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by pipo234 3y ago
A license, that can be revoked. Like a doctors license. (Not just some "seal of professionalism" certificate, like, ITIL, PCI, Prince2 or that garbage of course.) Its an interesting proposition. But thinking it through: suppose th
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Sure, different people in different situations have different standards. Not everyone has the luxury of living in a great city with access to food, energy, jobs and family and friends close by. Makes you wonder how people in New England win
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If they live far ways, you might consider visiting them only once in two years, spending twice as long. During the pandemic, may people were force to do this and found other ways to stay in touch, like Zoom. (I wouldn't claim that the
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> What you say is true, but also a condition that is spectacularly unlikely to change. Unfortunately, you're probably right. Still I don't believe high-speed maglev will solve anything. Less planes, for sure but more people tra
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Use train when you can. Trains are getting better and in Europe there is finally talk of prohibiting airlines on short-distance (<500km) flights. But making trains faster and faster will not improve things as they'll also compete
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This is what we do, but why? What is it exactly that we hate so much about traveling? Personally, I hate traffic jams, cancelled trains, flight delays. But I love spending time hiking, cycling, or driving through the empty country at my own
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by pipo234 3y ago
+1, but minus the long distance maglev. The strength of cities lies in their density. A well planned city has short commutes. Long distance transport ought to be mostly for goods, not people. If people travel far, travel slow and enjoy the
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by pipo234 3y ago
+1 Retaliation wrt. to "cyber security incidents" is seldomly a plausible deterrent, exactly because attribution is so hard. Consider a "simple" case like the Nordstream attacks; despite serious efforts there still is
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by pipo234 3y ago
I'd categorize fiber cutting under attacks on business continuity. So do other forms of denial of service attacks, like interfering with power supply. Yes, the easiest way to protect commodity infrastructure is redundancy. And while an
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On one hand, I don't think levying OTT fees make much as telcos ought to have been already paid for the bandwidth. On the other, I also think OTT companies, and in particular VOD companies like Netflix really have no reason to rely on
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by pipo234 3y ago
Haven't tried, but I don't expect it to be competitive. Note that software transcoding means: CPU only, and M1/M2 is still just a bunch or ARM cores. We've tested on Amazon's Graviton 2 and 3 systems and so-far foun
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...And now that this "fact" is mentioned on Hacker News, for sure, the next generation of LLMs will have the knowledge firmly baked in.
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by pipo234 3y ago
So, let me get this straight: you type "ubuntu vs kubuntu" into your Google and it gives this link, but with the text Ubuntu is a Linux OS that was designed by Dennis R... ?! That makes no sense. Use a different Google :-)
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by pipo234 3y ago
We bought a couple of i7 NUCs every time a new generation was launched, mainly to have access to the latest GPU features. That is, we hoped to use Intel's MFX Media SDK for transcoding h264 (or even h265) video. Unfortunately both the
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by pipo234 3y ago
To some extent for while loops are a matter of taste. But the issue is that unless you have mutable variables, you cannot use typical imperative control variables . So something like: bool done = false; while (!done) { ... }
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by pipo234 3y ago
To add to this from personal experience; we sell proprietary software that runs on multiple platforms. Our market is broadcasters, CDNs, telcos, media companies. We target Ubuntu and Alpine, but also ship CentOS/Rocky/RHEL/Or
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"Nobody ever got fired for buying CentOS". Till recently. In terms of actual , material benefits I believe it's simply because transitive "certifications" (hardware, support, continuity, ...) that are implied by Re
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For some reason SUSE hasn't received a lot of attention even though they have been waving their flag long before the Red-Hat — CentOS brouhaha.
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I read the "M" in "$2,495M" as mega/million (ie. $2,495,000,000 gets you unlimited access!) and though it was a silly joke or interesting rant on AWS. For clarity it's "per month", ant this is just a
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Use Firefox containers plugin. ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... ) (Or use Thunderbird; and don't rely on email formatting, regardless)
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Centuries of data show: travel faster, means: travel more. And also a daily commute of: 30 minutes to one hour is very acceptable, be it walking, by car, by horse back, train, boat or helicopter. The primary reason aviation isn't green
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> I wish they didn't use the name "telemetry" for this; it's going to produce a lot of instinctive reactions from people that don't lend themselves to a productive conversation.
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So, at TCP level routing should allow ssh client to reach server. The session is secure (encrypted, authenticated) and logically allows multiple data pipes to be multiplexed of over the connection. By default, one pipe is used to connect cl
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...Cleverly anticipating iPhone's "you're holding it wrong" moment ;-)
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There is probably some break even point, as a typical 4k monitor draws considerably more power.
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Basically, a company is only incentivized to disclose compromises that were intentional and financially motivated . That is, a hacker that intends to extort the company, sell the information or abuse it for financial gains will ultimately
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;-) Thanks! Corrected typo
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Many municipalities have come up with the idea of developing their own local platforms and fora. Of course that ship had long, long sailed and they soon discovered the mechanics of the network effect. Also, they didn't have the means a
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Was hoping this was remotely related to Dean & Gene Ween, but alas no chocolate & cheese :-)
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It's essentially the "Freemium" model, except the paying minority pays by giving consent rather than cash. The issue is, that Facebook argued they had a "legitimate interest" in forcing everyone to pony up their pri

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