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qes··on The US military is using online gaming to recruit teens
"Normal" these days is grossly unhealthy.
qes··on Fixing Mass Effect black blobs on modern AMD CPUs
> saving $200 on a PC build is just not something that justifies (to me) dealing with kind of issue

This kind of issue.. you mean a visual glitch with limited scope and available work arounds in a more than decade old video game?

Yes, what a serious issue. /s

qes··on DDR5 Memory Specification Released
> You can avoid that problem by not using node and npm.

Not realistically; that would just introduce more problems than what I would avoid.

I have better things to do with my time than try to avoid npm.

JS projects are only a small fraction of my work anyway.

qes··on DDR5 Memory Specification Released
> How is Intel Optane going to compete?

You should see how fast Optane will copy a project folder full of node_modules, bin, etc.. Blows the doors off an Evo Plus.

That said, probably not worth the premium for the vast majority of uses.

qes··on Building a $5k ML Workstation with Tiitan RTX and Ryzen ThreadRipper [video]
> Apart from having more thermal mass (takes longer to heat up/cool down)

_Much_ more thermal mass, and takes much longer to heat up and in most set ups will never reach the same temperature as the heatpipes in an air cooler - the waterblock will be cooler at idle and under load. I would think that larger temp delta allows heat to conduct away from the cpu package more quickly.

My 3960X sees 125MHz higher all core full load, almost 100MHz all core average work load, and 50MHz higher single core boost clocks under a custom loop (280+140 rads & Optimus TR3+ block) than under a Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3.

qes··on Bitcoin is more like ham radio than the early internet
> In theory you should be able to run all of Bitcoin on a bunch of raspi's

If suddenly the computing power available in the world was reduced to a bunch of raspi's, the Bitcoin network would be dead because it would take an inordinately long amount of time to reach the next difficulty adjustment. Only a hard fork could survive.

qes··on Dark Web Price Index 2020
AlphaBay was like 10x the size of the original Silk Road.

DNM's haven't been the same since the busts of AlphaBay and Hansa in close succession.

qes··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
> I Know What You Download on BitTorrent

No, they don't. They don't know anything I've torrented.

I've been using the same _private_ tracker for about a decade. 10 TB downloaded.

qes··on .NET Core: Still a Microsoft platform thing
> I feel relatively similar about Visual Studio. It's pretty clear that it's a 2nd class citizen on Mac due to being build on top of Mono.

"Visual Studio" for Mac is Xamarin Studio, not Visual Studio.

The naming suggests they are the same, or at least equivalent, software, but that is not the case. They are completely different code bases.

Visual Studio has over 20 years of Windows legacy. There is no Visual Studio for Mac nor will there be any time soon.

Visual Studio Code on the other hand, being Electron-based, does have a consistent cross-platform experience.

> the three main cloud providers basically vendor-lock you

There's a wide range of lock-in you can build yourself into, or not. Services and features between Azure and AWS have a large intersection. Automation is where you typically run into the most vendor-specific stuff, as you alluded to - VMs, RDBMS, Redis, blob storage, media services, etc. are easy to adapt over multiple providers.

qes··on The Wrong Abstraction (2016)
> you should never abstract away code before you see the third duplication" has little to do with the article, and I'm also really not sure it's good advice

Absolutes like that are rarely good advice.

qes··on New Relic CEO scolds employees in internal memo
> you can observe the organizational dysfunction ooze out the UI at all corners

Really? Because I've always found New Relic's UI to be far and away the most useful out of the half dozen or so APM's I'm often re-evaluating.

Maybe Infrastructure & Browser or what have you are not as good (I use Infra & Insights and have some complaints about them), but their APM imo has always really nailed it with presenting the pertinent info.

qes··on Software reuse is more like an organ transplant than snapping Lego blocks (2011)
> There was a rich ecosystem of third-party controls.

So does HTML/CSS/JS, and they'll also often be adapted to the various popular front end frameworks of the day - Angular, React, Vue currently.

I also find it easier to customize and compose 3rd party UI components on the web than I did back in the 90's with VB, Delphi, MFC, COM, etc.

qes··on Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for future use cases?
> The API upgrade and schema change were happening at the same time

Atomically? What if your DDL times out?

What you describe is, in my experience, extremely standard process for rolling out breaking changes (you do of course remove the switch and old version support after everything is rolled out).

qes··on Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for future use cases?
> You simply cannot know how your code will have to change

Nonsense.

Of course you can make reasoned predictions about how your software will change or not in the future.

Some will be wrong, but if you have any sense many will be right enough to have been worthwhile to address up front, and the balance will be clearly positive.

qes··on What happens when you update your DNS
> In particular, one your ISPs/their ISP's DNS servers may be caching a record for longer than it's supposed to and will return incorrect and expired data.

