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I don't think that's necessarily true. You can be cashflow positive and still benefit from having a larger pool of cash to throw around, particularly in any situation involving har…

Many people who have ever had to deal with the long tail of insanities in physical hosting, like "the ceiling burst and dumped water on a rack", "the RAID controller's capacitors e…

I would imagine that it's plug and play until you start adding nonsense like customizable scripting on buttons or more than a certain button count as is standard on specialized gam…

I think the point is less to add features and more to lower the barrier to entry for people making mice, since, as you said, in large part keyboards and mice are appliances to the …

Because at scale, that doesn't work, I think, even money no object, because it's a task that requires a lot of domain knowledge, but also is monotonous and offers little in the way…

I have to imagine the answer was either "dedicated MSCC servers and EEE" depending on your level of cynicism or "it was just a tech demo that escaped".

The government is in a bad position to be that kind of paternal - any sort of large machine is the worst possible judge of the difference between "shit happened" and "I am systemic…

"The court said these are X" and "it is a fact that these are X" are distinct claims, and a lot of journalistic manners is pretending you never state as fact things that could be d…

I had a lot of use for this for a few years, there was a window where I had my first laptop's hard drive die a horrible death, but I could not afford a replacement. Enter Knoppix a…

My only contention is the word "quickly". Employers past a certain scale are not really using degrees as anything other than a low pass filter, and the people judging how qualified…

I'm not convinced this is the correct move, if only because anything short of draconian control is going to be lossy, and draconian control has catastrophic failure modes for peopl…

Last I looked at their releases of code, they had branched from ZFS before it became OpenZFS, and had a lot of proprietary extensions beyond just the reshaping (from memory, they i…

AMD, historically, has taken a "we don't test enterprise features on consumer SKUs, but we don't fuse them off if you really want to qualify it or let them try it" approach to e.g.…

Apparently the recollection of the fix was that they deferred actually freeing memory for a while if they detected it was SimCity running. [1] [1] - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/…

They did, apparently, at one point pay someone to build that glue, and then threw it out and wouldn't let the author release it so he's been reimplementing it out of...spite? Burni…

Sure, I'm not suggesting that they're a good idea to use blindly at this point - I think most people are building on filesystem-based setups so most of the polish is going there. B…

Various ways. Drives sometimes are worse at their internal error detection than you might hope, and might return incorrect bytes. You might have faulty hardware flipping bits betwe…

The reason to use zvols is twofold, AFAIR: - serving a bunch of storage as a blob is a common use case for e.g. iSCSI exporting, and so, if you want to be able to zfs snapshot/send…

I think the problem isn't that competition needs to be an order of magnitude better, it's that if places have exclusivity agreements, it doesn't matter how much better you are. The…

In this particular case, I think the point is less 1 or 2 but more point 3 (3) the contrapositive, where you continued the flight, it really was someone stupid enough to name the b…

Americans think they're "free and democratic" in the same way that aristocrats think they're better than everyone - it's been inculcated in them since birth, by every aspect of the…

My intuition is that what makes them well suited is that the transformations on the input desired are well-defined and frequent tasks - e.g. any other software that migrated from, …

Because most tasks aren't "refresh this code from 10-20 years ago"? If you needed an old piece of code at $WORK, you probably already paid the tax of refreshing it or replacing it.…

There exist a great many people in the world who think that the only important thing is having a good enough idea, and everything else is almost valueless by comparison. You've pro…

How have you found syncthing's scaling? I've been trying to use it for a massive tree of ~250k files across ~500k folders, which only needs to live on one device at a time and sync…