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by heelix 3y ago
Of all the drives you would expect long, long life from - you would figure the RED series would be it. I just realized my box of Theseus is still rocking 15 year old velociraptors as part of a 6 year old threadripper. Oh how they have fal
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by heelix 3y ago
Doing the same thing. I ended up putting a 7950x into what was intended to be my next threadripper chassis and with stock settings the fans don't turn on. The only moving part would be the water pump, which is very quiet. Once in a
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by heelix 3y ago
Same. It is the reason I took all my lawn mower money and bought a Commodore 64. I believe the movie graphics were done with a Commodore PET. Things went from peaking/poking from magazines, picked up a tape drive to start keeping th
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by heelix 3y ago
It depends on the region of the US. There were times I've driven to the Minneapolis airport in 4"+ of snow falling down - flew to Washington DC, and found the world doing an emergency shutdown out there. In areas where you get s
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by heelix 3y ago
Yup. We did a couple phone screens. Person we interviewed knocked it out of the park. Solid answers with historical background on it, we liked the way they solved problems. Most of the team was part of the interview process. The new per
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by heelix 3y ago
I've done a lot of screening interviews and cheating does happen. Some of my favorites: * developer attempts to pass something off as video lag, as he attempts to lip sync someone else's answer. * developer had printed all the &#
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by heelix 3y ago
Here in Minnesota, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) adjacent to Canada is on a permit system as well. Within 3 minutes of the permits opening in January for this season, all the traditional weekend sites entry points on the Grand Mara
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by heelix 3y ago
On the far opposite of the startup post company gobble up side - I've been pleasantly surprised how well our zSeries ran OpenShift k8 images for our inherited mainframes. A simple tune for s390x JDKs, and many of the Java based apps w
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by heelix 3y ago
One of my early professional 'whoops' was with Delphi. We delivered a client (server) application that was sent out on like 20 floppy disks. I misspelled Pharmaceutical, which was part of the company name, on the splash screen. W
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by heelix 3y ago
There are a lot of Linux distributions, but one of the things I bumped into with the early SteamOS version is it was really, really hard to get the command prompt. It was bugged and would fail until you got some environment settings, if I
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by heelix 3y ago
I, on the other hand, looked at this and thought "I know these words". I don't think a cup or to of coffee is going to help.
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by heelix 3y ago
And finding out if your pet is not quite house broken.
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by heelix 4y ago
Of course you blindly throw out 30% of the resumes -- you want to filter out the unlucky candidates. :P
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by heelix 4y ago
We will be driving an old RX7 in the '24 hours of Lemons' this year. Looking forward to pushing it in a nice casual race. Mechanically, we were not at a point where it was solid enough for 2022. I think the rotary engine was the
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by heelix 4y ago
Noticed three crows chasing an eagle in my back yard this morning and succeeded in harassing it till it left the area.
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by heelix 4y ago
Man, that is a blast from the past. I had an engineering sample of one of these in 2008 and was trying to get it to work with ECC RAM pulled out of a Sun box. What a blast from the past. https://techreport.com/review/
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by heelix 4y ago
I think I had something similar, back in the DDR1 days. Mine was in a 5.25" format about the size of a CD-ROM. It was able to get closer to the SATA bandwidth max than anything I could afford with a RAID array of 10k drives. The IOPS
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by heelix 4y ago
One of my greatest white elephant gifts were SCO stock certificates. Was a real challenge to figure out how to spend $20+ for a bit of paper as they were getting close to delisting. Really wish I had kept one for myself. Miss groklaw... w
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by heelix 4y ago
Man, I'm torn on this one. I work at a reasonably large shop where we are required to take these CVE scores seriously. I do see a bunch that are really not applicable every single day. (The dude from Mitre has earned a special place
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by heelix 4y ago
Just the shell, but it is loved. :) Will be housing a new threadripper next, when AMD gets around to the zen 4 releases. https://i.imgur.com/S5F31qW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SpMMPXQ.jpg The magic had alread
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by heelix 4y ago
I think it closed down when they shut down the factories here in the Minneapolis area (Eagan). It was a neat place, at the time.
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by heelix 4y ago
In the early 90's, my Bride considered the pile of computers around my desk. "Why not just get one big one?" Fast forward a couple weeks where I was shopping at the Lockheed outlet store - and found a Sun 3/280s and 19
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by heelix 4y ago
It has been a fun adventure. We used a lot of RHEL at work, so I set out to get it to work on my Centos workstation and was shocked how well it worked. Gave the SteamOS distribution a try, which worked great for Steam... but really made m
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by heelix 4y ago
Pilots don't suffer from depression, smoke pot, take many types of medication as a child, or have many other issues because if you did - the FAA might pull your medical and you can't fly after that. It can cost tens of thousands
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by heelix 4y ago
That was sort of the point I was going after. You end up taking longer to melt enough snow for coffee than ice - so you burn through more fuel to get the equivalent amount of hot water when scooping in the snow vs chunks of ice. It was co
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by heelix 4y ago
From my winter camping - it takes a lot more work to melt snow than ice, when one is boiling water.
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by heelix 4y ago
This happens within big organizations that are large enough where they start having that internal small company feel within units. I would say a good program, which could be small or a chunk in a massive org, does a blameless post mortem.
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by heelix 4y ago
I had one running as an ESX server for a long time. Back then, this was the cheapest path to 8 cores and was ideal for carving up into smaller VMs. The 8 core/32M specs were what was the most you could put on a personal 'free&#x
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by heelix 4y ago
When everything else hits the fan, SMS still ends up somewhat working. Might not be enough bandwidth for a call or application - but in an emergency, the best chance for getting a message out on a crappy network is still texting. Might ta
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by heelix 4y ago
For those wondering why - hands and feet are typically the bits that are usually rendered wrong. You can get a lovely face, body, spaceship, etc - but the odds of getting six+ fingers or toes is very high with most models. Common to point

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