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by ajdlinux 9y ago
There's not much by way of production grade QUIC server software available at present.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Correction: While Nvidia is a member of the OpenCAPI Consortium and thus doing work on OpenCAPI, at present the interface between the Nvidia Teslas and POWER9 chip is NVLink 2.0. On POWER9, both NVLink 2.0 and OpenCAPI are implemented using
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
MSB0 is convention in basically all IBM documentation (including PowerPC/Power Architecture stuff), hence all the Freescale/NXP PPC manuals follow. The main practical problem with MSB0 is that you need to consider the width of wha
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Pretty much all new deployment of Power that IBM has sold since the release of POWER8 is little endian. Distro support is very quickly shifting to be little endian only as well. (disclaimer: IBMer)
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Pro tip: if you're going to visit Beijing, do what I did and accidentally schedule your trip over the same dates as a major diplomatic summit. It was blue sky all week during APEC 2014, then on the last day before I headed for Seoul, i
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
You need both. According to https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301 : > CVE-2017-5715 (variant #2/Spectre) is an indirect branching poisoning attack that can lead to data leakage. This attack allows for a vir
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
IBM talks about a metric called "quantum volume" that combines number of qubits with error rate to summarise useful computing performance. See https://dal.objectstorage.open.softlayer.com/v1/AUTH_039c3bf... (
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I'd rely on the fact that the company contact page lists "Sydney (HQ)" as the first office, followed by "San Francisco (HQ)" and then the non-HQ offices, as an assertion that they consider themselves to be an Austra
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
TechnologyOne (ASX:TNE), an enterprise software company focused on government/public sector, has a market cap of AU$1.56bn.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
A few years ago, some friends and I entered a local government innovation competition, made a "bid", gave a presentation and were selected to deliver a proof of concept. We incorporated pretty much immediately upon being advised o
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Since there doesn't appear to be a link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01275
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
GP didn't say the top end was efficient, just that their results were excellent.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Remember the Digg vs Slashdot wars as well?
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
The fraud is ultimately paid for by the userbase (cardholders and merchants) as a whole through paying fees. (Of course, whether a reduction in fraud cost results in a decrease in fee burden or an increase in issuer profits...)
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
And when done wrong ...
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
One of my bigger regrets of my undergraduate degree was not realising how you could interact with the faculty until my second and third years (when I ended up on the student club committee). Had I figured that out in first year, I think I w
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
What's changed in this advisory since it was first issued November 20? Just more vendor links?
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Lyrebird's website leaves me with no confidence whatsoever that they understand the ethical implications of the technology they're developing or that they are working to develop their technology in such a way as to address those c
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
It's probably long enough to get a company to the point where the company can sponsor you for a longer term visa.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I hear this argument from my colleague who runs his mining rigs on a solar PV setup. Given how quickly we as a civilisation need to be moving away from fossil fuels, I don't buy that this is a better use than using your solar PV panels
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
The IBM mainframes that run most of the global financial system and maintain a few orders of magnitude more of global wealth are reasonably power hungry, yes, but I don't think the system averages consumption of kilowatt hours of ene
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Power9 to the People(nextplatform.com)
125 points by ajdlinux 9y ago|89 comments
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
One aspect of the half-empty version is that if you don't feel you're good at something it can discourage you from even trying to push the limits. I think I've noticed this a bit in myself - before I had broadband internet I
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
> the west is slightly better in that you may not be sent to jail over a dissenting opinion As someone who is personally a big fan of not going to jail, I consider this more than "slightly" better
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
By comparison, here in Australia, for federal elections, pay rates for polling officials working on election day range from AUD$409 up to AUD$989 + $63 retirement superannuation. $100 is just astoundingly low.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
> Anyone remember the Bitcoin faucets? I logged in to my Coinbase account for the first time in years this week. What was $0.01 worth of Bitcoin from a faucet is now worth $0.20. Incredible ROI!
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
Australian immigration and customs officials will supply translations of the main forms for all the major European and Asian languages that travellers tend to speak and interpreters for cases where they're considering refusing clearanc
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
The bigger difference, to me, isn't so much that the walled-garden ecosystems restrict a phone/tablet's use as a general-purpose computer, than the form factors and interfaces of the device being appropriate for different for
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
My primary recollection of Wave was that it ran really slowly on the browsers and computers I had at the time, which also wouldn't have helped.
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by ajdlinux 9y ago
I partly agree with you, but I think people are also interested in how a sudden and unexpected departure would play out. If Linus Torvalds wanted to retire and spend the rest of his life diving rather than maintaining the kernel, I expect t

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