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The best I can tell from talking with insiders at a couple of his properties, is that he did a beyond bad job at “succession planning”. The light exception being MoPOP of course bu…

AFCI's feel like NEC's attempt to create tons of service calls under the guise of "safety". And eventually seems like they will be required for new builds everywhere as areas adopt…

I guess the wildcard is price. AWS's pricing model works kinda at their OMG eyewatering scale - aka all the custom hardware they design is highly cost optimized, but just doing cus…

Oh this is awesome. When I was a kid I really really attempted to write a Keen knock off (doctor who themed) on my 386 and it was ok although never really did enough level developm…

…and sadly the doctors have been fleeing too, all my doctors have left. Their replacements aren’t bad, but not to the same top notch level of care. The Polyclinic was honestly off …

Indeed doing what they have done is impressive, and talented folks at play for sure. Not sure, even vaguely commercially viable(heck 0xide as a whole), but nerdy interesting for su…

One of the hard parts of quantifying that, is you have people who wear many hats. So sure you have Cassandra gurus, and probably a decent number of them. But this is in the league …

Correct, that’s what object stores are for. However, metadata on said files, is probably very handy to have in a database. I’m quite sure not all this Cassandra capacity is just fi…

Personally I find it funny that on the same day there is an article about Quora, there is also a link for plugin for blocking search results( https://github.com/iorate/uBlacklist )…

Thought the exact thing the first time I saw one in a Chicago full service parking garage. And they had very stern signs about being for employees only. So ya that’s likely how the…

The result was "an electrical island in the United States," Bill Magness, CEO of ERCOT, said. "That independence has been jealously guarded, I think both by policy makers and the i…

It’s definitely comically expensive. But I’ve had mine 15 years and it’s still the best least fuss humidifier I’ve ever owned. Oh and I never use their additive. Little dish soap (…

The declarative functionality comes from K8s not helm. (Of course K8s has imperative tooling too but that’s not the point here). The main reason folks dislike helm are 2 fold: 1) u…

I think his point was about drives silently returning corrupt data, not that you shouldn’t have redundancy. Absolutely you should have redundancy and backups. At the (tens of) thou…

Not anymore. From what I’ve been told from an insider, the latest versions are derived from a common code base now, with platform specific bits separate for each platform. The late…

Yes Oracle did that to Solaris. You are right. But it was already pretty dead before Oracle bought Sun. Which was why Sun was for-sale in the first place. That's not just Oracle's …

At the end of the day, Sun/Oracle has to be able to make revenue from Solaris for them to keep paying those peoples' salaries. Is your startup / company deploying on Solaris? Nope …

I definitely wouldn't call Bloomberg a "non-engineering" company if you've ever worked with any of their trading / market data products. Pretty much true of any trading side financ…

As commented already, this is actually incorrect. RAID cannot and will not detect data errors unless the drive itself report the errors and issues the "I can't retrieve this data" …

Actually most SSL based browsers will transmit the domain cleartext as part of SSL handshaking. This was added so virtual hosting webservers can all have independent certs on the s…

Yes this is exactly the problem - less so with CFL but hugely so with LED. LEDs should appear as a part of the fixture itself - not as a screw in replacement for the legacy Edison …

"And the whole point of RAID is to combat that..." Actually the whole point of RAID is to combat a MISSING drive, not a corrupt drive. Parity works when I'm lacking one bit ... not…

Indeed vary brave. Filesystems ARE NOT and never have been an API to exchange data between multiple OSes - they are a means to persist data efficiently for a single OS. Now if you …