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by topspin 10mo ago
Why not? SMB is no slouch. Microsoft has taken network storage performance very seriously for a long time now. Back in the day, Microsoft and others (NetApp, for instance,) worked hard to extend and optimize SMB and deliver efficient, hi
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by topspin 10mo ago
I have a cheap samsung from 5 years ago that pops up a dialog when it boots. I've never read it or agreed to it. It goes away after about 5 seconds. After that I stream using HDMI and all is well. It's also never been connecte
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by topspin 10mo ago
In Lansing, it was below freezing and windy most of the day. If I noticed 100 people standing around on the pavement for hours in that, I'd probably imagine they deserved at least some regard for their concerns. But then, I'm no
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by topspin 10mo ago
> Quiet red areas rolling over to Flock What is funding all those Flock reps jetting around BFE to dazzle and kickback the boomer city managers and county commissioners of deep red littleville America? Is it the 2 cameras in Big Rapids
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by topspin 10mo ago
> Does it apply to completely novel tasks? No, that would be magic. Are there novel tasks? Inside the limits of physics, tasks are finite, and most of them are pointless. One can certainly entertain tasks that transcend physics, but th
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by topspin 10mo ago
"Perl6/Raku killed Perl." Perl was effectively "dead" before Perl 6 existed. I was there. I bought the books, wrote the code, hung out in #perl and followed the progress. I remember when Perl 6 was announced. I
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by topspin 10mo ago
"not to debug any problems with it" K3s is just a repackaged, simplified k8s distro. You get the same behavior and the same tools as you have any time you operate an on-premises k8s cluster, and these, in my experience, are somew
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by topspin 10mo ago
"I keep seeing teams reach for K8s when they really just need to run a bunch of containers across a few machines" Since k8s is very effective at running a bunch of containers across a few machines, it would appear to be exactly th
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by topspin 10mo ago
Merely an anecdote: I had one female house cat that clearly understood a number of words. She could easily and consistently pick out "catnip" in a sentence. "Cow", "get up", "tuna" and several other
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by topspin 10mo ago
"didn't support object tagging" Thanks for pointing that out.
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by topspin 11mo ago
"NAT instances" That's what you did before AWS had the "NAT Gateway" managed service. It's literally called "NAT Instance" in current AWS documentation, and you can implement it in any way you wish.
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by topspin 11mo ago
I downplayed there, because occasionally I try to moderate my extreme cynicism. It would be miraculous, in the biblical sense of the word. Not only because it would be a technical and regulatory triumph for RR and the UK, but because it wo
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by topspin 11mo ago
If the differential in pre-war shell stockpiles and on-going shell production mattered as much as some people appear to think, Putin would be in Lviv by now, making deals with obsequious European leaders. That hasn't happened. So what
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by topspin 11mo ago
This Rolls Royce design isn't all that "small." A RR SMR design is a 470MWe PWR. About half the size of a typical PWR reactor. Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1 was 460MWe. Calling this an "SMR" is a stretch, likely for
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by topspin 11mo ago
> And you think the same problem wouldn't exist with 6ghz? Wi-Fi 6E and later standards that unlock 6 GHz are designed to mitigate contention through several dynamic power management and multiplexing capabilities: TWT, MLO, OFDMA, i
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by topspin 11mo ago
VHF frequencies, that is.
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by topspin 11mo ago
Hams bounce signals off of everything. Aircraft scatter, for example. Probably the coolest is using the ion trails of meteorites. When meteors punch through the atmosphere, they create ionized trails. These trails can reflect RF signals
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by topspin 11mo ago
> This is clearly not about public safety but about To me, this looks like the culmination of many years of ad hoc censorship breeding cadre of favored censors. They've all grown into a system of expectations where they can just fi
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by topspin 11mo ago
Then, there's NASA, and their rad hard HPSC RISC-V. It's a product now, with a Microchip part number (PIC64-HPSC1000-RH) and a second source (SiFive, apparently.) I suppose it's conceivable the a Berkeley CA developed ISA t
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by topspin 11mo ago
> Do runways have some sort of barrier between them and the next "important" thing. Some do. Here is what it looks like when an overshooting plane utilizes such a barrier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW71Fr
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by topspin 11mo ago
> Also wondering: what replaced this! A collection of smaller pumps and monitors, which is likely a better scheme, in terms of flexibility and fault tolerance. While a remarkable design, the single pump with long hoses to multiple hydra
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by topspin 11mo ago
I've been toting around and refining a Result<> implementation from project to project from Java 8 onwards. Sealed classes in 17+ really make it shine. I wish Oracle et al. had the courage to foist this into the standard library
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by topspin 1y ago
> but you can see I don't see that at all. I'm not unique. There are many Linux users, and we also tend to be technically competent power users with a significant influence in organizations. There is a usable port of Linux t
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by topspin 1y ago
> Radxa Dragon Q6A looks great Indeed. With 16GB RAM, NVME, integrated GPU, 1Gbps ethernet and Wi-Fi, it's basically the mean 2017-2018 laptop. External Wi-Fi antenna connectors (plural) is eye opening. Too bad it's Quectel
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by topspin 1y ago
That would immediately induce my first ever significant Apple purchase.
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by topspin 1y ago
> Like, why? The answer, as succinctly as possible: cognitive dissonance. This is exhibited in every human endeavor, but it's particularly acute, or at least more apparent to simple analysis, in business. In business, anything that
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by topspin 1y ago
I've done this, extensively. Produces beautiful, spotless, polished brass. Nothing else comes close. For the high quality of the result, there is no easier or more cost effective way. It's also fast, quiet and produces no lead
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by topspin 1y ago
My first use of Wi-Fi was for "broadband" internet in very early 2000's. It wasn't that fast, but it was pretty cool. The access point was on a mountain top about 7 miles from my condo. My antenna was a parabolic alum
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by topspin 1y ago
> Unless something dramatic changes Dramatic things happen with regularity. Wars, viruses, economic calamities... there is no predicting any of it. For all you or I know 4 years from now the (D)s will own everything. Maybe then Ofcom
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by topspin 1y ago
I wouldn't cite the 4L60E in this argument. It's an ancient design, as Wikipedia puts it, "The 4L60E is the electronically commanded evolution of the Turbo-Hydramatic 700R4, originally produced in 1982." The 700R4 is a

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