rincebrain

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by rincebrain 5d ago
The WRT54G community tried this for a while. Red Hat most memorably has tried it with "technically you are legally permitted to distribute these things we are giving you under contract but we will terminate your contract if you do.&quo
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by rincebrain 23d ago
Normalization of deviance, soft power, and the fact that managing up and managing down are not the same skillset. Delegating authority is a velocity/democracy tradeoff. Polling 100k people about where to get lunch doesn't work. So
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by rincebrain 29d ago
Some nicer boards have redundant copies of the BIOS so if you fuck up the update, it boots the old one. Various enterprise boards with BMCs can flash the BIOS from the BMC even if the BIOS is fucked. You might even be able to do that with I
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by rincebrain 29d ago
My understanding is that you can usually flash the BIOS from the BMC even if the BIOS is fucked, though it's a paid feature upgrade (though I think someone might have cracked the algorithm on older boards). At least, it has been the ca
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by rincebrain 1mo ago
I don't think that's necessarily true. You can be cashflow positive and still benefit from having a larger pool of cash to throw around, particularly in any situation involving hardware manufacturing. If you tell your investors &q
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by rincebrain 1mo ago
Many people who have ever had to deal with the long tail of insanities in physical hosting, like "the ceiling burst and dumped water on a rack", "the RAID controller's capacitors exploded and now you need to figure out w
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by rincebrain 2mo ago
I would imagine that it's plug and play until you start adding nonsense like customizable scripting on buttons or more than a certain button count as is standard on specialized gamer mice, but sure, fair enough. "This is a platfor
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by rincebrain 2mo ago
I think the point is less to add features and more to lower the barrier to entry for people making mice, since, as you said, in large part keyboards and mice are appliances to the degree that it should rapidly converge to a stable set of fe
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by rincebrain 2mo ago
Because at scale, that doesn't work, I think, even money no object, because it's a task that requires a lot of domain knowledge, but also is monotonous and offers little in the way of satisfaction or looking good on your resume,
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by rincebrain 2mo ago
I have to imagine the answer was either "dedicated MSCC servers and EEE" depending on your level of cynicism or "it was just a tech demo that escaped".
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by rincebrain 2mo ago
The government is in a bad position to be that kind of paternal - any sort of large machine is the worst possible judge of the difference between "shit happened" and "I am systemically making incorrect life choices". I a
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
"The court said these are X" and "it is a fact that these are X" are distinct claims, and a lot of journalistic manners is pretending you never state as fact things that could be disputed. Of course, since there are lot
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
I had a lot of use for this for a few years, there was a window where I had my first laptop's hard drive die a horrible death, but I could not afford a replacement. Enter Knoppix and persisting any state I cared about on a thumb drive.
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
My only contention is the word "quickly". Employers past a certain scale are not really using degrees as anything other than a low pass filter, and the people judging how qualified hires were in practice are not the ones deciding
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
I'm not convinced this is the correct move, if only because anything short of draconian control is going to be lossy, and draconian control has catastrophic failure modes for people who are naive to the things you're trying to hel
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
Last I looked at their releases of code, they had branched from ZFS before it became OpenZFS, and had a lot of proprietary extensions beyond just the reshaping (from memory, they implemented encryption differently, as one example, and I thi
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
AMD, historically, has taken a "we don't test enterprise features on consumer SKUs, but we don't fuse them off if you really want to qualify it or let them try it" approach to e.g. ECC on consumer chips with Zen. So it&#
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
Apparently the recollection of the fix was that they deferred actually freeing memory for a while if they detected it was SimCity running. [1] [1] - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/05/24/strategy-letter-ii
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
They did, apparently, at one point pay someone to build that glue, and then threw it out and wouldn't let the author release it so he's been reimplementing it out of...spite? Burning desire? Unclear. [1] I can't imagine the l
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
Sure, I'm not suggesting that they're a good idea to use blindly at this point - I think most people are building on filesystem-based setups so most of the polish is going there. But that was the original logic. I also would be cu
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
Various ways. Drives sometimes are worse at their internal error detection than you might hope, and might return incorrect bytes. You might have faulty hardware flipping bits between when you computed a checksum/parity/etc over yo
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
The reason to use zvols is twofold, AFAIR: - serving a bunch of storage as a blob is a common use case for e.g. iSCSI exporting, and so, if you want to be able to zfs snapshot/send/rollback/etc on the level of "one logic
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by rincebrain 3mo ago
I think the problem isn't that competition needs to be an order of magnitude better, it's that if places have exclusivity agreements, it doesn't matter how much better you are. The comment in [1] also outlines a bunch of reas
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by rincebrain 4mo ago
In this particular case, I think the point is less 1 or 2 but more point 3 (3) the contrapositive, where you continued the flight, it really was someone stupid enough to name the broadcast name of a bomb "BOMB", it goes off, and n
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by rincebrain 4mo ago
Americans think they're "free and democratic" in the same way that aristocrats think they're better than everyone - it's been inculcated in them since birth, by every aspect of the culture and their upbringing, and
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by rincebrain 4mo ago
My intuition is that what makes them well suited is that the transformations on the input desired are well-defined and frequent tasks - e.g. any other software that migrated from, say, SDL1 to SDL2, or had to move from gcc 3 to 4, or Sun cc
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by rincebrain 4mo ago
Because most tasks aren't "refresh this code from 10-20 years ago"? If you needed an old piece of code at $WORK, you probably already paid the tax of refreshing it or replacing it. This sort of task is similar in nature to so
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by rincebrain 4mo ago
There exist a great many people in the world who think that the only important thing is having a good enough idea, and everything else is almost valueless by comparison. You've probably met them, people who say things like "I just
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by rincebrain 4mo ago
How have you found syncthing's scaling? I've been trying to use it for a massive tree of ~250k files across ~500k folders, which only needs to live on one device at a time and sync to a backup in case it dies, and even if I tell i
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by rincebrain 4mo ago
In contrast, I have never owned a USB-C to HDMI cable, and I don't know of any device except perhaps my phone that might be able to make use of one.

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