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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:03PM (#50347058)
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Re:Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:16PM (#50346744)
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Re:Can't fish Ethernet? Use "invisible" fiber instead on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:14PM (#50345482)
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> My spouse and I have a rule that if we think a discussion is going to be emotionally charged, we have it over text in different rooms.

I've done this myself with my wife and I.

> It sounds autistic

Well, I'm autistic, and she has a very high traumatic intelligence. She reads my body language, expressions, movements more than what I say. And she says things... but it's not actually what she means. By us writing/typing things out, we're able to communicate without stray signals creating noise.

Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:40PM (#50343390)
> Dinosaurs contributed an infinitesimal fraction of the biomass that is needed for the fossil fuel reserves.

So... dino juice! Thanks! :)

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:46PM (#50340603)
> Is AI changing the game where more people want bare metal and GPUs with proprietor drivers?

Yes, for GPU workloads or just raw container orchestration platforms. Or gaming!

> Fedora on a server? No thanks.

Fedora's pokemon evolution turns it into RHEL, with not much change.

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:38PM (#50340448)
> How many of these additional proprietary drivers are needed on cloud servers, which are based on popular hardware configurations?

A lot of those are running on bespoke hardware specific to the hyperscaler.

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:35PM (#50340400)
>What is keeping people on Ubuntu instead of just using Debian?

1. It uses much newer packages and people want shiny

2. It was marketed as one of the easiest to use linux distributions maybe 15yr ago or whatever, so a lot of new people and then tutorials went to it because newer software and features just worked.

3. What is keeping them on it now? Familiarity. Inertia.

Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Monday November 02, 2026 @12:13PM (#50340040)
>why not software folks?

Because they'll just offshore you

> I know, people will blame the Russians, but seems not super productive for them to do such mundane sabotage

It is staggering to me the difference in people that come to HN.

This is one of the thousands of ways a hybrid war is fought!

>A lot of turmoil between Europe and Russia+the us lately. That's my guess.

Attacking power plants, grocery stores, sending drones into multiple countries over and over, setting up gun/dead-drops in German forests, sabotaging warehouses and factories, etc wasn't enough?

The hybrid war goes DEEP and has been happening for a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_sabotage_operations_in...

Probably a central company that manages maintenance and preventative maintenance and uses them for monitoring and control. Taking them offline would probably cause more failures, and much higher costs in tech labor, tech travel, etc.
> Not officially at war (or even cyberwar) but... are we at war?

Have been for a few years now.

> why would you ever put a fridge online if you are are tech noob

I have some unfortunate news for you.

There's a lot of scary shit online.

Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:44PM (#50331611)
Unless you have electric heat.
Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:06PM (#50330838)
> TNG is very, very good, but it wears its heart on its sleeve. Picard never struggles with existential moral ambiguity. Even when he (rarely) fails, he's always The Good Man.

I find this amusing, because of what his best friend said about him wearing his heart on his sleeve :

https://www.instagram.com/p/DfGRUe0B63I/

Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:56PM (#50330782)
Every state has different laws on this.

Some mail you ballots automatically. Some require you to request a mail in ballot by a certain date. Others will only allow you to vote by mail if you are a senior citizen, have a critical illness or disability, etc. It's a mixed bag, and it's intentionally difficult in some states.

Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:52PM (#50330751)
I cut it off because it's not relevant in the context of why the power is out other than being a force of nature.

Just about every place in the US, with some minor exceptions, has extreme heat (120F+) extreme cold (-10F), high winds, tropical storms, ice storms, blizzards, tornados, or even earthquakes regularly that take down poles and lines, damage substations, etc.

Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @12:25PM (#50327624)
> Nevertheless, do these poorest really account for a third of all voters?

25% of all eligible voters work jobs like service, retail, or construction where it is very hard if not impossible to get time off work to vote.

Although many states even have laws allowing people to have time off to vote, it's often 2 hours or less, which in many localities is not nearly enough to get through the line.

There are no real blanket voting protections across the country.

Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages on Sunday November 01, 2026 @12:15PM (#50327547)
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Re:Bidirectional Charging During Grid Outages on Sunday November 01, 2026 @12:13PM (#50327522)
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Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:08AM (#50325850)
> I'm increasingly convinced that awful public restrooms are mostly a North America thing.

There used to be a fairly robust rest stop program here, but it's been basically replaced by exits with large gas station chains and fast food.

US and Norway seem to have roughly the same number of government rest stops per mile, not including the more common "commercial exit" I guess you could call it.

Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:59AM (#50325758)
Far less than 50%.

31.6% of all eligible voters.

36% of eligible voters didn't even vote in 2024.

Re:Northflank Breached on Saturday October 31, 2026 @12:55AM (#50313330)
Yeah

https://www.broadcom.com/company/news/articles/cloud/as-ai-w...

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Half of all enterprises, 50%, have already repatriated workloads from public cloud to private environments, up from 35% in 2025. The breadth of what they are bringing back, and the reasons behind it, have both increased considerably.

Workloads with high security or compliance requirements remain the top category at 51%, unchanged year over year. But the categories moving up fastest tell a broader story. Business-critical workloads surged from 36% to 47%, an 11-point jump. AI or generative AI workloads, which were barely on the repatriation radar in 2025, are now being repatriated or considered by 43% of enterprises.

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https://unitedlayer.com/cloud-repatriation-private-hybrid-cl...

Noted that GEICO cut $600mil in cloud spend.

Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:05PM (#50310752)
It is absolutely cutting into their growth. And EU migration off is also a hot area.
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:03PM (#50310743)
I setup parts of govcloud.

The real sensitive customers are on oxide.

Re:Bunny CDN Security Incident on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:31PM (#50310413)
Bigger the vault, better the treasure
Re:Northflank Breached on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:50PM (#50306616)
If you need deniability, sure.

But it you actually NEED security, it's clearly not an option.

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