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by shrubble 1y ago
They did exactly this in the early days of computing, having people who bought microcomputers run DOS and set up ad hoc networks etc. then later, IT had to adopt and support it.
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by shrubble 1y ago
I’ve worked with both H1B and offshore Indian workers and there is a huge amount of variance in the quality of their work. This is going to either surprise management or, more likely, have them obfuscate the work done in order to hide certa
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by shrubble 1y ago
It was always a scam, independent or not. And bluntly that is why the big banks were interested in it. Just like the oil car that goes back and forth between the USA and Canada and somehow makes an investor money (duty drawback or “shuttle
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by shrubble 1y ago
What authority does the state have over Federal law enforcement officers, however?
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by shrubble 1y ago
This is likely a bargaining chip that is meant to bring India back to the negotiating table for one topic or another.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Sadly, AMD and its precursor graphics company, ATI, have had garbage driver software since literally the mid-1990s. They have never had a focus on top notch software development.
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by shrubble 1y ago
It’s $168 plus the cost of a CM5; while it is cool, I would worry that the $200+ device would end up in a drawer…
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by shrubble 1y ago
Re “US Supreme Court Allows Racial Targeting…” This is not the title of the article
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by shrubble 1y ago
If you have a double conversion UPS that is complaining about less than 100W deviation, I would recommend you check the UPS for a component that is out of spec or on the way to failure.
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by shrubble 1y ago
With the power being 70W from the connector only, how feasible is it to have 3 per server and have effectively 48GB VRAM for tasks?
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by shrubble 1y ago
I’d be curious if this was similar to the Western Digital Pascal chips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_MicroEngine Supposedly the first verification of the first Ada compiler was done on a system made with the Pa
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by shrubble 1y ago
There are some things that are harvested by hand; even in those cases, you can watch a typical process and determine the small labor component. Asparagus for example is harvested in less than 20 seconds per bunch. Even at $50/hour tha
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by shrubble 1y ago
This argument (which I’ve heard many times before) is easily refuted by looking at YouTube videos for “commercial xxx harvesting” where xxx is the vegetable or fruit in question. For instance the carrot harvester that can harvest tons of ca
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by shrubble 1y ago
Silver is anti microbial; eating on silver may well be very beneficial.
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by shrubble 1y ago
First, the quote from the parent post is "people bring up the most extreme, outlier situations (500 mile trips) as a cudgel against EVs" There are plenty of people, myself included, who routinely take trips in excess of 500 miles.
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by shrubble 1y ago
PowerComputing was shipping new models faster and cheaper than Apple, and even their advertising was distinctive in the Mac magazines. When they were kicked off Apple licensing they were allowed to sell their inventory; their last ad had so
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by shrubble 1y ago
It’s not an outlier for a lot of people in the USA or the western part of Canada.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Solaris from 10 onwards to OpenIndiana/illumos/SmartOS/OmniOS has some of this. I don't know if you could remove the root user, but you can have a lot of control using pfexec. This might require you to design and assembl
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by shrubble 1y ago
Kildall got sued over GEM by Apple but Gates was not sued by Apple due to some kind of legal concession that Microsoft had. Gates was I think a lot savvier in terms of lawyering up than his competitors…
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by shrubble 1y ago
The science fiction writer Robert J. Sawyer has written about WordStar extensively and has put together a complete collection of manuals and software for the latest DOS version here: https://sfwriter.com/ws7.htm Along with
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by shrubble 1y ago
In the USA at least, the employee pays taxes on their wages and the employer, also pays some taxes on the employee wages as well.
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by shrubble 1y ago
I’m not sure I’m following you; wouldn’t a driver solve that issue? You don’t have to release a new OS build for a new PCI card being released…
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by shrubble 1y ago
I could see myself supporting OpenFirmware which is a fraction of the size and complexity of UEFI and has a very limited attack surface. You could literally boot up a SPARC machine across the Internet with OFW in the mid 1990s, if you’re w
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by shrubble 1y ago
Paying someone $2000 to set that up once should result in the costs being recovered in what, 18 months? If you’re running Postgres locally you can turn off the TCP/IP part; nothing more to audit there. SSH based copying of backups to a
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by shrubble 1y ago
It's more than that - it's all the latency that you can remove from the equation with your bare-metal server. No network latency between nodes, less memory bandwidth latency/contention as there is in VMs, no caching architect
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by shrubble 1y ago
As far as I know, all telecommunications companies in the USA do not encrypt phone calls in the core of their networks; they may have TLS to/from the customers to the SBC (session border controller, a firewall/terminating point fo
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by shrubble 1y ago
If a third of the hydraulic fluid was water, it was like that meme video of the woman who added washer fluid to the car’s oil - no way was that going to work properly.
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by shrubble 1y ago
The Strix 395+ or whatever it is called is $2k with 128gb, but I think less performance.
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by shrubble 1y ago
For KYC-like needs, foreign companies or bad actors are registering their LLC in Wyoming which satisfies the requirements, according to a friend of mine who’s in the business…
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by shrubble 1y ago
Faster than browser based PDF display; I haven’t done head to head testing against muPDF or Zathura however.

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