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_joel··on Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 so far
Polson - NoSlop

it was right in front of you :)

_joel··on Claude partial outage
Hey, it's 99.9 if you look at it upside down.
_joel··on ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
How many rollingupdate pods does it take to change a lightbulb?
_joel··on Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests
Oh nice, not aware of this. We're opentofu on GCP, so could be a good addition to ci
_joel··on Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
Ironically back around 2007 we had to use RHEL to get DRBD setup for the Redhat HA / Pacemaker things
_joel··on Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
Quite possibly! It was always a pleasure to see the ATLAS jobs running in a process list on an OpenStack hypervisor. We supported Lancaster University for compute (amongst others!).
_joel··on Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
Yea, long time user of both here (I even supported ATLAS workloads running on our public UK cloud). Debian long-term is the right choice
_joel··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
That's by design.
_joel··on Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
Well they could have used Debian from the start. I get why, but it's such a strange argument, the way it's posited.
_joel··on Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences
A quick reference shouldn't require me to have to check the quick reference for hallucinations.
_joel··on Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips
Maybe originally, I'm sure their larger market share is now the embedded market. The whole compute module thing.
_joel··on The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
The salt caves were only designed to be used a few times and to be used for maximum draw down, weren't they?
_joel··on Salesforce Global Outage
Been many an MIR that I've seen where after initial assessment, the next log entry was "service restart attempted"
_joel··on EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe
The birds remained part of the schengen zone and have freedom of movement :)
_joel··on Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
I had to look that up, dear god
_joel··on Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B
Didn't know Uri Geller was an investor now.
_joel··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
Site down, maybe they need port it to use Rust...

They use wordpress

_joel··on Samsung Debuts zHBM Prototype, Stacking Memory Directly on AI Accelerators
How many contraction/expansion cylces do you normally see in a DC setting, generally? Is there a measure for that to baseline against?
_joel··on Hitachi launches CO2 heat pump water heaters with solar-friendly tariff controls
I've seen 'tariff' used a fair amount here in the UK on price lists (taxi etc)
_joel··on Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Ironic that site looks like it's AI generated too
_joel··on ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol
a dataset of 10 is merely anecdata
_joel··on ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol
The author keeps saying read the README, they posted the website, so expect comments about the awful AI website.
_joel··on ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol
Over GRE tunnels
_joel··on ESP32 Bit Pirate Hardware Hacking Kit with Web Tools That Speaks Every Protocol
Ok, stats to back up all 100% using AI please
_joel··on Open Source Durable Objects for Postgres
Why chose the Solid- line of naming, considering that's the rails provided naming. I makes it look like this is official.
_joel··on South Park creators rename show 'South America'
I think historians might have something to say about Nero just playing the fiddle. I mean, he literally ordered the murder of his own mother.
_joel··on Rails 8 Guide: Features, Requirements and Upgrade Path (2026)
I think if anything it's got easier if you stick to the rails-provided tooling (Solid line).
_joel··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
Reduces latency when the cached content is served from a local cdn pop, allows you to absorb some level of DDoS, can absorb traffic spikes more easily so infra can be more static, reduces load on server if assets are dynamically generated on the backend but can are cacheable, some senses can lead to simpler deployment as you serve assets from an object bucket, so no need to deal with keeping that data in your cluster, but that's minor. There are downsides too, cost, over caching, privacy/security perhaps too.
_joel··on Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads
Proxmox been great for decades. I used it back in 2011 when I was sysadmin for https://sahanafoundation.org/eden/ - we had multiple live instance running for the site, wiki, translation, GIS. Just when kvm was getting support too (not openvz) so it was nice an snappy running on some donated poweredge 2950's (thanks zen.co.uk!)

Deployed for Haiti, Chengdu etc. All ran perfectly.

_joel··on VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent
"# Kroger, they put plastic, in your steaks" Ordinary Sausage
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