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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Less meetings / more async isn’t always the best answer. Most people are terrible at written communication, and much better at spoken (which makes sense since most speak more than write). So even though it’s terribly unfortunate, for
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> “ Because the F-117 is not all that stealthy” Is that accurate? I thought the F-117 was still more stealthy than 4th & 5th jets. https://photo2.tinhte.vn/data/attachment-files/2022/09/61180...
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
The GP is asking about desktop cpu's, the 7945hx is a laptop cpu.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> "This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license" This seem more like "free content" for Ars, than them fact checking the source / validity.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Off topic: is this a reputable news source? It positions itself as "Academic rigor, journalistic flair" and appears to be sponsored by a number of US universities. But some of the articles on its site seem questionable.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
emacs is practically an operating system. So no surprise here really.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> "There are many more sr mgr/director+ positions than sr. staff+" Your points seems be based on the assumption there's more people managers than IC's. I'm not certain that is accurate (or at least accurate
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Apple does in fact sell a rack mount Mac. https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-pro/rack
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Something like this? https://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/ 160 Mac Mini’s in a rack. That’s ~4-nodes / 1U. And you don’t have the added expense of the blade enclosure.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Cloud Compute. Seems like a huge lost opportunity for by Intel not targeting the "consumer" cloud compute market with NUC's, because they wanted to protect their high margin server chip business. There's huge classes of
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Tumblr 2.0 Now, more than ever (Twitter/Reddit), is the perfect time to re-launch Tumblr.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Highly recommend Benedict Evans. https://www.ben-evans.com I actually unsubscribed from Stratechery, and replaced it with Benefict Evans since I find it more insightful (and less wordy / more to the point).
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Ever since browsers made the URL bar a search bar, it really messes with "naked TLD's" like https://ai
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
OpenBSD sudo replacement, “doas”, plus them reworking the need for root to run services - address above. https://man.openbsd.org/doas
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Ask HN: What’s the Tech Stack of Threads?
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
You might be confusing SCO and USL. SCO brought lawsuits against IBM (Linux) in 2003. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group,_Inc._v._Internati... . USL brought lawsuit against BSD in 1992. https://en.m.wi
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> “ From what I recall, the FreeBSD team made the right call at the time.” I’m not so sure. Given how unstable FreeBSD 5 (intro of new SMP) was, until it finally stabilized multiple years later at v8.0 - I’m not sure others would have th
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> "but [FreeBSD's] rock solid" Curious to hear your feedback of FreeBSD v5-8. Since many consider those releases (years) very bumpy.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
But FB exactly wants users to stay within their "walled garden".
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
As an outsider, I've actually seen the most engagement between OpenBSD & DragonflyBSD. E.g., there's active exploration of bringing the Hammer2 filesystem from DragonflyBSD to OpenBSD. https://github.com/kusumi
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Ironically, no FB users will be able to read about this from a Canadian news source.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Love FreeBSD but ... Really wish there wasn't a split between FreeBSD & Matt Dillon 20-years ago, since DragonflyBSD is so strong and yet FreeBSD hasn't benefited from it's innovations. They'd truly would be better t
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Kickstarter Huge # of products on Kickstarter are hardware. Below is the tech focused offerings (but there is many more categories). https://www.kickstarter.com/design-tech
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Can you explain more your "loss leader" comment. What's the background on why that comment was being made?
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Wishing you best of luck. Really curious to see if in 2023, Engineered Systems still have a market in this world of commodity cloud hardware.
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
What is the dominant flavor of Lisp these days?
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
When do you think Shopify will be running its rails on in production on Truffle? Also, any thoughts on the recent license change of GraalVN?
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
Sphinx on Mars Does anyone know the more precise coordinates for the Sphinx on Mars that 40.75, 9.46? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(Mars)
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
> “getting a large Rails app booting ” What does ‘booting’ exactly mean in the context of a web app (Rails)?
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by tiffanyh 3y ago
My understanding is that Shopify still hasn’t been able to migrate to Graal/TruffleRuby, even after 10-years of its development.

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