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You don't have to wait until expiry. Transfers generally add 1 year of service (for most TLDs), so unless you're already at the limit, you can transfer everything now.

Intel has proposed dropping 32-bit and 16-bit support in the future. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...

It is mentioned in the first paragraph of the README: shpool is a service that enables session persistence by allowing the creation of named shell sessions owned by shpool so that …

Python 2 was even more terse with it's print statement print >>sys.stderr, "foo"

Does the ZNS (Zoned Namespaces) spec come close enough? https://nvmexpress.org/new-nvmetm-specification-defines-zone...

Is there anything that explains the why and how a bit deeper? As an example, in the video "Packaging a Gem as a Nix derivation", he basically just and copies and pastes another def…

I'm not sure if you're trying to imply that Lightning Network is vaporware, but there are currently three implementations that pass the integration tests: https://github.com/lightn…

You can get indirect exposure to SpaceX through some Fidelity mutual funds. http://blog.sfgate.com/pender/2015/03/25/see-which-fidelity-...

The Azores

Location: Redmond, WA Remote: Yes (have spent the last 6 years working remote) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, C, Go, x86 Assembly, Linux, Hypervisors (Xen), Distribu…

Unfortunately, Amazon does not appear to keep different sellers products separate in the warehouse. All it takes is one seller sending counterfeit products to the warehouse for the…

In my experience, do a web search with a unique phrase out of the company or job description. It will often lead to the same job posting directly from the company.

There is NTP the protocol[1], and there is NTP the implementation[2]. While the implementation is popular, there are alternatives. There is also OpenNTPd, chrony and ntimed for ins…

These are farms of cheap Linux boxes. They go out of their way to design and manufacture their own motherboards and equipment[1] to reduce their capital and operational expenses. W…

The 63 character limit on domain name labels in RFC 1034/1035 isn't arbitrary, it's a limitation in the way DNS packets are encoded. The upper two bits of the label length are used…

I agree. All too often people are surprised by it on Reddit. Whenever someone replies with a number followed by a period (eg "42."), it's always converted into "1." Among other pro…

I noticed this blog post is mostly marketing for their minio software, so I went to check it out (I guess the marketing worked). I wish there was some documentation available. I un…

I do not have any degree, relevant or not. Obviously they were happy with my competency since I was offered a job, they just took the path where they used my lack of degree as a ne…

This was from the manager I would have been working for. Like any large organization, there are exceptions and he could be the exception rather than the rule. From my perspective, …

I have previously received an offer from Google and was low balled quite a bit. When pressed on this, they pointed to my lack of degree. So I got a job offer from them without a de…

I've always asked for what I want to make and only once have I had a company ask for paystubs to back it up. That one case was Google (about 8 years ago) and like an idiot I gave t…

The number of hypercalls isn't a good indicator of the attack surface area. As examples: There is a full x86 instruction decoder which is technically not part of the hypercall inte…

It depends on the version of Xen they are running. XSA-148 only affects Xen 3.4 and newer. If AWS is running an older version of Xen, they may never have been affected.

XenServer runs their version of qemu under a unique unused uid, in a empty chroot and with a separate network namespace. This is the default behavior under XenServer.

In my experience, recruiters that don't name companies will often cut and paste part of the job description from the company. Often a search with some choice phrases from the job d…