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by mprovost 6y ago
That doesn't protect against surges though - any weirdness from the mains power would still fry your server through the unprotected power supply.
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by mprovost 6y ago
And in TFA
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by mprovost 6y ago
Apparently "G8" when pronounced in Chinese sounds like slang for "penis". [0] Canon had a popular line of cameras named G1/G2 etc - they skipped from G7 to G9. [1] HP also had servers with model names and generation
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by mprovost 6y ago
There were proposals for backwards compatible addressing schemes. But they were rejected for a "clean slate" approach. Almost 30 years later, we can see how successful that was... EIP (Extended Internet Protocol) [0] was proposed
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by mprovost 6y ago
The extension to a 64 bit address with few other changes was called SIP and was proposed in 1992 (!). https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-historic-simple-ip-03
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by mprovost 6y ago
Superhuman. It's the only software I use at work that I pay for myself because it makes dealing with email so much less painful. To the point that it's actually almost enjoyable clearing out my inbox. The ability to do absolutely
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by mprovost 6y ago
Licensing agreements like this always make me wonder how companies are supposed to handle the accounting for depreciation on hardware. Since the license isn't transferable, the effective resale value of the expensive hardware you just
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by mprovost 6y ago
One nice benefit of working from home due to lockdown is that I haven't set an alarm in months. I just naturally get up fairly early with the sun now, so it's pretty unlikely that I'll miss my first 10:00 call.
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by mprovost 6y ago
It was my understanding that most "fakes" come out of the same factories as the originals. So Cisco orders 1000 switches, but the factory has a secret midnight shift that assembles another 500 that go out the back door. It would t
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by mprovost 6y ago
Thanks, I've given some thought on how to address this but haven't come to a real conclusion yet. It would be nice if there was a way to document macros with some kind of pseudo-function syntax, but then with macros you can expres
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by mprovost 6y ago
It's true that writing macros is out of scope for an intro guide, but the first "hello world" example uses the println! macro so you have to understand how to use them right from the start. They're all over the standard
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by mprovost 6y ago
That may be true but at least to me it was more obvious in Vienna because it's someplace that was clearly once a lot more important than it is now. Cities like London or Paris are still growing and changing. In Vienna I had the sense t
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by mprovost 6y ago
That's a great point. In the past maybe people wanted to improve the city because that's where they lived, and saw themselves living. There was a comment on HN years ago that I still remember where they compared working in the Bay
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by mprovost 6y ago
While wandering around Vienna a few years ago looking at all the buildings from the height of the empire and realising that it's quite a liveable city, for some reason it made me think about San Francisco. If the tech industry disappea
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by mprovost 6y ago
Looking at the map of results from the 2016 election in Indiana (where I went to college), the state was solidly pro-Trump but you can easily spot the blue counties where IU Bloomington (Monroe) and Notre Dame (St Joseph) are located. The o
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by mprovost 6y ago
The comparison is with Africa - these are the oldest bows found in Europe or Asia.
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by mprovost 6y ago
Why is it that these articles never show the $item? Even a reconstruction would be nice.
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by mprovost 6y ago
I think you're looking back at this from the modern perspective of cheap hardware and open source software. We didn't have Sun workstations as desktops - we were using FreeBSD on cheap Dells. Our production servers cost something
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by mprovost 6y ago
Sure, username at termcap.net
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by mprovost 6y ago
Your comment made me remember netcraft.com which was the tool we always used to see which web server and OS was running a site. There was a running joke back in the day on slashdot about "BSD is dying" as Linux started to take ove
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by mprovost 6y ago
A what first?
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by mprovost 6y ago
Apache (and mod_perl) was thread safe by being multi-process, single threaded. You were always limited by how many perl interpreters could fit in RAM simultaneously. Then came the era of the Java app server (Weblogic and WebSphere). Everyon
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by mprovost 6y ago
Most likely the main Oracle server which had a disk array attached. These days it's easy to forget how tricky it could be to get basic things like this working. rsync was in its infancy and I doubt we were using it. As I recall most se
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by mprovost 6y ago
Yes, Burbank. Here's another one - Solaris had a 2GB file size limit (this was before ZFS). Which isn't as crazy as it sounds now - hard drives were 9GB at the time. So ordinarily this wasn't a problem, but when the first Har
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by mprovost 6y ago
Unfortunately I can't even remember the author's last name and LinkedIn isn't helping. Let me ask around.
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by mprovost 6y ago
I was webmaster for this site (and thousands of others at WB) back in 2001! I believe this was when we did the great www -> www2 migration, which was of course supposed to be temporary. In fact I think that was when we migrated from our
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by mprovost 6y ago
Aren't most "shareholders" actually index funds or pensions at this point? The effects of wiping out such a large chunk of stock all at once would be felt pretty widely.
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by mprovost 6y ago
The writer Sarah Hagi is often quoted: "Lord, grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man".
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by mprovost 6y ago
Interesting, I've often seen CVs from people applying from India include their parents' details. I assumed it was something to do with caste but I was still surprised to see it added even when not required.
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by mprovost 6y ago
The Osborne effect for languages. Now there's no risk in announcing version 7 since effectively everyone who was going to choose Perl already chose Python (or Javascript). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effe

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