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by kev009 2y ago
While I would prefer to have a large and HiDPI display in the future, unscaled 4k was more economical and has fringe benefits of not needing special setup/handling. I lost $5-6k with my failed Dell and am hesitant to spend a lot again
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by kev009 2y ago
Doing the same thing but faster might just mean you are masturbating more furiously. Show me the money, especially from a CEO.
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by kev009 2y ago
I would hope a CEO, especially a technical one, would have enough sense to couple that statement to some useful business metric, because in isolation it might be announcement of public humiliation.
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by kev009 2y ago
I had the Dell 8k monitor you mentioned, the picture quality was great but it died after a few years not long after the warranty expired (a gut punch at the purchase price) and they said too bad so sad... ok that's fine but I will neve
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by kev009 2y ago
I don't feel like I need to, the referenced book or a cursory look into the rare mineral trade and shipping industry would be more useful for anyone actually interested. If the 6S is still useful, the fact I can't remember the la
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by kev009 2y ago
There is very little change from one iPhone to the next but very much marketing which underscores the true intentions. The business model is built on a revolving demand cycle that is unrelated to long term thinking, maintainability, effici
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by kev009 2y ago
FreeBSD no longer supports MIPS, I wrote NetBSD in my comment. bootoctlinux is the command Cavium added to U-boot to boot an ELF kernel. You can alias it as something else if it makes you feel proud.
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by kev009 2y ago
That's not how entropy works.
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by kev009 2y ago
Mainframe OSes including mainframe Linux are Big Endian. Maybe mainframe Linux could switch but thus far it has not, it seems unlikely the other mainframe OSes would want to. AIX is also Big Endian and seems unlikely to switch and will be
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by kev009 2y ago
The citation is common sense.. if your business is consumerism, you are by definition the opposite of "green". Putting some idiots on stage every year to carefully gesticulate to soft music about how "green" creating im
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by kev009 2y ago
NetBSD's cross build system ( http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-build.html ) is such a joy to use for odd systems like this. Lately I have been playing around with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter-4 (Octeon M
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by kev009 2y ago
I sponsored implementing the client side for FreeBSD when I worked at a large service provider. The use is cleaner when you have control of both ends, such as a cache/proxy to origin or peer cache and you aren't going to be subje
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by kev009 2y ago
Yeah and my comment is addressing some of the broader motif of the thread and article since I didn't want to leave multiple. Addressing your hypothetical thought quotation the "we should hire people..." I agree that it would
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by kev009 2y ago
As an employee, you are generally evaluated based on your perceived impact, at any level up to and including the CEO. This is easily twisted into change for the sake of change. For a software engineer this does lead to some pear shaped dec
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by kev009 2y ago
The quality of toys seemed to be in steep decline after my generation. I had a collection of Ertl diecast tractors growing up, and the detail was spectacular. Occasionally I have seen the toys section in big box stores and it looks like I
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by kev009 2y ago
Kind of the definition of man-machine interface. You in some way adapt to whatever you choose to interact with.
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by kev009 2y ago
Yes, IBM mainframes employ or have analogous concepts to all of this which may be one of many reasons they haven't disappeared. A lot of it was built up over time whereas Tandem started from the HA specification so the concepts and ma
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by kev009 2y ago
That's a good point.. I wonder how much network effect this has on substantiating ARM in server space too. Vendors have been trying that since the early twenty-teens and it was not going anywhere fast until Apple shipped the M1. I do
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by kev009 2y ago
Lately I have been enjoying NetBSD on a EdgeRouter-4 (Octeon MIPS). I am trying to port some of the OpenBSD Octeon improvements like the MMC driver and maybe SMP support. On FreeBSD I have been pushing some changes to the 1, 2.5, and 10gb
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by kev009 2y ago
Bet accepted. Netflix runs -CURRENT and they have been very vocal about their approach to both developing and running a vanilla FreeBSD tree, i.e. https://freebsdfoundation.org/netflix-case-study/ In my personal experi
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by kev009 2y ago
It's an engineering tradeoff and market adaptation. If you are a typical SaaS provider the complexity may be beyond your capabilities and budgets.. allegory to a local delivery business choosing to build a long term relationship with a
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by kev009 2y ago
Yes, and if you are a powertrain engineer (allegory for system developer) you'd benefit from knowing a variety of technologies in the automotive industry to be able to adapt to market conditions. If you are a heavy equipment mechanic
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by kev009 2y ago
I worked at a large service provider and had to fix bugs and improve performance in TCP/IP and Intel Ethernet drivers. I ended up really enjoying it so it became a hobby and consulting gig as well.
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by kev009 2y ago
That is the sweet spot for any of the BSDs. FreeBSD has the most of pretty much everything so it's my usual recommendation, but you could probably get along with Net and Open too which have their own charm.
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by kev009 2y ago
I've helped build two top 10 service provider networks (10s of Tbps). One on FreeBSD, and one on Linux with Kubernetes. I don't really see Kubernetes as being a game changer. The biggest pro, it makes it easier to onboard both d
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by kev009 2y ago
https://chimera-linux.org/ is kind of that melding, at least so far as one can go with a vanilla kernel.
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by kev009 2y ago
I use Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all for fun, learning, and profit(the first two). At the very least it is nice to make acquaintance with at least one BSD because it will probably expand your knowledge on Linux in ways you wont be
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by kev009 2y ago
The wholesale price of bandwidth is so low, I can't really understand this as anything other than BOFH-esqe behavior by the network planners, but maybe there is some path to a poorly executed attempt to eventually shakedown customers.
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by kev009 2y ago
I was talking more about wireline networking there, which are all rife with silicon errata and fairly shoddy drivers (which is sadly the norm in the industry). Most of the damage is mitigated in i.e. upstream Linux but it's not pretty
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by kev009 2y ago
The headline seems intentionally bombastic and false. The text specifies that they are interested in lines of business, for example consumer computing, not the entire entity.

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