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by Dunedan 4y ago
As AWS doesn't price services based on carbon footprint, you can't infer the carbon footprint from the cost. I agree however that certain AWS services are disproportional expensive.
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> The final result is a chip that lets AWS sell each Graviton 3 core at a lower price, while still delivering a significant performance boost over their previous Graviton 2 chip. That's not correct. AWS sells Graviton 3 based EC2 in
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> Makes one wonder if Tesla's best days are in the past. Their days of biggest EV market share? Probably. Their best days however? I doubt that. Compared to other car manufacturers Tesla currently has the following advantages: - mul
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> Everyone. CCS cars can charge on all CCS chargers on all charging networks, including Tesla's charging network. That's the advantage of a common standard: I don't know about the situation in the US, but in Europe v2 and
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by Dunedan 4y ago
The website of the manufacturer provides more information and more photos: https://hdplex.com/hdplex-fanless-250w-gan-aio-atx-psu.html
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by Dunedan 4y ago
One website not supporting HTTPS which caught my eye is http://paulgraham.com/
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by Dunedan 4y ago
Hetzner has a datacenter in Ashburn, VA nowadays as well: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/rechenzentrum/
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> for a smartphone specifically, there's a direct relationship between battery size and device size, and battery life is a really valuable convenience As the largest consumer of energy is the display of a smartphone, you don't
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> Why would that form factor succeed in the Android space? Because it's not Apple selling them and Android smartphone manufacturers operate with much lower margins. Take Motorola for example, which isn't even one of the 10 larg
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> AFAIK TSMC list crypto (that is various chips made specifically for proof of work mining) in the HPC category. > > It is not unlikely that market will correct violently at one point. That shouldn't affect TSMC at all, as th
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by Dunedan 4y ago
Didn't get rust-vmm started way after Firecracker to avoid duplications in Firecracker and CrosVM?
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> Still, Apple will continue to be based in Silicon Valley, where it has about 25,000 employees, including 12,000 employees in its loop-shaped headquarters. [1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ap
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by Dunedan 4y ago
> if you write all of your pages in HTML, then they're going to stay HTML unless you invest the effort in writing a parser+translator that converts all of your content into Markdown or Wikitext That can be a problem the other way ar
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by Dunedan 5y ago
There is Xen-on-Nitro, which AWS developed to continue to support customers using Xen to run on EC2 instances featuring Nitro: https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2021/11/xen-on-nitro-aws-n...
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by Dunedan 5y ago
https://github.com/MrOtherGuy/firefox-csshacks/ offers a nice collection of CSS hacks to customize the appearance of Firefox and to restore some design elements from previous versions. I use it for example to get
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by Dunedan 5y ago
Good, but let's talk about the other side of things: Features missing from Python's standard library. Here are some features I miss regularly and I believe should be part of the standard library: - support for modern compression a
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by Dunedan 5y ago
> Twitter is a mid sized tech company though, with a mere 5,500 employees. I guess that depends on the definition of mid sized company. I don't know if there is a fundamentally different/better definition, but Gartner defines a
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by Dunedan 5y ago
> Some commonly repeated advice is that firms should focus on their "core competencies" and outsource everything else, but if we look mid-sized tech companies, we can see that they often need to have in-house expertise that&#x2
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by Dunedan 5y ago
That got me curious, so I fired up some old versions of Mozilla Phoenix and checked that out. Turns out already Mozilla Phoenix 0.2 ( https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/phoenix/releases/0.2/ ), released on Octobe
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by Dunedan 5y ago
I don't find that hilarious at all. Customers didn't want to get their their batteries swapped [1], thus Tesla didn't further pursue this path. [1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/teslas-battery-swapping-plan
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by Dunedan 5y ago
It's not the battery size which is the issue here, but how much power the hardware uses. The capacity of the battery of the Framework is 55W, while the capacity of the battery of the M1 MacBook Air is 49,9Wh. So apparently Framework ma
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by Dunedan 5y ago
Her example code doesn't even set a user agent header, making it trivial to distinguish these requests from ones an actual browser would make.
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by Dunedan 5y ago
Of course there is a market. Selling millions of devices proves that, no matter if that's considered "underperforming" when compared to the sales of larger smartphones.
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by Dunedan 5y ago
DisplayPort 1.2 (or newer) and HDMI 2.1 both support 5K at 120Hz when using DSC.
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by Dunedan 5y ago
AWS Lambda doesn't run a container like one might expect, but it treats the files in the Docker image basically the same as if it's be a regular AWS Lambda runtime rootfs + your application code. So if there are differences in col
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by Dunedan 5y ago
Using Docker images as deployment packages for AWS Lambda has two notable disadvantages from my point of view: - You're suddenly responsible for managing the whole operating system again, neglecting one of the major benefits of AWS Lam
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by Dunedan 5y ago
The features of the regex module mentioned in the article sound great. I wonder why the Python core developers are so hesitant to add new functionality to the standard library. There are exceptions, like the new zoneinfo module, which is gr
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by Dunedan 5y ago
> A friend of mine used them over 10 years ago for some dedicated servers and got them to connect the servers to the same switch for sub-millisecond latency (try that with AWS...). AWS offers that with placement groups for EC2 [1]. It&#x
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by Dunedan 5y ago
While Twitter is down you might enjoy reading Dan Luu's blog post of major cache incidents at Twitter: https://danluu.com/cache-incidents/
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by Dunedan 5y ago
> AWS was fucking everyone on egress price […] And they of course still are, as they didn't change anything related to the prices, but just increased the amount of traffic in their free tiers. That removed the pain for toy projects

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