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by mgerdts 4y ago
While there’s a lot of truth here, there are times when you can do much better than cat. A while back I tweeted: Today I found the magical dd command that causes an NVMe drive to run at almost full speed: # dd if=/dev/nvme3n1
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Old Ford Maverick V8 Has Carburetor from a Lawn Mower, Gets 41 MPG(motor1.com)
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Or software engineers. I've been working remotely for about 12 years with teams spread around the globe. In the decade or so before that I worked in various offices with coworkers scattered around the globe. Async issues related to t
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I used xfig back in the day, but it always felt more like the tool I had than the one I wanted. It’s been a long while since I tried inkscape - I remember it more as a took for artists than for technical drawings. These days my go to tool f
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I think the 1k bucket statement was referring to the sort order. That bucket represents about 1 to 2 microseconds, which is dubiously fast. Maybe this is possible if the IO is serviced by DRAM on the NVMe controller. Maybe the IOs in quest
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The typical tool for measuring throughput and latency is fio. If you look at datasheets for NVMe drives, you can normally find the parameters fed to fio to arrive at the numbers on the spec sheet.
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by mgerdts 5y ago
Solaris 11 does not work without ZFS. It is the only supported root file system. Keep in mind that Solaris ZFS is largely incompatible with anything that exists in an open source OS. ZFS started out by incrementing pool and dataset versio
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Between November 2016 and August 2017 pretty much the entire Solaris development team was shown the door. I was on the Solaris Zones team in August 2017. A small number were allowed to stay and they are keeping the lights on. I have no id
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by mgerdts 5y ago
I have a 4k 28" monitor which I can't use at its highest resolution with 100% scaling and a 4k 40" TV that is a few inches further away which I can comfortably use at its highest resolution with 100% scaling. I'm a big
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> A number of past studies have found lower greenhouse gas emissions associated with the feedlot system. One reason is that grass-fed cows gain weight more slowly, so they produce more methane (mostly in the form of belches) over their l
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by mgerdts 5y ago
I first thought “oh great more GMOs to maximize corporate profits while making animals miserable. Then my hopes rose with this: > They were bred with climate change in mind So they’ve found a way to have happy cows that burp less methane
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But if your application is just restored to its previous state, it is still using the buggy code that was patched on disk. If you page in new code from patched files, the program will not necessarily know that foo() now lives at a different
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by mgerdts 5y ago
This typical advice can be found at places like reddit.com/r/personalfinance and Suze Orman’s frequent PBS specials which you can probably find on YouTube or video.pbs.org.
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One of the stores he would do swaps with had a somewhat private area like that. I think my dad did not build such a thing because of fear that people would, umm, linger. I don't know if that was a real problem at the other store or no
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by mgerdts 5y ago
My dad ran several video stores from about 1988 to about 1994. He even bought out the earliest video store in our town - Hollywood Video - and switched the name of all stores to Hollywood Video. He got out of the business when the nationa
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by mgerdts 5y ago
Pageless mode is indeed a global setting. I turn on pageless mode on my document with wide tables and everyone sees scrollbars with the wide tables. I use "view > text width" to change the text width to medium or wide. This i
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by mgerdts 5y ago
Passwords and password files are better protected now than they were 25+ years ago. - ssh did not exist or was not widely used. People used telnet, ftp, rlogin, etc. which put plaintext passwords on the wire. - UNIX systems that used NIS di
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by mgerdts 5y ago
I tried this the other day. I had a document with some tables that could use extra width, so I switched to landscape mode and reduced the margins. I then adjusted the width of the tables so they looked decent at 10 inches wide. Later, I tur
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by mgerdts 5y ago
The linked criticism of SMF [1] suggests that the author tried really hard to use the XML-based declarative configuration. I'm pretty sure that the things he accomplished with those commands are straight-forward <dependency> a
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Something like this was tried before. The year was ~1995 and the trough of disillusionment for Java applets was far in the future. WordPerfect decided that the future was the web and they wanted in. They ported WordPerfect to Java and an
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by mgerdts 5y ago
it seems manufacturing is on the todo list. https://khn.org/morning-breakout/mark-cuban-unveils-plan-to-...
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Sounds like the way that Windows Storage Spaces works as well.
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I believe that the period you refer to had local newspapers, tv stations, and radio stations that were largely independent from this handful of corporations (ABC, CBS, NBC?). During this period, there was limited opportunity to perform popu
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But that's not the standard to which solid state storage is tested. See slide 27 of https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SSSI/NVMe_SAS_SATA_...
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If an nvme drive supports the controller memory buffer (CMB) feature, an RNIC can do a peer to peer transfer. From what I recall of the netflix storage node that was linked from HN a few months back, the current generation has 4 x 100 Gb me
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Chrysler previews its all-electric future, only electric vehicles by 2028(theverge.com)
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About 5 years ago I flew in to SFO for a work trip. A few hours after I picked up my Hertz rental car I got a message stating that I hadn't picked up my car yet. Checking the rental paperwork, I saw that I had somehow rented this car a
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by mgerdts 5y ago
> Do you think there was a problem with how the building was built? It is quite impractical to build a large building that will withstand a tornado. The fact that the building was cut in half and the contents largely removed is not terr
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I dunno. If it wasn't so seasonable, I'd say it's the best. Infestations are not seasonal, so my vote goes to xroach.
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I think that by 1996 this was no longer the case. However, people that were used to being able to forward displays would commonly use "xhost +" (likely in .profile or similar) to disable these access restrictions. That also meant

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