jbgreer

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by jbgreer 9y ago
TIL I work at the same company as the discoverer of the 50th known Mersenne Prime. I know at least one sysadmin who used GIMPS as a burn-in program for new servers.....
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by jbgreer 9y ago
I left a comment on the author's page (awaiting moderation), but I'll copy it here: if you're going to try this at home familiarize yourself with local laws. I'm all for getting more people on bikes, but some of the sug
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by jbgreer 9y ago
Related: I speed-watch all non-music videos at least at 1.25x or 1.5x, sometimes 2x. I wonder how many people select tech videos based on length? Surely YouTube / Vimeo etc. has studied this? I wish there was a search option that let
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by jbgreer 9y ago
Slashdot user #4245 here, with comments dating to April of 1999, 2 friends and 1 fan, no foes or freaks. I also had the pleasure of meeting Cmdr Taco at an early LinuxWorld (1998?) in California. I admit it fed a lot of my biases at the ti
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by jbgreer 9y ago
Note that he didn't say he wasn't paid for that additional 9 hours. He just said he had to fly 9 more hours.
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by jbgreer 10y ago
I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
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by jbgreer 10y ago
Carbon fiber should be dirt cheap, then? https://phys.org/news/2016-03-ornl-low-cost-carbon-fiber.htm... "Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a production
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by jbgreer 10y ago
Xenix ran on the master node of the Intel iPSC, a commercial hypercube used for parallel computation starting in the mid-to-late 80s. The compute nodes used a proprietary OS. I also worked for a retailer that used SCO Xenix for Point of Sa
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by jbgreer 10y ago
Interested. Contact info in profile. Thanks.
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by jbgreer 10y ago
I think you are overgeneralizing IMS performance. "IMS is extremely old and very slow. Searching for data can take hours." Especially when you later point out that they have 10TB of DB2 data and probably more than that in IMS.
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by jbgreer 11y ago
Do you have any information that shows the effectiveness of helmet use in crashes that don't involve cars? I've read that approximately half of all bike crashes do not involve cars. [ looking for a citation ]
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by jbgreer 11y ago
Yes. Especially if you're using one of the systems as a failover or you're running them as a normally active-active configuration. You want DB replication, but you also want to be able to take down a blue or green, apply DB upda
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by jbgreer 13y ago
I'll paraphrase a quote a friend attributed to Deming: "When a company fires someone, you have to ask whether their hiring process is broken or did they make them that way?" That is, either they didn't properly assess yo
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by jbgreer 13y ago
A counter-example from HBR Magazine's December 2013 issue http://hbr.org/2013/12/how-google-sold-its-engineers-on-mana...
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by jbgreer 13y ago
And I thought 'EZ-C' was bad. Still, it was the worst I've used. As far as I know, a large retailer still uses the data format and libraries from an awful "4th generation language" called 'EZ-C'. Fun par
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by jbgreer 13y ago
Is anyone else disappointed he didn't manage to work in "I am high as a kite." in the translation? Background: the mother of all translations: [ http://daringfireball.net/2007/02/macrovision_translat
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by jbgreer 13y ago
I first traveled to India on business in the mid-90s. I had organized a Linux user group in my city and thought it might be fun to meet like-minded individuals in Bangalore on my first trip there. I reached out and contacted a local organ