevada suggests a total of “50MW” generation capacity is planned across 10 rail lines, but the photos on the website seem to only show 1 set being built so far - and a claimed output of 5MW
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by eugenekay 9mo ago
> What were they testing instead, working in an adversarial environment? Presumably, testing how many readers believe this contrived situation. It was never a real Engineering exercise.
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by eugenekay 10mo ago
Yes, using Microsoft SQL Server for Linux; hosted both on-premises with VMware and in Azure Virtual Machines - later migrated to Azure SQL Managed Instances. It worked great for the business’ needs. The major architectural advantage was tha
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by eugenekay 10mo ago
Location: United States, New York Metropolitan area Remote: Sure Willing to relocate: Within continental US Technologies: Web, Networking protocols especially DNS, Virtualization and Clustering, Databases of all types from CSV an
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by eugenekay 1y ago
Computing Power has increased tremendously, along with the higher resolution of digital imaging technology compared to analog film plates. Sky Survey projects like the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have become active in recent years, which gene
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by eugenekay 1y ago
Location: Northeastern United States Remote: Maybe Relocate: Yes! Technology is constantly evolving. Most recently familiar with the PowerShell/C#.NET ecosystem, but not exactly looking to reprise that experience. Worked primarily with
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by eugenekay 1y ago
The NEXRAD weather radar system has multiple modes of operation (Volumetric Coverage Patterns) configurable for each antenna site. Each of these is optimized for different weather conditions. The light-blue returns represent humidity in the
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by eugenekay 1y ago
A few months earlier there was only a single “Enterprise 6000” cabinet: https://kashpureff.org/album/1999/1999-05-30/M0000024.jpg
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by eugenekay 1y ago
I was just the Teenage intern responsible for doing the PDU Cabling every time a new rack was added, since nobody on the Network or Software Engineering teams could fit into the crawl spaces without disassembling the entire raised-floor. I
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by eugenekay 1y ago
Throughout the late 90s, “Mail.com” provided white-label SMTP services for a lot of businesses, and was one of the early major “free email” providers. Each Free user had a storage limit of something like 10MB, which is plenty in an era befo