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I keep a Starlink subscription as my WAN2, after someone started a fire in a nearby fiber cabinet and managed to knock out Frontier and Spectrum at once. It’s worth it to me as a b…

Can confirm, we have a team dedicated to the care and feeding of p4.

Yamaha also made top-end archery gear for quite a while. Infamous for metric threads when nearly everything else used imperial.

Same; typing this on the same Drop CTRL keyboard I got when it launched.

My first job out of university was at IBM wrangling a prototype some research PHDs had written into a shipping product, and.. yeah, this tracks.

12 year old me watched this movie and immediately went out and bought colored floppy disks so I too could hack the planet. Simpler times.

Only time I have ever been shouted at by personnel in an airport was at JFK.

Us video game folks are big fans of LTO, PGO, FDO, etc.

Related, to this day my Frontier connection black holes all my traffic a couple of hops inside their network if I do sustained line-rate UDP (WireGuard, for example) for more then …

As a games coder I was glad when the xbox 360 / ps3 era came to an end; getting big endian clients talking to little endian servers was an endless source of bugs.

I had a watercooled 5950x up and die on me recently after 3 years. AMD RMA’d it without argument.

Tangentially, I've faced some interesting challenges getting a multi-gigabit Wireguard VPN operating through my 2Gb Frontier connection. My UDM Pro seems to top out around ~800mbit…

Citibank did this to me. Venmo'd my architect for some work he was going on my house, kablammo, account closed, no notice. Was just lucky it was an account set up specifically for …

Hi Rob! Miss the DW days. Hope you’re well.

I've had many an adventure with secure gateways on varied xenon Call of Duty games. Nice to meet the person behind them!

“The Farthest” by PBS has interviews with the people who built the probes, it’s a pretty great watch https://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/

“Physics package” is usually a phrase meaning the explodey bits of a nuclear weapon, so that lines up.

I have to be careful what I say here, given I work for ATVI, I'm former Demonware myself. I do feel safe in saying though that the login queues are _definitely_ not hype. They're d…

They handle online services for pretty much any Activision-published game, with carve-outs for Blizzard and King - they still do most of their own backend stuff themselves, with so…

I’m not sure your information wrt Call Of Duty is correct. To my knowledge, the client timestamps their inputs and sends them to the server; the server will then rewind the state o…

When I worked at IBM circa ~2006 you'd get a written warning called a clean desk violation if you left your workstation unlocked. I wrote a little daemon that'd l2ping my Nokia bri…

Tesla owner here ( 2019 Model 3P, including paying for the "full self driving" ). I wish Tesla hadn't gone whole-hog after full self driving, and had just concentrated on making a …

I've seen this first hand, across datacenter providers. The most common one is some sort of power supply failure that causes the CPUs to under-volt and throttle; the machine won't …

Been at current company for 15 years, from software engineer through to principal engineer. I don't see myself leaving. The work is for the most part interesting, the money is pret…

Yeah, any time I'm engaged in deep thought, including coding, I just... look angry. I've had to explain to people at work that that's just how my face is when I'm working.