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by fmajid 1y ago
That's because a French company now owned by a US Private Equity firm, Arc International Cookware, owns the license for Europe, and as they have some pride, continue to make it with borosilicate. It's available in the US under the
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by fmajid 1y ago
More than rugged, add some knurling so it doesn't slip out of your hands so easily.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Oh you sweet summer child, Google gives the cold shoulder to everyone , including paying customers.
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by fmajid 1y ago
They are working with an OEM to make aGrapheneOS phone with all the security features they require like the ARM Memory Tagging Extensions.
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Yes, but because the H1-B holders have to find a new employer within 2 weeks or lose their visa, the threat of firing is the same thing as deportation, making for a form of indentured servitude. That forced loyalty, more than the salary, is
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by fmajid 1y ago
One popular trick was to advertise the jobs in newspapers. The dead-tree edition only.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Well, yes, Ken Thompson, the father of Unix, is behind it.
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And the technology is incredibly mature, submarine reactors were some of the first reactors, period.
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It helps that Netflix is one of the best-paying orgs in Silicon Valley, and thus has the luxury of hiring some of the very best engineers in the space like Brendan Gregg.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Back when I worked for France Telecom circa 1996–99, Sybase Replication Server was the fastest message queue we tested for transporting billing events, by a wide margin, in a way that predated Postgres logical replication by 3 decades.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Much longer than that, the legendary Jim Gray developed MSMQ aka Falcon for them.
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Skytools/PgQ was amazing technology that made clever use of Postgres MVCC to provide a high performance transactional message queue. But yes, it was not low-touch to administer.
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by fmajid 1y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!”—Upton Sinclair
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I generally prefer AMD Zen5 to Intel due to AVX512 not being gimped by crippled E-cores that really don't belong on a desktop system, SMT (hyperthreading) that actually works and using TSMC processes, but they've also had their is
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by fmajid 1y ago
He fails to mention how many systems (Android, iOS, Firefox) feel entitled to ignore the LAN's choice of DNS server and use various DoH or similar solution, which means split DNS no longer works when your resolver is getting its result
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by fmajid 1y ago
Never buy a printer that uses cartridges, you'd forever forever be a hostage. Use bottled ink printers only.
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The kerning is not great, for starters
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Historians have shown, by studying baptismal records, that secularization started about a century before the Revolution. Remember also the Church collected the dîme (tithe), a 10% tax that Germany still does (albeit at a lower rate). Taxmen
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by fmajid 1y ago
There's also Erlang's Mnesia, and WhatsApp's ForgETS, also built on top of ETS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHzmrWD7iEY
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by fmajid 1y ago
The OP does not mention that IndexedDB itself is built on top of... SQLite. Abandoning WebSQL was truly a heinous crime against the Web.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Thanks, I did not know about this one. Reminiscent of https://diagrams.mingrammer.com
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Perhaps, but computer makers talk about "(engineering) workstations", they mean powerful machines that are meant to run professional apps like CATIA, and are certified by the makers of said software. If you're Airbus, you are
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by fmajid 1y ago
MermaidJS, Graphviz or PlantUML, perhaps?
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by fmajid 1y ago
It only goes up to 96GB RAM (54GB usable for the GPU) vs 128GB/96GB on the 395. I have a 370 on a Minisforum AI X1 Pro and on an Asus Vivobook S, but to be frank I've found the performance disappointing.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Yes, but it's not tested or certified.
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by fmajid 1y ago
It's 2025, and Apple clearly still hasn't incorporated fuzzers in their CI and QA. Perhaps I am giving them too much credit in assuming they have any QA in the first place.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Exactly. They had promised to make notarization opt-out but reneged.
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by fmajid 1y ago
Threadrippers are workstation processors and support ECC, Epycs are servers and the 9950X is HEDT (high end desktop).
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by fmajid 1y ago
With tools like Blaze/Bazel (Google) or Buck2 (Meta) compilations are performed on a massive parallel server farm and the hermetic nature of the builds ensures there are no undocumented dependencies to bite you. These are used for near
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Beelink GTR9 Pro. It has dual 10G Ethernet interfaces. And get the 128GB RAM version, the RAM is not upgradeable. It isn't quite shipping yet, though. The absolute best would be a 9005 series Threadripper, but you will easily be pushin

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