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A single PCIe-3 nvme drive will saturate it on a sequential read load.

Needing to list an "executive sponsor" (an individual, not a role or a team) for each and every item in a service catalogue seems like mindless bureaucracy. Meanwhile, having "cust…

Traditionally, that was the email address for the NTP service at various organisations, in the same way that postmaster was for the mail service.

That's a good point about LTE/5G. Thanks!

I could be wrong, but I think DAB uses DQPSK (which can be thought of as a special version of QAM 4 if you squint a bit) and not anything like the higher QAM constellations because…

... Did you replace them with pringles tubes?

> so for peak loudness (someone shouting or the loudest spike in music) it can take an extra 50% power to create the upper and lower sidebands Some people save energy by turning th…

I hope you mean updated... Otherwise we're about to find out what's in the letter of last resort they have onboard! ;)

Before Radio 4 LW was renumbered in 1988, it was 200kHz. And before the early 70s it was referred to as it's wavelength... 1500m :P

Not entirely true. There's quite a bit of error correction applied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting#Err...

DAB+ uses EEP (and RS) which was deliberately chosen to give better signal quality all the way to the point of losing reception. Old DAB used UEP which degrades faster, but instead…

The phrase "if I were to hazard a guess" should tell you all you need to know. All I did beforehand was update my existing knowledge by reading the Wikipedia article at https://en.…

Starship isn't a proven manned transport vessel yet. And Boom was founded in 2014. If I was to hazard a guess, the BFS concept is 2035 at the earliest, most likely 2040 -- and it'l…

Boom is planning to operate at Mach 1.7 (approx. twice that of current aircraft) with a range of about 4250 nautical miles (4900 miles, 7900 km). Over land they're only going to fl…

All markets are finite. But you're thinking too finitely -- remember that there was a proposal to use Starship (BFS?) as a point-to-point method of people transport too (London to …

I genuinely worked somewhere that used the term API to mean "a person in India". The same company had someone order me not to use the term "postmortem" as part of the SRE function.…

The use of the word "chore" in many users of conventional commits has always riled me. I've always tended to favour the "linux kernel"[0] style of commit subject, which thankfully …

There's an RFC for Peg DHCP! :D https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2322 While it's an April 1st RFC, I've seen this implemented at a Hackspace in Amsterdam, works very well!

I'd have thought that by now, most would have been swapping to WebAssembly. It's really nicely sandboxed, you expose it to only what you want, and you can compile a lot of language…

I have done extensive research on CDC and it almost never works out because most utilities don't create compressed archives in an "rsyncable" (rsync does CDC) format, I actually sa…

If you're the author of https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/ -- thank you :D

As someone who predominantly writes in Go, cider-v was a massive step backwards compared to cider. I eventually moved entirely over to using vim (with the set of internal plugins f…

> flow-crushing remote desktop latency Yeah, I was working out of the Sydney office. Almost everything was incredibly slow due to that latency, not just chromoting but also just ac…

/me shudders. cider-v...

Cider (and p4/g4c etc) was amazing when I left back in 2020, I loved it so much, and truly miss it. I rejoined Google last year, and they'd replaced it with a VSCode clone that tru…