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mgerdts

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About mgerdts

Software engineer specializing in operating systems and the backend layers closest to the OS. Previously a sysadmin.

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    I wonder if similar results would come from just adding a second 10 Gb NIC. If his workload runs SMB multichannel at sufficient queue depth, the load should spread across the multi…

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    Comment #48996451

    Even better, get rid of the mandate for ethanol and cover a portion of the ex corn fields with solar panels with native plants under and around them. A small portion of the land th…

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    Comment #48962886

    I was at the Toyota dealership today. A TRD off-road with TRD Off-Road Upgrade Package and other goodies has a MSRP of $61k and the tag hanging from the rear view mirror said the n…

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    Comment #48799006

    AllTrails has a heat map feature as well. I think this feature is now paywalled.

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    Comment #48798866

    You can record tracks with (I think) both Organic Maps and CoMaps. If you are interested in the social aspects of sharing tracks https://wanderer.to/ and a few others offer imports…

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    Comment #48702231

    I’ve seen a tick in Wisconsin every month of the year over the past five years or so. That is I’ve seen a January tick one year, February tick that same year or another year, etc. …

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    Comment #48614832

    > you squeeze their contents through their mouths Whenever someone recommends removal using tweezers, I wonder if the person offering this advice has ever removed a well attached t…

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    Comment #48614675

    https://lymealert.com/how-it-works/ I’m not optimistic this will be all that helpful. Just because the tick you found is negative, that tells you nothing about those you did not fi…

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    Comment #48523363

    By any chance does this person live near Montrose CO and tend to the lawn at a church next to the Holiday Inn Express?

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    Comment #48036374

    And out of band management, hot plug capable form factors, and a bunch of other things described in the OCP NVMe SSD spec. https://www.opencompute.org/documents/datacenter-nvme-ssd…

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    Comment #48036308

    A big consideration for efficiency and TCO calculations is the number of servers required to house the drives. NVMe drives tend not to be in external JBOF enclosures. Fewer servers…

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    Comment #47537172

    In the late 80s I worked in an industrial controls shop. This is the type of place that makes the cabinets with all the buttons, switches, and lights commonly associated with nuke …

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    Comment #47516516

    You aren’t alone: https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/working-defini...

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    Comment #47292494

    I record them in a different system that is more likely to survive shifts in technology, business relationships, and arbitrary expiration date changes to save money.

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    Comment #47104704

    I remember similar advice. In Navy boot camp the person reviewing my security clearance application (which was filled out weeks before) was very helpful in the way he asked the cri…

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    Comment #46968937

    Back in 1997 or so I bought an ATI video card that also had a Weezer video on the CD. I remember being amazed that it could play the video at 1024x768 with just a little bit of tea…

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    Comment #46941084

    This sounds like Solaris doors. The remainder of the time slice of the door client is given to the door server.

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    Comment #46743299

    Exactly. I question why the parent says you have to re-encrypt the drive. Microsoft has the KEK or passphrase that can be used to derive the KEK. The KEK protects the DEK which is …

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    Comment #46701460

    And if you don’t use a lot of data, at least US Mobile has a by the gig plan. My family has three phones on it for a total $30 per month. Those months that we go over, it automatic…

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    Comment #46626512

    Mirroring between s3 providers would seemingly give protection against your account being locked at one of them. I expect this becomes most interesting with l2arc and cache (zil) d…

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    Comment #46545580

    What is up with fin? Is it really just writing an int 0 in the memory right after some variable present in libc or similar? extern fin; if(getpw(0, pwbuf)) goto badpw; (&fin)[1] = …

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    Comment #46541165

    Per the definition of volatile write cache in the standard I quoted, pretty much any drive TLC drive in the hyperscalar, datacenter, or enterprise product lineup will have great wr…

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    Comment #46535896

    It seems pointless to issue flush commands when writing to an NVMe drive with a direct IO implementation that functions properly. The NVMe spec says: > 6.8 Flush command > … > If a…