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by ty_a 7y ago
I'm on an engagement with a client that requires Windows to access their resources. Issues I've had so far: - The trackpad driver doesn't support scrolling w/ Win 10 (Dell E7470). I know how to fix the issue but I don&#x
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by ty_a 8y ago
Facebook will delete itself. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... Facebook interest has been steadily trending down for years.
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by ty_a 8y ago
Recruiters are not your buddy. Just like the salesperson at the car dealership is not your buddy.
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by ty_a 8y ago
I don't think that Red Hat announces release dates for RHEL. At least I don't remember one in the last 10 years.
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by ty_a 8y ago
Remember that time S3 went down and the only updates were on Twitter because the status page was hosted on S3?
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by ty_a 8y ago
Sendmail is deprecated. That was the first Unix service I ever learned to configure. This is kind of the same feeling I got when I heard music I grew up listening to on the classic rock station.
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by ty_a 8y ago
You could run pgbouncer in a fargate container in ECS. Still serverless technically?
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by ty_a 8y ago
This is politics in general. The power structure incentivises liars and crooks. It shouldn't be a surprise.
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by ty_a 8y ago
Perl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.
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by ty_a 8y ago
Iirc there are some free servers you can use provided by Google and/or twilio. Edit: STUN is free, Turn is not. Been a while since I worked with those.
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by ty_a 8y ago
Well there's iron.io (which just got bought by Oracle) and there are several FaaS projects for Kubernetes such as: OpenFaaS and Kubeless. Edit: OpenFaaS can run on Nomad as well apparently: https://www.hashicorp.com/blo
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by ty_a 8y ago
Blockchain is perfect for its original use case, a distributed trustless database. The tradeoffs don't make any sense for a trusted system, i.e. replacing SWIFT or storing titles to property.
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by ty_a 9y ago
Bezos is an investor in General Fusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion
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by ty_a 9y ago
Maybe you could count number of Ph.D contributors? I bet Bitcoin has as many or more than every other project combined.
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by ty_a 9y ago
The major problem with very large containers is that it can cause failed jobs in container schedulers due to the holdoff timer expiring before the container is even downloaded. I've only seen this with Marathon so far but I've not
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by ty_a 9y ago
Bitcoin transactions are confirming for less than 5 Sat/b since the spamming stopped. http://core.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h
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by ty_a 9y ago
What you describe is not unlike the coin debasement that occurred during the latter period of the Roman Empire. However, unlike coin debasement, forking a cryptocurrency imposes no requirement to actually use it.
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by ty_a 9y ago
It's broadcasting something that sounds like ... humpback whales?
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by ty_a 9y ago
There should be competition but no one is willing to step up to the plate. That's the real issue.
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by ty_a 9y ago
I'm curious where this leaves things like the ZFS appliances? They aren't going to use openzfs on oel are they?
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by ty_a 9y ago
https://www.seasteading.org/ That's the goal of the Seasteading institute.
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by ty_a 9y ago
Serious question, are Beowulf clusters still a thing?
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by ty_a 9y ago
Not buying, replacing, installing, or disposing of three washers: Priceless.
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by ty_a 9y ago
It looks like digital TV dishes meant for marine purposes would work.
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by ty_a 9y ago
Does anyone know if there is an auto following dish that would be somewhat portable? I'm thinking of a solar powered Bitcoin station that would be mobile.
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by ty_a 9y ago
Very much appreciate what you give away for free!
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by ty_a 9y ago
Holy crap, Brendan Gregg's site went down. Proof he is human I guess?
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by ty_a 9y ago
Cache size and clock speed. In Ultrabooks i[3,5,7] are all 2 core 4 thread differentiated by cache and clock. You can get 4 core CPUs in larger laptops where the i5 is 4 core, 4 thread and i7 4/8. Similar to desktops.
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by ty_a 9y ago
At what point would people start using Bitcoin as currency? When it hits 5k, 10k, 100k, 1m?
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by ty_a 9y ago
1. Start with Heroku or similar 2. Get customers 3. Profit??? 4. Hire people to help migrate to Kubernetes or similar Stick with what you are good at and pay for everything else.

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