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by syn0byte 8y ago
In one case I've heard around the water cooler; A city's intersections were(are?) rocking Sun SPARC servers to do all the control stuff. Yes, each intersection apparently had its own. I don't know if I ever really believed
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by syn0byte 8y ago
What redress do you think you have even if you "trust" someone? That 100 dollar widget you bought in cash didn't work? Well fuck you, see you in court. Now what? Are you going to take the store to court over 100 bucks? Pay wi
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Linux support sucks for a high-end network card that runs the Linux kernel internally for TCP offload and acceleration ? That's some deep irony. Their original product lines at any rate. Newer wireless models don't specify.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Actually, you make the best case for ARM servers of anyone else in this thread. The starving college kid in a Helsinki dorm working on his EE degree can't afford 600-1000 dollars for another Laptop/Desktop to experiment with. A 35
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Employees only win 21% of the time. Almost half as often as federal courts and over half in state courts. https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/#ep... Plus, private arbitration is private. The
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by syn0byte 8y ago
"any other init system..." originally included "...besides an ancient SysV strawman." but I removed it because it seemed overly snarky. Having written and dealt with both; It's about equal in my time and effort to w
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by syn0byte 8y ago
I ask this in every systemd thread but I genuinely would love a real answer. Can anyone give me exact real-world examples of where systemd is objectively better suited than any number of other init systems? The fact that I still have yet to
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by syn0byte 8y ago
20 years later, SSD drives are eating "enterprise storage" companies alive. Time marches on...
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by syn0byte 8y ago
CDN and routing optimization ala 'ECS'. Also ISPs that inject or screw with DNS queries. Its easier and more importantly cheaper to get all the same metrics and data from other sources rather than DNS. (And you already consented f
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by syn0byte 8y ago
They say her 3 month supply was $3700. Branding and "format" will affect the numbers. Pen? Vile? Pump? Humalog? Novalog? did the somewhat vague "3 month supply" include both short and long acting versions in the price
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by syn0byte 8y ago
It's like watching a 3-card Monty hustler yelling across the street at the 3 cup and ball guy for being a scam.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Sure. So a contractor gets flexible hours, the possibility to telecommute and leeway on how projects are handled right? Give that a try some time as a contractor and let us know how hard the company tries to abide by those rules. I'm s
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by syn0byte 8y ago
So what your saying is... We should ignore letters from patent clerks?
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Is anyone still trying to come up with Fermat's original "truly marvelous proof"? Or have math folk talked themselves out of its possible existence?
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Protecting the customers buying the laws of course.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Results clearly indicate that isn't the case. EG the 2000 and 2016 elections. The level of cognitive dissonance the public has about politics is the most disheartening part of the whole burning shit show. Remember America; It's yo
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Wouldn't the police have a "right" to know if a person has any weapons? Detaining everyone and performing a full cavity search for any and all infractions is just the police exercising their "right" to such informat
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by syn0byte 8y ago
The public has the same attention span of a goldfish. The rules were never going to work the way everyone assumed. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/net-neutrality-fcc-per... http://time.com&#x
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Randall put it pretty well https://xkcd.com/1827/
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by syn0byte 8y ago
iPod 'circles' are physical. They are resistance based just like pots. Nothing digital about them. https://www.adafruit.com/product/1069
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by syn0byte 8y ago
NuvaRing? Implant? IUD? Patch? Pills? Which birth control methods are not being covered? How old is this birth control coverage data? Viagra is a heart medication first and boner pill second, Were the data sources clear on why someone got v
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Transistor progress is still a major if not the primary factor. The power requirements have gone down while battery density went up. Try running an Osborne 1 on a modern laptop battery for example.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Many large cities have terrible public transit that isn't just impractical but impossible. Public transport doesn't even run around the time of morning I head in to the office at 6am. If it DID run and I could take it, I would hav
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by syn0byte 8y ago
The number of unexplained but apparently natural heart attacks in middle aged people with disgruntled partners would sky rocket. Weight trainers can and probably already do (ab)use insulin to maximize their gains by manipulating blood sugar
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Public & untrusted != Unencrypted. Otherwise TLS ain't doing shit for you if I control everything you see at layer 2 and up, including the encryption keys and their validity. Would you care to try doing your banking over my WEP-o
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Depends entirely on what replication goals you have setup. My simple cluster (not EC or XOR) mandates 2 copies per chunk at a minimum. My 1-byte file was unaffected by a single chunk corruption, even on the node in which the corruption orig
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by syn0byte 8y ago
The two are mutually exclusive? Let me have a talk with your kids about life, death, Santa and the Easter bunny. I won't be a condescending dick, I'll just be telling them how things really are.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Minnows README says it supports lwIP-raw. Atmel apparently also has their own reference example of an lwIP HTTP server for AVR32.(Probably FreeRTOS based) http://ultimaserial.com/classroom2.html
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Make a company with a 47 billion dollar valuation and those "desperate" venture capitalists will introduce themselves.
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by syn0byte 8y ago
Most of the weight you manage to keep off from eating organic comes off your wallet. "organic" is a marketing buzzword that doesn't have the meaning that you are told. USDA certified "organic" vegetables can be grow

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