Posts by Christian Harten 23 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Feb 2018
In German law there is the concept of "Geschäftsführung ohne Auftrag", basically means entering into a contract on someone else behalf without them agreeing to it before hand, done in the interest of the person or entity. Typical examples would be having someone's car towed from a flooding area or rendering hospital care to an unconscious person. I guess this would qualify too?
I'm thinking of getting an internal 4G modem, that also has the benefit that it would be possible to track the device after some fashion for as long as it's turned on. Somewhat counter-intuitively I remove the PIN from the SIM cards I use in a phone so I can track them if stolen or lost. I wonder though if this requires to establish a connection for the card to be traceable.
30 days seems pretty excessive, I believe this probably encourages bad passwords (for example just incrementing an integer). Another consideration, perhaps it's better to get fired insisting people stick to good password practice than to be an employee of a company that has a gigantic data breach due to incompetence - because this will be seen as reflecting poorly on the people in IT, not only executive who might be at fault. I would at least keep evidence of that.
Isn't this a pretty severe indictment of democracy itself, blaming the results of a vote solely on successful campaigning? It always comes across as somewhat elitist - anyone who doesn't share my opinion was obviously manipulated.
Great comment. I would add that often times there is a lack of challenging problems or rather you can't really work on challenging things because all you do is firefighting. Stress without being challenged and without a sense of progression is really unhealthy.
It's always NUMA, I believe you can get it to emulate a non-NUMA system which will cause it to perform somewhat worse. Anything that accesses RAM not local to the die you're accessing will have to through infinity fabric which is constrained through bandwidth and latency (max PCIe 3.0 x16 speed). The same goes for peripherals like GPU or NIC.
Of course this is somewhat of a problem with AMD CPUs since you only get up to 8 cores per die. This means even a single socket system will behave as 4 NUMA nodes, which makes the amount of PCIe Lanes and Memory channels completely unremarkable. It's the same trick they used with Opterons back in the day (in addition with 2 integer cores sharing an FPU).
If AMD manages to squeeze more CPUs into a die that's when Intel really is in trouble.
Apart from the overly specific prohibitions (virtual hugs? Do people not realize how ridiculous that sounds) the worst thing is removing the part about not taking offense where non was intended. Also, designating certain groups as "victims of systemic oppression" - as if free software development was ever a tool of said oppression, gives some people carte blanche to attack people who don't belong to those groups. This has already happened.
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