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by toast0 5d ago
Sometimes your multiple fiber paths end up in the same bundle, severed by the same backhoe. It's always a fun day when that becomes apparent.
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by toast0 5d ago
Laundry repair costs a lot around here. Repair people certainly put a value on their time. It does take a while to get the machines apart and back together, but if you have a good idea of the part that needs replacing, it's not too
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by toast0 5d ago
> My cynical ass would not be surprised at all if oil/gas companies were lobbying against ASCT because idling cars are buying more fuel. Wouldn't be too hard to convince people that an ASCT would cost too much to implement whil
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by toast0 5d ago
> How hard can it be to hook them up to AI that is instructed to maximize throughput? The current system will block 3 directions while having a green light on the 4th which has no traffic. You don't need AI for that, you just need t
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by toast0 5d ago
I've never spent much time with Sun equipment, but the hardware and OS had features I haven't seen on commodity hardware with Linux. IIRC, Solaris could deal with an unrecoverable ECC error by killing the process that had the bad
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by toast0 5d ago
Sure, A is at fault, but it only broke when B changed behavior.
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by toast0 5d ago
> Patients don't want to walk outside to an MRI machine in the parking lot. It feels sketchy. Seems like you could build a hallway around the trailer; if you do it right, nobody knows it's a trailer in the middle of the buildin
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by toast0 5d ago
Private Equity allows an owner to sell their income generating but slowly dieing company for its value today. The company will keep operating for 3-5 years and then rapidly shutdown. This is valuable for business owners, because it gives th
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by toast0 5d ago
Netscape lost the ability to charge before it went open source. Among other things, Microsoft released internet explorer for free (part of embrace, extend, extinguish, afaik). The open sourcing of Netscape 5.0 happened in early 1998, and AO
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by toast0 6d ago
> WA and OR sabotaging hydro plant output for salmon habitat restoration, while shutting down your most reliable sources of power. Have a closer look at the hydro dams that have been removed for salmon habitat. From what I've seen c
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by toast0 6d ago
Bro, I've been in this industry since before y2k, and in the right circles, people much older than me have been saying bro/brah forever. Mostly surfers and skateboarders, but some of those peeps end up as senior engineers.
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by toast0 6d ago
Certainly, it's better if you don't have these. But if I was working on something like this, I think you release when you have something that covers most of the territory, and then refine it over time. Maybe someone else comes and
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by toast0 6d ago
I'm pretty curmudgeony on 3D games. The gamecube and friends were the 2nd generation of 3D first game systems and most games that sold well were not simply am existing genre game but with 3D objects that will poke your eyes out. Does
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by toast0 6d ago
You do need to worry about TC until it's enough and if it's not enough, you do need to figure out what needs to happen to get more... Whether that's chasing promos or job hopping or whatever. If you have at least enough for
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by toast0 6d ago
> Is this backwards? If B consumes data from A then to me that does not imply that A depends on anything from B; for a more concrete example that sentence reads to me like A is basically "throwing data over the wall" to B and w
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by toast0 6d ago
> The interesting question is: Why were trains supposedly fatal to the law of deodands whereas ships were not? I would flip it around and say why is it necessary for ships and not for trains. Train owners are typically easily accessible
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by toast0 6d ago
> Electricity is a small fraction, and it's not like datacenters are just going to shut down their servers when they're not in use. I don't have any insight on modern GPU datacenters, but in decades past, some owned and op
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by toast0 7d ago
I've also been watching Stargate (on season 2), it's fun getting to know the Vancouver area as Jack and friends explore the galaxy but always end up in the PNW ;) Just found this list of filming locatiobs. https://rdand
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by toast0 7d ago
> I can see it being very time consuming and annoying to do repeated manual bare metal OS installs. Well don't do that then. There's lots of other options. Probably the simplest is a single bare metal install on a simple file
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by toast0 8d ago
Do they? Other than like the new yorker?
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by toast0 8d ago
I don't know anything about provisional patents, but if selling a product that embeds patented ideas voided the protections of a patent, patents would be pretty useless. Maybe there's some context or nuance that didn't get co
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by toast0 9d ago
> My kids took “their” things with them when they became autonomous adults. College students both are and are not autonomous adults. It's not really practical to bring all your stuff to college housing, and you don't always gra
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by toast0 9d ago
From that text, it sure sounds to me that these attacks are going to be legal. The article describes them as 'indescriminate', but they were specifically targetted based on a mistake of fact. There's certainly evidence that t
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by toast0 9d ago
I'm not a lawyer, but this seems like a difficult case. For one thing, regardless of what the US did, they did not launch the attack that damaged the datacenters. That attack was provoked by US actions, but the attack was an intentiona
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by toast0 9d ago
Wifi between your camera and the phone. Or your camera and a laptop in your bag or whatever...
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by toast0 9d ago
You usually get city level location information. Depends on your definition for 'far enough' if that works for you. me-south-1 is about 250 miles away from me-central-1, but that's not far enough in this instance. Given that,
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by toast0 9d ago
Large storms regularly result in some customers with lack of utility power for more than 7 days for some customers. When storms take out major transmission lines and roads and bridges, you can end up with some pretty lengthy outages, and fu
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by toast0 9d ago
If you had data at two facilities in different countries hundreds of miles apart (about 250 miles between Dubai and Bahrain), that would count as offsite backup most of the time. Certainly, this event will inform people's disaster reco
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by toast0 10d ago
Sometimes these rules lead to good privacy results in general. At least when I was there, California prevented counties from sharing property information about elected officials online, but it's hard to know who is an elected official,
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by toast0 10d ago
Well, we don't know the application. Six nines is appropriate for some applications. If you're doing PSIP lookups to route 911 calls, that's reasonable. If you're sending out paper mailers, it's not. But six nines g

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