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by mprovost 6y ago
It could be that your manager sees something in you that makes them think that you would be a successful manager yourself. Good managers can usually spot others with potential. And your frustration with how projects are run is often one way
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by mprovost 6y ago
True but with an AV they would presumably be geofenced to areas where they can be supported. I don't think it's likely that a remote operator would take control to drive an AV when it's outside a defined ODD (Operational Desi
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by mprovost 6y ago
I just bought an electric car and it doesn't come with a spare tyre - the battery takes up too much room. If you get a flat you just have to call roadside assistance. So there are already good networks set up to handle these edge cases
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by mprovost 6y ago
Cows yes, bulls no. There are exceptions but generally it's not legal to leave bulls alone without cows in fields that have public rights of way. We walk through fields with cows all the time, it can sometimes be uncomfortable if they
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by mprovost 6y ago
Any good stories?
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by mprovost 6y ago
I don't think you get to roll back the odometer and start counting again just because nobody adopted a technology from the start. That's not to say that adoption won't take off at some point - a lot of technologies experience
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by mprovost 6y ago
So it's taken 25 years to get to ~30% adoption. And a few years ago APNIC reported [0] that the rate was going down - I haven't found an updated report. In 2005 the US government mandated that all their computers be v6 connected b
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by mprovost 6y ago
You're right, but the market isn't the same as when horses were the primary means of transportation and (literal) horsepower. Horses are a hobby for rich people. My comment was kind of a throwaway but I have seen articles that of
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by mprovost 6y ago
There is still a market for horses.
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by mprovost 6y ago
At my current company we're actively discouraged in training from making small talk during interviews for exactly this reason. Even asking how their weekend was can lead to something like "Oh you played a few rounds of golf? I pla
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by mprovost 6y ago
atime doesn't quite work because it makes a read operation into a write. Mostly that's ok, because you're just overwriting the same timestamp field over and over again. But it gets strange with filesystem snapshots or anythin
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by mprovost 6y ago
Dominic Raab (currently the UK's foreign secretary) is (in)famous for having the same Pret meal for lunch every (working) day: a chicken caesar and bacon baguette, with a pot of fruit and the same smoothie. https://www.thegu
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by mprovost 6y ago
When I used to "lose" a shell I would just cat a bell character (^G) to the process's tty and see which screen window went "Wuff, Wuff!!".
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by mprovost 6y ago
I thought maybe they chose "cat"enate to avoid a naming clash with a "con" command but looking back through the early Unix sources there doesn't appear to have been one.
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by mprovost 6y ago
cat has been (ab)used to output files to a terminal for a long time. BSD 1 has a program cat3a [0] that Bill Joy wrote in 1977(!) to quickly write files to an ADM-3A terminal [1]. If you look at the keyboard it has arrows on the HJKL keys w
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by mprovost 6y ago
Oracle paid NetApp a lot of money to settle the patent infringement lawsuit after buying Sun which "borrowed" a lot of WAFL's ideas for ZFS.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Sergei Skripal was a colonel in the GRU who was also a spy for MI6 and who moved to the UK as part of a prisoner swap. Apparently he hadn't quite retired and was still briefing western intelligence services just before his poisoning.
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by mprovost 6y ago
I used to always use /usr/ucb/ps on Solaris systems, where they hid all the old BSD commands from SunOS. It looks like they finally dropped that with Solaris 11!
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by mprovost 6y ago
They know who did it - two colonels and a general in the GRU. I suppose you can say it was circumstantial in that nobody caught them actually putting the poison on their doorknob, but it's pretty well accepted that 3 officers from Russ
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by mprovost 6y ago
One of the main complaints about NFS, one of the original distributed systems - is that client machines hang when the server is unavailable. The problem is that the (Unix) filesystem layer assumes that disks are reliable (spoiler alert: the
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by mprovost 6y ago
Here in London people do run cables out of their windows (or at least from their house) to cars parked on the street. The more considerate ones will use a safety cover but I also just see cables running out of houses across the footpath to
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by mprovost 6y ago
I always install yubiswitch [0] to prevent accidental yubisneezes. It lets you disable it from the Mac menu bar until you need it. [0] https://github.com/pallotron/yubiswitch
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by mprovost 6y ago
That's how Smalltalk worked in the 70s (or Squeak for a modern dialect). You can edit any part of the running system and it takes effect right away. One classic example is redefining "true" to "false" and watching t
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by mprovost 6y ago
Sun developed WebNFS [0] specifically so Java applets (remember them?) could access remote filesystems through firewalls from the browser. It's basically the same protocol as NFSv3 with some clever workarounds so that it doesn't r
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by mprovost 6y ago
Yes they insert ads into your feed the same as IG or FB.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Unrelated to the article but I looked up the address of the printer's building in London and found this post [0] describing how it was bombed on December 29, 1940. That gave a fascinating look into what it was like trying to operate a
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by mprovost 6y ago
Network protocols usually encode things as big endian since that was the dominant order when the internet was being developed. It's a minor point now but everything has to be swapped around on little endian systems.
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by mprovost 6y ago
That's a good point about testing. I think the key point is where the testing is happening. I'm sure the UPS (and other power equipment) is tested by the manufacturer for many different failure scenarios. The issue is that to the
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by mprovost 6y ago
At the reasonably sized datacentre that I ran we had a voltage conditioner that also had "sag protection". It was an HPC shop and we decided that it wasn't worth the money to put the compute on UPS (just storage and core serv
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by mprovost 6y ago
This reminded me of James Hamilton's (the AWS datacentre guru) writeup of the power outage at the 2013 SuperBowl. Specifically how the default configuration of backup generators is often to protect themselves, even if that means shutti

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