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codingbeeron Sony's Nextorage Demos PCIe 5.0 SSD as It Enters SSD Market

NVMe is just an interface specification. An SSD is an SSD regardless of the interface used.

codingbeeron Stars in distant galaxies are typically more massive

Albert, the graduate student behind this work, was also in the news just a week ago with another cool discovery, see https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news22/danish-astrophysics-st...

Edit: and this from last year https://nbi.ku.dk/english/news/news21/danish-student-solves-...

codingbeeron Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

Whenever a topic about something that could potentially destroy humanity comes up (say, climate issues), there is always some comment that makes a reasonable argument of why things are not as bad as they seem.

This never happens when prions are the topic.

codingbeeron Writing Network Drivers in Rust [pdf]

DPDK also relies on this quirk if there is no IOMMU available. He does mention the IOMMU as future work, but in the context of security.

codingbeeron Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines

What you describe are common features available to all customers of Danish banks. Free of charge in any decent bank. You get the “Dankort” (den card) for free. It’s a debit card that’s universally supported in all shops with zero surcharge. It’s trivial and a common service to share accounts with multiple cards in your family.

codingbeeron Chinese Offer to Eat Denmark’s Oyster Problem

They are not from the Baltic. It's the North Sea. More precisely Kattegat, Skagerak and along the western shore.

codingbeeron Oracle’s Cloud Licensing Change

Vendor locked. Many companies have huge applications bound tightly to the Oracle database. Often the business logic is just stored procedures. That makes it incredibly difficult to migrate and developers will have a hard time convincing management that the cost of migration would be worth it.

codingbeeron Who's Profiting from $1.2T of Federal Student Loans?

If one could do that, it wouldn't be a bubble.

codingbeeron Turkey Shoots Down Russian Warplane Near Syrian Border

According to the radar image released by Turkey, the aircraft passed over a strip of Turkey airspace around 2km wide.

Apparently they gave the russian 10 warnings. That doesn't add up.

codingbeeron Rosetta Probe Discovers Organic Molecules on Comet

Correct, but perihelion might be too close for comfort.

codingbeeron Lwan: Experimental, scalable, high performance HTTP server

For more information on some of the C magic behind this well-written piece of software, check out the authors blog[1]. It should be pretty interesting for any systems programmer.

[1]: http://tia.mat.br/blog/html/index.html

codingbeeron CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

I can't comprehend how this got buried so fast in the mist of "patch, patch, patch".

codingbeeron Uber isn’t the problem; taxi regulations are

And who should pay for that lawsuit?

codingbeeron Stop using Nagios (so it can die peacefully)

Presentations like this always reminds me why "DevOps" is very different from system administration.

codingbeeron Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks

That would do it for me :)

edit: I actually think this is an interesting topic. I like the way one usually tries to find a theme that fits the actions the program takes. But it could just as well have been called 'deploy' with 'local', 'remote' and 'setup'. Most administrators would instantly know what is going to happen without having a dictionary lying around.

If you really want to make it dead serious rename 'host' to 'terminal' and 'user' to 'passenger'. And stuff like that.

codingbeeron Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks

I can't guess if you are trying to be sarcastic. But I would be. The DSL is over-the-top.