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The worst was editing an existing service for the distribution. With systemd you just need an override file, without, you have to patch the file and review it each time it is upgraded to check the differences.

I totally missed the EOL announcement. Not that I use it, but it is one on the few last big proprietary Unix. I thought their will always be enough paying customers to maintain it (even if sold to third party).

From the link:

At that point Windows XP 32-bit was the most commonly used variant, and while you could run XP 64-bit (and IBM did have native support for it on the IntelliStation 9228), XP 64-bit had so many problems so most users were stuck with 3.9 GB of RAM. Therefore if we were to assume that UNIX and said UNIX hardware offered way more memory, it starts to make sense

Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency.

So they depend on GCP for (some of) their services

For audio, I think that would be a relatively easy lift with technologies like Dante. However, in most TV stations, you're going to need to literally plug upwards of 100 HDSDI video cables into a piece of hardware

I don't know the TV stations requirements, but you can maybe have 10 interconnected servers that manage 10 HDSDI flux each (and can send them on another if required for processing) ?

DSL tech is far simpler and it's always a combo unit so I could see a case where you would be allowed to bring your own DSL modem.

Not really, when you want to increase the bandwith, e.g. with vectoring[1], you need to have all neighbor modems to participate, which prevent free modem choice for the users.

But it just doesn't work like that for DOCSIS or GPON where the cable modems or "ONT" router combo units these days do much more than just media conversion - SIP, PPPoE, IGMP, etc.

In Belgium, the ONT is just media conversion these days, SIP is done on the provider box, so you can have your own GPON SFP.

so it's just not possible for the ISP to guarantee support for any random modem or ONT.

The ISP doesn't have to guarantee support to let you use your own hardware. It just have to give you the specs to use it and let you plug the ISP box if you can't configure vlan of dhcpv6 client.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSL#VDSL2_vectoring

It's 24 TOPS per CPU, so 192 TOPS for a full mainframe. And you can add Spyre accelerator which have 32 AI unit per card (so 32x24 TOPS) and up to 48 cards per mainframe (so 48x32x24 = 36 864 TOPS). But yeah, you could buy a lot of H100 for the price of a mainframe with such a configuration.

It depends what you do with the estimate. If you have to deliver a product/a functionality where X people depends on it to continue. It's best, in the general case, to overestimate a little to not have the X people preparing to work when they can't. If you estimate to schedule the task for the week, it can be more useful to be more aggressive since missing the deadline is less impactful.

For example, there are a lot of task that I depends on which can be completed in one week or three month. I don't care which it will be, I just want to know when it will be done so I can schedule other tasks before.