The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt

Re:The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt by craftyguy on Thursday July 12, 2018 @11:12PM (#17520235)

Some mission critical production systems don't really want you installing <insert current trendy software here>. That's probably a highly unpopular view on HN, but having downtime on IceCube, for example, means they may miss an extremely rare event (neutrino hitting something and generating muons/photon shockwaves) that they could detect.

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Re:The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt by de_watcher on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:01AM (#17520819)

Mosh has been around for a while, it's not like "current trendy software". I thought people use it for bad connections (and envied them because of my stuff in the jungle that isn't performant enough for ssh).

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Re:The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt by snovv_crash on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:00AM (#17520814)

Something released in 2012 isn't exactly what I'd call "trendy". Technically it really does have some improvements for poor latency and high-packetloss connections.

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Re:The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt by consp on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:53AM (#17521443)

I'm pretty sure they consider everything sub 10 years old "new and untested" in this field, on this server/array.

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Re:The IceCube Neutrino Detector at the South Pole Hits Paydirt by eeZah7Ux on Friday July 13, 2018 @08:06AM (#17522169)

Indeed. Mosh is still new (less than 10 years old), albeit it could get an exception if it really helps avoiding errors and typos due to latency.

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