hpcjoe

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by hpcjoe 5y ago
This 1000x. Sadly the extended out of state family seems to like FB, and I try to follow science/math twitter. As you get older, something in you clicks, that you realize that time spent being angry, or combative, reduces the time you
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by hpcjoe 5y ago
I should add to this comment, as it may give the impression that I'm anti cloud. I'm not. Quite pro-cloud for a number of things. The important point to understand in all of this is, is that there are cross-over points in the ec
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by hpcjoe 5y ago
After a certain size, AWS et al simply don't make sense, unless you have infinitely deep pockets. For storage that you pull from, AWS et al charge bandwidth costs. These costs are non-trivial for non-trivial IO. I worked up financia
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by hpcjoe 5y ago
This. Worse is watching otherwise intelligent friends parrot the crap you see coming out of the propaganda arms of each party or party faction. They accept what they hear uncritically, as it feeds into their own beliefs (confirmation bias),
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by hpcjoe 5y ago
This. We haven't had real news reporting in the US in a long time. The family and I watch BBC America for something more akin to news here, as the major "news" orgs in the US, are spittle inflected hyper-partisans. All of t
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by hpcjoe 5y ago
CNN and its ilk haven't been news for a very long time. Moreover, classifying them as "middle of the road" is insulting to those of use who are centrist, middle of the roaders.
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
As I noted, it's not what each say. It's what they do. If you find yourself arguing against the entity that is the victim of the aggressor entity, I think you have some deep internal reflecting to do. Because such a position,
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
"your own side" is quite revealing. There's a game siblings sometimes play. One hits another. The injured party responds in kind. The first, the aggressor, calls their parents and complains that the second hit the first an
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
I assume you mean "assassinations". Iran funds and supports groups who have declared, and continue to make war on Israel as a proxy for themselves doing it. They are happy to expend every single one of their proxy armies and muni
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
Very enjoyable! I started working a few problems in my head, and realized I'd run out of scratch ram quickly. I especially liked his points on examination, what we call the "orals" in Physics. There, the (in his words, defe
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
The failbacks never actually occurred for me. I'd generally have to reboot the router.
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
I work on trying to script each install. So if I need to repave, I have a documented, working script, and the source bits to work with. I've preferred VMs for functional appliances for a while now. I like the isolation compared to co
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
It is. Multi-wan is easier with appliances. I used pfSense over the last 12 years or so with multi-wan on and off (currently off). I've run pfSense in a kvm VM, and you can do multi-wan with this. Though I generally recommend dedica
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
I recall that fitting example from undergrad physics. Nowadays, with deep learning going on with billions of parameters being fit, it probably makes somewhat more sense to recall that bit of humor.
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
The operative phrase is "yet". Better safe than sorry. I've not read the paper yet, and I am curious on the performance impact. I don't mind trading some performance for better security. Because when exploits are fou
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
Hrm ... I tend to suggest picking the appropriate tool for the job. In the case there are multiple tools that can do the job, my focus tends to be on the one that enables me to be productive fastest, with the fewest likely bugs. I write n
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
Unfortunately, 70+ years ago, one side was prevented from winning their war of independence. Then 50ish years ago, when they were attacked, same thing. Then 40ish years ago. As horrible as it sounds, either the losing side needs to accept
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
Deterrence presumes rational actors. One side in this conflict is rational. The other side, decidedly irrational, acting not in their best interests, harming themselves and many others specifically to attack the rational actor. Aside fr
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
I've been a Fortran user for (gawd help me) 35 years or so. I can say that rumors of its demise are greatly exaggerated. There are many languages, and language fads. Fortran was never sexy, never faddy. My research codes from 30+ yea
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
For me personally, webex simply isn't a contender based on the lack of a working linux client. Zoom ... just works. Others, even that horrible Teams, works, on linux. Webex doesn't. Then there's the UI. And the complexity
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
I should clarify that I was ironically using that word. Basically the point is that this is part of a much larger history, that has pretty much nothing whatsoever to do with the formation of Israel. Unfortunately, most of the people who&#x
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
I wouldn't say millenia, but hundreds of years seems appropriate[1][2][3][4] .... The "resistance" didn't start with the PLO. They are only the latest manifestation of a conflict going back centuries. It didn't st
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
Hitting these 'soft targets' is and has been a war crime, but hey ...
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
They are ignored as they've proven again and again that their words are not worth the paper that they sign, that they cannot be trusted. That they are as corrupt as an entity could be. That they are unwilling to make hard compromises
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
Many things would need to fall in place for this to happen. Since Hezb is a puppet of Iran, it is unlikely to allow this to happen. If anything, I would suspect they (Hezb/Iran) are planning on attacks against the infrastructure.
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
"I can't believe I am saying it but almost anything MSFT releases in response to Google or competitors is inferior but MSFT's products are preferable due to implied longevity. MSFT has inoculated themselves against this paras
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
I'd add to that, from a recollection when my old company signed up for Gsuite many moons ago, you give them the right to use your emails, documents, etc. to help them train their models. Which is all about improving their actual produ
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
2 of these 3 are data collection products providing some level of features to end users. That is, they are an implicit contract to provide google with an unending stream of up-to-date user data, in exchange for "free" features. G
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
Teams ... is terrible. Doesn't matter the platform.
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by hpcjoe 6y ago
I see what you did there! I wrote in Perl, Python, and Julia this month (yeah, 1st day). Probably will have some C++ and R as well later. We'll see.

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