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by BackBlast 4y ago
There was some outcry about 5800X3D having lower clocks. This was there "we solved the clock speed problem with a v-cache SKU" move, which was promised somewhere... And I guess, if you use games as a primary load and they fix th
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Depends on good scheduling choices since some threads benefit from the higher clocked CCD and others benefit from the higher cache CCD. Sounds like AMD is using a lookup table style scheduler on windows. I believe the system mostly schedu
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by BackBlast 4y ago
I agree that it does among some. But the semantics of "MICRO-services" is that smaller is better and you can find those who take it to be smallest is bestest. You can't just assume the word "micro" is just a hange
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Except that servers are literally 50-100x more powerful than they were when these sites were built. You just don't need legendary talent anymore to accomplish pretty reasonable scaling with a simple low server count architecture.
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Some mobile apps are like this. Even some desktop apps, won't move forward without it's connection to the mothership. Yes, it's frustrating. I like offline capable systems. The money isn't there for offline ability on
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Zero interest rate phenomenon is building native everywhere. iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Linux, web. Got money to burn? Build it 4, 5, or 6 times! Then keep it up to date! Even if you're a rocking engineering org, that's an
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Love me a well built SPAs. Great tech. I certainly don't mind if others don't build them. So many people trying to advocate the "one true way" of tech instead of acknowledging that it really depends on the use case as
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by BackBlast 4y ago
In order to benefit directly from your value creation you have to get out from under the protective shell of an org owned by someone else. This means both the risk, and rewards, are yours. If you are unwilling to do this then you will alw
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Easiest way to is to provide an illustration of the cost of doing said action. Those costs need to be put in terms that they understand. That way they can evaluate how much they really want things. This is an indirect no. We can do that
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by BackBlast 4y ago
I think a lot of people have a very self oriented view. Managers have issues too, particularly good ones who care about their direct reports and getting projects done without death marches. The incentive structure is off. They are rewarde
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by BackBlast 4y ago
I didn't say they were compute limited, did I? Still, Pouring unlimited funds on more servers so they can sit <10% idle for best client performance is a great way to light money on fire. Faster -> more responsive. The client&#x
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by BackBlast 4y ago
As I said, servers cores are also power and thermal constrained. A16 is like 50% faster than high frequency latest and greatest Sapphire Rapids single core. 50%.
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by BackBlast 4y ago
The money has something to do with it. But with too much money in the system. People hoping jobs too quickly. And the accountability loop for producing bad systems is short circuited and ineffective. Hype cycles where young devs never s
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by BackBlast 4y ago
> Performance is higher with the server because the HTML is already generated and ready to be displayed when the page is loaded. If you can reasonably cache the response, SSR wins on first page load, no question. On the first page dynam
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by BackBlast 4y ago
I've purchased a bunch of cheap sensors from AliExpress also. Half of them had serious issues. Firmware issues that would knock them off my gateway, or drain their battery completely so I'd have to go change them. And not so fa
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by BackBlast 4y ago
In my personal case, I need to be able to run couchdb. No arm arch package out of the box that I've been able to find. Last time I tried it on arm I gave up after several hours of chasing dependencies while trying to compile from sou
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by BackBlast 4y ago
If you get an atom line CPU a smaller I/O suite. Say a dell 3040 or 5070 and your at 4W idle - similar to the Rock5 (and cheaper if you're buying used on ebay). When you get to the full fledged core lines you're looking at
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by BackBlast 4y ago
"better" is in the eye of the beholder. You can get very near equivalents to the rk3588 on the x86 side. N5105/N6005 are a pretty good match for CPU benchmarks and better GPU, better I/O (more PCIe), SO-DIMM slots, bet
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by BackBlast 4y ago
The apparent subsidies are not properly addressing their concerns. Thus, however much money it sent — it doesn't matter. How does this not address your point of "they are subsidized!!"? Again. If the state policies prevent
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Helps if you actually read and respond to my points instead of broad brushing about the apparent irrationality you see. Most people are quite rational in their own sphere if you take the time to understand their perspective.
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by BackBlast 4y ago
You put a high value on dollar amounts. It seems you do not realize that money and services that come from far away are often ridiculously inefficient and reflect the priorities and concerns of those that retain control over the attached s
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Yet we divide up political entities by what land you happened to live on. We have traditions to allow people within a region of land to self determine their government. Regardless of how many of them there are, exactly.
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Agreed. I've seen an org that essentially let the devs run the show for picking timelines, technologies, features. It was a disaster. Endless design by committee, no progress, too many abstractions, and on and on it went with develo
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by BackBlast 4y ago
If you can't admit the problem. Can't stare it down. Can't comprehend it. Then I don't know how you can ever solve it. I try to avoid these places, not easy though.
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by BackBlast 4y ago
For an org capable of adhering to standards. I've seen success in small teams. I've never seen it in a large org through, it's always a dumpster fire. Especially anything that grows really fast, culture is out the window t
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by BackBlast 4y ago
I guess the birth of the term distributed monolith gives lie to the idea that the service boundaries can't be breached by devs. :)
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by BackBlast 4y ago
Those boundaries also increase the cost of development. If you are institutionally incapable of enforcing coding standards such that you can't prevent juniors from coupling your modules, perhaps it's worth it. But there are more
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by BackBlast 4y ago
> I would challenge you to tell the people in the Southwest of the US to move out... or the Middle East... or desert parts of Africa... or small island nations in the Pacific. Why would I try to do that? Seems authoritarian and wrong to
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by BackBlast 4y ago
I really dislike how "questioning", a cardinal virtue for science, is treated like heresy. The critiques make me more interested, not less. One man's cherry-picking is another's identification or isolation of important
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by BackBlast 4y ago
The biggest risk for climate change has always been food production and economic water availability. Just look at the western US that depends on the Colorado River for the risk involved. We can live most anywhere on the planet, and that is

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