kokojumbo

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by kokojumbo 4y ago
>And yet, with such incredible technical knowledge far beyond what our present day knowledge tells us you discount that this same species has not already solved the radiation shielding problem? Yes, that might be possible.
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
We are talking about transporting tons of equipment trough light years of radiation many times stronger then the one that is already frying computers in satellites and probes within heliosphere, heck even on Earth's surface it's e
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
USSR was using tubes because it was technologically far behind the West (it was still producing cars that were between 30 to even 50 years behind the West) and was under heavy sanctions. Soviet bloc made chips were actually less reliable an
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
Yea, just look at how much redundancy in satellites and space probes we need to operate within the range of Sun's heliosphere. Outer space outside it would be even more killer to current electronics. Even if we switch to silicon carbid
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Why CRT in sci fi deep space ships actualy make sense
35 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|40 comments
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
Desktop.
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Ask HN: If you had $1000 to spend on used workstation which one would you choose
2 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|3 comments
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
It's normal 101 of basic classic (non Keynesian nonsense) economics. So many tech companies were kept alive thanks to very cheap credit (loans) as they were barely breaking even or declaring negative income for years. High interest rat
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Ask HN: Is there such thing as “too many layers of error correction codes”?
5 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Are there any other tape formats other than LTO still in production?
2 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|0 comments
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
>This may be caused by the "desktop environment" you are running and not Linux itself. I run none. Just simple window manager. Same on FreeBSD.
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Ask HN: Is there market need for custom renderers? Or it's oversaturated already
1 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why BSD kernels are so much more stable? Linux is addicted to jamming
1 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|5 comments
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
So, the ship is sinking?
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
MERA-400 was built as continuation of a line of famous K-202 architecture designed by Jacek Karpiński
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Ask HN: Is there any functionality of OSes like Multics, Burroughs MCP you miss?
1 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Does RAID 1 of 3 HDD offer any protection against bitflip on 1 of drives
1 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|2 comments
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
Hmm... that could potentially allow to get rid of test environment like some redundant server that is a copy of production environment that one can use to test introduction of changes. Am I catching up what group of cases you have in mind m
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
Looks beautiful, but what's the real life use case?
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Ask HN: Is there any need for new file systems or GTFO we are full?
2 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|10 comments
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
LTO Tape drives that run their cooling at 100 percent power when idle and have no particle filters https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34502596
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LTO Tape Storage is designed to damage itself – no airfilters, always powered on(youtube.com)
6 points by kokojumbo 4y ago|5 comments
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by kokojumbo 4y ago
Apr 28, 2018 LTO tape storage technology is very poorly designed, typically there are no air filters on the tape drives, and there is an air circulation system that constantly sucks dust directly through the tape drive mechanism. But the dr