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by toast0 3mo ago
Lots of countries ban voip in some way or another. Not allowed to connect to the PSTN. Disrupted by licensed ISPs based on traffic inspection. Large vendors yelled at. Etc.
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by toast0 3mo ago
Microsoft changed its strategy around testing in 2014 [1], eliminating the Software Developer Engineer in Test position and having a goal of shipping faster. 12 years later, most of their software is crap. Maybe it comes out faster? https:
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by toast0 3mo ago
Oracle's fiscal year is June through May. And they enumerate their years so that the year number matches the calendar year when the year closes in May. I'd guess their fiscal year is trying to align with fiscal years of schools an
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by toast0 3mo ago
a) I'm the descendant of immigrants (half of my grandparents were born overseas and naturalized... my grandmother technically naturalized twice), and I can't justify it was fine for them to be here, but it's not fine for othe
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by toast0 3mo ago
You'd most likely need a different meter (and utility cooperation) to get credit for power supplied to the grid. These are expected to locally offset current use, so you pull less power through the meter, any surplus generation is a gi
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Data centers are NOT real estate. Buildings and power lines usually last 30-50 years. GPUs become obsolete in 5 years. Data centers are real estate. One of the big players in carrier neutral data centers even calls themselves Digitial
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by toast0 3mo ago
I dunno, in my preferred text editor (joe), i set up a selection, and I can delete it if I want, or go where I want it and do copy or move the selected region.
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by toast0 3mo ago
> Below are the 2 reasons I could think of for not seeing the collision detector bug: I wouldn't be surprised if floating point on an AXP emulator doesn't always match behavior on real chips...
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by toast0 3mo ago
If you're planning to run in clouds, committing to not buy hardware (during the contract term, presumably) isn't a big imposition. Maybe you switch to a different cloud, and you wouldn't buy hardware for that. If you want to
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by toast0 3mo ago
Well, "boonies" is pretty ill defined, but my criteria is most homes are are 10+ acre lots, and large lots are widely available. You want your datacenter to be in reach of interstate highways (rail might be nice, too), two electri
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> so they can likely find a way to close that gap I mean, typically you just list your job in the nearby major city, even when the site address isn't there. Same thing that you do when listing your hotel or your car for sale.
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by toast0 3mo ago
You need on the order of 15 permanent onsite employees to run a datacenter; 5 each for 24/7 coverage of security, building maintenance, and tech. You probably don't really need 24/7 onsite for building maintenance or tech. Tr
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by toast0 3mo ago
Yeah, mix some creatine in with the thermal paste. It should help!
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by toast0 3mo ago
> We do this and then no one reads it. A) this is what happens with documentation, in general. B) as an experienced reader of documentation, I can often tell when the documentation is likely to be accurate. It's not worth reading do
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by toast0 3mo ago
It's much easier to discontinue military (and other) cooperation than it is to unshare knowledge.
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by toast0 3mo ago
Eh, xeon 2690 was released 2012q1 at 8 cores, 2690v4 was 2016q1 at 14 cores. Same suggested customer price. Clock speed dropped a bit, but IPC was way up (AES-NI had a big throughput increase among other things). IIRC, desktop core counts
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by toast0 3mo ago
Can't undo a 2013 tech sharing agreement because you got a call in 2023...
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by toast0 3mo ago
If this was a feature they wanted to provide, it would simplest to set the Roku up as a bridge. No dhcp, no nat, just a virtual switch. Roku devices run on Linux, if their HDMI chip supports Ethernet and that's plumbed to a Linux sup
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by toast0 3mo ago
E-Arc uses the wires intended for Ethernet. Hook your Roku up to an earc port if you're seriously concerned about it.
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> Harder still is when the cause of the bug happens prior to its manifestation. I've yet to debug a big where the manifestation happens prior to the cause... Sounds even harder. :p
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> but the study conflates both into the same bucket if they both make, say, $400K/yr Annual income is easy to measure, net worth isn't. People like to measure things that are easier to measure. :P This is part of how 'mil
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> SNES Doom shipped with a Super FX 2 in the cartridge, a custom RISC chip with a pixel-plot instruction, because the console's own CPU had no chance. The Super FX is a custom RISC chip, but it was custom made for Star Fox and used
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by toast0 3mo ago
> even differences between an Intel i5 and Intel i7 pile up i5 and i7 are terms which lack precision. Are you seeing different results for the same operations on the same arguments in the same order across an i5 and an i7 with the same c
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by toast0 3mo ago
Of course the dark side of the moon is illuminated by the sun at times. But it has minimal human illumination, so that's pretty nice.
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by toast0 3mo ago
Let me kmow where I can get ECC RAM that's only 12% more than the price of non-ECC and I'll strongly consider it the next time I do a build. (Otoh, prices are high, so I'm not building anything for a while unless stuff breaks
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A lot of reservation land is owned by the tribe, so the tribal government can approve of the use both as the landowner and as the regulator, and potentially as the court in case of complaints. That does help things get done quickly. If a da
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by toast0 3mo ago
What really seems to make a difference is how well the project and the organization are at being split into indepedent groups. I've been on projects where everybody needs to know everything, and on projects where many groups can be ins
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by toast0 3mo ago
Reflecting the sun means the rail no longer has to fight the sun's heat. Without the paint, the sun heats the rail and heat expansion fights against the elements holding the rail in place until the rail cools down or something moves.
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by toast0 3mo ago
Well, a) did you pay your Elixir contractors more than you would pay a Java contractor for similar work? but also... b) scarcity isn't the only factor in price. Erlang/Elixir developers are scarce, but Erlang/Elixir jobs are
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> In the end, it's basically a Toyota Hilux. A Toyota Hilux, sold in america would be nice. The small truck market is slim pickings... other than the slate (which is still vaporous), nothing small with a regular cab has been built i

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