Moissanite

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by Moissanite 4y ago
> hiring a competent sysadmin to do on-prem HPC-Linux might prove challenging Anecdata: I have 2 customers who have had open roles of this type for more than a year each. I'm pleased to report that they are edging their salary offer
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Also, the AI chip startup Graphcore was formed by a bunch of ex-XMOS guys.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
The key to this is: which is worse for middle management; a 15 minute outage which is your fault, or a 2 hour outage you can blame on AWS? Cloud is to the IT department as big consulting companies are to HR.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Very heartening to know other people are thinking about this. For about 4 or 5 years I've been warning about an equivalent problem in the HPC space, whereby even if on-prem is cheaper, companies will be forced to adopt cloud due to the
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I can agree that there is missed revenue - but realistically it wouldale much more sense to sell that capacity via Fargate (which is closer to undifferentiated generic compute and RAM) rather than monkeying with the spot pricing algorithm.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Have you observed metal instances taking longer to boot? I did last time I checked, and the difference was big enough to affect pricing in a non-trivial way, given that performance is the same and that you start paying immediately.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
I read it all, and don't agree with your interpretation of "transparent substitutes" in several of the cases.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
> If Amazon is willing to host a c6gd instance in that slot for $X, they should be willing to also host a c6g instance there for $X. The reality is that direct c6gd demand might be an order of magnitude lower than c6g direct demand - if
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Totally agree with that; it is a pretty common approach. The only part I don't agree with is calling out the price differences as some kind of "gotcha" that AWS somehow missed, particularly given the speculative "lost re
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by Moissanite 4y ago
It is completely incorrect to characterize these observations as "mispricing" - this is a quirk of automatically-determined prices across very different products. If the author actually tried to use these instances in any signific
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Interruptions as part of the natural flow of conversation can pass almost unnoticed, when done appropriately. It is interesting - but mostly frustrating - when people fail at it in a jarring way which comes across as rude. Sadly my wife is
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by Moissanite 4y ago
There is a fair mix of "genuinely complicated ideas" and "aggressively pretentious domain experts". Quantum computing in particular is in the early phase of its hype cycle, and is destined for a big fall. Once it bounces
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Everything is worse than it could have been now, not directly compared to 200 years ago. I find it very hard to believe you didn't understand the suggestion.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
If people truly care about the humanitarian elements of climate change, they should be looking into how to relocate somewhere north of a billion people from Bangladesh and the surrounding area to land which isn't doomed to be underwate
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Depends on what "4 hours per day" really means. If you want an interactive endpoint, putting in the work to set up an ECS task you can start and stop feels like the best approach. If you have longer-running inference tasks and jus
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Shhh, you're not supposed to acknowledge that having a large fraction of tech workers hopped up on goofballs is more about their economic output than their health.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Good points. Totally agree about encryption - I think S3 is a legacy case where SSE-S3 is implemented differently to SSE-KMS, but still I'd be on board with KMS encryption (using an AWS managed key) as the default. Audit logging costs
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Alternative interpretation: for large customers with thousands of accounts, Datadog is too expensive - so small shops are over-represented in their data.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Can you give an example? Everything I can think of is either default-deny or minimally scoped, and "system" IAM roles tend to just not exist until you need them for the first time.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Did you ever try Stadia on hardware similar to these laptops? I did, and to be honest I thought performance was excellent. On my Pixel Slate, my 2015 XPS13, and my M2 MacBook Air - all gave great performance with no observable lag or bandwi
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by Moissanite 4y ago
Exactly. Even for people in those high prestige, high income fields the link between hard work and success is often negligible. Rent-seekers have taken too much, and we need fundamental structural change.
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by Moissanite 4y ago
A phenomenal amount of words are being written about this topic but it seems far simpler to me than most are suggesting. People are sick of those who are already extremely wealthy capturing so much value from economic activity, without trul
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by Moissanite 4y ago
The Azure Met Office win left me very conflicted. As someone who is relatively positive about cloud adoption for science it was good to see some forward thinking. On the other hand, what I've heard about how the procurement was run plu
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by Moissanite 4y ago
The Azure FPGAs are a bit tangential from a customer perspective; they are just the equivalent of the AWS Nitro smart-NIC. Azure IB is interesting in that I originally expected it to be a killer feature, but for customers I work with it jus
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by Moissanite 4y ago
This is the biggest un-addressed problem, IMO. Getting more scientific computing done in the cloud is where we are inevitably trending, but no-one yet has a good answer for completely ad-hoc, low value experimentation and skill building in
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by Moissanite 4y ago
All types of HPC; I'm a sysadmin/consultant. I don't think the problem with the cost gap is overestimating cloud costs but rather underestimating on-prem costs. Also, failing to account for financing differences and opportuni
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by Moissanite 4y ago
This has been my exact field of work for a few years now; in general I have found that: When people claim it is 10x more expensive to use public cloud, they have no earthly idea what it actually costs to run a HPC service, a data centre, or