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by toast0 3d ago
I've used systems with bits and pieces of this and IMHO, it feels pretty tempting to build this... But yeah, the real question is what application do you or will you run that requires it and is it worth the cost to build? Especially
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by toast0 3d ago
I feel like if you have a single system image, process migration is easy (or at least tractible), but without that, it's going to be pretty challenging. Live migration of VMs across hypervisors is more approachable than migrating a pro
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by toast0 3d ago
AMD and even Intel have reasonable to good performance / watt for most of the curve... But they do let you explore the top side of the curve where you get a little more performance for a lot more power. This is mostly because of how In
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by toast0 4d ago
> There’s always a gradual refarming of the spectrum into the next G. Not necessarily for 4G to 5G. 5G can run a 4G compatible control channel and timeslices can be 4G or 5G. > Usually the most penetrating frequencies (ie lowest) are
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by toast0 4d ago
> More people think they need a hundred thousand threads than actually do. This is fair, but is a hundred thousand OS threads really a reasonable load on reasonable OSes? I've (helped to) run systems with millions of Erlang processe
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by toast0 5d ago
> async/await is one product of a long line of thought that says "threads are too hard for programmers to get right". Having used both threads and async/await and using them both in the same program, I don't see
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by toast0 5d ago
This administration keeps trying to intimidate the Fed into lowering interest rates, which makes me believe it holds that as important, and they keep claiming there isn't inflation regardless of reality. I don't think they really
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by toast0 5d ago
> He said those things. Believe him. He says a lot of things he doesn't do though. Beleiving him is a bad heuristic and so is disbeleiving him.
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by toast0 5d ago
> Donald Trump can end this at any time if he wants. I'm not really sure that's true. The US is no longer a credible negotiator. I'm not sure negotiating a peace would necessarily end the situation immediately.
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by toast0 5d ago
Have to do the install to get paid for the ad click, right?
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by toast0 5d ago
> I guess it's dead in the water for posix on account of fork being CoW? If that's the only issue, it's avoidable for most use cases. Lots of processes that fork are doing fork/exec to run a helper program. If they kn
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by toast0 6d ago
> Decker insofar as I can tell is one of the suits who ran Yahoo into the ground. I don't think that's really right, but it's hard to tell. In my mind, as someone who was there from 2004-2011, things were going ok while sh
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by toast0 6d ago
> He then went on this site, and placed incriminating comments under posts discussing that, without discussing it with his lawyers. As I recall, some of his posts indicated he was knowingly posting against the advice of his lawyers. Alth
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by toast0 6d ago
> This is cool; because with most cars you can't do anything. Put it in neutral and push it, if the wheels are still operable and the slope of the road is favorable? > NOTE: If low voltage power is unavailable and the windows are
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by toast0 6d ago
> As you say, even at 90 seconds, it's clear to all involved parties that the customer is pwned or malicious. It sure is --- but an ISP would want to observe the traffic themselves, and if it's a 90 second attack every so often
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by toast0 6d ago
I live in a city with a population of ~ 25,000, and we have I think 10 bank branches, 1 credit union branch, a different credit union ATM (they closed their branch but left an ATM), and a gas station ATM. We've got Chase, BofA, Wells F
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by toast0 6d ago
At least my attitude is the legal limits are low enough that 'just one drink' is going to be over the legal limit (this is almost certainly not accurate, but it's my attitude; additionally when I drink, it's usually a mi
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by toast0 6d ago
I watched some old driver safety films on DVD a while back. The attitudes were way different, the message on drunk driving was "you probably wouldn't be legally drunk for two, maybe three beers, but your reaction time will be
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by toast0 6d ago
> double-ended USB-A cable. Decades ago, I purchased a usb external hard drive case with a usb-a for the connection to the computer. Returned that pretty quick because eww.
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by toast0 7d ago
> Are there any unionized game studios that continue to produce highly acclaimed games? In order for that to happen, a game studio that is currently producing highly acclaimed games would have to unionize. All of your examples seem to be
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by toast0 7d ago
> The wear-and-tear on the road from the sheer volume of cars alone makes them cost more to us as a society than busses. That doesn't really math, because axle weight is a large factor in road wear. There's details and it doesn
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by toast0 7d ago
> Another thing to consider is your credit card rewards cash back etc are really trading your privacy for a little rounding error worth of discount in comparison to using cash. How much privacy really? If I get mostly $20s from the ATM,
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by toast0 7d ago
I don't play the points game, I use a cashback card. I use a cashback card, because most merchants will charge me the same regardless of payment method, and getting a 4% discount (+ time value of money) is the lowest cost to me. If I u
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by toast0 7d ago
I don't quite understand your post, but is your question why don't the ISPs of the sources of the abusive traffic sort it out? The distributed nature of DDoS means each participating host isn't sending that much traffic, an
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by toast0 7d ago
> I cannot imagine any reason why somebody would want to use RELEASE for production. I used FreeBSD at Yahoo and WhatsApp, using RELEASE at both. I'm sure there were some times where some groups were running other than RELEASE (and
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by toast0 8d ago
There's several listings on eBay. The listings for laptops are in a range I'd consider... The tricky bit is usually there's a proprietary connector for the specific laptop, but I recall taking a laptop cd drive for another pr
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by toast0 8d ago
> The unstated reason is that indian transit is expensive, though I fail to believe its cheaper to go from mumbai to marsaille and back to mumbai. IMHO, it's not that hard to believe. a) Every hosting provider I've looked at pr
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by toast0 9d ago
> So, if one were to keep software up to date on their TV, I presume LG is like most vendors and stops issuing updates for older models after a while. It's pretty hard to keep software up to date when the vendor stops issuing update
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by toast0 9d ago
100%. Debuggers are nice when you can use them, trace logs are nice when you have them, clean repros are nice. But lots of bugs can and should be found and fixed by inspection of the code, inspired by a reasonable observation. Depending on
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by toast0 9d ago
> A decent part of that is probably important to be working on the day of a football match. Otoh, if they only need the servers to run while guests are attending matches (and other events), it looks like they do about one event a week fr

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