Is there a good reason (other than licensing and Linux as an alternative) I shouldn't use Windows Server 202X as a Desktop OS?
Readit NewsKab1r commented on Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account infosec.exchange/@wdorman... · Posted by u/tech234a
Kab1r commented on In S3 simplicity is table stakes allthingsdistributed.com/... · Posted by u/riv991
> S3 launched as the first public AWS service.
Didn't SQS launch publicly earlier than S3?
Kab1r commented on Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 backblaze.com/blog/backbl... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
I used to think these were interesting and used them to inform my next HDD purchase. I realized I only used them to pick a recently reliable brand, we're down to three, and the stats are mostly old models, so the main use is if you're buying a used drive from the same batch that Backblaze happens to have also used.
Buy two from different vendors and RAID or do regular off-site backups.
> RAID or do regular off-site backups.
RAID is not a backup! Do both.
Kab1r commented on AMD: Microcode Signature Verification Vulnerability github.com/google/securit... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Does anyone know if this is the same vulnerability that ASUS leaked in a beta BIOS?
Kab1r commented on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths bbc.com/news/articles/c0j... · Posted by u/vinni2
It’s perverse and demonic.
Many people have the worst days or weeks or years that they look back on and are grateful for the life they live later, physically disabled, paralyzed, elderly, etc. During the darkest of times is when we have to care for each other, not offer a knife so to speak. Even when many during these times would’ve wanted to die and suffer greatly. It’s part of life. This is absolutely sick in a civilized society, but leave it to that murderous thug Trudeau.
Being grateful for a miserable life marginally improving does not negate otherwise unavoidable prolonged suffering.
Kab1r commented on Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks brooksblog.bearblog.dev/r... · Posted by u/lukastyrychtr
It’s getting fixed soon - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/124085
If the change is targeting a rust edition it's being treated as a feature/improvement not as a compiler bug. If there isn't a spec that explicitly says that this is expected behavior (and as far as I know there isn't a concrete spec for the rust language) it should be instead treated as a backwards compatible bug fix
Kab1r commented on Rust's Sneaky Deadlock With `if let` Blocks brooksblog.bearblog.dev/r... · Posted by u/lukastyrychtr
I would call this a compiler bug
It seems all cutting edge datacenters like x.ai Colossus are using Nvidia networking. Now Google is upgrading to Nvidia networking, too.
Since Nvidia owns most of the Gpgpu products, they have top notch networking and interconnect, I wonder if they don't have a plan to own all datacenter hardware in the future. Maybe they plan to also release CPUs, motherboards, storage and whatever else is needed.
Grace Hopper already includes Arm based CPUs (and reference motherboards)
Having worked in Rust I love the pattern matching proposal. Having dabbled in Swift I like the single argument function part (though keep the brackets, please)
Much of the rest I could take or leave… but then is that just because I’m not familiar with them? Stuff like the pipe operator makes sense to me but it reminds me of .reduce(): there are a few legitimate uses of it but the vast majority will be entirely-too-smart—for-its-own-good show off coding.
I fell in love with pattern matching the first time I used Haskell. Having the feature is great, but I really don't like the syntax used here.
Am I the only one that really dislikes the syntax choices here?