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by mprovost 8y ago
strip(1)
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by mprovost 8y ago
NFS has been around forever and has always had a bad reputation due to problems like this. It mostly handles transient failures by waiting (indefinitely) for the server to return, but it's unclear what a better option is.
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by mprovost 8y ago
Charity Majors https://charity.wtf/
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by mprovost 8y ago
That reminds me of the story when a reporter asked Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor (the Duke of Westminster) if he had any advice for young entrepreneurs and he replied “Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the
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by mprovost 8y ago
He also owns a company that builds and sells brand new, airworthy WWI replica planes. http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/
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by mprovost 8y ago
I schedule mine for a weekly 45 minutes which effectively blocks out an hour in both of our calendars. An hour is too intimidating though. If there isn't much to talk about that week we'll end at 30 minutes which is fine, but some
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by mprovost 8y ago
The live demo of Smalltalk-78 that was posted here a while ago shows it off quite nicely. https://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
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by mprovost 8y ago
Even before smart metres, NZ has had a ripple control system since the 1950s which sends signals over the electric lines to your circuit breaker so the utility could remotely turn domestic hot water heaters off during periods of high demand
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by mprovost 8y ago
You'd like the Frankfurt kitchen which was inspired by Taylor's time and motion studies for industry. In 1926! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen
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by mprovost 8y ago
Income taxes (the primary source of current US gov't revenue) were unconstitutional until the 16th amendment in 1913.
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by mprovost 8y ago
Interesting that this was tested at Framestore (the visual effects company), they used to be a Lustre shop years ago then moved to commercial NFS servers and must be back onto commodity hardware now.
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by mprovost 8y ago
"The Smalltalk font in the screenshots is Cream by Bob Flegal, based on a design by Alan Kay" Alan Kay: "Actually, Bob Flegal's challenge was to somehow make a script font that kind of looked slanted but was actually str
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by mprovost 9y ago
Wooden buildings have the advantage that in an active seismic area they can survive (or let the occupants survive) earthquakes much better than brick. Building codes in California prefer wood pretty much for this reason, even though they ar
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by mprovost 9y ago
There were 1,137 homeless reported in London [0], a city with a population of 8.8 million. SF has 7,499 [1] for a city of 870k. There are actually more homeless in SF than all of England. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/soci
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by mprovost 9y ago
They changed their filtration system and all forms of Guinness worldwide are now vegan.
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by mprovost 9y ago
Even if the stores are more efficient with packaging/recycling, consumers still have to go to the store. What is the carbon footprint of 500 people driving to the store and back vs a UPS truck delivering 500 individual cardboard boxes?
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by mprovost 9y ago
That's a great rule - also, always ask the question in the first sentence.
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by mprovost 9y ago
ncurses and the terminfo database (which ship with pretty much every Unix-like) are maintained by one person, Thomas E. Dickey.
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by mprovost 9y ago
And, somebody has to pay for it. The producers of the current project won't allocate any of their budget to preserve something for a (hypothetical) future sequel/re-release - that is somebody else's problem. The only places t
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by mprovost 9y ago
Often you can't reliably re-render shots from a few months earlier on the same project due to the pipeline changing so rapidly. Nevermind going back to the tapes for files that probably came off Irix workstations originally. The file f
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by mprovost 9y ago
This is called the Dead Sea Effect: http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
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by mprovost 9y ago
You are probably paying that price no matter what - if you want apples out of season, you either have to keep them in a coolstore for months, or ship them from another part of the world where they are in season. It could be that buying loca
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by mprovost 9y ago
In London I'll often use Google Maps to search for the business that I'm looking for, then find the closest tube stop on the map and switch to Citymapper to navigate there.
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by mprovost 10y ago
That's really interesting did you document any more about your process?
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by mprovost 10y ago
That's really only possible on a single user system. VFX studios usually have large NFS servers (filers) typically running proprietary filesystems, and with hundreds or thousands of clients writing files simultaneously they don't
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by mprovost 10y ago
We lost a good chunk of Tintin (I think) when someone tried to use the OSX migration assistant to upgrade a Macbook that had some production volumes NFS mounted. It was trying in vain to copy several PB of data (I am convinced that nobody a
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by mprovost 10y ago
The FAA limits batteries to 100 watt-hours. I'm not sure why they haven't maxed it out on the newer macbook pro like they did on the older one though. https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/macbook-pro-october-2016
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by mprovost 10y ago
I totally agree, when I'm working on my OS project I just assume Linux/GCC. These days you're only about 30 seconds away from having a brand new Linux machine up and running in AWS/Google. Porting across systems is just
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by mprovost 10y ago
MacOS doesn't provide clock_gettime in its libc. You have to use a Mach specific timer. There are some libraries that abstract this but obviously the author never built it on a Mac, which is their choice.
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by mprovost 10y ago
I was referring to where the article compares 100ms latency to 8 years. Typical "enterprise" storage solutions have sub-millisecond response times. I'm assuming the 52 seconds is how long it's taking to flush the entire

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