mscman

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by mscman 10y ago
> any sysadmin worth his salt will have automated the population of his authorized_keys file and alert on any unauthorized changes. FTFY
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by mscman 10y ago
We didn't have DST in most of Indiana until about 10 years ago. When we switched, most of us were wondering why the hell we were even doing it. It's really not necessary, it confuses people, leads to screwed up schedules when the
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by mscman 11y ago
While I agree that over-testing the wrong parts of your program can have an impact on program design, your end user's needs/desires are usually testable things. TDD helps make sure that experience is reproducible, even through swe
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by mscman 11y ago
You'll definitely want to add a '&' at the end of that line so that you don't delay user logins if the network is down or mail barfs.
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by mscman 11y ago
I don't know that a Slack bot is the right type of larger solution though. For instance, I use the ExpenseIt app on my phone because it's paired with Concur. That's got a much more flexible input when it comes time to do the
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by mscman 11y ago
> The real value is in the presentation. This is true sometimes, but if it's a design discussion and you're whiteboarding how something should be laid out, or even steps of what's completed and what's left, just a sna
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by mscman 12y ago
Where were your faulty detectors? My ex-girlfriend's dad used to do testing for a smoke alarm company a while ago. I learned an interesting thing from that. You know what they use to simulate smoke when they test smoke detectors? Hair
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by mscman 12y ago
Except my phone will get itself in a state where that latency stays high, and bandwidth drops for a long time. Only solution is to turn wifi off/on. That definitely seems like a bug. I'm fine with lower throughput while discovery
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by mscman 12y ago
Because it's still technically classified. When you hold a security clearance, you're not only agreeing to keep things classified, but also to not pursue any classified information you don't need to know. This was a big issue
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by mscman 12y ago
Not just Google. Amazon's "Enhanced networking" uses a feature in 10GbE that's been used in smaller HPC clusters for around 5-10 years now. And MS Azure has InfiniBand backing their highest-tier instance types. Many data
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by mscman 12y ago
Not a Cray... That's gotta hurt. They've been a Cray shop for years now.
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by mscman 12y ago
I'm guessing ORNL isn't going to move the target as much as NCSA did for Blue Waters.
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by mscman 12y ago
I hadn't heard about that. That's awesome that the police chief is taking them on about this. It's becoming rare to hear about police chiefs doing the right thing when it comes to abuse of power.
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by mscman 12y ago
Cloud HPC Solutions Architect here. In this use case, cloud computing wouldn't really suffice. For a company who needs 24x7 access to compute power of that scale, they really will benefit from buying a standalone system like this. Whil
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by mscman 12y ago
Given their initial reactions on Twitter, I don't feel bad if they get taken to court over this. As others have mentioned, they only agreed to rapidly reverse course after Microsoft put them in time out.
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by mscman 12y ago
Except in your shortened version, you've completely eliminated what you're using to measure "achievement". Plenty of people don't define academic success as achievement. A lot of blue collar communities consider oth
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by mscman 12y ago
It is? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I haven't seen legally organized protests (yes, you do have to file the appropriate paperwork) recently which have actually been shut down by an enormous governmental show of force. Do
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by mscman 12y ago
I don't think so. Since the assets were on SR servers, which weren't technically Ross's personal property, and the business was used for selling drugs (admittedly along with other things), civil forfeiture laws allow the gove
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by mscman 12y ago
Awesome! Thanks!
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by mscman 12y ago
I actually disagree with your definition of supercomputer, and liken it to any compute system or cluster with more power than an average enterprise server or workstation. After all, they really exist to solve problems which can't be so
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by mscman 12y ago
As the article mentions, there are also people who lack the money or time to eat healthy all the time. College students in particular are pretty famous for their ramen meals because they're cheap and easy. They're also not filled
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by mscman 12y ago
Same here. I work right next to the sliding glass door in our kitchen (door is to the right of me). Didn't read the description fully and jumped when it sounded like someone was knocking at my door, then at the window to the rear-left
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by mscman 13y ago
I feel some of this is based on personality. It's great that you're able to step away from work periodically and then focus again (I do the same thing working from home). A lot of people have trouble getting back into the work mod
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by mscman 13y ago
This works in a normal bash/zsh prompt as well if you want to set a variable only for that single command. It's why a lot of times you'll see build instructions like: # CC=gcc make After the command runs, CC will go back to w
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by mscman 13y ago
It's not that the components themselves draw half the power, it's that you don't need to provide as much power to cool them. There's a typical rule of thumb in datacenter planning that for every 1W of compute power, you
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by mscman 13y ago
That's a good point, there are enterprise hosted offerings. I'm just pointing out that the sell to higher level university officials to switch off of internal infrastructure to "cloud" offerings (yes, yes, I realize that
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by mscman 13y ago
There's a legal issue with universities though. While the research being done may be public, they could also involve private corporate entities, restricted data, or patentable information. A lot of people forget that, while universitie