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by mgerdts 3y ago
It’s not only that, the hearing loss may be very different in each ear. I don’t need a hearing aid for my left ear. If I lie with my left ear on a pillow, I will hear almost nothing. My yappy ankle biter dog a 3ft is audible. This means tha
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by mgerdts 3y ago
I have a Kirkland KS9 that supports Bluetooth. It cuts out at about 30 to 40 feet with a wall or two in between. It cost $700 retail, the hearing test, fitting, follow-up, and repairs are free with a Costco membership. The Bluetooth audio q
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by mgerdts 3y ago
I saw that, but didn’t consider it particularly cheap. Also, the power draw of this things is also likely a concern if run continuously.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
25 Gb Ethernet roughly matches a PCIe Gen 3 NMVe drive’s max throughput 50 Gb will match Gen 4. These are RDMA capable. It seems 25Gb dual port Mellanox CX-4 cards can be found on eBay for about $50. The cables will be a bit pricey. If not
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by mgerdts 3y ago
If memory serves, the big advantage of wordpad back in the day was that it had line wrap, which was missing from notepad. But it’s been a while since I used windows 95… Edit: confirmed notepad behavior. Wordpad crashes in the emulator, then
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by mgerdts 3y ago
When I think of a fs corruption bug, I think of something that causes fsck/scrub to have some work to do, sometimes sending resulting in restore from backups. From the early reports of this, I was having a hard time understanding how i
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Chevrolet of Watsonville chatbot writes code(stoney.monster)
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by mgerdts 3y ago
I was active in various areas of OpenSolaris, contributing to design discussions, code, and code review. Most of this was in the intersection of zones, installation, and zfs. Some were just scratching an itch, like “manwhich”. https:/
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by mgerdts 3y ago
You may also want to look at SPDK and DPDK.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Intuition would be that the branch starts at the point that it diverges from main, labeled “base” in the first diagram. In reality, the first commit in “main” and “branch” are the same commit. Intuition likely comes from how a tree (fir or
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by mgerdts 3y ago
From the MVMe 1.3 spec: 6.8 Flush command The Flush command shall commit data and metadata associated with the specified namespace(s) to non-volatile media. The flush applies to all commands completed prior to the submission of the Flush co
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Will I need to move to one of these countries to benefit from this, or can I just visit? That is, how long will I have to tunnel my traffic across the pond to keep this cruft uninstalled?
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Many of these adapters have their own quality problems which vary with the version of the controller. That version number is rarely available prior to purchase.
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A brain injury removed my ability to perceive time(salon.com)
309 points by mgerdts 3y ago|169 comments
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by mgerdts 3y ago
The mascot for this site must me a Knight That Says “Ni!”
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by mgerdts 3y ago
In the US the sales tax rate can vary by city, county, and state. Aside from shipping charges, the shipping address is needed to know which governments need to be paid how much.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
If you are seeing unreasonably fast read throughput, it is likely that reads are being served from the ARC. If your workload will benefit from the ARC, you may be seeing valid numbers. If your workload will not benefit from the ARC, set pri
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Having been previously left high and dry by Google Maps when in the boonies and inspired by an earlier post here [1], I gave Organic Maps a try on my recent trip through Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado. This Mastodon thread summarizes my ex
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I took a took week trip with Organic Maps(mastodon.social)
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by mgerdts 3y ago
But apparently people will do it for $2 - $5 million. In the most recent fiscal years, Stellantis’ revenue was about double Honda’s. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/how-much-money-does-ceo-of-hond...
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by mgerdts 3y ago
A few years before that plenty of people were downloading 30ish floppy images over modems to install Slackware or SLS.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
This seems like it was funded by those that are benefiting from the status quo. Wisconsin had a very close election: it came down to one WI Supreme Court vote. Had that vote gone the other way, it would have been net +20 for Trump (then 296
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by mgerdts 3y ago
With 3x compression and 900 MB/s it only takes 46 hours to fill one. But maybe I’m bad at math. Perhaps more importantly it will take that long to do a full recovery from one.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
The part that got me was “X CEO Linda Yaccarino” which made me think she had a very short tenure. Apparently I read the sounds, not the words.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Some context from someone close: https://hachyderm.io/@quintessence/110922746691596046 > The person I cherished more than any other, @nova , died unexpectedly late Wednesday in a climbing accident. > I have no wo
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by mgerdts 3y ago
I remember in the decade+ before zfs was introduced and in several of the years since then trying to figure out the optimal stripe size for RAID 10 volumes and the optimal stripe size and count for RAID 5 volumes with Solaris Disk Suite, Vx
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by mgerdts 3y ago
There are 14 hardware based PCIe devices (mixture of NVME drives and NIC VFs) along with various other emulated PCI devices (virtio block, serial, etc.). I have not tried to hot [un]plug devices with this configuration. It looks as though I
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Hot plugging refers to adding devices to the VM while the VM is running. Passing host devices through is commonly accomplished without hotplug.
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by mgerdts 3y ago
> is needed only if you intend to hot-plug devices that were not present in the first enumeration Correct. I regularly use VMs with more that 14 statically configured PCI devices using QEMU with libvirt without having to resort to qemu:c
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by mgerdts 3y ago
Apology accepted, and thank you for a pointer to such a great story.

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