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dunno7456on Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM

It will take Nvidia 10 years to release the firmware for PMU and then they will cancel it because it's "too old". Just like the they did with pascal, P520 and other perfectly working hardware that are barely usable to this day.

dunno7456on Radio Garden

https://directory.shoutcast.com/ is still kicking :)

EDIT: I meant whiping the llamas ass!

dunno7456on Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%

Wasn't the initial selling point of AWS to provide reliable and easy to use services using commodity hardware?

dunno7456on Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone

Suddenly everyone uses copilot and the numbers are looking good /s

dunno7456on Moral implications of being moderately successful computer scientist and a woman

> For example, my very existence as a moderately young, moderately successful computer scientist threatens some men’s sense of identity, thus making them uncomfortable and/or lash out.

I'm not a woman, but I faced this soooo many times in my career that now I believe that it's just insecure men feeling threatened by other people's knowledge or capabilities. Usually these people are hiding something and they are not as smart as perceived. Having someone in the room that can potentially unmask that makes them insecure.

You have to address the behavior the first time it occurs by establishing boundaries otherwise it keeps happening more and more.

And that is a leadership/management failure to address these behaviors. In all occasions the insecure men were so loud and obnoxious that management prefers not to deal with it and take the easy route by firing the target of the abuse, reinforcing the behavior more and more.

dunno7456on Reddit has updated its robots.txt to block all web crawlers

"to tell crawler to not crawl" which can be ignored AFAIK

dunno7456on Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files

There is also ghostwriter which is quite good

dunno7456on Nixing Technological Lock In

It's common for people to think 'usr' stands for 'user' instead of 'unix system resources'.

dunno7456on Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

Or some Newtonian like in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-txrCMvdms (9m47s)

dunno7456on Billion file filesystem

I like how clean this blog/website is.

Does anyone know if it is a custom engine/theme or not?

dunno7456on ZFS over iSCSI Storage in Proxmox

targetcli might be the correct word and iSER seems like RDMA for iSCSI

dunno7456on Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queries per second on MySQL

Oh, "painful" is to work under the sun. Installing a program in a computer is far away from painful.

dunno7456on Shopify Ruby on Rails distributed monolith runs 19M queries per second on MySQL

I had two similar experiences in the past years: I added some database indices, the application become super fast, the rest of the team starts acting weird, I get shown the door.

At this point I'm pretty sure anything IT relate became a bullshit job.

dunno7456on When CEOs Are Paid for Bad Performance (2005)

"only half" of 40 million.

dunno7456on Choose Postgres queue technology

dunno7456on Brand-new Linux release, which I'm calling the Debian Linux Release (1993)

Also, packages are tested in sid/unstable and migrates to testing which then becomes the new stable when it's ready.

And packages are tested across releases, enabling one to dist-upgrade to a new version of the system easily. I think it's piuparts that does this job of testing packages among themselves too.

dunno7456on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses

Both

dunno7456on Berlin Review: LAN Party

https://youtube.com/watch?v=vQ5MA685ApE

dunno7456on Cold restart whole system after total outage

s/capacitors/relay/

Sorry, couldn't hold myself :)

dunno7456on Ask HN: What are the best resources for learning networking?

https://lartc.org/howto/

dunno7456on /Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs

Application Error

dunno7456on I'm Done with Red Hat (Enterprise Linux)

RedHat used to have a good open mind approach with CentOS, but then they got acquired by IBM and started switching their efforts somehow.

dunno7456on Office Workers Don’t Hate the Office. They Hate the Commute

- Bathroom

dunno7456on Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?

Creating a series of connections very quickly is cheaper in MySQL and MariaDB than in PostgreSQL. Typically, a connection poller is used before PostgreSQL to support connection scalability.

I'm not sure if there has been a recent breakthrough that has changed that. I think that still applies today. Correct me if I'm wrong.

dunno7456on DevOps uses a capability model, not a maturity model

Same, and seeing companies puting devs in charge of interviewing ops people makes the game even worse.

dunno7456on Programming isn’t coding (2020)

Do they even know how to yaml without complaining?

dunno7456on A Response to Jacob Kaplan-Moss’s “Incompetent but Nice”

> Incompetent but nice is still, literally, incompetent. Incompetent people get dismissed.

Unless management is also an enabler/part of such incompetence.

dunno7456on GitHub Actions Incident 29.3

Gitea + Woodpecker CI works pretty nicely.

dunno7456on Ask HN: Which tech podcasts would you recommend to a friend?

Ruby Rogues

dunno7456on HSBC to Buy UK Arm of Silicon Valley Bank

Wasn't HSBC accused of money laundering for cartel back in 2012?