dfrage

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by dfrage 7y ago
Link to that particular blog posting?
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by dfrage 7y ago
Here you're blatantly accusing ESR of fraud, which per you "requires an active intent to acquire something of value through misrepresentation", to wit, soliciting money for "attaching his name to things". We have
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by dfrage 7y ago
Accusing ESR and the rest of the NTPsec project of fraud is a very serious claim. Could you explain in more detail why contemplating rewriting of most or all of the project in Go as he was learning the language is such a definitive tell?
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by dfrage 7y ago
This is merely a list of the "critical Internet services or libraries" that he claims in one way or another, and ensuring the maintenance of such software is part of the whole thesis. To scare quote that, and denigrate it over &qu
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by dfrage 7y ago
> The key idea: that he is an ILBP (or has been in 10 years) is absurd. He is not.... This attitude denies support to projects like NTPsec, for which he's the technical lead, your take on this concept only applies to current maintai
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by dfrage 7y ago
I'll repeat the claim from the NTPsec project page: > GPSD has billions of deployments in Android smartphones world wide and is a mission-critical component in most of the world’s drones and driverless cars and robot submarines. And
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by dfrage 7y ago
NTPsec aspires to be "Internet Load Bearing Software".
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by dfrage 7y ago
A perfectly cromulent reply, you're welcome. :-)
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by dfrage 7y ago
Who just happens to be the tech lead to a partial answer to this problem: http://ntpsec.org/ Which implicitly criticizes the reference implementation.
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by dfrage 7y ago
Second item from the top: > gpsd > gpsd is a service daemon that monitors a GPS attached to a serial or USB port, decodes the position/velocity/time information it sends, and republishes in a simple uniform format on an IANA
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by dfrage 7y ago
People who follow his blog will be familiar with at least some of the following: http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html Some distance down the list is reposurgeon, which has been used to convert Gnu Emacs and many smal
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by dfrage 7y ago
What generation of tape technology exhibited the problems you describe? I've never suffered such problems with original 1/2 mag tapes, DDS, or LTO. BD-XL is wildly more expensive than LTO, although that won't matter if you c
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by dfrage 7y ago
And Soma wouldn't be useful in pacifying a population if it induced tolerance in a few weeks like Xanax and the other GABA influencing drugs do.
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by dfrage 7y ago
You can't disconnect that bit of Newspeak from what really happened, a hostile takeover of the Navy Department by the Army and Air Force that previously comprised the War Department (all this a couple of year before publication). See
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by dfrage 7y ago
Realistically, companies keep making older generation tape drives for a long time, for example, HP LTO-5 drives are still widely available from normal vendors like Newegg. And except for one discontinuity that's pretty clearly due to
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by dfrage 7y ago
> Backblaze's system architecture is fairly failure tolerant, so they use a huge number of "consumer" grade drives that would cause enterprise people to run away screaming. I think what would "cause enterprise people
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by dfrage 7y ago
From previous reading, both are banned, Fuji recently: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/31/lto_patent_case_hit... (Although previously I remember it was Sony that declined to start up LTO-8 production, a
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by dfrage 7y ago
The Intel Atom C2000 product family had a terrible problem which would brick systems, see for example https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-cpu-failure-atom-pro... or https://www.theregister.co.uk/201
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by dfrage 7y ago
Officially, Intel says 10nm has lithography problems. They did try a more aggressive node than TSMC's first "7nm", entirely using 193nm UV, and were the only company to attempt Self-Aligned Quadruple Patterning (SAQP) for th
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by dfrage 7y ago
The number of calories lower class Indians are consuming is dropping , which your link has got to in part be reflecting. It's a mess.
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by dfrage 7y ago
EUV is in production today with Samsung and TSMC's "7nm" processes, and the latter has started "5nm" risk production which uses even more EUV. Here's a recent SemiWiki article on details of what Samsung's
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by dfrage 7y ago
As I recall it's for Day, because there's also H-hour for the time of the day to start, per Oxford Dictionaries "the time of day at which an attack, landing, or other military operation is scheduled to begin." " the
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by dfrage 7y ago
If I was the Taiwanese leadership, I'd make it very clear we'd prepositioned enough explosives that in a matter of hours all the top fabs and the like could be turned into junk, denying the PRC these crown jewels. Just speaking fo
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by dfrage 7y ago
> In case of soviet space program, this worked too, soviets had a lot of success, only the american program was more successful in the later years. A lot of that had to do with America deliberately holding back, to the point of putting b
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by dfrage 7y ago
The Allies, more specifically the U.K. and the US, and the Soviets through their pervasive spying. I changed the original.
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by dfrage 7y ago
The two are not mutually exclusive, and Microsoft had to worry about antitrust action if they priced their tools too low or made them free.
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by dfrage 7y ago
Here's a much better article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/31/lto_patent_case_hit... TL;DR, including knowledge prior to the latest wins by Sony: Fujifilm and Sony, the last two remaining manufa
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by dfrage 7y ago
In this instance, you can factor in the sense of urgency, which the Germans lacked because they thought the problems would take many many years to solve, while the Allies increasingly knew how practical it was. Heisenberg, the distinguished
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by dfrage 7y ago
To quote Wikipedia it is: > attempting to assemble a comprehensive ontology and knowledge base that spans the basic concepts and "rules of thumb" about how the world works (think common sense knowledge but focusing more on thin
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by dfrage 7y ago
The good will generated by the stream of customer testimonials of this process we hear about is priceless. The proposition seems to go something like this: it's a new thing, mistakes are statistically expected, you make an honest one a

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