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by mprovost 7y ago
Traditionally it's been true that you need SRAM for the entire packet, which also increases latency since you have to wait for the entire packet to arrive down the wire before retransmitting it. But modern switches are often cut-throug
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by mprovost 7y ago
And the amount spent on actual hardware must be at an all time low. The first lab I interned at in high school in the early 90s, every programmer had both a Symbolics workstation and a NeXTcube on their desk. (In a private office, of course
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by mprovost 7y ago
This article was written by Mike Godwin, the creator of "Godwin's Law", which you've just helpfully illustrated. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
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by mprovost 7y ago
That size seems high. 100 sqft would be a nice sized office. Cubicles are more like 30 square feet. Douglas Coupland gave cubicles the name "veal fattening pens" in Generation X but they're actually smaller now - calf enclosu
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by mprovost 7y ago
The tilde escape predates SSH - it comes from the cu (Call UNIX) program in BSD 4.2: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/usr/src...
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by mprovost 7y ago
Yes, k, w, and y were added for foreign loan words. Embraer is an abbreviation of "Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica" which doesn't contain any foreign words. I wanted to point out that it's unlikely that a native speake
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by mprovost 7y ago
I think the parent comment was implying that jam can be healthy just because it uses whole fruit as an ingredient. The chemistry behind turning a mixture of fruit and sugar into something called jam is pretty well known - there has to be a
548.
by mprovost 7y ago
Jam is basically a 50/50 mixture of whole fruit and white sugar.
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by mprovost 7y ago
Portuguese doesn't have the letter "y"!
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by mprovost 7y ago
Absolutely - clothes send a social signal that you're a part of the right group. In London you can not get hired in the City for wearing brown shoes. Not because black is the right colour, but because everyone from the social class tha
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by mprovost 7y ago
In that case would a standard part of the interview process become asking the candidate for their home address and calculate how much their commute will cost the company? (Assuming that some companies still have offices and want staff to sh
552.
by mprovost 7y ago
Especially if you stop allocating TCAM memory for the much larger v6 addresses. I hate to think how much memory is sitting out there in routers, configured for 128 bit v6 addresses and never used...
553.
by mprovost 7y ago
But if they're using a deduplicating storage backend, they can shrink down the actual storage on disk across all customers to something quite reasonable.
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by mprovost 7y ago
Hmm I started at: https://linux.die.net/man/8/ifconfig which says "This program is obsolete! For replacement check ip addr and ip link" and references ip(8) in the See Also section. Neither page refers t
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by mprovost 7y ago
These are two pretty complex manpages for setting up network interfaces: http://man.openbsd.org/ifconfig.8 https://linux.die.net/man/8/ip The Linux one doesn't have an example anywhere of how
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by mprovost 7y ago
Yes, discriminating based on national origin is usually illegal. "No Irish" etc. It's up to the government to decide whether someone has the legal right to work, not individual employers.
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by mprovost 7y ago
...or hydro.
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by mprovost 7y ago
It's more amazing to me that this modern powerful hardware can't emulate technology from 1983 without overheating.
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by mprovost 7y ago
True, but dry ice sublimates instead of melts so there's no cleanup.
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by mprovost 7y ago
For one off situations you can also buy dry ice and put it in the fridge. We used to do this during hurricanes.
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by mprovost 7y ago
The 2009 model year is when VW started to program their diesels to cheat on emissions tests.
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by mprovost 7y ago
When I go camping, I use a standard 1L Nalgene bottle as a pillow. Sometimes I'll put it inside the sleeve of a fleece but it's actually fine on its own. Maybe it's just because I'm usually tired, but I find it fine to s
563.
by mprovost 7y ago
Not if the pound continues to devalue against the Euro (and everything else).
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by mprovost 7y ago
The entire Unix operating system was developed at Bell Labs which was then broken up by the US government along with the rest of AT&T. This led it to being commercialised and distributed. Who knows what would come out of Google if every
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by mprovost 7y ago
Interesting fact about ZF: it was founded in 1915 to make gearboxes for zeppelins.
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by mprovost 7y ago
Job control was first implemented in csh, another Bill Joy invention, although I believe that particular feature was added by someone else.
567.
by mprovost 8y ago
And "djb"
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by mprovost 8y ago
Tapes sitting on a shelf is the classic solution.
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by mprovost 8y ago
A quote from the post calls this pattern "Microsoft takes three tries to get anything right": Microsoft's entry into most new technologies follows this same plan, with the first effort being a preemptive strike, the second ef
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by mprovost 8y ago
An MP (Jo Cox) was murdered (I don't think it's too strong to say assassinated) during the Brexit campaign.

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