mgerdts

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by mgerdts 2y ago
It really depends on the awareness of product features and evolution of the actively used devices. My lived experience is that those with white things in their ears can’t hear you or can barely hear you and have to pull one out to have a co
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by mgerdts 2y ago
I’m conflicted on use of AirPods as hearing aids. I use one hearing aid and have normal hearing in the other ear. I often listen to things on my phone over the one hearing aid. It would be nice to have stereo. For this reason, AirPods for b
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FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software(fda.gov)
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by mgerdts 2y ago
The related podcast episode has an extended discussion of past experience pushing postgres beyond its original design. Despite working with Bryan and dap at Joyent post Samsung acquisition, I had no idea about much of this. https:/&#x
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by mgerdts 2y ago
This sounds a lot like the story of Sprint (Southern Pacific Railroad INTernet?). If I were less lazy I bet I could find the story where this part of Sprint morphed into Qwest.
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Zoom works for me on iOS but I had to zoom so much to read the text that I then had to scroll a lot, turning the whole experience unpleasant. Landscape mode did not naturally enlarge fonts enough to make them readable.
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by mgerdts 2y ago
Make that $14 billion. > Since damages can be tripled under federal antitrust laws, the NFL could end up being liable for $14,121,779,833.92
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by mgerdts 2y ago
Back in the days before I found spreadsheets useful my boss was trying to get me excited about sc running on his HP workstation. That seems to be about the same time that one of the original authors was off working on something (Java) that
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by mgerdts 2y ago
There was a PR to change references of he to they, or similar thinking the writing was by a non-native English speaker. The PR was aimed at inclusivity. The response was that politics are not welcome there. A legit seeming concern is that a
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by mgerdts 2y ago
Meanwhile, if you go searching for ladybird on Mastodon you will find that there’s quite a bit of ill will that started from a rather innocent PR to make some documentation use gender neutral pronouns.
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by mgerdts 2y ago
> I have seen C wizardry up close that I know I simply cannot do. I have written C at least a few times per year for over 30 years. About ten years of that was OS development on Solaris and its derivatives. Articles like this show crazy
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That probably disqualifies them from the generous severance package.
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by mgerdts 2y ago
> If you are processing a kg of air, you'd be getting only a fraction of a gram of CO2. So if you want to produce say a ton of fuel, you are looking at processing many millions of tons of air. If this could be within piping distance
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by mgerdts 2y ago
With methane as an input, I worry that this will be hard to scale up to the point of no more fossil fuels. Can we get that much methane from biomass?
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I think they use a lot of extra words to say that ReFS will support the equivalent of cp --reflink.
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by mgerdts 2y ago
Generally datacenter drives like Samsung PM9A3, Micron 7xxx, etc., that are available in M.2 and U.2 have the same features between the form factors. The maximum size and performance may differ between them, but this is likely a side effect
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by mgerdts 2y ago
> but if we scale to twice the processing power, then start accepting twice the request rate – we will actually be serving each request in half the time we originally did. Not necessarily. If processing power is increased by doubling the
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by mgerdts 2y ago
Maybe the RTO job they switch to is a better match with their location. Some people accepted a job assuming or being told it was permanently WFH. From 2007 through 2010 I worked in an office in a job I didn’t particularly like and repeatedl
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by mgerdts 2y ago
The models of BlueField DPUs I’ve worked with have no storage (aside from eMMC to boot the DPU) directly attached. They typically run SPDK, then SPDK block devices are presented to the host as NVMe namespaces or virtio-blk devices. If using
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by mgerdts 2y ago
> so the QEMU developers have added the virtio-net card (a PCI hardware specification, although no bare-metal hardware exists yet that actually implements it) Things have changed since 2018. BlueField DPUs provide virtio network [1] and
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by mgerdts 2y ago
I rented a car from Hertz at SFO. After my trip I tried to file my expense report and found I didn’t have a charge on my credit card and it wasn’t listed in my Hertz account. Looking at the paperwork, I saw they rented it to someone else. T
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by mgerdts 2y ago
The stainless steel frying pan I use was purchased about 30 years ago as part of a set that included a couple saucepans and lids. I paid less than $50 for it new. That was a lot when I was a student, but not an out of reach luxury. If it he
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by mgerdts 2y ago
A few decades back I fabricated and wired industrial controls. While wiring, we used cow magnets to attach the blueprints to the open cabinet doors so that they were always within sight was we strung wires between PLCs, terminal blocks, rel
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by mgerdts 3y ago
On WS2022 without patches I noticed that Storage Spaces was only queueing one IO per NVMe device. With current patches queuing is fixed and performance is much better. I think this was fixed sometime in 2023. I’m pretty sure both NTFS and R
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Edit: maybe you were suggesting the host does direct IO. That is exactly what I recommend. I initially read this differently. Original: If you are running the host OS you often have little or no say about what happens in the guest OS. Even
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by mgerdts 3y ago
According to [1] the prequel is found at [2]. 1. https://hachyderm.io/@mjk/112157472314396711 2. https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2024-03-25-packing/
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by mgerdts 3y ago
> Rather than allowing multiple gigabytes of outstanding buffered writes and deferring writeback until a gigabyte or more has accumulated, you'd set things to trigger writebacks almost immediately and then force processes doing writ
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by mgerdts 3y ago
I don’t think it was Itanium that killed SPARC. On workstations it was improved reliability of Windows and to some extent Linux. Sun tried to combat this with lower cost systems like the Ultra 5, Ultra 10, and Blade 100. Sun fanatics dismis
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by mgerdts 3y ago
> That was 20+yrs ago. I do wonder how that would work now -- I go into the office and i'm on Zoom calls for 6hrs of the 8 or 9hrs. The Zoom calls are with overseas team members. > Even the folks in the office on the same call ar
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Assuming jumbo packets are used with RoCE, every 4096 bytes of data will have 70 bytes of protocol overhead [1]. This means that a 25 Gb/s Ethernet link can deliver no more than 3.07 GB/s of throughput. Each lane of PCIe Gen 3 can

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