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Why would a farmer own a combine? Aren't they owned by specialized harvest outfits? I don't have any experience in the business but when I was a kid and we needed the hay cut and b…

Perhaps, but the impression is reinforced when the police organize themselves to break the law in an organized fashion. For example, consider the police of Oakland, California. Eve…

There should be some kind of cooling-off period between when these can hit the front page and when the comments begin, proportional to the length of the document. This one is 200 p…

I buy all of my laptops here and the UX seems adequate. https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sss?query=thinkpad&sort=...

Linux network maintainers have repeatedly rejected attempts by Eric Dumazet and others to expose delack_min and other parameters to userspace. This is the kernel tyranny to which I…

Yep, but it would be inadvisable to set it lower than the peer’s delayed ACK timeout, unless you want to just always resend every packet.

Those do not affect TCP state machine parameters like RTO(min), ATO, and TLP timeout. These are internal to the kernel and are either static, or can only be set systemwide. For exa…

This post groks QUIC. The most important thing about QUIC is it frees applications from the tyranny of the kernel TCP state machine. Today all TCP sockets (at least, on Linux) are …

Yeah, it is amazing. Maps only recently stopped working on my ancient BlackBerry.

This is backwards. Google rescued Deja’s archives which were going to be deleted and then expanded the archives back to 1981. Without Google’s interventions you’d all be left wonde…

A lot of these are pretty silly. 100% of Songza features were rolled into Google Music. Listing every phone they no longer market doesn’t make a lot of sense either. You might as w…

That’s not the reason. Vic Gundotra, the mastermind/moron behind Google+ would not tolerate any other Google properties with social features. Since you could share feeds and articl…

In the US you may exclude up to half a million dollars of gains from your taxable income if you owned and lived in a property for at least two years. Otherwise gains on the sale of…

Unions are definitely the primary driver. Construction unions in New York are using current contracts to pay for their pension liabilities. In other words, taxpayers today are payi…

It is pretty hard to burn 100000 acres of California without hitting a toxic waste cleanup site of some kind or other, unfortunately.

The upgrade instructions are firmly in the lolwut category. The database is just not available during the transition. I think they should focus on fixing their protocol such that m…

The numbers really are crazy wrong. My total comp as a new grad in SF tech industry was $170k, in 1998. A “senior software engineer” at Google, which is the median grade of enginee…

And VMWare is a fine product, but VMWare Cloud is kinda not.

Those engineers shop themselves around and maybe move offices. Google often destaffs launched, current products so this is not too weird of a situation for a Googler to be in. It’s…

Borg can’t be a public product. Look at the way people complain how hard it is to use EC2 then multiply by a large factor. No isolation, sudden death, zero local I/O resources. It’…

Google App Engine is the OG serverless cloud product. Ten years old.

How can it be worse than a leader from VMWare? Have you ever seen VMWare's cloud product? It literally has little pictures of pretend computers that you click the reset buttons of …

I guess I assumed all data at AWS was encrypted at rest. Disturbing if not. Compare: https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/default...

sizeof(double) is 1 if you're using Analog's compiler. You have to use --double-size-64 to get the bigger one.

DSPs are pretty good discriminators for supposed-portable code. On SHARC for example everything is 32-bits wide (except long double, which is 64). Chars are 32 bits. Bytes are 32 b…