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Ask HN: Home lab scale-up ARM box < $1.5k USD?

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throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

While I nuked my LinkedIn about 8 years ago because I was 1-2 from 96% of Silicon Valley and spammed by un-targeted recruiters incessantly... more importantly, my contacts and I didn't talk so keeping it was meaningless performative business theater.

MAANG companies (excluding N) are requiring relocation and RTO (hybrid, near an office). Also, their tone has shifted to where their recruiters feel like they hold a monopoly on in the business relationship power dynamic.

Perhaps shrinking corporate real estate holdings of properties and lease should be prioritized over burdening employees with additional relocation, commuting, and housing costs.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

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throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Around 1981-1985, smog was quite bad in the SF Bay Area. It was a horrible brown-yellow.

I don't think most people appreciate how far away it is to reach Mt. Hamilton or how precarious the road up it is. Took a couple of gfs on drives up there.

I used to bike up Hicks Road near Mt. Umunhum.

Other good vantage points: the top of The Dish route behind Stanford and the observation deck of the de Young Museum.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Seems aligned with early Netflix culture of hiring and treating employees like adults rather than like children. They still appeared to be hiring remote employees as of September of 2023. [0]

0. https://www.teamblind.com/post/Does-Netflix-do-remote-hires-...

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Yep. While startup salaries are, and have always been, a joke, it's corporate cost of living adjustments (COLAs) that are a worsening joke when they fail to account for true COL differences. If a megacorp insists on relocating you from Austin, TX to Menlo Park, CA it should include a 75% TC raise or it would be a pay cut and wouldn't make economic sense. It's imperative that rational employees hold corporations accountable and refuse to be underpaid because not doing so hurts everyone else in the industry.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Update for 2024:

Step 0. Don't bother with obsolete Cat 6 or lower cable because it's just not worth the effort over Wi-Fi. If you're going to do it, buy a 1000' spool of CMP Cat 8 UPoE-rated premise wire (~$1000-$1500 USD), punch down tool, J boxes, punch down receptacles, semi-flexible plenum large conduit that doesn't have ridges, cable fish tape, wall-mounted quarter 19" rack, 90 degree drill and hole saw with various lengths of extensions (usually from about 1' to 10' or longer for tall walls), and a punch down patch panel.

Step 1. Run conduit and J boxes first to a central closet or to a garage in most instances. This is the labor-intensive, hard part but it makes running multiple cables through it much easier. Larger homes may need a second closet or second conduit hub area and more conduit to a main patch panel.

Step 2. Easily slide wire in using a fish tape, 1 to 4 cables per box depending on the location. It's so much easier with semi-flexible conduit.

Step 3. Test each cable using iperf3 with an RPi and laptop, or borrow a commercial 10GbE cable tester like a DSX2-8000.

Step 4. Drop in a 10 GbE U/POE++ switch that doesn't sound like a jet engine.

Option: Instead of, or in addition to, Cat 8 wiring, run fiber.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Sorry, I'm not your VAR rep. https://letmegoogleforyou.com/?q=buy%20windows%2011%20enterp...

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

C. 2003-2011 between contracts, I used to offer high priced on-site datacenter hardware, OS (incl virtualization), and software support on Craigslist for anywhere from SF to San Jose, Newark, and Fremont. Some interesting incidents and profitable times.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

C. 1990, Turbo Pascal IDE, trial and error.

Around 1994, I managed to get to a Computer Literacy bookstore.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

A retail Windows license isn't the same as an enterprise Windows license. Retails Windows licenses started with ads for OneDrive and Office in Settings, but now that they're reverting to their old, shameless ways, they're putting ads everywhere else too for retail users.

With a Windows Enterprise license, all of the ads can be turned off, or at least that was the practice.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

It depends. It's better than nothing that can be ^C'ed.

Here's a naive, partial implementation that runs in <500 ms so long as there's an existing dnf cache:

   command_not_found_handle() {
    local pkgs
    readarray pkgs < <(dnf rq --whatprovides "$1" -C --qf '%{name}\n' 2>/dev/null | sed '/^$/d' | sort -uVr)
    if (( ! "${#pkgs[@]}" )); then
      echo >&2 'Command not found and no package provides it according to the dnf cache'
      return
    fi
    echo >&2 'Command not found, but offered via the following command(s):'
    pkgs=("${pkgs[@]/#/    dnf install }")
    echo >&2 " ${pkgs[@]}"
  }

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

FYI: Meta is de-facto insisting on RTO and not offering a remote option for new employees.

This trend has nothing to do with productivity and is all about the egos of control-freak managers "maintaining control" over employees in a way that wastes employees' time and money and harms the company's reputation.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Platform-based, such as Squeak and Etoys (not eToys) or like with VMs such as JVM or BEAM.

The problem you describe is solved by introducing capabilities such as in seL4. Without beginning with a capability, something cannot do something else.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Yes, that would be a good idea™ but I don't think that's conflict. Apple had uses all sorts of excuses and technical limitations to prevent repairs including parts pairing.

The solution is there need to be parts available for reasonable prices in the first place. There are no reasonably priced parts for iPhone Pro 13 and onwards. My friend's cell phone repair chain has lost a lot of business because they can't fix many types of Google Pixel, Samsung, or Apple devices for reasonable prices.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

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throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Begs the Q: Why is someone using Google when DDG and Startpage exist?

Can't someone !w piratebay and click the link?

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Yes. 15+ year zsh user here. When dealing with bash, try to sneak in PackageKit-command-not-found and bash-completion.

And when running a shell, do it like this:

    docker run user/image:tag -it --rm bash -li

Also, zshdb, bashdb, and shellcheck are good stuff™ too.

My mantra is all programs and widely-used company tools should have current man pages and shell completions. The whole "Go look at a web page" for "help" is slow, distracting, and lazy.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

While I don't use the ecosystem, I like the way Go approaches it with interfaces by being minimal, expressive, and flexible. It something works like something else according to a minimal specification, it's the same. There's no sealing off things or top-down mandates that require changes to other people's code. Rust traits aren't exactly the same because they require changes to everyone's code to follow an exact model that cannot be retrofitted to existing code without additional work. One downside (it may not be the case today) with the Go model is requiring a type to fulfill one or more interfaces requires additional hoops such as no-op init() interface assertions.

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

That's probably it. Thanks for easing my perpetual forgetfulness!

throwiforgtnlzy

vor 2 Jahrendiscuss

Waves across I-35 to Reality Labs.

Sounds like something Numba should include perhaps.

I retired from HPC around the era of iPython, Open MPI, Infiniband, OFED, GPFS/Panasas/Lustre, Rocks Cluster, and Condor/PBS/SGE.