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by ritcgab 9mo ago
Context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46661308
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by ritcgab 9mo ago
These posts are just new slops. An operating system is far more than what you see. And the NixOS + Hyprland + Ghostty combo is clearly a meme now.
33.
by ritcgab 9mo ago
Welp, I guess LLMs truly helped a lot of people.
34.
by ritcgab 9mo ago
Purdue is ranked the 13th on csrankings.org. Let's see how it goes in 5 years.
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by ritcgab 9mo ago
The commit history of this file is hilarious.
36.
by ritcgab 9mo ago
A production grade key-value store, while .DS_Store is everywhere in its repository.
37.
by ritcgab 9mo ago
All specific to runc.
38.
by ritcgab 9mo ago
To be fair, that is 4 dedicated cores not shared with other tenants.
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by ritcgab 10mo ago
SSDs are more of a black box per se. FTL adds another layer of indirection and they are mostly proprietary and vendor-specific. So the performance of SSDs are not generalizable.
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by ritcgab 10mo ago
Curious about this as well.
41.
by ritcgab 11mo ago
There are tons of services like maxmind that can just tell you the origin of an IP - whether it is a datacenter one or a residential one.
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by ritcgab 11mo ago
> Yes all the normal Hetzner servers use ECC This is wrong - or define "normal"? In their current product line, at least the default configuration of AX52/EX44/EX63/GEX44 doesn't have ECC. It is an upgrade o
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by ritcgab 11mo ago
Looking at the root server hardware page on Hetzner [1], it is not clear if their server is using ECC memory. It would be pretty bad if not. [1] https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/general-info...
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by ritcgab 11mo ago
Very neat!
45.
by ritcgab 1y ago
This is "obsolete" S3 sleep. Newer CPUs don't support this.
46.
by ritcgab 1y ago
For critical infra projects like this, making a release should require at least three signatures from different maintainers. In fact, I am surprised that this is not a common practice.
47.
by ritcgab 1y ago
There is no official statement about this issue but you can search for user reports like "M2 MacBook Air black screen" or something similar. It is not uncommon. In older versions of macOS you can simply try two things: * Press Esc
48.
by ritcgab 1y ago
And this little thingy makes a lot of M2 MacBook Airs fail.
49.
by ritcgab 1y ago
This is true if you host your blog on a webserver under your control. If you host from platforms like GitHub pages, this is not an option.
50.
by ritcgab 1y ago
The copilot key on every new Windows® laptop, though.
51.
by ritcgab 1y ago
You just cannot prove a party doesn't own something.
52.
by ritcgab 1y ago
DNS is a federated, read-optimized, geo-replicated key-value store with eventual consistency.
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by ritcgab 1y ago
This only stands for modern storage devices with a controller. For SD cards that don't have wear leveling, writing to the same region will make it die faster.
54.
by ritcgab 1y ago
Unubuntunable.
55.
by ritcgab 1y ago
Are the two recent graduate average fresh grads, or top ones?
56.
by ritcgab 1y ago
This is really a well written blog post. The practice of "injecting pre-installed software through BIOS" is such a deal-breaker. Unfortunately this seems to be widely adopted by the major players in motherboard market.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
Share you resume with the MIT alumnus who replied here and I am sure you will land a job pretty quickly. You can even just anonymize your resume and make it public.
58.
by ritcgab 2y ago
Not saying MITM is a bad term but Cloudflare is the single biggest MITM.
59.
by ritcgab 2y ago
This is good work. But my desktop has looked identical for the last five years, and I wish it would stay the same for the next ten years.
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by ritcgab 2y ago
HDDs also have controller firmware and it's not unseen that they kill hard drives early.

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