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by rescbr 5y ago
Oh, you can push old aluminum phone wire faster than 48 Mbps! The VDSL2 service I use can reach up to 135 Mbps, and while the wiring in my apartment is new, the building's isn't at all.
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by rescbr 5y ago
In the simplest way, not unlike Windows Update: snapshot filesystem, start filesystem transaction, unzip changed binary files, check new files integrity, end transaction. Indeed, Apple used to distribute patches this way in the past. You al
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by rescbr 5y ago
If you want to make hibernation happen on you work laptop, you might want to try bundling the AMDGPU driver in the kernel (as opposite of building it as a module). It was the only way I managed to make hibernation work on a Intel NUC.
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by rescbr 5y ago
Congrats BannaT!
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by rescbr 5y ago
Yeah, I had the same experience. With PipeWire it (mostly) just works, and reliably. The only thing I'm missing is always presenting the microphone as an usable device and only switching codecs/profile when the microphone is being
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by rescbr 5y ago
Rinse & repeat when every desktop environment brought their own audio daemons, then later PulseAudio and now PipeWire. I still roll my eyes and I don’t get surprised every couple of years when somebody releases a yet another Linux audio
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by rescbr 5y ago
Probably it was some incompatibility between Google Meet and Firefox ESR.
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by rescbr 5y ago
Before my provider offered worldwide roaming on my monthly plan for an additional fee of the equivalent of USD 6 (that you pay whether you use it or not), I've used Flexiroam for data when traveling abroad. Good prices if staying for l
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by rescbr 5y ago
IIRC Windows 9x could address only up to 1 GB of RAM. If you had more memory, you had to use the NT family to use it.
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by rescbr 5y ago
ATSC has only one FEC parameter compared to DVB-T and ISDB-T, which also have more robust modulation schemes. ISDB-T includes an interleaver that makes it more resilient to impulsive noise compared to DVB-T. ISDB-T modulation scheme is very
341.
by rescbr 5y ago
ex-IBMer here, product side: GTS sometimes had better private pricing and incentives for products from competitors that other business units couldn't match due to internal pricing policies. Now try explaining to the customer why IBM is
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by rescbr 5y ago
Hah! Back in my undergrad days I’ve thought about doing exactly this, but I couldn’t figure out the beamforming part, so I just measured distances in (microcontroller) software by correlating transmitted x received waveforms. Awesome projec
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by rescbr 6y ago
It really depends on the interviewer not wasting both our times and making it worth for everybody. I had candidates that weren't good sellers of their past experience, but I made sure to engage with them and they were in fact excellent
344.
by rescbr 6y ago
I suppose they are streaming the tarball directly to S3 using multipart uploads, maybe parallelizing this task at the same time. You wouldn't be able to do it using regular tar.
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by rescbr 6y ago
I have heard my share of "at least we aren't Oracle" while I was at IBM :)
346.
by rescbr 6y ago
Yes, they do. Google geolocates an US-based VPS that I have since 2016 as being in the Ukraine. I have tried to correct it, but Google can't admit being wrong.
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by rescbr 6y ago
I'd say it is possible to run Darwin on AWS, but I have never tried. FreeBSD runs well, so we know that any OS with drivers will boot on AWS. They're Apple after all, so they can build macOS to boot from a standard environment - U
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by rescbr 6y ago
SSM connects to the instance through the agent (you're logged in as ssm-user) so you don't need to open port 22 inbound, while Instance Connect does the public key magic and connects you directly over SSH. From EC2 Instance Connec
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by rescbr 6y ago
Sure, but the threat of me cancelling and switching to another ISP as the service is now unsuitable for my needs is enough to keep them from doing that. Does this strategy work? Maybe, when I upgraded my plan they wanted to switch modems, t
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by rescbr 6y ago
> Ever since IPv6 has been a thing, I've offered to customers [...] They've all actively refused to turn it on, for any purpose. As such a customer, I’m worried that my ISP would eventually bait-and-switch me from routable IPv4
351.
by rescbr 6y ago
Some chat endpoints were still at SoftLayer/IBM Cloud and I saw some at AWS as of early this year. Source: helped a customer with WA Business architecture (and worked at SL/IBM in the past)
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by rescbr 6y ago
I have tried netconsole, but the kernel froze right after PM restored memory from swap. IIRC it wasn't sending logs to my target machine at this boot stage, and I couldn't even get a flash of a kernel panic message to record it in
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by rescbr 6y ago
Mainly driver issues. I have once solved AMDGPU not waking up from hibernation just by compiling the driver into the kernel. The AMDGPU modules weren't loading somehow and even after spending some time, I couldn't fully debug the
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by rescbr 6y ago
You don't need to carry two phones, you can sign out from App Store and then sign in with the other country account to install new apps. Updating works for both accounts even if the second country account is not currently logged in. Pr
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by rescbr 6y ago
Corporate IT software on Mac is terrible. I'm happy that my employer has sane Mac policies and management software, but it is due to the large fleet of Apple devices. My wife's employer tries to manage their Macs like it is Window
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by rescbr 6y ago
You can call them EC2 instances then. They aren’t VMs at all.
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by rescbr 6y ago
I had my fair share of uncheatable open book exams, calculators allowed back in college. One I had on Calculus (or was it Linear Algebra?) was way harder than a comparable closed book exam. You really needed to know the subject to pass vs j
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by rescbr 6y ago
IBM mainframe customers pay software subscription and support/maintenance fees.
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by rescbr 6y ago
I assume it’s done the same way as any other withheld tax. The only difference is negotiating salary net of tax rather than ex-tax.
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by rescbr 6y ago
> The UNIX experience on the Mac is pretty shitty. Ancient versions of all the tooling. Command-line utils have that weird BSD well-water flavor. Well, OS X is Unix, but GNU is not Unix.

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