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Comment · 4 years ago
NVMe is just an interface specification. An SSD is an SSD regardless of the interface used.
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Comment · 5 years ago
Whenever a topic about something that could potentially destroy humanity comes up (say, climate issues), there is always some comment that makes a reasonable argument of why things are not as bad as they seem.

This never happens when prions are the topic.

Comment · 8 years ago
DPDK also relies on this quirk if there is no IOMMU available. He does mention the IOMMU as future work, but in the context of security.
Comment · 8 years ago
What you describe are common features available to all customers of Danish banks. Free of charge in any decent bank. You get the “Dankort” (den card) for free. It’s a debit card that’s universally supported in all shops with zero surcharge. It’s trivial and a common service to share accounts with multiple cards in your family.
Comment · 9 years ago
They are not from the Baltic. It's the North Sea. More precisely Kattegat, Skagerak and along the western shore.
Comment · 9 years ago
Vendor locked. Many companies have huge applications bound tightly to the Oracle database. Often the business logic is just stored procedures. That makes it incredibly difficult to migrate and developers will have a hard time convincing management that the cost of migration would be worth it.
Comment · 11 years ago
If one could do that, it wouldn't be a bubble.
Comment · 11 years ago
According to the radar image released by Turkey, the aircraft passed over a strip of Turkey airspace around 2km wide.

Apparently they gave the russian 10 warnings. That doesn't add up.

Comment · 12 years ago
Correct, but perihelion might be too close for comfort.
Comment · 12 years ago

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