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paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Using an iPad as the main display for a Mac Mini

SideCar (using the enabler trick) between a Mac mini (Late 2012) and an iPad Pro 10.5 was very laggy over USB. It wouldn't work over wireless. I'd rather try an app instead.

I've been trying the built-in screen sharing VNC, and that too is very laggy.

The Mac mini has tested fast (iperf3.. latency and bandwidth are good) over WiFi, so I think an app has the potential to be fast.

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020

I recently bought 4x WD HGST WUH721414ALE6L4 512e 14TB. The 4Kn's were the same price but on lengthy backorder/dropship from WD, so that wasn't going to work. Also, I absolutely refuse to buy the WD Gold (WD141KRYZ) that is effectively the same product but at a much higher price ($480 vs. $346). Marketing people can take a long walk from a short pier.

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Musk dares county officials to arrest him as he reopens Fremont factory

No, it's intentional and with a goal. "Brave" in his overt disregard for the lives of others in the name of money. There is, as of yet, no vaccine and there is no cure, and the pandemic curve will restart and kill more people if reopening happens too soon. Lockdowns certainly aren't ideal, but they won't kill nearly as many people as horribly as hunkering-down for as long as possible and when the government should be doing more UBI to help people. Dying alone by drowning on a respirator is a terrible way to go.

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Uber lays off 3700 employees via Zoom

For-profit corporations without employee ownership and regular employees on the board of directors will inevitably treat employees like disposable cogs or dirt. The mistake many people repeatedly make is the line-up to be abused when they should form their own business ventures with civilized, humane, and Golden Rule treatment of others rather than rent-seeking investors to squeeze blood money out of them and cheat them out of livable wages.

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Uber lays off 3700 employees via Zoom

You're making some assumptions here and taking third-hand information as gospel. It depends on what "generous" means in fact, how much notice they were given, and their prospects or help to get other jobs in a job climate that is worse than the Great Depression. What if it were you?

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence

Nope. An honest man of integrity already knows how to play the bagpipes and doesn't need to lie or name-drop to seem important. Bullshit is only appropriate to save the face or lives of others, or as entertainment amongst people already savvy enough to see through it.

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Neiman Marcus files for bankruptcy

I can almost hear it: Where oh where will I buy a fluorescent fuchsia sports coat for $8000 now?

Amazon and similar are no good for luxury goods because of the lack of service that luxury shoppers expect. Perhaps they need to shift to an online-first model with video-conferenced personal shoppers who can browse store-like inventory while serving qualified shoppers who can concurrently navigate their wardrobe?

Personally, I like Neimy's, but not as a go-to retailer but as a once-every-twenty-years-buy-something-nice-and-crazy; their service is/was fantastic, they know their products/fashion, and their employees aren't/weren't like standard American retail salespeople. Ordinarily, I go to Salvation Army and Goodwill for outer clothing only, and eBay for new-but-discontinued b-stock or liquidated inventory of other clothing that I can no longer find.

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: The Cost of Free Doughnuts: 70 Years of Regret

Both of my grandfathers retired SMSgts and I have two veteran flag cases above the monitor where this was typed.

According to my late paternal grandparents, who went through WWII, Korea, and Vietnam on active duty (and arguably the wives did as well), the American Red Cross had not-so-nice aspects to it that didn't get much press.

Perhaps national governments should support apolitical, non-religious volunteer nonprofits more, but I can also understand the need for nonprofits to survive (which may often entail charging small fees). Charging people for doughnuts who don't make much money to begin with, are first-responders, active-duty military, or individuals who just went through a disaster seems kind of uncool where I come from.

It's difficult to say how good they are today without first-hand and multiple accounts of experience. The available data shows they presently spend 3.5% ($104m) on admin and 6% ($177m) on fundraising. https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar...

As an example, Feeding America, although they pay their CEO 16% more ($100k+), is a mostly better charity on paper.

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Zoom Acquires Keybase

The just get disappeared into Belmarsh and extradited to who knows where for telling the truth about the US military murdering civilians including journalists from a helicopter gunship.

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Coronavirus survivors banned from joining the military

True. There are three main aspects from the military's side to consider when a candidate tests positive for IgM anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies:

0. Immunity - Possibility of not lifelong immunity.

1. Carriers - Possibility of continuing to shed viruses and infect other personnel. (It costs too much to conduct rtPCR tests, it's worth just playing it safe and hoping determined candidates reapply or ask for waivers when more scientific evidence is available.)

2. Organ damage - Potential for permanently-reduced lung capacity due to damage from COVID-19, which reduces operational effectiveness. Also, the potential for kidney, liver, and heart damage.. this raises potential ongoing healtcare liabilities (TRICARE).

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where to Host Dedicated Servers?

If it's for personal or pilot projects: find a third-tier, cheap co-lo within 100 mi / 161 km of your usual location. Buy some used enterprise boxes off eBay / UNIX Surplus / etc. that don't draw too much power. Data is cheap (unless you're being screwed or you don't lease your own glass). It's electricity that costs $$$.

If it's for something that makes some, but not a metric ton of, money: find a second-tier co-lo within about 50 mi / 80 km of your usual location.

If it's for something that makes a metric f-ton of money: stick to a hybrid, well-managed mix of VPS and co-lo, preferably from a good vendor.

Currently, I have a home virtualization/workstation box:

- 2x EPYC 7402 + Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 (dual fans)

- Supermicro H11DSi v2 (-NT works too if you want dual 10 GbE or NVMe OCuLink)

- 512 GiB Samsung RAM

- 4x HGST 14 TB HDD

- 2x FireCuda 520 1 TB

- Thermaltake Core V71 TG case w/ default fans & fan controller removed, modded with extra holes to support the board

- 4x 200mm Noctua fans modded to fit within the top and front panels

- 5.25" fan controller + 4 temp probes + 4 temp alarms

- 2U/tower Smart UPS 1500 with quality new batteries, NMC 2 w/ env monitoring, 2nd temp/humidity sensor and a WiFi bridge (TL-WR802N v4; overkill maximus)

- Looking at Intel Optanes for ZIL and some Samsungs for L2ARC

- Also looking at a 4U Supermicro 36x 3.5" bay for FreeNAS usage

When you need an OpenBSD or opn/pfSense jumpbox/VPN(es), find (a) minimal, supported good box(es) and stick an Intel X710 series card in it because virtualized jumpboxes maybe too converged for some use-cases. Also, Intel QAT cards can be helpful for TLS termination, edge firewall, and some VPN/SSH jumpboxes in use-cases where (mostly older) CPUs can't push accelerated crypto bits fast enough.

Off the top of my head, some of the colo's I've used:

- Bytemark

- Rackspace

- Pair

- Equinix ($$ IIRC)

Also, random ones in SF, SJC, Sacramento, and other cities that escape me right now.

paypalcust83 | 5 years ago | on: Using human brain tissue in lab, researchers show herpes link to Alzheimer’s

I worked with a guy researching the functional basis of Alzheimer's synthesizing many radiological technologies.

It is likely a multi-factor pathological degenerative condition with many, many potential precipitating (no pun intended) causes, both nature and nurture.

"The cure" is more than likely a holistic combination of many early lifestyle modifications including, but not limited to: diet, sleep, exercise, gene therapy, immunotherapy, medications, and supplements.

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