It's disturbing how many clients we'll see hitting an old IP address for 30 days after a change.

qes··on TSMC officially begins 5 nm production
5% increase per gen for most of the past decade vs. 50% increase per gen when clock speeds were increasing in lock step along with transistor count, but sure.

I've got a 13 year old laptop that runs today's OS's and development software a little slow but ultimately just fine, and if it weren't for a low limit on installed RAM it would be more than "ultimately" just fine.

That would've been absolutely laughable even 10 years ago, much less 20. You'd be lucky to be able to run a then-current OS on 2-3 year old hardware in the 90's through early 2000's.

qes··on We bought Walmart’s $140 laptop so you wouldn’t have to
> The laptop frequently took as long as 12 seconds just to LAUNCH Firefox

Apparently, that needs emphasis.

qes··on FBI used Etsy, LinkedIn to make arrest in torching of Philadelphia police cars
It isn't necessary to "cross state lines" to be charged with a federal crime.
qes··on Cloudflare TV
> Are youtube ads really unskippable

No. I never see ads on Youtube on my own devices, and that barely requires any effort.

qes··on ACLU sues Minnesota for police violence against the press
> why are we seeing lines of cops firing tear gas at peaceful protests

You mean marching down neighborhood streets and firing unprovoked at people on their own porches while yelling, "Light 'em up."

qes··on Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
> which costs 400 [not 400 thousand] [dollars] per hour

No, it's $400,000 per hour.

0.009 BTC/PH/day to buy from NiceHash (https://www.nicehash.com/algorithm/sha256)

100,000 PH/day total hashrate of BTC network (https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate)

That's 450 BTC/day to buy 50% of the hash rate (as if you even could, that in itself is a ridiculous notion - NiceHash says they have only 300 PH).

Or 18.75 BTC/hour. Or $185,000/hour.

Of course, you're not going to buy 50% of the network's currently running hash power. You'd likely need closer to 100% of the network's current hash power to gain 51%. So, $400,000/hr.

I mean really, does it pass any sort of common sense test that you could 51% the bitcoin network for $400 per hour?

qes··on Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
Correction (where are you folks learning math? $400/hour, do you even have common sense?):

0.009 BTC/PH/day to buy from NiceHash (https://www.nicehash.com/algorithm/sha256)

100,000 PH/day total hashrate of BTC network (https://www.blockchain.com/charts/hash-rate)

That's 450 BTC/day to buy 50% of the hash rate (as if you even could, that in itself is a ridiculous notion - NiceHash says they have only 300 PH).

Or 18.75 BTC/hour. Or $185,000/hour.

Of course, you're not going to buy 50% of the network's currently running hash power. You'd likely need closer to 100% of the network's current hash power to gain 51%.

qes··on Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
It's almost like if it were true that if it only cost $400/hr to 51% attack the BTC chain, we would actually see it happening much more often.
qes··on Bitcoin Mining’s Three Body Problem
A single Bitcoin miner runs at 1500w on its only setting and sounds like a small aircraft preparing for takeoff.
qes··on SQLite 3.32
There's no reasonable way to share a SQLite database between processes on separate machines or VMs.. What website doesn't use at least 2 instances for HA?

How do you make sure you don't lose data in a SQLite DB?

qes··on Stack Overflow reduces global workforce by approximately 15%
> How did it get here from the straight-talking, community-orientated feel it used to have

The same way as every other community on the Internet that got popular.

qes··on A one-line package broke `npm create-react-app`
> This is a good example of how terrible messy JavaScript library creation is.

Meanwhile over in .Net-land, after 15+ years of smooth sailing (5+ if you only count from the introduction of NuGet), the transition from full framework to .Net Core has made a multi-year long migraine out of packaging and managing dependencies.

I ran into multiple scenarios where even Microsoft-authored BCL packages were broken and needed updates to resolve only packaging issues. It's a lot better now than during v1.x days, but I still have hacks in my builds to work around some still broken referencing bits.

qes··on Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’
I'm the CTO of a "lifestyle" business, though we don't really call ourselves that. Salaries here are excellent for our area (MN). Time-off is better than average, and we have free worldwide flights for vacations as a perk. Highly flexible work hours and location - we have some FTE's 100% remote, living in other states; I'm 90% remote. No overtime culture, no death marches. Maybe every 2-3 years we have a couple weeks of a good crunch but it's with buy-in from everyone doing the crunch.

We're lucky to have a customer base that spans many industries. We've lost some chunks of income.. chains of malls closing, restaurants, lobbies, DMV offices, customers getting live sports info.. but it's all temporary and we're well in the black. Instead of worrying if we'll make it we're looking for opportunities and how we can best take advantage of our strong position.

qes··on How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin
About 40 BTC would be in the neighborhood of $300k these days, as well.
qes··on I’m Bill Gates. AMA about Covid-19
Isn't Elon Musk going to deliver 250K masks, like, tomorrow?
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