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> any sysadmin worth his salt will have automated the population of his authorized_keys file and alert on any unauthorized changes. FTFY

We didn't have DST in most of Indiana until about 10 years ago. When we switched, most of us were wondering why the hell we were even doing it. It's really not necessary, it confus…

While I agree that over-testing the wrong parts of your program can have an impact on program design, your end user's needs/desires are usually testable things. TDD helps make sure…

You'll definitely want to add a '&' at the end of that line so that you don't delay user logins if the network is down or mail barfs.

I don't know that a Slack bot is the right type of larger solution though. For instance, I use the ExpenseIt app on my phone because it's paired with Concur. That's got a much more…

> The real value is in the presentation. This is true sometimes, but if it's a design discussion and you're whiteboarding how something should be laid out, or even steps of what's …

Where were your faulty detectors? My ex-girlfriend's dad used to do testing for a smoke alarm company a while ago. I learned an interesting thing from that. You know what they use …

Except my phone will get itself in a state where that latency stays high, and bandwidth drops for a long time. Only solution is to turn wifi off/on. That definitely seems like a bu…

Because it's still technically classified. When you hold a security clearance, you're not only agreeing to keep things classified, but also to not pursue any classified information…

Not just Google. Amazon's "Enhanced networking" uses a feature in 10GbE that's been used in smaller HPC clusters for around 5-10 years now. And MS Azure has InfiniBand backing thei…

Not a Cray... That's gotta hurt. They've been a Cray shop for years now.

I'm guessing ORNL isn't going to move the target as much as NCSA did for Blue Waters.

I hadn't heard about that. That's awesome that the police chief is taking them on about this. It's becoming rare to hear about police chiefs doing the right thing when it comes to …

Cloud HPC Solutions Architect here. In this use case, cloud computing wouldn't really suffice. For a company who needs 24x7 access to compute power of that scale, they really will …

Given their initial reactions on Twitter, I don't feel bad if they get taken to court over this. As others have mentioned, they only agreed to rapidly reverse course after Microsof…

Except in your shortened version, you've completely eliminated what you're using to measure "achievement". Plenty of people don't define academic success as achievement. A lot of b…

It is? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I haven't seen legally organized protests (yes, you do have to file the appropriate paperwork) recently which have actually been shut down b…

I don't think so. Since the assets were on SR servers, which weren't technically Ross's personal property, and the business was used for selling drugs (admittedly along with other …

Awesome! Thanks!

I actually disagree with your definition of supercomputer, and liken it to any compute system or cluster with more power than an average enterprise server or workstation. After all…

As the article mentions, there are also people who lack the money or time to eat healthy all the time. College students in particular are pretty famous for their ramen meals becaus…

Same here. I work right next to the sliding glass door in our kitchen (door is to the right of me). Didn't read the description fully and jumped when it sounded like someone was kn…

I feel some of this is based on personality. It's great that you're able to step away from work periodically and then focus again (I do the same thing working from home). A lot of …

This works in a normal bash/zsh prompt as well if you want to set a variable only for that single command. It's why a lot of times you'll see build instructions like: # CC=gcc make…

It's not that the components themselves draw half the power, it's that you don't need to provide as much power to cool them. There's a typical rule of thumb in datacenter planning …