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by aetimmes 7y ago
Reasons this might be a bad idea: * Electricity costs for networking/compute hardware often equal VPS costs * Massive single points of failure WRT power, compute, networking * ISPs don't like when people run their businesses over
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by aetimmes 7y ago
Ugh, does this mean that Cray support is going to go through Unisys now?
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by aetimmes 7y ago
Cray just won a $600M bid for Oak Ridge National Labs' new exaflop HPC cluster using AMD Epyc/Radeon. Most IB cards come from Intel and Mellanox (recently purchased by NVidia). IB is a commodity, sure, but it's becoming incre
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HPE to Acquire Cray(cray.com)
3 points by aetimmes 7y ago|0 comments
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by aetimmes 7y ago
> an overly zealous person who takes politics as a tribal game and has no sincere intention of changing anybody's mind. But he did, didn't he?
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by aetimmes 7y ago
Probably a little bit of both. You can game on RHEL but it wouldn't be my first choice of distro for it - IMO, Ubuntu and Fedora are both better-suited for that task.
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by aetimmes 7y ago
This is going to be a deal breaker for a lot of HPC folks, so it's surprising to me that there isn't an "unofficial official" way to get non-free Nvidia drivers given Guix's aims at reproducible builds for HPC.
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Super Micro Told Suppliers to Move Production Out of China(asia.nikkei.com)
2 points by aetimmes 7y ago|0 comments
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by aetimmes 8y ago
In my experience, the % of students at Princeton using Apple computers is definitely north of 50%. However, given that they're students, I doubt they're the target audience for this utility, since they're likely not homeowner
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by aetimmes 8y ago
Because they're interacting with network stacks using OS-specific interfaces. def enable_ip_forwarding(): os_platform = utils.get_os() if os_platform == 'mac': cmd = ['/usr/sbin&#x2F
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by aetimmes 8y ago
> I've joked that a lot of the nerdy sports like League, Smash, speedcubing, etc. need some crazy Russian coaches. From everything I've read about South Korean Brood War and League of Legends organizations, this thing already e
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by aetimmes 8y ago
Modern HPC is being done with the Nvidia toolkits. Sure, the Nvidia driver is closed-source and a pain to work with for OS developers, but for the use-cases it's designed for (CUDA etc), it's far and away the best-in-class on Linu
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by aetimmes 8y ago
> NFL is the biggest sports in the entire world by revenue by far Source on this? I can't imagine this being true compared to soccer.
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by aetimmes 8y ago
Smart people also have equally as much capacity to accomplish things which most people consider bad. Capability and goodness are generally orthogonal.
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by aetimmes 8y ago
>Given your first line, this sounds like a bad faith suggestion. Why should I walk away from something promising vs helping our team become more productive? You presented two options: stay and try to fire the other guy, or leave. I prese
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by aetimmes 8y ago
Scroll of enchant weapon above +6 has a 2/3 chance of vaporizing the weapon and then a 1/N chance of actually increasing the enchantment by +1, so if you can manipulate RNG you can make sure that you always get the no-vaporize +1
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by aetimmes 8y ago
Consider what "I recommended this guy to be hired, and he recommended me to be fired" will do to your reputation further down the line. You say you're willing to walk away. Do it.
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by aetimmes 8y ago
There's probably some long-term strategizing going on here, as well. The likelihood of a CS undergrad from Princeton creating their own startup that cuts into Alphabet's margins somewhere is much higher than the probability of a s
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by aetimmes 8y ago
Supply, demand, and upside. Movie stars get paid orders of magnitude more than top martial artists/musicians/dancers, so more people try to be actors, so there's a larger market, meaning instructors can charge more. Also depe
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by aetimmes 8y ago
When I was in high school, that superset of debate and Interp events was called forensics, and joining my high school's team was one of the best decisions I ever made. Memories for life and public speaking skills to go with it.
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by aetimmes 8y ago
It's not as though improv teachers are walking around buying luxury vehicles, though. The classes are as expensive as they need to be for the instructors to eat. There's nothing stopping people from starting up a community improv
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by aetimmes 8y ago
The fact that a $16.4B endowment exists doesn't mean that any of it is available to fight a pissing match with Google (whose market cap is still ~45-50x MIT's endowment) - in my experience at a similar institution, I was told &quo
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by aetimmes 8y ago
I imagine the chastity requirement dampens the enthusiasm some.
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by aetimmes 8y ago
Considering the V100 runs around $10-11k and the Titan V provides similar performance for around $3k, the author isn't wrong.
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by aetimmes 8y ago
You do what you should have done in the first place and locate specific problems. If the code is too clever for you, ask them to refactor in a simpler way rather than rejecting outright.
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by aetimmes 8y ago
Funny you should mention that - alacritty just merged their scrollback feature branch into master a couple of days ago.
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by aetimmes 8y ago
>IMO games should encourage ergonomic aids. Why allow the UI to be a limiting factor to how you want to play? For the same reason that sporting organizations regulate the equipment allowed during play - the make sure the playing field is
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by aetimmes 8y ago
I don't see anything that indicates agreement from the author of the post.
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by aetimmes 9y ago
I'd argue that someone needs to needs to make a Google Chat Product equivalent of the Cleveland Browns Quarterback Graveyard jersey ( https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Clb2inPWAAAh3lX.jpg ), but Google seems intent on cir
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by aetimmes 9y ago
Valve have absolutely nailed the consumer-centric business model. Gabe Newell was the first person I heard the concept of "piracy is a service problem" from and they've turned it into their core competency. However, centraliz

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