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by kev009 9y ago
UEFI is a really unfortunate second system with all the markings of Intel's internal cultural issues imbued onto it that are hard to not see if you've worked with intel for any length of time. In the common case of an end user ru
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by kev009 9y ago
Trying to solve it with technology is naive. If the governance of a company can't regularly align and improve itself, no technology will solve that problem.
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by kev009 9y ago
Well said but I disagree that AWS is some magical solution it's in your context just a scapegoat to catalyze change in general or a mulligan with brownfield and greenfield. It'd be far more effective to simply hire competent peop
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by kev009 9y ago
I would phrase it differently as competence scarcity. It doesn't take many people to do soup to nuts businesses.. think WhatsApp's 50 engineers, Netflix's 100 person OCA team (if you don't think OCA is a standalone produ
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by kev009 9y ago
Can you offer any quick examples of your first point, especially punishing business users?
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by kev009 9y ago
It did since Sarge https://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch04s04.html.en
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by kev009 9y ago
Huh, I haven't run an Ubuntu desktop in several years but I don't remember that being the case (i.e both locked the software down pretty tight). I found Debian Backports to be helpful for the few things an admin might want to go
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by kev009 9y ago
Yes, I did think that. The only hard part about Debian was finding the right ISO. The docs and installation experience were fantastic. To this day their landing page is kind of confusing, especially to a layman, so I'll give you tha
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by kev009 9y ago
I've been doing Linux for two decades so I know that was the perception at the time. It was almost all marketing though, with just a bit of lucky time window alignment, i.e. the releases happened to be at slightly better cutoff points
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by kev009 9y ago
I don't find that to be true. Both go to extended lengths (but not herculean lengths like RHEL) to provide ABI and API stability over a defined set of time. The primary difference is that Ubuntu LTS releases happen on fairly hard cal
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by kev009 9y ago
Ubuntu has always confused me. It seemed like such an obvious gag from the very beginning, a theme job on Debian unstable without much engineering teeth. But people went crazy for it. The resources would have been better spent working di
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by kev009 9y ago
Whenever I see this kind of thing I always wonder if the elephant in the room is that STEM jobs (specifically tech/programming where there is greater demand than supply) are fucking terrible. Seriously, it's a lousy industry if y
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by kev009 9y ago
I use FreeBSD on mine. iwm(4) handles wifi generally ok but not as well as Windows. You can set either intel or nvidia graphics in the BIOS, both work on FreeBSD with the same about tradeoffs as Linux using open source intel drivers (grap
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by kev009 9y ago
You can still do that with 4:3. Think of the dimensions of a real open book.. it's quite alright :)
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by kev009 9y ago
On the other hand resolution has gotten to be AMAZING with 4k so I almost don't care anymore. That might be eye sight dependent as I am able to use fairly minimal scaling. I've had over the years ThinkPad 760, 600X (600 was one o
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by kev009 9y ago
Not sure why this struck a nerve with me but this is really shitty reporting. I guess because the site labeled itself as science news but the article is all confirmation bias and correlation v causation. On entry to the article of course i
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by kev009 9y ago
It expands the data structure size, which multiplies N for both on disk and in RAM representation (and cache and shorn cache lines). Many modern architectures have native 128b types (amd64, POWER) so it's not really a big deal to the
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by kev009 9y ago
All US military vehicles (even COTS ones with civilian counterparts like the CUCV and newer) use 24v. So do most heavy trucks.
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by kev009 9y ago
Do you have any idea how much it will regress your I/O workload on OCA?
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by kev009 9y ago
In general they have been pretty aloof at product marketing and development. Microsoft came in with a weaker product early on and has really been cleaning up with Azure going head to head with Amazon and GCE. G as a whole has always been p
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by kev009 9y ago
I'm glad he got his books updated with the RISC-V editions before this
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by kev009 9y ago
Sounds like full employment theorem at work. I haven't kicked the tires on kubernetes yet but I don't really see what all the fuss is about. I liked AMPLab and Mesos but I guess that doesn't have the branding power of big G
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by kev009 9y ago
PayPal _was_ Stripe/Square before they existed. Early on it was the easiest way to accept online payments by a long shot. In modern times it is not competitive in price, features, nor UX. I still use PayPal, but 100% of those transa
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by kev009 9y ago
Some anecdotes: I spent $30k on computer and electronic engineering books in the past 6 months. Yes really. A lot of them were those culled library books sold by wholesalers on Amazon and library benevolent foundations. There is still a
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by kev009 9y ago
There was no reduction, it was intended as a pointer to one data structure some TSDBs are using underneath. I would bold and highlight the "etc" present there for you if the markup allowed it. I hope a reader would become interes
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by kev009 9y ago
Then effectively your insert rate is between 16 and 60 per second, sure, you don't really need a sophisticated partitioning or log structured DB. Native static partitioning would give you a decent speedup without much thought. It&#x27
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by kev009 9y ago
Came here to say the same thing, glad to see others know about him:)
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by kev009 9y ago
Because my opinion on that doesn't matter either. Not newsworthy.
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by kev009 9y ago
The part on bitcoin is a trivial and common opinion; not newsworthy. The part on ripple is comically stupid. And then the fact that he himself is a con artist is too much.
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by kev009 9y ago
Yawn, bold opinion piece "Robert". This guy is a hack, he predicted IBM would be reduced to a 20B sales company (I laughed out loud), and apparently scammed a bunch of kids with a "Mineserver" crowd fund that never ship

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