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by mmt 8y ago
> Same for trucking. That strikes me as an exaggeration. Notwithstanding "sitting is the new smoking", I don't imagine trucking has nearly the permanent health risks of welding, especially considering that maximum-time r
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by mmt 8y ago
Despite the guideline-flouting/flame-attracting wording, I think there's a kernel of a point here: it's important to consider two seperate pay-gap issues (be it for gender, race, or any other class): 1) equal pay for equal wo
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by mmt 8y ago
> Yet the experience of towns like Ames and Des Moines show that such “labor shortages” might be due to insufficient wages and crummy working conditions — not an unwillingness of workers to switch industries or improve their skills for a
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by mmt 8y ago
That pretty much addresses my first question, but only that, from what I can tell. > it would be wrong to compare my employer to a startup operating on angel fumes Only if you pre-suppose your hand-wavey definition of good, which I notic
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by mmt 8y ago
> We have offices in both SF and Toronto I have also read that US companies (especially the big-name ones likes FAMG) who open Canadian offices pay more than purely local ones, so I wonder if merely having offices in both places helps in
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by mmt 8y ago
> You're welcome here. I don't think that's strictly true. The last time I drove across the border, I got pulled in for extra scrutiny (random, I assume). I happened to be unemployed at the time and was asked a bunch of qu
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by mmt 8y ago
> the list isn't too different from issues that face other sites based around user-generated content This was what caught my attention at being remarkably non-unique: > Another structural problem of Tumblr is that deleted blogs
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by mmt 8y ago
Well, the market certainly agrees with you..there has never, to my knowledge, been anything like what I describe, other than for trivial capacities. > With regards to hard drives I actually follow backblaze's lead, thus it is receiv
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by mmt 8y ago
Well, OK, but I really do wish you would answer my original question as to whether you have an objection to split-dns separate/independent of anything to do with rfc1918. That's what I've been trying to do all along, which I
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by mmt 8y ago
> It's only been in the past few years that flash memory has been accessed through interfaces that weren't made for hard drives. Just how few years are we talking about? From what I recall, Fusion-IO's model didn't us
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by mmt 8y ago
> If you absolutely have to store 12TB of data and not spend another dollar, more drives are less reliable. In most situations having more drives makes it a lot easier to protect your data, because you can use parity. I think what we&#x2
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by mmt 8y ago
> Density does matter. In what way? You have yet to quantify this or the "ton of space" assertion. I'm not saying that density can't matter, just that it doesn't in the practical case. The only time I'
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by mmt 8y ago
> I don't really see the CIDR analogy As an analogy, it doesn't directly apply to your particular point, which is why it's an analogy. It would apply to, say, a network engineer. > an application (correctly) caching DNS
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by mmt 8y ago
> It is hard to recycle used equipment at scale generally and economically. Old ram if it is small will take up a ton of space as well. You've said this already, but both of these statements need unpacking and quantifying, especiall
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by mmt 8y ago
To be fair, no OS has control over the hardware, only how it interacts with it. The cheap eBay clone and random PC fan failure are vanishingly rare for a datacenter database environment. Still, the claim that merely selecting a an OS that m
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by mmt 8y ago
They also exist as features within an (otherwise) relational DBMS. Perhaps the trouble is that it's mostly been in the realm of the commercial ones and only relatively recently has Postgres started adopting enough of them to make the n
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by mmt 8y ago
> like NAND flash This has been in SSDs for long enough without being hailed as a game changer, which is why I question anything common between the two that appears to be called out as the cause. > Intel's 3D XPoint have fundam
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by mmt 8y ago
> Everything with the IP/Internet architecture was designed Sure, but that statement is only true in the past tense and only for a sufficiently-past definition of "everything". One could make a similar complaint about the
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by mmt 8y ago
When I say "old RAM" I mean from the same, current, modern era, though, yes, it is often smaller or lower-density due to being pulls from upgrades, for example. The modern era often also includes previous-generation technology, su
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by mmt 8y ago
> Why not just attach that RAM as system memory in such a situation? Because the number of available DIMM slots, and therefore total capacity, is scarce. Increases in capacity require increases in density, which carry a cost (and presuma
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by mmt 8y ago
That's credible given the announced capacities and expecte performance, but I'll be interested to see how the real prices/availability compare with RAM, especially if Intel is the sole supplier.
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by mmt 8y ago
> I don’t know whether the present topic would let you bypass this limitation I can't imagine that it would, since it's just swapping. That's why I asked the question. How to take advantage of the nonvolatile aspect of tha
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by mmt 8y ago
> his annual budget had increased from $65m to $70m in the past two years – about the level of inflation. “So I’m at net zero.” Now there's some creative spin, describing five megabucks as "net zero". Even accepting the
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by mmt 8y ago
> The advent of nonvolatile memory is changing the equation, though, and swapping is starting to look interesting again It's not clear to me why the nonvolatile part makes any difference to swap. I'd expect it would make mor
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by mmt 8y ago
> Then there's a misguided but common phenomenon called split-horizon DNS is also common, where you serve different records as answers to the same query based on what the query originator's address is. Do you consider the whole
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm a bit confused as to what your thesis is, but perhaps it's because I'm distracted by the fact that there seems to be a misunderstanding of what the data show. FTA: >The concept used is the total number of hours worked
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by mmt 8y ago
> The result would be a much simpler and more resilient system (at the expense of some storage and memory overhead, which is the lesser evil imho). On balance, I agree with the conclusion. However, coming from a non-desktop viewpoint (se
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by mmt 8y ago
Oh, so what you're saying is that they're no considering the notion that there may be a medium-availability (for lack of a better term) solution, which could be perfectly adequate/appropriate?
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by mmt 8y ago
> Availability for very many is a binary operation. They either do none of it or all of it. I assume I'm missing some meaning here, particularly since the premise of much of the discussion in the thread is that there can be high av
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by mmt 8y ago
What happens to it after 24 hours in your refrigerator that makes it inedible? What temperature is your refrigerator? (Yes, I know few fridges have actual thermometers, but it's remarkably important both for food safety and, in many ca

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