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by mprovost 6y ago
Your first point reminded me of the post the other day by Daniel Stenberg about the feedback the he receives for his work on curl. [0] Making things in public absolutely does open you up to personal attacks. Ignoring them is easier said tha
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by mprovost 6y ago
I just noticed that they've taken the arrow keys off the HHKB! It always had an inverted T.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Check out the Happy Hacking keyboard [0]. It's got a great layout - Ctrl to the left of A. They're really well made in Japan. The Classic model isn't super expensive, I wouldn't pay extra for the "Professional"
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by mprovost 6y ago
The new train line (Crossrail) in London is years behind schedule, mostly due to problems with the software control systems for the trains. [0] Integrating automated trains into an existing rail network isn't easy - imagine the scale o
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by mprovost 6y ago
Total side note, but the chair pictured really reminds me of the aluminum folding chairs that were ubiquitous in backyards when I was growing up. I'd love one like that for the (home) office!
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by mprovost 6y ago
Right, if you look at the early BSD sources [0] it's not a complete OS - there's no kernel. It's just a bunch of utilities that you were supposed to install on an already running AT&T system. [0] https://github
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by mprovost 6y ago
Or they just used cat: "When I'm writing programs, I can type them in half the time with cat because the programs are six lines - a #include, main and a for loop and one or two variables."
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by mprovost 6y ago
"These editors tend to last too long - almost a decade for vi now" - Bill Joy, 1984
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by mprovost 6y ago
In this case possibly the best use of C++ was to write the LLVM compiler which could then be used to implement a DSL (Rust) that is better suited to the problem at hand.
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by mprovost 6y ago
But it's not just the rate with the central bank, they're forcing high street banks to prove that their systems can handle negative interest rates for consumer loans and mortgages.
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by mprovost 6y ago
I was digging around the Unix history repo and found a BSD program cat3a [0] written by Bill Joy in 1977 to "cat to an adm3a quickly". It blanks the screen and prints a file directly to the tty at 80 columns wide. Of course that&#
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by mprovost 6y ago
Yes, there have been over 10 million vaccinations so far. They did over 900,000 last weekend alone.
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by mprovost 6y ago
When they say "still shipping" I imagine a box in a warehouse somewhere full of new old stock for enterprise customers with really long maintenance contracts. I'm sure nobody is actually working on the architecture anymore -
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by mprovost 6y ago
Now what would be even weirder is if I see a murder near St Giles on the news tonight...
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by mprovost 6y ago
I'm actually more fascinated by the map than the murders. It's cool to see St Giles-in-the-Fields church actually in the middle of fields. And Spitalfields was The Spital Fields, again, actual fields. You can also see Bedlam, the
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by mprovost 6y ago
I grew up with A-10s flying overhead almost daily (I lived next to BDL airport and the CT Air National Guard had A-10s). I had pictures of all kinds of different planes on my wall and wanted to be a fighter pilot - as did half the boys in t
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by mprovost 6y ago
This is coming from the perspective of someone working in platform engineering. The further down the stack you are, the more conservative (aka boring) you have to be, because the blast radius increases. Quoting another great post [0] on thi
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by mprovost 6y ago
And you can locate power plants away from population centres so the pollution isn't being generated right outside homes and schools.
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by mprovost 6y ago
It's true that some people consider it to be immoral but the Vatican has said that it's morally acceptable given the current circumstances and lack of alternatives. [0] [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur
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by mprovost 6y ago
It can only do 19,200 bit/s, give it a second!
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by mprovost 6y ago
Yes! One of my best travel hacks was to buy a "key ring" pocket sharpener. I found myself staying in Airbnbs (back when that was a thing) with terrible knives. It's a pain to travel with your own knife through airport securit
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by mprovost 6y ago
I can also really recommend Adam Ragusea. All of his recipes are optimised for the home kitchen and he shows all of the steps including preparation (although sometimes sped up). He also has a lot of tips about not using so many pans etc.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Yup this is known as the Dead Sea Effect [0]. Your best people leave and you're left with the worst performers. Do this a few times and you end up with a barely functioning organisation. [0] http://brucefwebster.com/200
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by mprovost 6y ago
Lustre is all about performance, at the cost of being split across multiple distributed systems. So there are opportunities to have different components get out of sync - the metadata servers are usually the weak link. And the more moving p
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by mprovost 6y ago
The nice thing about storing everything including metadata in S3 is that you have a consistent copy of your filesystem. How do you back up a filesystem that is split across Redis and S3 for example? I was able to blow away the cluster runni
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by mprovost 6y ago
We were doing this at Avere in 2015. The system built a POSIX filesystem out of S3 objects on the backend (including metadata) and then served it over NFS or SMB from a cluster of cache nodes. Keeping metadata and data in separate data stor
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by mprovost 6y ago
AKA Zowie Bowie, David Bowie's son.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Approval is one thing involving a whole world of bureaucracy. But the Moderna vaccine was designed by January 13, 2020 and took just 2 days. 2 days plus decades of prior research... This was before the first identified case in the US and in
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by mprovost 6y ago
Some context for those who are unaware: fetchmail was written by the same person (Eric S Raymond/ESR) as the "Cathedral and the Bazaar" essay.
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by mprovost 6y ago
IPv6 doesn't have anything to do with multicast - it works fine on v4. For some definition of works - the only industry where I've heard of it being used extensively is finance. For live events like press conferences or sports thi

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