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New comment by flounder3 in "Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt"

flounder3 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:35:33 +0000

Muscle memory for folks who have been doing it since before -i was an option. I still instinctively type `sudo su -` because it worked consistently on older deployments. When you have to operate a fleet of varying ages and distributions, you tend to quickly learn [if only out of frustration] what works everywhere vs only on the newer stuff.

`sudo su - ` also seems easier for me to type than `sudo -i -u `

New comment by flounder3 in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

flounder3 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 09:43:42 +0000

How many hours have you spent with the latest Tesla FSD in congested neighborhoods or unprotected left turns at sunset? It may be "good," but it's not even remotely close to the current Waymo experience, especially when it comes to abnormal situations. I am continually blown away by how Waymo behaves (spent 3 hours in them this past week). I'm rooting for Tesla, but it is nowhere near Waymo as of today.

New comment by flounder3 in "Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini model to power Siri"

flounder3 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 20:45:53 +0000

OP's 9to5mac article states:

  Also under the agreement, Google’s model will reportedly run on Apple’s own servers, which in practice means that no user data will be shared with Google. Instead, they won’t leave Apple’s Private Cloud Compute structure.

Bloomberg states:

  The model will run on Apple’s own Private Cloud Compute servers, ensuring that user data remains walled off from Google’s infrastructure.

New comment by flounder3 in "Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness"

flounder3 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 23:02:40 +0000

You must have worked in a very odd and isolated department. I never heard that rhetoric, even once, throughout my tenure. Nor have any of my old colleagues who still work there and are quite well known internally (notorious patents, features / tentpole DRI, etc).

New comment by flounder3 in "TSMC to start building four new plants with 1.4nm technology"

flounder3 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:16:36 +0000

TSMC building outside of Taiwan is a big deal these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC#Arizona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC#Washington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC#Japan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSMC#Germany

From the article:

  "about 30 percent of our 2-nanometer and more advanced capacity will be located in Arizona"

.. so it's interesting that they are moving forward with domestic 1.4nm given the geopolitical climate.

New comment by flounder3 in "Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue"

flounder3 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 18:18:10 +0000

A recall means “PAY ATTENTION! Something may still be broken!”

The recall will mention how to get it fixed, regardless of a OTA update or service visit.

The lack of a mere download could mean the difference between life and death.

New comment by flounder3 in "Tesla recalls 380k vehicles in US over power steering assist issue"

flounder3 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:10:28 +0000

It’s the law. OTA updates are not instant nor are they 100% guaranteed, so consumers must be notified.

New comment by flounder3 in "FLAC 1.5 Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding"

flounder3 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:44:56 +0000

Was about to say the same thing. It was already blazingly fast, with a typical album only taking seconds.

New comment by flounder3 in "How is the SSD installed – M4 Mac Mini (2024)"

flounder3 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:03:54 +0000

I’m a backer and can’t wait to receive the 8TB upgrade!

I had to buy an off the shelf M1 Studio due to a hardware failure, so I couldn’t wait for the lead time for one with more RAM and storage. It has been borderline unusable due to so many things requiring local storage — can’t even symlink to an external NVMe. (Many apps, but also Backblaze metadata and iMessage attachments)

New comment by flounder3 in "My 71 TiB ZFS NAS After 10 Years and Zero Drive Failures"

flounder3 — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 23:58:56 +0000

This is a drop in the bucket for photographers, videographers, and general backups of RAW / high resolution videos from mobile devices. 80TB [usable] was "just enough" for my household in 2016.

New comment by flounder3 in "Ask Siri, Dictation and Privacy"

flounder3 — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 20:20:32 +0000

This is not news, and has been the case since Siri's inception.

New comment by flounder3 in "How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop"

flounder3 — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:05:03 +0000

On the very first page:

The internal hard drive uses SCSI with an unusual connector. Adapting it didn't seem straightforward, and we weren't confident the old file system (HFS) would be easy to read from a modern system.

New comment by flounder3 in "Raspberry Pi 5 vs. Intel N100 mini PC comparison"

flounder3 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:16:26 +0000

PG&E in California is 4-6x+. I care.

https://www.pge.com/assets/pge/docs/account/rate-plans/resid...

New comment by flounder3 in "Multipath TCP for Linux (2022)"

flounder3 — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 19:39:27 +0000

We found that most proxies/firewalls (90%+ ? I forget) didn't tamper with it. The largest hurdle was working with load balancer vendors to implement it.

New comment by flounder3 in "When did Raspberry Pi get so expensive?"

flounder3 — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 22:59:25 +0000

NUCs are a tremendous value over previous generation surplus hardware in areas where the cost of electricity has skyrocketed (SF Bay Area).

We’re talking more than one order of magnitude less power consumption when you compare to 2-3+ generations ago.

New comment by flounder3 in "Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions""

flounder3 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:49:25 +0000

"Shit" or not, it was a fairly popular place to hang out while waiting for a train at Dirdon Station or an event at SAP Center. It was only a few steps away, and now there's nothing there (after existing for 88 years).

New comment by flounder3 in "Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to "market conditions""

flounder3 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 19:43:16 +0000

If you Google "San Jose Google Construction," you don't even have to click into an article to learn that there has already been a large amount of demolition.

New comment by flounder3 in "Cisco Acquires Splunk"

flounder3 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:03:41 +0000

You've clearly never run it at scale nor have you migrated between Enterprise (on-prem) and Splunk Cloud at scale. Managing .conf files and eliminating intermediate IDM logic was absolutely not "amazing."

https://lantern.splunk.com/Splunk_Platform/Splunk_Cloud_Plat...

New comment by flounder3 in "How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?"

flounder3 — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:45:04 +0000

You’re not wrong, but privacy concerns were paramount.

ASNs were allowed but too vague. We needed more granularity. Corporate proxies, subdelegations, many providers aggregating announcements below /24, etc.

New comment by flounder3 in "How to build a IP geolocation database from scratch?"

flounder3 — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 17:29:36 +0000

Even 10 years ago, Apple internal privacy policies prevented itself from collecting precise lat/long. We had to use HTTP session telemetry to determine which endpoints were best for a given IP (or subnet, but not ASN), which informed our own pseudo-geoIP database so we knew which endpoint to connect to based on real world conditions.

Even still, it had to be as ephemeral as possible for the sake of privacy. We weren’t allowed to use or record results from Apple Maps’ reverse geo service outside of the context of a live user request (finding nearby restaurants, etc).