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by thequux 4y ago
I'm running a server motherboard (Supermicro H12DSi-N6), and while the processing power is wonderful , the tradeoffs were a bit surprising: * I can't disable the BMC video card, which means that when I'm running Windows, the
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by thequux 4y ago
The two are very different technologies. In AFS, the fundamental unit of sharding is the volume, each volume is controlled by a single volser, and the "master" (i.e. vldb) is responsible for resolving volume IDs to the set of vo
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by thequux 4y ago
I did not; unfortunately, my mental health took a dive in 2021 and I couldn't gather the energy to write another talk. I still intend to continue the series at some point, though.
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by thequux 4y ago
I'm glad that this talk continues to inspire people! FWIW, there's previous discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26723886
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by thequux 4y ago
The modem supports it just fine, but the carriers all block phones that aren't on their "approved" list (i.e., phones that they sell). I took a trip to the US earlier this year with my European Motorola G9 Plus. My Belgian si
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by thequux 4y ago
I depend on my battery monitoring tools every day (xbattbar[1] for X and wattbar[2] for Wayland), and each of those was written over about two days time. However, the coolest thing would have to be the project I'm in the middle of now,
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by thequux 4y ago
I have ADD. Not ADHD; I'm almost never hyperactive. I do, however, hyperfocus on anything and everything, to the point that it's caused severe problems to my career, relationships, and personal life. I'm nearly always hyperfo
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by thequux 5y ago
Solidworks now has a version for makers that costs €100/year. IMHO, that's a completely reasonable price for a tool of that caliber.
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by thequux 5y ago
Have you seen screeps? ( https://screeps.com/ )
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by thequux 5y ago
The "f/" in aperture settings literally stands for "focal length divided by ...". e.g, an f/2 aperture on a 50mm lens has a diameter of 25mm. One aperture stop corresponds to a scaling factor of sqrt(2), becaus
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by thequux 5y ago
You can figure out "natural" focal length by taking a printed photograph, holding it at a comfortable viewing distance, and measuring that distance. Now, scale all of those distances down until the photo is the size of your imagin
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by thequux 5y ago
There hasn't been any benefit to doing so for at least two decades. Most[1] disks since then transparently remap bad blocks, so you'll never encounter a read error from a just-written block, nor will you ever encounter a write err
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by thequux 5y ago
For €400/mo all in, split between my friend and I, I've got an air-conditioned office at the local business park with the back room stuffed with ~10 servers, redundant internet links with BGP announcements of our /24 so failo
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by thequux 5y ago
I tried to start a talk series last year about these dead ends, but only https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-525180-what_have_we_lost actually made it out. Perhaps I'll pick up the thread later, because there are a lot of
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by thequux 5y ago
Most of their devices come out of the box in a sensible configuration for a home router, and port forwarding/vlans are very straightforward to set up. If you're really worried, you can run the cloud-hosted router software in a VM
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by thequux 5y ago
The official docs[1] had everything I needed to know in order to make discovery work for my own hardware; essentially, you're just pushing a config stanza in JSON to a particular MQTT path. The only thing that's not immediately cl
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by thequux 5y ago
Itanium may have been the nail in the coffin, but by the time the hammer fell on that nail, Alpha was already basically dead due to bad business structure and incentives that were inherited from DEC. They had many of the same problems that
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by thequux 5y ago
Scott Alexander. He used to post on slatestarcodex.com, but has since moved to astralcodexten.substack.com .
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by thequux 5y ago
Belgium checks this by sending a police officer to your address at a time you're likely to be home (~7:00 on a weekday evening, Saturday morning, or the like), regardless of whether you changed your address at town hall or online. The
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by thequux 5y ago
RS doesn't deign to even talk to people who don't have VAT IDs here :-( It's a shame; as far as I can tell, the only reasonably-priced source for bulk machine screws that I've been able to find was Aliexpress/Alibab
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by thequux 5y ago
Likewise, there are a lot of nice cities in Belgium that offer various balances of those requirements. I settled on Ghent, but Brussels has more nightlife and local forests at the cost of being dirtier and somewhat uglier. You might also li
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by thequux 5y ago
SMD soldering is not actually that hard until you start getting to the really small stuff; you just need some extra tools and a decent amount of practice. The smallest packages you're not likely to have a choice about are QFPs, which h
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by thequux 6y ago
I'm a dev in Belgium, and I get both my "13th month" in December and double holiday pay in June. In fact, I've never seen anybody here who was traditionally employed (i.e., not contracting through a zelfstandig) who did
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by thequux 6y ago
Aw darn! Around that time, I was at Google, and there was a thread on eng-misc (or possibly eng-misc-mtv; it's been lost to the sands of time) with people contributing programs that would flip a virtual coin 50 times and output the seq
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by thequux 6y ago
I know that Mono for i, at least, is the result of an IRC bet between a couple of hobbyists about whether it was technically possible. I wouldn't be surprised if the PHP port was similar
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by thequux 6y ago
Some combination of the two. IBM i has its vulnerabilities, but because of the way that the OS is built, getting code execution accidentally is extremely difficult, and even getting native code to run given full access to the system require
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by thequux 6y ago
There's an IBM i hobbyist discord[1] full of friendly people who will be happy to help you out with learning or acquiring your own iron, or you can use any of a number of public-access systems. The main public access system is pub400[2
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by thequux 6y ago
That sounds really cool, and I'd love to see the result if/when you build it
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by thequux 6y ago
I was actually going to do a segment on Pharo, because it really does fit in with the theme, but time limitations prevented it. If you found the stuff in the talk interesting, I second the recommendation to check it out.
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by thequux 6y ago
IntelliJ idea is, in many ways, more advanced than Genera, yes. I use it every day. But I stand behind my assertion that we've lost something there: Genera had most of the features you listed (even though I didn't have time to sho

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