My advice is to search for the stuff you want on eBay, then filter results for sellers near you, identify some interesting sellers and try to visit their facility in person. If you buy through eBay, then a less awkward tactic is to choose "Local Pickup" instead of a delivery service. When you're at the facility, ask if you can take a look around or if they know of other sellers for used server equipment.
Readit Newsevanjrowley commented on Ask HN: Best Marketplaces for Used Servers? · Posted by u/bloudermilk
evanjrowley commented on Vibe Debugging: Enterprises' Up and Coming Nightmare marketsaintefficient.subs... · Posted by u/someoneloser
Up until now I considered the enterprise nightmare of vibe debugging to be a data/governance problem involving something like:
Dev: enables verbose/debug logging
App: encounters error, creating big log file
Dev: uploads entire logfile, containing secrets, to 3rd party LLM and asks "read this log and identify the problem"
meanwhile...
LLM: leaks prompt, logs, and secrets to hackers
LLM: uses prompt for training data, then provides secrets as responses to other users
evanjrowley commented on In the long run, LLMs make us dumber desunit.com/blog/in-the-l... · Posted by u/speckx
Impressive research but I can't help feeling like it's fundamentally flawed. The analysis considered "essay ownership" a property of LLM, Search, and Brain-Only participants, but what would have been more valuable is flipping all of the graphs based on percieved ownership levels. On average, less LLM users felt a sense of ownership, and this should not surprise anyone. The researchers lumped together people who let LLMs do all of the writing vs using LLMs constructive ways. What would have been more interesting is studying the LLM users who maintained a sense of owership, because then we could learn more way to use LLMs that potentially make us smarter.
I also feel like there's more to be said about LLMs fostering the ability to ask questions better than you might if you primarily used search. If the objective was to write, for example, about an esoteric organic chemistry topic, and a "No Brain" group of non-experts was only allowed to formulate a response by asking real-life experts as much as they can about the esoteric topic, then would users more experienced with LLMs come out ahead on the essay score? Understanding how to leverage a tight communication loop most effectively is a skill that the non-LLM groups in this study should be evaluated on.
Or engineers are little bit full of themselves and know better how user should experience the product. If user is "holding the product wrong" it is a problem of a user and not a problem of stupid design, created by a person who knows in which order these buttons should be pressed. People around Desktop Linux could write a complete book about dismissing user's complaints.
The moment you have stubborn engineer who knows better than PM and user, it is really difficult to get anywhere. However if you will put such engineer into line of fire from a users that's suddenly not engineer's friendly PM trying to tell the engineer that this is wrong, these are frustrated people who would like to skin engineer alive as a punishment for using his "awesome" creations! That induces fear, but absolutely also crushes his ego, because somebody is berating product of engineer's genius like it would be a retarded hamster.
From my perspective, it is not about showing that PM is an idiot, it is about humbling your engineers. Their ego will grow again and this exercise will need to be repeated.
>somebody is berating product of engineer's genius like it would be a retarded hamster
Where can I find this hamster and is it available for adoption?
evanjrowley commented on Windows 11 Latest Security Update Is Causing SSD Failures wccftech.com/windows-11-l... · Posted by u/campuscodi
A follow-up story about Phison investigating the issue in SSD controllers has also been published: https://wccftech.com/phison-acknowledges-ssd-failures-on-win...
One of my family members has a Beelink SER8 that stopped successfully booting Windows 11 Pro after the August 2025 update. A Windows pre-boot screen shows saying there was a problem, but none of the troubleshooting and rescue options work to get it booting again. The only option left is to reinstall Windows. It seems like an SSD failure, just like how these articles are reporting.
If their cost cutting measures include releasing this with a FHD/1080p screen, I would support that.
I'm looking for a fanless laptop with a FHD display that can be easily mirrored to cheap XR/VR glasses.
Sodium batteries are about to enter the market at the fraction of the cost of current tech.
Recently I became aware of "heat batteries" that might also be useful for these applications. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/24/1082217/heat-bat...
By leaving my finger on the screen, I accidentally triggered an easter egg of two "cannons" shooting squares. Did anyone else notice it?
I also saw it, and it happened on a non-touch computer screen.
This reminds me of an article from approximately a decade ago about how enterprise networking gear could be less expensive if the designs leveraged more RAM instead of L1/2 cache. Apparently Cisco IOS and it's state predominantly existed in fast but costly CPU cache. The latency savings of having everything in the CPU cache was not worth it, according to the author.
All that being said, I'm really not qualified to speak in detail about the underlying implementation. Networking is not my background. Also, a lot of this stuff is probably changed since then. For example, Cisco IOS-XE and IOS-XR have gained prominence. Both of those are based on Linux and probably means lots of changes under the hood.
evanjrowley commented on US Administration is considering stake in Intel cnbc.com/2025/08/14/intel... · Posted by u/belter
Intel can become like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. If that happened, then who would be the regulator providing oversight of Intel?