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IphtashuFitz

@ IphtashuFitz @lemmy.world

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  • TIL that all of the world's 500 most powerful supercomputers run on Linux.

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  • I managed a research cluster for a university for about 10 years. The hardware was largely commodity and not specialized. Unless you call nVidia GPU’s or InfiniBand “specialized”. Linux was the obvious choice because many cluster-aware applications, both open source and commercial, run on Linux.

    We even went so far as to integrate the cluster with CERN’s ATLAS grid to share data and compute power for analyzing ATLAS data from the LHC. Virtually all the other grid clusters ran Linux, so that made it much easier to add our cluster to its distributed environment.

  • Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

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  • How do you decide which open source projects are worthy of taxpayer money, and how much does a given project get?

    I have a couple projects I’ve put up in GitHub as open source. Would they qualify? Or are you just talking about well known open source projects like Linux?

  • Cloudfare outage post mortem

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  • You would do well to go read up on the 1990 AT&T long distance network collapse. A single line of changed code, rolled out months earlier, ultimately triggered what you might call these days a DDoS attack that took down all 114 long distance telephone switches in their global network. Over 50 million long distance calls were blocked in the 9 hours it took them to identify the cause and roll out a fix.

    AT&T prided itself on the thoroughness of their testing & rollout strategy for any code changes. The bug that took them down was both timing-dependent and load-dependent, making it extremely difficult to test for, and required fairly specific real world conditions to trigger. That’s how it went unnoticed for months before it triggered.

  • Senate sends bill to release Epstein files to Trump

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  • Hopefully somebody leaks the full unredacted version.

    Or better yet they do the stupid PDF editing where a simple copy/paste retrieves the full text.

  • Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

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  • I’m guessing it was actually something internal. If you look at their status page you’ll notice the outage occurred smack in between some sort of maintenance work they seem to be rolling out to most/all of their edge locations. As soon as they resolved the outage they continued with the regional maintenance updates.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces bill to end H-1B visas days after Trump backs the program: ‘Americans first’

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  • Those sound like the sorts of issues that could easily be addressed by well thought out legislation. I have a nephew that recently got a digital nomad visa so that he could work for his US employer while traveling around Europe. Some of those countries require you to prove you have health insurance or buy insurance from their national health network. Those countries also regulations regarding taxes, etc. that the visa holder is responsible for.

    So Canada should pass laws to close the loopholes you describe. They would need regulations similar to digital nomads that apply to foreign exchange students etc.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces bill to end H-1B visas days after Trump backs the program: ‘Americans first’

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  • My current employer is headquartered in Austin, TX. We have software engineers, QA engineers, and other technical people working remotely all over the world, including Germany, Ukraine, India, Australia, and elsewhere.

  • United argues 'window seat' does not mean 'seat with a window'

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  • Change the naming from “window seat” to “bulkhead seat”…

  • You're given $20,000 USD (or the equivalent in your local currency) to spend, but anything still left by the end of the day you lose for good. What are you spending it on?

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  • 20k is a drop in a bucket when it comes to boats. The maintenance, etc. is a significant ongoing expense. And if it’s the kind of boat you keep at a marina and not on a trailer in your driveway then that’s another huge expense. There’s a reason people call boats a hole in the water that you throw money into…

  • What old movies hold up because of a lack of special effects or because clever use of effects?

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  • The severed head rolling into view in the hole of the sunken boat still freaks me out. I think it was filmed in the back yard pool of one of the producers.

  • Trump threatens to cut funds if ‘communist’ Mamdani wins mayoral election

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  • But you as an individual won’t be suing the IRS so escrow makes no sense in this case.

  • Trump readies US troops for ground invasion in Mexico to go after cartels

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  • Not to worry. That perfect impenetrable wall that Trump had built during his first term will protect us all from the Mexican army.

  • Trump threatens to cut funds if ‘communist’ Mamdani wins mayoral election

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  • How would the individual be protected from the IRS if they are penalized by the IRS for non-payment of taxes. Just because you sent a check to some state entity doesn’t mean those federal taxes have been paid, and that state entity likely wouldn’t have the authority or resources to protect you from the IRS.

    It would be kind of like sending your mortgage payment to your lawyer when you have a dispute with your bank. You still owe that money to the bank, and they can take action for non-payment.

  • Copyright-safe Halloween costumes

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  • New costume idea: Racist zombie hulking maniac

  • The NEO robot. I only can see this as a bad idea. What do you think?

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  • The very first thought when I saw the photo of it:

    I am Groot!

  • Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter

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  • You too will soon be able to buy an abandoned datacenter for just $1,000.

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  • Texas sues Tylenol company over autism claims

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  • I hope somebody documents every penny Texas wastes on this frivolous crap.

  • Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

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  • Yeah I remember that scene in the Nat Geo one. Hearing that sound was truly surreal. I think it was Rush’s wife working the radio. I wonder how long it took her and the others to truly comprehend what it was they had just heard…