volkadav

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by volkadav 1mo ago
Original presentation: https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.ppt :)
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by volkadav 4mo ago
I mean, not to snarkpoast on main, but all of this has happened before re: > The massive sudden shift in the commoditization of human workers and turning them into faceless labor resources that can be inhumanely disposed of with a keystr
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by volkadav 6mo ago
If you mean an isolated linux instance _including a linux kernel_, that would be provided by a virtual machine running under the bhyve hypervisor on freebsd ( https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/virtuali
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by volkadav 6mo ago
On the bright side, at least it's in the PR text and not the code? (... yet?) Sheesh.
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by volkadav 7mo ago
Sadly, today I received notice from Hetzner that indeed the prices on the older CX22 are going up. Product previous price €3.95 New price as of 1 April 2026 €5.39 CX22 (HEL1) all prices incl. 20% vat
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by volkadav 7mo ago
Doesn't seem to apply to older/deprecated gen instances. I've got a CX22 there for personal screw-around projects and it's the same £3.95/mo (pre-VAT) afaict. So maybe not much help to folks ordering new or running
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by volkadav 8mo ago
https://man.openbsd.org/vxlan.4#SECURITY seems unambiguous that it's intended for use in trusted environments (and all else being equal, I'd expect the openbsd man page authors to have reasonable opinions about ne
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by volkadav 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure the original 10+k/yr/employee for good ppo coverage is a radical underestimate, for what it's worth, though I guess "way more than ten" is technically part of the "ten+" range, haha. T
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by volkadav 10mo ago
I saw them on the menu at a chippy food cart at glasgow comicon this summer, so they exist here. I did not order one, but they were for sale. :)
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by volkadav 10mo ago
Sorry to focus on just one aspect of your (excellent) post, but do you have recommendations for reading up on A*/SAT beyond wikipedia? I'm mostly self-taught (did about a minor's worth of post-bacc comp sci after getting a ch
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by volkadav 11mo ago
Trip report of size one, fwiw: I have a JetKVM device at home and it's been super handy in my small homelab (half dozen or so older dells and lenovos). I haven't experienced any problems with my device. It seems solidly built, t
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by volkadav 11mo ago
I can't say as to what it might've been like 80+ years ago, but years back I was with a friend on a trip through a PX and there was a rotary display (perhaps like you might see used for postcards in other contexts) with rank insig
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by volkadav 1y ago
doctors and nurses have enough power to demand fixed professional(0) wages that "unskilled labor"(1) does not. no one _wants_ to make $2/hr(2) and to have to rely on the generosity of the general public for a living; in other
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by volkadav 1y ago
Location: UK/Scotland, easily commutable to both Glasgow and Edinburgh Remote: highly preferred, inclusive of US employers (see notes below) Willing to relocate: not at present, might be a different story in a few years Technologies: (
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by volkadav 1y ago
Open Maryland, Not Indiana :) (So named in this case because the company that released it, OmniTI, is based in Maryland. Source: worked there at the time) It's a good OS, as I imagine the other Illumos derivatives are, but sometimes th
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by volkadav 1y ago
tbh I was guessing Volvo 240-series. I suspect cockroaches will be driving those battleships around after the bomb/climate collapse/asteroid/big crunch.
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by volkadav 1y ago
Kotlin? Basically the same as the Corolla but a bit more comfortable in all regards. :)
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by volkadav 1y ago
The UK can get pretty rude, for example. ~40p/kWh is not unheard of for residential. (Natural gas price shocks, unfettered greed post-privatization, badgers in the transformers, idkwtf, etc.)
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by volkadav 1y ago
For a long time my home server was a dell wyse 3040 that I got for £25 on flea-bay. 1.4ghz quad core x86-64, 2g ddr3 ram, 8gb emmc, <= 5w max load, fanless, runs standard, normal debian like a treat. :) Eventually I got tired of being co
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by volkadav 2y ago
Perhaps those are an essential ingredient for a full consciousness or experience of what we've agreed by consensus to call reality, but the parental part of me holds on desperately to the hope that if we create anew, those we create mi
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by volkadav 2y ago
I used[1] jetbrains tooling quite a bit on my m1 air and never had problems, though I did opt for the 16gb ram version. The newer models are presumably at least as performant if not better? ([1] These days my daily driver is an m1 mbp of so
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by volkadav 2y ago
having this open in another tab adds just the right soundtrack: http://conferencecall.biz/ ;)
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by volkadav 2y ago
"Zabha, Svvptc, and Ziccrse" Man, I'm sure those are important changes that mean a great deal to someone, but to my naive eyes it looks like someone's cat ran over their keyboard. :) In case anyone else was curious:
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by volkadav 2y ago
tbh i'm just happy to see "crypto" and have it mean cryptography. sic transit gloria mundi or something. :)
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by volkadav 2y ago
As much as I feel joy at the discovery for the advancement of science and human knowledge, a part of me feels sorrow for the wee critter so many years ago. I feel similarly for human archaeological discoveries, the illogical desire to exten
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by volkadav 2y ago
I sympathize with your concerns for stability and testing, but I think that you might reconsider things in open-source ZFS land. OpenZFS/ZoL have been merged since the 2.0 release several years back, and some very large (e.g. Netflix)
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by volkadav 2y ago
100% agreed as I can't think of any one individual since(1) who has done as much for all of science and engineering as he ultimately did; alas, they are not awarded posthumously. (1) Newton would be a strong contender on a "for al
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by volkadav 2y ago
I was with linode for a loooong time for my personal VM-in-cloud (like 15 years). But I got an itch to check around to see if there was a cheaper option earlier this year and found that Hetzner would give me literally twice the machine for
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by volkadav 2y ago
Looks like you might be able to at the end of the file, reading the commit message, just not willy-nilly in the middle. :)
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by volkadav 2y ago
For what it's worth, at least as I understand it, the Guardian got monikers like that due to their (for a time) extreme propensity to publish typos. (Given the number of "fix typo" commits across all the projects I work on, I

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