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by shrubble 1y ago
I know of two large telecoms that internally develop with Perl, and a telecom product sold by Oracle that heavily relies on Perl. For text munging etc. it is still used, though I grant that other languages like Python are more popular.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Also many used cars end up in eg Guatemala where the lower cost of labor means that fixing cars is cheaper.
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by shrubble 1y ago
One takeaway is that this can replace ZLayer, and it does offer much more functionality than that. Is that correct?
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by shrubble 1y ago
The current optics are 400gbps, and 800gbps are sampling; next up is 1.6 tbps; so this is 20x400gbps, basically 1 expensive switch’s worth of traffic. Which is itself a scary prospect!
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by shrubble 1y ago
I’m working at a telecom and this actually does a great job of explaining why there are so many bureaucrats in the security side of the company: they must have to deal with this security theater too since telecom is heavily regulated.
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by shrubble 1y ago
I believe some used Intel i860 processors; not sure the MMU was integrated into it or not.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Eric Schmidt had a career at Sun Microsystems, though he is better known for Google of course.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Yes, in the sense that higher social trust, enabled by homogeneity is helpful in many ways. Robert Putnam among others wrote about it; Putnam wrote “Bowling Alone”.
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by shrubble 1y ago
They likely have a canned solution like the Cisco Meraki or similar setup and are not looking for extra work; whatever they have is seen as in the category of set-and-forget.
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by shrubble 1y ago
I always ask myself, "what is being done by the left hand, while we are distracted by the right hand?" Could this dust-up have anything to do with some other bill being passed or a policy implemented? I can think of the big recon
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by shrubble 1y ago
I’m not familiar enough with the very early days of Apple which started out as a hardware company to rebut you; but perhaps you mean the current Apple that has re-invented itself?
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by shrubble 1y ago
I’ve used Perl a lot.
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by shrubble 1y ago
There’s plenty of evidence to the contrary, including Denisovan and Neanderthal that is not present in any African population; as well, something like up to 20% of West African genome has an as yet unknown source which is usually referred t
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by shrubble 1y ago
I don’t; unless you are referring to the discredited “out of Africa” theory
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by shrubble 1y ago
You don’t have to write anything down if you can keep it in your memory…
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by shrubble 1y ago
However 9600 is the fastest you can go without worrying about flow control, which both sides need to agree on in order to communicate. That might be the reason it was used.
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by shrubble 1y ago
This is hilarious because I am finishing up the installation of an extremely large complex and expensive project that is fully N+1 fault-tolerant and it uses Perl scripts for nearly everything; it’s a telecom grade SS7 phone switch with cus
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by shrubble 1y ago
Systemd has its challenges in real world situations; it has given me enough downtime that I don’t run it on any servers that I am responsible for-I use Devuan which is a systemd-free Debian or preferably a BSD. I will save you my further co
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by shrubble 1y ago
Or can “paint it” with an infrared laser point and then the drone can use simple sensors to guide itself to the target.
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by shrubble 1y ago
There is MULTICS, which was released as open source a while ago, and an emulator was written for it also. Since MULTICS had a high quality PL/I compiler, you can install the emulator to play with the language. The "shell" is
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by shrubble 1y ago
It's called the Oded Yinon Plan, or just the Yinon Plan - the idea is for a certain list of countries to be weakened, while assisting Israel in becoming a regional superpower (Israel will be militarily dominant by having a strong army
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by shrubble 1y ago
Cloud is propped up by the tax laws. Cloud bills can be written off in the month in which they are paid; while buying hardware has to be depreciated over years.
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by shrubble 1y ago
The difference is that whenever it’s daytime and there aren’t many clouds in the sky, you can see an example of fusion working at scale…
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by shrubble 1y ago
IIRC, the Daylight is a trans reflective LCD panel
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by shrubble 1y ago
He lived in New Hampshire and after the Kelo decision which allowed eminent domain on a property, which he was a deciding vote on, some local NH politicians tried to use Kelo to seize his property, which caused a kerfluffle in the Libertari
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by shrubble 1y ago
Someone in the administration read the Cass Report from Britain, would be my guess.
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by shrubble 1y ago
Can’t you decode a QR code and then paste it over? Or will it take a USB camera as an addon for this temporary need?
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by shrubble 1y ago
I’m a daily user in a corporate environment of Outlook, MS Teams, Sharepoint etc. MS Teams is using 1200 MB of RAM when it starts running. Skype for Business used less than 180 MB, same functionality. Outlook is completely unusable at 1366x
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by shrubble 1y ago
It’s a bit early to claim victory; to make a comparison with American history, the Civil War was expected to be over in 6 months, when it first started.
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by shrubble 2y ago
About 20 years ago it was well-known that the cheap Cisco stuff on eBay was authentic in that there were say, two shifts worth of running the production line for Cisco and a partial shift for unofficial production sold outside of Cisco auth

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