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January 24, 2023 (3y ago)
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  3. Why CRT in sci fi deep space ships actualy make sense

    0. You have a space ship that is capable of some FTL or close to L speed so most likely you solved problem of easy production of electricity so drawing a lot of current should not be too much of an issue. 1. Ease of…

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  4. Ask HN: If you had $1000 to spend on used workstation which one would you choose

    HP Z serie? Lenovo? Dell? Supermicro? Something other?

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  5. Ask HN: Is there such thing as “too many layers of error correction codes”?

    I mean stacking of hardware and software ECC – like storage medium having own ECC layer, file system own ECC mechanisms and later file format stored with additional ECC data that later gets verified after loading data…

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  6. Ask HN: Are there any other tape formats other than LTO still in production?
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  7. Ask HN: Is there market need for custom renderers? Or it's oversaturated already

    When I think about custom renderers and custom rendering solutions I mostly associate that with late '90s Hollywood where they been writing custom software for rendering graphic for example for The Matrix movies or the…

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  8. Ask HN: Why BSD kernels are so much more stable? Linux is addicted to jamming

    I don't even remember having to reboot any desktop FreeBSD installation in my life and I been around FreeBSD machines for over a decade and half. On production servers under load of many many many users it happened…

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  11. Ask HN: Is there any functionality of OSes like Multics, Burroughs MCP you miss?
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  12. Ask HN: Does RAID 1 of 3 HDD offer any protection against bitflip on 1 of drives

    Theoretically if 3 HDD are set up in RAID 1 - meaning every disk has same content and bit flip happens to the bit on one of them 2 other disks can be used to "vote" which value of bit being read should be "chosen as…

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  13. Ask HN: Is there any need for new file systems or GTFO we are full?

    Is ReiserFS, ZFS, btrfs, F2FS and more well know systems already enough/too much or there are areas (big enough to actually bother) where they not quite cut the edge?

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  14. LTO Tape Storage is designed to damage itself – no airfilters, always powered on (youtube.com)
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