bashinator

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   by bashinator 5y ago

   Why don’t press releases like this ever show one of the nodes opened up!? Let me see the water-cooled mobo with all the A100s and the Cray interconnect!
2. 182.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   Oh for sure. I'm happy to keep it as a daydream. Cloud providers are better at high-availability than I am.
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   by bashinator 5y ago

   I daydream about running our entire company k8s infra on a single 1U with 256 Epyc threads, a few terabytes of memory, and a bunch more of tiered storage. IMO this kind of miniaturization is amazing for container orchestration. Add a coupl
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   by bashinator 5y ago

   I think it's a wonderful thing that the IT ecosystem has created such a variety of different tool methodologies converging on the same purpose. It seems analogous to convergent evolution in biology.
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   by bashinator 5y ago

   I have an almost entirely non-visual imagination and internal narrative. Vi and then vim were pretty easy to adopt, and it’s still easy for me to learn new editor-as-a-language functionality. I started using it in the 90s and only figured
6. 186.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   There's a book about this - "There is no Anti-Memetics Division", written by qntm.
7. 187.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   Yeah that was a bit of clickbait for sure.
8. 188.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   You're heading towards the Problem of Evil[0]. I'd hope the simulators aren't jerks. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil#Logical_proble...
9. 189.▲
   by bashinator 5y ago

   Google wants a distributed internet where users and service providers are largely overlapping sets?
10. 190.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    > protein that encourages other proteins of the same type to misfold in the same way. Gotta wonder if this is a clue about abiogenesis.
11. 191.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    But then what would you use to visit mozilla.org?
12. 192.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    Short answer - automatically cache frequently-accessed files on expensive but small NVMe drives while using bigger cheaper slower drives for mass storage.
13. 193.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    Isn’t Mazda discontinuing use of touch screens?
14. 194.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    I didn’t realize gratitude was a fungible commodity.
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    by bashinator 5y ago

    > I do wish we had a "web lite" mode that we could turn on, if only for certain domains. There are some options for activating reader view even before loading a web site[0]. I imagine it would be a pretty light lift from there
16. 196.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    And yet through the miracle of scrolling and screen zooming I’m somehow able to use old.reddit.com just fine even on my relatively small iPhone X
17. 197.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    Technically correct is the least useful kind of correct.
18. 198.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    That’s because new Reddit is laden with ads and JS and crap. Try https://old.reddit.com
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    by bashinator 5y ago

    Hate the politicians who cut USPS' funding to such an extent that this is necessary.
20. 200.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    It’s another case of having to wait for the right people to die, probably.
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    by bashinator 5y ago

    HIPAA isn’t nearly as prescriptive as PCI. It’s more about defining what PHI is, and what the consequences are for mishandling it.
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    by bashinator 5y ago

    This seems to be a non-issue? Torvalds has valid concerns, the patch submitter acknowledges those concerns and describes how they can and will be fixed before anything is merged.
23. 203.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    I had zero problems with uBlock Origin on Firefox.
24. 204.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    Never run prod in us-east-1.
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    by bashinator 5y ago

    Wasn't aware that the printing press could instantaneously distribute material to a majority of the people on Earth within seconds, at virtually no cost. The parallels between the Internet and the printing press may be many, but the di
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    by bashinator 5y ago

    > I think people still remember this for the most part. I don't. I think that memory is from small subset of the general public who were early adopters and developers of the Internet.
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    by bashinator 5y ago

    Name one other time in history when memes could be spread and amplified at the same rate and level as through social media.
28. 208.▲
    by bashinator 5y ago

    How do you explain QAnon, then?
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    by bashinator 5y ago

    Don't forget, "or were lucky enough to have the opportunity to buy at a low point in the market."
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    by bashinator 5y ago

    Having a deep depression is, if not exactly traumatic, certainly something that I’ve blocked out of my psyche in the same way.