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Re:Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance by a_imho on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @05:58AM (#11900883)
There are some interesting regulations in finance, I know at least one bank that keeps offline backups on tapes, but wonder how often do they test it.

My experience with them tells me, they are not the most tech savvy bunch. If they ever need to use backups with the software they were provided decades ago / by modern fast failing agile company (according to taste), even if they can get the source it will be very hard to compile and run them. Reproducible builds is not exactly a solved problem.

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Re:Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance by ashitlerferad on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @11:58PM (#11907096)
> Reproducible builds is not exactly a solved problem.

Indeed, but we are getting there (over 90% of packages from Debian stretch amd64 and 99.9% of OpenWRT packages):

https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/ https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/openwrt/

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Re:Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance by y4mi on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:00AM (#11901712)
they need to put their entire environment into docker container and archive the images! theyll be able to recreate their whole environment at any time in the future!

...ill see myself out

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