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by nikau 3y ago
I think it was a Microsoft feature but you had to have certified hardware for support. There were 2 windows servers both plugged into the same scsi disk pack, and it used a couple of crossover cables I believe for the heartbeat. I remember
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by nikau 3y ago
Sway bars have been around eons before the 00s - its widespread adoption of electronic stability control that reduced suv rollovers.
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by nikau 3y ago
Sounds like she had either very low end hearing aids or they were poorly tuned. High end hearing aids don't just do band tuned amplification, they also filter out repeating noises like a fridge hum, and the left & right share micro
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by nikau 3y ago
weekly reboots force the business to build their processes around the system being offline at the same time each week. That way you don't have to try and organize downtime if maintenance is required, you know every sunday morning is av
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by nikau 3y ago
just you wait, one day google cloud pub/sub will have a queue pause feature!
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by nikau 3y ago
Fun story from a place I worked which got one of the first alpha 4100 sold in our country - it was having intermittent crashes that we couldn't figure out. DEC sent out a very senior engineer to investigate, he eventually discovered so
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by nikau 3y ago
UA175 and AA11 are 2 that come to mind
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by nikau 3y ago
A lot of older systems were like that before they became more commodity items with guard rails. Some of the early SAN disk arrays used to use an assembly like config interface with no sanity checks, type in the wrong command and you could w
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by nikau 3y ago
Its probably on par with the feature set of googles internal load balancers :P
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by nikau 3y ago
Before cattle computing and non stop vulnerabilities, high uptime was a badge of honour. Was not at all uncommon to have heavy use Solaris or Tru64 boxes with 3 years uptime.
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by nikau 3y ago
I recall having to do a native windows packet dump and it reinforced how windows and Linux are opposites. Linux has a lot of friction for normal users, but easy for sysadmins. Windows has a lot of friction for sysadmins, but easy for users.
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by nikau 3y ago
Its even better once you learn how to run tcpdump session over ssh dumped into a pipe, and then use wireshark locally via the pipe to get a nice gui for the remote capture.
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by nikau 3y ago
S5 was also one of the first mainstream waterproof smartphone and came out almost 10 years ago, and had a replaceable battery without any tools. If the back was screwed on vs clipped on (allowed with new laws), it could have easily been ip6
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by nikau 3y ago
Welcome to society where sometimes the better good overrides your desire for a 0.5mm thinner phone.
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by nikau 3y ago
rechargeable hearing aids are pretty common place now, although they still gouge you a few hundred dollars for the convenience.
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by nikau 3y ago
you must have some very poor quality cases, I've never had to replace a case except for the flea market $2 TPU junk.
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by nikau 3y ago
Mostly due to imports of disposable "nicotine free" vapes that of course contained nicotine. Banning them outright makes customs easy as otherwise you would have to test every import for nicotine levels. There's zero benefit
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by nikau 3y ago
And my galaxy s8 has usb-c and is waterproof, so a robust waterproof connector is a solved problem, they even have moisture detection by measuring resistance between a few pins.
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by nikau 3y ago
Galaxy s5 proving waterproof phones with replaceable batteries don't need to bulkier aside, perhaps they might engineer phones to be a bit thicker but more durable so they don't need a gaudy case on them to protect them, so net th
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by nikau 3y ago
galaxy s5 was water proof with tool free battery swap. Was also similar thickness to contemporary devices.
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by nikau 3y ago
seems more like a gui version of ntop rather than anything near the feature set of wireshark.
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by nikau 3y ago
1080p is pretty reasonable on a 14" display, you can option a 2.8K OLED display but personally I think its overkill. The x1 carbon is a light weight option, for similar weight to the macbook you can get a X1 Extreme which has 4K panels
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by nikau 3y ago
It seems you have been fortunate to not deal with "enterprise grade" vendor software with scripts that assume they are the only thing running on the host.
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by nikau 3y ago
Its pretty much like lego these days, everything is fool proof with the exception of installing the CPU.
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by nikau 3y ago
its the ability to lower operating cost with less skilled staff. No need to worry about some some other app using port 8080, dont need to ensure your scripts do a ps and filter out other users stuff, all those kinds of things. Then theres l
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by nikau 3y ago
My car has tires that rub against the wheel arches and doesn't have a fuel filler compatible with normal pumps, but its not bad design.
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by nikau 3y ago
All the flaws were due to the one trick pony "make it look thin" era of Ive - the stupid butterfly keyboard switch, the fact it was riveted to the chassis, the poor thermals, the lack of larger sized ports. And after all that the
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by nikau 3y ago
A CNAME to the agile manifesto?
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by nikau 3y ago
ironic example given johnny ive was responsible for the piece of crap previous gen macbooks with faulty keyboards, no in-real-world-use ports, throttling due to poor thermals, no matte screens, missing escape and function keys, and the rest
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by nikau 3y ago
Like all estimates it depends if you must do it for a fixed price or if its just an estimate. If its just an estimate, you underbid everyone else, win the contract, start building, run out of money past the point of no return, then get more

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