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by tux3 3y ago
Contrast with the notorious IAE solar forecast: https://zenmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/iea-vs-reality-... Statistics and modeling are complicated, granted. But when your model diverges from reality
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by tux3 3y ago
If the war on ablockers continues things may escalate, and the next step will soon mean deploying stronger DRM, in the same way that was tried in the fight against piracy. There's a real parallel between the two. Streaming killed pirac
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by tux3 3y ago
They get to debug their own code. That's different from debugging a large multi MLOC system, but they're also students, you have to start small.
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by tux3 3y ago
The electricity provider is fine, it's Flexential that looks incredibly opaque and non-communicative in a stressful situation. While Cloudflare should have been better prepared for this, it seems to be amateur hour in that particular P
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by tux3 3y ago
In assembly, any complexity is 'your fault' since the language is so simple. CSS is often a lot of tedious trial and error, even if it has improved.
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by tux3 3y ago
The KV outage is the previous one, from Nov 1st. We're currently in the Nov 2-3 outage, soon to rollover into Nov 4 in my timezone. This one is the power outage — also mentioned in the article — but unrelated to KV.
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by tux3 3y ago
I would like to quote from Wikipedia. The Base rate: It is the proportion of individuals in a population who have a certain characteristic or trait. For example, if 1% of the population were medical professionals, and remaining 99% were not
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by tux3 3y ago
What I'm confused by is we had "power partially restored" 22 hours ago, and no news from PDX02 since. I assume both Clouflare and Flexential are on DEFCON 1 right now, but I'm wondering if it might be more than just the
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by tux3 3y ago
The lists reject HTML emails entirely, and most mail clients don't make the choice between sending plain-text and HTML emails obvious (if they offer it at all) Ideally, mailing lists would make some effort to keep the plain text conten
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Maybe a convincing way to play dead, plausibly just a bug, but if the idea is not bleeding out there are already sophisticated mechanisms to regulate tension and heart rate. Dropping on the floor is not very helpful. It's never a goo
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by tux3 3y ago
That's pretty embarassing, customers may end up with a soft-brick if an organizational problem delays communication about a known issue of this severity by over two weeks Which it seems they did, since Apple's reaction comes after
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by tux3 3y ago
An easily solved problem Should kernel devs start commenting some of the more write-only parts of the kernel all on their lonesome, the lovely documentation people at LWN would find themselves out of a job and enjoying a deserved retirement
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by tux3 3y ago
Mistakes are human. Certainly a lot of bugs slip through, and that's understandable, software is hard. That being said, I find that people tend to take the no regression rule pretty seriously, if you bring a valid complaint. It makes
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by tux3 3y ago
That doesn't normally fly in kernel land If a 'fix' broke something (and it's not for something like a major security issue), then it is customary to revert the fix and go back to the drawing board I can see that this is
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by tux3 3y ago
I would like to offer a prophecy: For the next evolution of ACPI, Linux kernel devs (employed at hardware companies) will figure out a way to replace the bespoke bytecode with eBPF. Windows will, of course, spawn a WSL instance when it need
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by tux3 3y ago
For context, EEVDF is the new scheduler in Linux 6.6: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.6#New_task_scheduler:_EEVD...
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by tux3 3y ago
That's fair. We've historically used GCP at $WORKPLACE, so I'm used to a much lighter level of customer support GCP support people are believed to exist based on available evidence, but further research is required
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by tux3 3y ago
Oh, that makes sense to me. If you're a smallish company, you're not the target market. Not just Oracle, but any big cloud vendor won't lift a finger for smaller contracts. If you're a big company, your C suite will be i
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by tux3 3y ago
If you're an IC at an Oracle customer and you have to interact with their products, you may have a very valid reason to hate them. The people who make purchasing decisions love them. As long as you pay the ransom, Oracle loves you back
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by tux3 3y ago
I don't think that explains it, there is a structure (various levels of mainteners) and mainteners aren't outright malicious. Theoretically there is also a CoC. The problem's more that you're going to have strong conflic
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by tux3 3y ago
Thank you. I normally like over ear headphones, but I'll definitely consider going that route
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by tux3 3y ago
My Sony headset (wh-1000xm4) has the exact same problem, but they apparently encrypt the firmware payloads and decrypt them on device. I've come this close to taking it apart and trying to dump and probe everything, but my shaky hands
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by tux3 3y ago
People who can memorize and apply rules. I never did any homework, and that worked great until undergrad, where the strategy of reading things on my phone all day instead of listening to anything in class stopped working quite so well. I&#x
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by tux3 3y ago
Thanks. I didn't experience that part, but I can definitely see that this would happen. My position is still that it was a very questionable idea even without outside attention, but this definitely didn't help
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by tux3 3y ago
I'd say TLA+ is designed more for software people trying to design systems, write down specs, and reason about how the thing behaves dynamically. Lean is used mostly for writing down math proofs, and a lot less for software (although b
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by tux3 3y ago
For people looking for an easy introduction to Lean4, the Natural Number Game is great: https://adam.math.hhu.de/#/g/hhu-adam/NNG4 And if you just want to read without playing a game: https://lean-
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>I still wish we tried harder to heal the "original equipment from the manufacturer" we are all born with You know that this is hard. Are you saying we should just spend more in that particular area instead of spending on kidne
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by tux3 3y ago
>and to have all of their line-items exhaustively audited [...]? That part they should have expected (and I'm sure they did). Scott claims they expected negative social reactions, just maybe not to this extent. Even in the absence o
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by tux3 3y ago
Could this work as a pluggable transport for Tor in China? An advantage is you wouldn't be connecting to a single proxy, but a (small, configurable) number of bridges
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It may also help a bit with a cold branch predictor and with icache hit rate The compiler can make sure that the body for the likely condition is inline with the rest of the code, while the unlikely condition (e.g. the else block of a likel

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