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The E5-2670v1 was goated for this back in 2016-2017. You could get them for like 25-50 bucks. I still have one of the supermicro boards I got from work in hardware decommissioning and one of the chinese franken-boards with a modded bios.

The cloud see them as a benefit, that’s for sure. They are frothing at the mouth for the customers to migrate their workloads.

100%. The Linux kernel would have never grown and become so successful if it weren’t for everybody in the office all those years just collaborate-maxxxing … /s

Without looking too deep, I bet their dext wasn’t exposing necessary configuration. I’ve seen this with other third party network hardware and dext, where it was missing certain configuration for bridging to work

More LoC means easier to quantify the impact when telling a story. The actual code quality may be lower but that’s the schmuck’s problem that comes after once promo is acquired.

agreed. I previously spent like the last 15+ years checking hacker news every morning at the start of the day but within last year I've found the content to be less interesting and hacker news has lost its stickiness.

I went with iPod Hi-Fi + AirPort Express connected via mini toslink to mini toslink cable.

Some of them use arm based CPUs from Amazon’s Annapurna Labs.

Gemini CLI is deprecated and replaced by antigravity-cli

Oracle is the number cloud, if you believe the posters they had around DC metro back in like 2017-2018

I’m this is not true, uv + wheels you can install binaries

I worked at the Henry Ford / Greenfield Village. They have a fleet of historical vehicles (Model T, Model AA, etc) and mechanics that are very passionate about the vehicles. They buy used and get whatever they can’t source made.

Penalties should scale based on net worth.

Jack Welch Disciples

It’s interesting how accurate this is to my experience back in like 2015/2016. Almost verbatim the same playbook. If they all utilize the same playbook, it seems like there’s an opportunity to use AI + skills playbook to trim the fat and streamline these PEs firms. I’m sure it could reduce headcount, lower PE management fees, etc