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by sn 7y ago
It's not as valuable in and of itself as monitoring SMART counters. We've only had a single SSD report failures during a long test, and it also reported an uncorrectable error. However, not finishing the test is a good proxy for i
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by sn 7y ago
Things I've learned from using SSDs at prgmr: Since the firmware is more complicated than hard drives, they are way more likely to brick themselves completely instead of a graceful degradation. Manufacturers can also have nasty firmwar
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by sn 7y ago
There used to be a Micro Center in the Mercado shopping center. There's no Micro Center in Northern California any more.
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by sn 7y ago
SF Bay Area folks: for buying new your options (depending on what you are trying to buy) are now https://www.centralcomputers.com/ for enterprise/personal computers, https://www.bestbuy.com/ for consum
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by sn 7y ago
This inspired me to minimally clean up our March 2019 SCALE17x presentation "Accidentally Accessible: a Mostly-FOSS Workflow:" https://youtu.be/FvrQPdt1X30 Unfortunately the default view is clipped very badly and
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by sn 7y ago
Yes, he was. I, along with Alan Post, took over prgmr from Luke. We're hiring another developer full-time in January.
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by sn 7y ago
Thank you for bringing this up. The specific term, also a keyword in your linked paper, which describes this is "stereotype threat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat . I'm calling it out s
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by sn 7y ago
It won't run out of stack space with a high enough optimization level so that it uses tail recursion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call You can try this yourself by compiling: #include <stdio.h> int i
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by sn 7y ago
prgmr.com has an updated netboot installer: https://prgmr.com/blog/2019/10/17/openbsd.html
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by sn 7y ago
We rebuilt our netboot installer but we had to disable all but one of the consoles due to a race condition: https://github.com/prgmrcom/prgmr-image-source/commit/aaa8cc... This is a bug conceptually similar t
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by sn 7y ago
Sarah Newman from prgmr.com here. It's funny you should ask this - we just kicked off an effort a week ago to work on this problem. We don't even have a website yet for the software, but please feel free to watch audiplot.org for
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by sn 7y ago
We still do this, though the implementation has had a complete rewrite. It's very accessible.
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by sn 7y ago
I work with a blind developer. We create personal feature branches, file a ticket for merge requests in our ticketing system, code review them directly in the ticket or via email, and then rebase the feature branch onto master. We don'
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by sn 7y ago
I would be more than happy to help find work for anyone who is unemployed due to being "overqualified."
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by sn 7y ago
srn from prgmr.com here. Our tagline originally came from us being a low cost service, but I like to think of it as a customer support philosophy. One meaning is we want you to be able to fix the problem yourself by giving you instructions
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by sn 7y ago
Checklists and written procedures are very important. One of the earlier things I did when coming into my company was create a written procedure for software upgrades until we had time to automate it with ansible. One thing I have not had v
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by sn 8y ago
Are you asking for a recommendation on how to do this with ESXi or a recommendation for an alternative to ESXi?
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by sn 8y ago
The recommendation to only wipe the first and last part of the drive before reusing them is inadequate. You're best off wiping the entire drive with either zeros or hdparm security-erase-enhanced. The reason is that not all metadata is
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by sn 8y ago
I just got permission to advertise smaller subnets than a /24 during a move. They have install times orders of magnitude less than competitors - we're talking 2 days lead time vs. 45. And while they're not as cheap as Cogent,
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by sn 8y ago
Maybe that's location dependent? They'll sell us a lower commit than the full circuit, but we're in the SF bay area.
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by sn 8y ago
> Fortunately he was headed north on US 101, not south. The article states: "The vehicle was traveling southbound on Highway 101 in Palo Alto."
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by sn 8y ago
Don't risk your family savings. Feel out if you might be able to go part time at your current company. Half days or a day off a week may be more appealing to them than you leaving. If not the current company, then exercise your network
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by sn 8y ago
Please do not recommend squirrelmail. It is not really being maintained. https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/26/2 https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security&#x2
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by sn 8y ago
I'm not sure how programming FPGAs compares to GPU programming, but it's a completely different way of thinking compared to traditional software. The last time I really did FPGAs was over 10 years ago, but unless the tools have go
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by sn 8y ago
At Lockheed Martin I worked on a SIMD processor designed before VHDL and Verilog existed. The reference design was written in a lisp-like language. I don't know if the language had a name or if it was ever publicized in any way.
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by sn 8y ago
I'd be happy to explore with your friend if I know of any consulting/contract opportunities for her and provide some guidance on resources for going forwards with that. She may get better traction that way; contractors are treated
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by sn 8y ago
Why is software virtualization not an option?
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by sn 8y ago
Unfortunately asking for directions is not an option for everyone, to put it lightly. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/15/602598119...
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by sn 9y ago
I believe what you're seeing is market competition, not reduction in hardware costs. The total cost to offer compute has actually gone up significantly over the last year or so due to memory prices shooting up. I believe the cost of pr
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by sn 9y ago
This seems like more of an argument against bad CoCs and against CoCs for all organizations, rather than a CoC always being bad for every organization. There's also a difference between specifying a CoC and enforcing a CoC. Maybe there

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