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by msisk6 10y ago
I'd recommend anything by Simon Winchester. He writes interesting non-fiction books and reads them for the audio versions. Just this morning on my drive into work I finished "The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers
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by msisk6 10y ago
This is very true. I live in the country and my house is about 100-feet off a rural highway with a 65-mph speed limit. Being Texas, most folks are going a bit faster. One of my neighbors has a Tesla. It's no quieter at these speeds tha
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Expansion of California's electric grid [c]ould save consumers $1.5B(latimes.com)
2 points by msisk6 10y ago|0 comments
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by msisk6 10y ago
Yeah, occasionally folks ask us why Texas has its own grid. We just answer "because Texas". ;)
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by msisk6 10y ago
We do. In the continental US there's three independent grids: East, West, and Texas. There's some interchange of power between the grids with DC ties, but it's pretty minimal capacity-wise.
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How America Could Go Dark(wsj.com)
73 points by msisk6 10y ago|66 comments
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by msisk6 10y ago
No better than anyone else here really. The sad reality is that often these status pages are manually updated by the service teams themselves and when there's an issue you're busy trying to fix the problem, not update the status p
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by msisk6 10y ago
I was in Joplin right after the tornado and had a somewhat different experience. I grew up there and my folks still lived there at the time not far from St. Johns Hospital (the one that was hit and featured in most of the news). I was worki
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by msisk6 10y ago
Transmission losses over large distances are high. And long distance transmission infrastructure is expensive. High Voltage DC (HVDC) is very expensive. The holy grail in transmission is high temperature super conductors. We're not the
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by msisk6 11y ago
Looks like yet another Orchestrator like OpenStack Heat or Amazon CloudFormation. Looks fairly complete and extensible, though.
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by msisk6 11y ago
I don't know. I hope they do since they're always trying to improve the noise situation.
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by msisk6 11y ago
I was actually in the Austin office most of the time but spent a lot of time at "The Castle" (as they call the SA headquarters). Texas is a bit different and SA is that plus more. It's hot. ;) Austin is great, though, and I s
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Energy Efficient HPC Live Performance Dashboard(hpc.nrel.gov)
2 points by msisk6 11y ago|0 comments
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by msisk6 11y ago
They tried various things like big fabric panels designed to absorb sound hanging from the ceiling, special wall treatments, and moving desks around and such around. It's just a big space with thousands of people, many of them on the p
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by msisk6 11y ago
Take it from someone that used to work there -- it's horrific. The noise level is unbelievable. All the technical folks live in their noise-canceling headphones all day.
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by msisk6 11y ago
Well, yeah, on paper it's $2/month/mailbox, but there's a $10 a month minimum, so it's really at least $120 a year. Fastmail is really $40 a year for their "Enhanced" plan and you can pay it in 5-year chun
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by msisk6 11y ago
Texas currently has 14 GW of wind generation and another 11 GW coming online over the next 2 years. Seems practical enough.
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by msisk6 11y ago
Not sure. I got an Entropy Key from Simtec about 4 years ago. The case of the TrueRNG looks identical to the Entropy Key, but for all I know that could just be a common part.
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by msisk6 11y ago
It didn't last. The tone of the place changed radically after Walker left and Bartz came in. But, to be fair, it was probably inevitable. Once an organization get beyond a certain size it's bound to change. Still, it can't be
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by msisk6 11y ago
"Code" by Charles Petzold is another book I'd recommend for this sort of thing. I usually keep a few copies on hand to give out to folks that show a genuine interest in learning more about code and how computers really work.
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by msisk6 12y ago
I found one of these when I was Autodesk back in the early 90s. It's been awhile, so I'm undoubtedly remembering something incorrectly. This was in the early days of protected mode DOS software. Some customers were reporting an lo
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by msisk6 12y ago
It doesn't seem possible for solar to make that much progress in that short a time. It takes forever to get transmission capacity approved and built to areas where solar is really cost-effective and we still don't have grid-scale
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by msisk6 12y ago
Years ago early in my career I took a job that I realized during the first week was a mistake. It wasn't until I got embedded with my team that I realized how toxic the environment was and no real work was getting done at all. Everyone
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by msisk6 12y ago
My Facebook feed is mostly non-technical friends and family and I see someone seriously posting the hoax disclaimer weekly.
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by msisk6 12y ago
;)
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by msisk6 12y ago
This is surprising. The Rackspace DNS infrastructure is large and robust. It was believed just the bandwidth to the masters alone should be sufficient for even the largest DDOS. So this is either something different or of a vastly larger sc
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by msisk6 12y ago
Rackspace - Operations Engineer - Austin, TX Want to work with me building new products and services on OpenStack? Overview & Responsibilities Behind the scenes of every Fanatical customer experience is YOU, the Rackspace Operations Eng
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by msisk6 12y ago
I can't emphasis enough for you to pay attention to what the folks above have said. I also have some experience with a large DNS service and you just wouldn't believe the amount of time and resources that get allocated to dealing
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by msisk6 12y ago
Slack is something railroads would love to get rid of. If the slack isn't managed properly when starting a train the jerk can rip the coupler knuckle right off and split the train (which brings everything to a stop when the brakes auto
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by msisk6 13y ago
This is true. Although we do appreciate folks using other Rackspace services along with the free DNS. ;)

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