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by volkadav 4y ago
Yeah, definitely :) It was kind of a bittersweet moment when I realized that all the gear I lusted after as a youth can now be outperformed on basically every axis by something that costs less than $40 (if you can find one!) and comparative
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by volkadav 4y ago
It's probably some variety of lawyer-infested copyright landmine hellscape, but in principle I suspect there's a reasonably sized market for nostalgia-coddling raspberry pi (or similar) cases. Old nerds have money[1]. :) [1] as on
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by volkadav 4y ago
For what it's worth, appears to be from this page: https://pcmuseum.tripod.com/sparc.htm Agreed that the old Sun hardware was pretty classy. :) They went through a number of different boot logos: https://git
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by volkadav 4y ago
you'd probably benefit from reading and thinking about this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism sadly, what is called a fact is a malleable thing in the hands of the ill-intentioned,
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by volkadav 4y ago
It's a joking reference to an ancient copypasta troll/meme alleging that bsd is dying, cf the phrase "netcraft confirms it" and troll comments on slashdot 20+ years ago. :)
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by volkadav 4y ago
Similar vein re: CPU, targeted at an undergrad level, you might enjoy _Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective_ by Bryant and O'Hallaron ( https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ ) At least I found it a really well-written a
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by volkadav 4y ago
it strongly depends on which org you're in, with an average of "boring, with a big steaming pile of bureaucracy" based on my observations spending five years at the seattle-based cloud org. if you had a good manager and skip-
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by volkadav 4y ago
110% agree on microsoft's straight fucking of the minecraft experience. Being the designated household minecraft sysadmin is an intensely miserable experience. Just for example, we decided to pay for their bedrock edition realms hostin
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by volkadav 4y ago
Completely agree. I spent five years at OCI, an AWS competitor in Seattle, and during that time had seven managers (I think, maybe I missed some hi-bye reorg). The rock bottom worst two of them had all of their prior management experience a
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by volkadav 4y ago
Amusingly, I once had to file a small( ) Illinois state income tax return because I earned income from a consultancy based there. At the time I lived in Texas and the work was done on a server in the UK for a European client. I suppose per
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by volkadav 5y ago
turns out the garrison was captured and later exchanged in a prisoner swap, so they made it out alive :) https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088593653/snake-island-sailo...
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by volkadav 5y ago
TBH I don't know what O'Reilly is thinking with that price point. I wish they had a "lite" version with just book access or something, because honestly that's all I ever use.
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by volkadav 5y ago
every single manager i've had whose sole managerial experience was Amazon/AWS before i encountered them was a raging turdwaffle , and having 20+ years of experience i've seen my share of shitty managers to compare them to. p
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by volkadav 5y ago
They can be handled entirely locally; the cloud management bits are optional. (I reworked our home network to Omada gear last fall. OC200, ER605, a few managed switches, couple of EAP245 APs. Overall quite happy with it; as the person above
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by volkadav 5y ago
does amd64 provide a benefit for virtual machines with less than 4gb of ram provisioned? (e.g. i have a small bastion host on obsd 7.0, and even 256mb of ram is slightly overkill based on what i've seen so far of resource usage)
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by volkadav 5y ago
now newyorker.com should cover how the kleptocrats bought NYC too, but that'd make a lot of powerful people in NYC uncomfortable.
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by volkadav 6y ago
Agreed; I received my new m1 mba this week and it is _nice_. Anyone reading who is on the fence, I don't think you'll regret getting one (and I say that as a cheap bastard unix greybeard in general, heh). Cool-running, quiet, good
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by volkadav 6y ago
wow! ah, other than naive googling on those drug candidate identifiers, are there any sources you'd recommend to read more about this? (I have a genetic condition that tl;dr impacts hair cell substrate material leading to hearing loss
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by volkadav 6y ago
they have to tune the DSP settings to get the amplification et al. profiles to match the patient's individual hearing loss pattern. that takes custom interface/programmer hardware the manufacturers generally only (afaik) give to l
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by volkadav 6y ago
To be honest, speaking as a transplant, it is really great up here. We moved from Austin and haven't regretted it for a second (and the whole family loved Austin too). Instead of having a miserable summer that lasts from April to Octo
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by volkadav 6y ago
fair, but try driving 85mph through the italian city in a giant cadillac with cow horns on the front bumper while blaring your favorite tunes and drinking something from a drive-through liquor store. ;)
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by volkadav 6y ago
Any other RED MEAT comic fans in here thinking "I hate you, Milkman Dan!" reflexively upon reading that headline? :)
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by volkadav 7y ago
mention of ms comic chat seems somehow incomplete without reference to JerkCity aka BoneQuest, a decades-long webcomic composed using it https://www.bonequest.com/search/?q=%23linux
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by volkadav 7y ago
If people exercising their freedom of speech is an insult to your "national dignity", your nation sucks. What about sowing distrust of the media, further, is "rational" as you so carefully allude to twice? If the truth i
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by volkadav 7y ago
Nice idea but I'd like to see the face of the insurance underwriter who has a proposal to fire artillery into built-up areas come across their desk, lol. Then again, Amazon is in Washington state and we do have some precedent for seco
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by volkadav 7y ago
With a nod to Fallout: "Teenagers. Teenagers never change." ;)
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by volkadav 7y ago
Any wagers on the price of fancy, used office chairs in 6-12 months? :) #dotbombveteran
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by volkadav 7y ago
QLC being intro'd, iirc, was the most recent inflection point. (background reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-level_cell )
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by volkadav 7y ago
Agreed, and also in terms of evidence-based conclusions: if this was published and widely read starting in 1967, that means a good chunk of Gen X would have been parented along these lines. Given what a bunch of slacker fuckups we all are I
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by volkadav 7y ago
i don't know the size of the dataset you're talking about, but it may help to open things up to use ram more liberally in particular as the default configs are rather conservative. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki&

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