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Re:U.S. airline worker steals plane, takes it for flight before crashi...
on Saturday August 11, 2018 @07:10PM (#17742022)
I was out on the North Shore of Hood Canal (on the peninsula West of Seattle) - the turboprop went over at about 300 - 500m, just across the water (I think about 1000m) from us. Thought this was odd as we never see commercial traffic out here. Then the F15s went by, one low and trailing the plane, and one much higher... Whole thing had a super weird feeling.
Re:Fieldbook is shutting down
on Friday May 11, 2018 @10:39PM (#17052209)
Open source FieldBook would be amazing!
Re:Rancher 2.0 GA
on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:48PM (#16996008)
Would love to know if there's a clean / simple integration for something like Rook or OpenEBS. IIRC, I saw a few folks had Rook set up manually on a Rancher-based cluster in the tech preview or beta 2.0 days...
Having a simple way to run your own block storage that could withstand node failures / network issues would be fantastic.
Re:Gusto launches a free HR product for small businesses
on Friday March 16, 2018 @06:20PM (#16604408)
This. Gusto (unlike Zenefits) actually seems to care about the product and their customers - don't lose that!
Re:The De-Electrification of the U.S. Economy
on Thursday April 13, 2017 @08:57PM (#14111973)
This is a common misconception - manufacturing output, beyond drops during major recessions, has steadily increased[1]. Recently, increases have slowed but outside recessions, "the general decline of US manufacturing capacity" is just not happening.
What is dropping are inputs for the same output - employment being the most obvious / painful, but power, raw materials, etc. are all being used more sparingly as manufacturers improve processes and adopt new technologies.
Re:Introducing a new kind of Wi-Fi system
on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @04:13PM (#12639023)
Anyone know if this is going to make use of modern AQM (fq_codel or cake) like OnHub did? OnHub used the Qualcomm brand name for it: "Streamboost".
Re:The bandwidth bottleneck that is throttling the Internet
on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @05:04PM (#12264744)
Note, I haven't been in this world for a few years, so this info may be out of date
Actually, a heck of a lot more than that - WDM (wavelength division multiplexing) can give you 40Gbps (or more, though cost per bit per second starts to increase substantially) _per wavelength_, with 40 waves per strand (again, more possible, but cost-effectiveness not as good).
So, 1.6Tbps per strand fairly cost-effectively, with more physically possible. That 32-strand cable could carry 48Tbps with a config like this.
Upstream bandwidth isn't really expensive if you're selling to eyeballs (i.e. those who primarily consume services rather than provide them). However, as you said the fixed cost of laying fiber is non-trivial, as is the endpoint equipment to terminate all these waves and do something (route, etc.) with the transported data.
Re:Which GPUs to Get for Deep Learning
on Friday September 26, 2014 @03:16PM (#8374354)
The new Maxwell 970/980 kit is very interesting from a compute perspective.
970: $329 for 3494 SP / 109 DP GFLOPS @ 145W TDP
980: $549 for 4612 SP / 144 DP GFLOPS @ 165W TDP