AlfonsoP

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by AlfonsoP 9y ago
The book PDF is here: https://www.u-cursos.cl/usuario/9553d43f5ccbf1cca06cc02562b4... Or buy a used second edition at $20: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/047170055X/
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by AlfonsoP 9y ago
Think outside the box. Current chips have gates on a dozen metal layers measuring ~1µm, but you could scale to 10,000 layers at ~1mm. Sure there are many unsolved challenge to build 10,000 layers, but there is still PLENTY of space for Moor
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by AlfonsoP 10y ago
Nitpick: Pixel has 3 years of security updates, and 2 years of Android OS updates.
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by AlfonsoP 12y ago
I sincerely hope YOU are joking, right? I can think of many examples why even small businesses need more than 100k IOPS. Case in point: 5 years ago I did consulting work for an email marketing company that was generating a daily report on a
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by AlfonsoP 12y ago
You say larger companies survive crashes, but their valuations still take huge hits. Look at the last dot-com crash: MSFT crashed from $59 to $21, AAPL crashed from $4.90 to $1.00, CSCO crashed from $79 to $14, and so on. 1 of these compani
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by AlfonsoP 12y ago
> most ppl will never need more than 100k IOPs, let alone 500k+ These types of statements are always false. If there is anything the computing industry has taught us is that people always need more resources. Always.
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by AlfonsoP 12y ago
Real hardware has always generally been cheaper. AWS is a success because there are no upfront costs, it lets you scale up very quickly, and you don't need in-house hardware expertise to maintain your machines. People are willing to pa
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by AlfonsoP 12y ago
It is very obvious to me that these keyboards on Amazon are a lot thicker than the MS keyboard (and probably a lot heavier). Look carefully at the thickness of the edge: the MS one is so thin that they had to create a bulge around its micro
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by AlfonsoP 12y ago
I wish it would sort by network throughput instead of latency.