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I'm on an engagement with a client that requires Windows to access their resources. Issues I've had so far:

- The trackpad driver doesn't support scrolling w/ Win 10 (Dell E7470). I know how to fix the issue but I don't have the correct user permissions.

- The buggy corporate printer helper has caused the laptop to shutdown due to overheating twice so far in two weeks. I'd disable it since I will never print from this thing, but...

- I've been trying to figure out how to install software I need without local admin privileges and now I have a Git installation that takes ~30 seconds to update the shell after each command. I tried everything in StackOverflow...

In all fairness, picking a laptop to use with Linux takes a little homework, but I've had no issues with Thinkpads or my current XPS 13 running Fedora.

Facebook will delete itself.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Facebook interest has been steadily trending down for years.

Recruiters are not your buddy. Just like the salesperson at the car dealership is not your buddy.

I don't think that Red Hat announces release dates for RHEL. At least I don't remember one in the last 10 years.

Remember that time S3 went down and the only updates were on Twitter because the status page was hosted on S3?

Sendmail is deprecated. That was the first Unix service I ever learned to configure. This is kind of the same feeling I got when I heard music I grew up listening to on the classic rock station.

You could run pgbouncer in a fargate container in ECS. Still serverless technically?

This is politics in general. The power structure incentivises liars and crooks. It shouldn't be a surprise.

Perl was considered as the defacto scripting language in Windows until they settled on PowerShell.

Iirc there are some free servers you can use provided by Google and/or twilio.

Edit: STUN is free, Turn is not. Been a while since I worked with those.

Well there's iron.io (which just got bought by Oracle) and there are several FaaS projects for Kubernetes such as: OpenFaaS and Kubeless.

Edit: OpenFaaS can run on Nomad as well apparently: https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/functions-as-a-service-with-n...

Blockchain is perfect for its original use case, a distributed trustless database. The tradeoffs don't make any sense for a trusted system, i.e. replacing SWIFT or storing titles to property.

Bezos is an investor in General Fusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion

Maybe you could count number of Ph.D contributors? I bet Bitcoin has as many or more than every other project combined.

The major problem with very large containers is that it can cause failed jobs in container schedulers due to the holdoff timer expiring before the container is even downloaded. I've only seen this with Marathon so far but I've not yet tried to launch a 2GB container in k8s.

Bitcoin transactions are confirming for less than 5 Sat/b since the spamming stopped.

http://core.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h

What you describe is not unlike the coin debasement that occurred during the latter period of the Roman Empire. However, unlike coin debasement, forking a cryptocurrency imposes no requirement to actually use it.

It's broadcasting something that sounds like ... humpback whales?

There should be competition but no one is willing to step up to the plate. That's the real issue.

I'm curious where this leaves things like the ZFS appliances? They aren't going to use openzfs on oel are they?

https://www.seasteading.org/

That's the goal of the Seasteading institute.

Serious question, are Beowulf clusters still a thing?

Not buying, replacing, installing, or disposing of three washers: Priceless.

It looks like digital TV dishes meant for marine purposes would work.

Does anyone know if there is an auto following dish that would be somewhat portable? I'm thinking of a solar powered Bitcoin station that would be mobile.

Very much appreciate what you give away for free!

Holy crap, Brendan Gregg's site went down. Proof he is human I guess?

Cache size and clock speed. In Ultrabooks i[3,5,7] are all 2 core 4 thread differentiated by cache and clock.

You can get 4 core CPUs in larger laptops where the i5 is 4 core, 4 thread and i7 4/8. Similar to desktops.

At what point would people start using Bitcoin as currency? When it hits 5k, 10k, 100k, 1m?

1. Start with Heroku or similar 2. Get customers 3. Profit??? 4. Hire people to help migrate to Kubernetes or similar

Stick with what you are good at and pay for everything else.