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by mgerdts 5y ago
I've notice some non-native English speakers use "double verify" where native speakers would use "double check" or "verify". It could be a play on that. Or they had a meeting where the founders asked &quot
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by mgerdts 5y ago
I don't think so. The reason that I would use a RAID card with HDDs is to get the benefit of a battery backed write cache, optimally performing RAID operations. I've only seen one RAID card that supports connecting to NVMe drive
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by mgerdts 5y ago
Instead of wrapping sed with a bash script to get multiple expressions to do their things, I normally use 'sed -e'. sed -e s/a/A/ -e s/foo/BAR/ -e s/hello/HELLO/ I use -e often enough t
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by mgerdts 5y ago
A chance lunchtime discussion with Packard helped set the direction of Moderna co-founder Noubar Afeyan's focus on making instruments(?) for the biotechnology industry. During this lunch, Afeyan learned that Packard started in the elec
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Doug the ugly New Zealand potato could be world’s biggest(apnews.com)
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by mgerdts 5y ago
To get pi, all that Amazon had to do was buy it and the rest of 3.0.0.0/8 from GE. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407173
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by mgerdts 5y ago
In about 1994 for about $3000 I built a PC with a Pentium 90 with 8 MB of RAM and a hard drive that was somewhere in the 80 to 120 MB range. Running Linux, it was much faster than the Sun IPC, IPX, SPARC 5, SPARC 10, and the single processo
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by mgerdts 5y ago
In about 1995 I asked the question "how can a shell intended for C programmers not support functions?" I've still not found a suitable answer.
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by mgerdts 5y ago
Seeded watermelons have gone extinct in the mass market grocers in my area. They are available (when in season locally) at the co-op I shop at, as well as at farmers markets. I'm not sure if it is the fact that they are seeded or that
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by mgerdts 5y ago
Seedless watermelons still have seeds, they just aren't mature when the fruit is ripe. This means they are smaller and are soft enough that eating them does not give crunch.
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by mgerdts 5y ago
I wonder how many of the extra cpu cycles are in PV network interfaces. It would be interesting to see how this works out with SR-IOV capable NICs with a VF in each VM.
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by mgerdts 5y ago
What you describe is almost as good as the deal anyone can get from Costco in the US. The return period is 6 months, I think. You also get one free replacement in the first 3 years if it is lost or chewed up by your dog.
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by mgerdts 5y ago
That thread [1] is 4 years old. Is there recent credible evidence of ReFS being problematic? 1. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/67h28o/bit_rot...
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by mgerdts 5y ago
And ksmbd is in Linus' tree. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
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by mgerdts 5y ago
Toshiba spun off their flash storage as Kioxia. WD and Kioxia are considering a merger.
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by mgerdts 5y ago
The company that was pitching my employer retina scanners on data center doors 20 years ago had an idea like this. Left eye gets you in, right eye gets you in and alerts security.
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by mgerdts 5y ago
It seems that banding together on grain sales cuts both ways. I gather that selling to (or is it through?) the co-op gets you access to the commodity markets, which generally makes selling your goods easy. However, when you are buying see
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by mgerdts 5y ago
$850 each and as of a month or so ago only available in 3 states. At Costco you can get what seem to be high end hearing aids for $699 each. The current generation are rechargeable and support bluetooth. This includes the free hearing test
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by mgerdts 5y ago
Or openssl rand -base64 12 If a couple attempts at that doesn't generate a password that satisfies complexity requirements, add, remove, or change a character or two before pasting. Change 12 to a larger or smaller number to change the
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by mgerdts 5y ago
SB-327 says: it shall be deemed a reasonable security feature under subdivision (a) if either of the following requirements are met: (1) The preprogrammed password is unique to each device manufactured. I read this as a password based on th
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by mgerdts 5y ago
My scripts tend to start with set -euo pipefail This addresses the pipeline case you mention and also notices use of unitialized variables.
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by mgerdts 5y ago
It would still have a fun pronunciation controversy, with some calling it lamaplot and some calling it yamaplot.
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by mgerdts 5y ago
When David DeWitt (of "DeWitt Clause" fame) introduced SQL in while teaching CS564, he made it clear that SQL was pronounced as three letters. I recall him saying that Sequel was a distinct language. The info I can find on SEQUEL
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A guideline to limit indoor airborne transmission of Covid-19(pnas.org)
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by mgerdts 6y ago
The solution, as described by a wealthy neighbor when discussing something different (placement of plants?), was to just ignore the HOA. The HOA has a shoestring budget and a $10k legal bill would bankrupt it. So, if you are wealthy enough
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by mgerdts 6y ago
The one time I lived in a neighborhood with a HOA, i found it provided a private pool and and a way for neighbors to be more exclusive, not inclusive. For instance, one of the HOA rules was that you cannot have any vehicle with commercial s
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by mgerdts 6y ago
Where is $100k needed for a down payment on a house and income over $40k is taxed at 40%? I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I just haven't seen it. US Federal tax brackets are at https://www.irs.com/articles&#x
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by mgerdts 6y ago
You mean: #define SQ(x) ((x)*(x))
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by mgerdts 6y ago
The draft spec is here: https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/technical_work/Publ...
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by mgerdts 6y ago
The performance is also impacted by the write pattern. Drives endurance numbers are for 4 KB random writes on a drive that was preconditioned with 1 or 2 full overwrites. The only workload that is worse is 512 byte random writes (I think)

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