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by cwyers 8y ago
> Fast forward almost 30 years to 2019. A typical commercial cloud VM “core” is a hyperthread of a 2.5Ghz to 3.5Ghz (turbo) physical processor core with 2GB-14GB RAM per core and effectively infinite storage via cloud storage, though loc
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by cwyers 8y ago
Elsewhere he talks about how subsamples are chosen because they take but seconds to run instead of minutes. If a sample is small enough that you're saving that much time, and analysis is that cheap, you can still do five-fold or ten-fo
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by cwyers 8y ago
Except CPUs hit 3ghz back in 2002 and have, in terms of what most of us use, stayed there. The grown in CPU clock cycles has not kept pace with the improvements in CPU speed that have come from superscalar CPU designs and specialized instru
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by cwyers 8y ago
Is... is the author judging the change in storage versus compute by comparing the size of disk drives to the... Ghz of processors involved? > My IBM PS/2 Model 55SX desktop in 1990 had a 16Mhz CPU, 2MB of RAM and a 30MB hard drive.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Yeah. And I mean, they called it Hatreon. "What if Patreon but for hate" is _the brand_. They weren't subtle.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I don't know. I've played games where the engine had no name, and games where the studio-made engine had a name, and games where they licensed an engine and made it work. And I don't think there has been any kind of a trend i
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by cwyers 8y ago
Diversify to what, though? A portfolio of Treasury bonds and Monopoly money is not meaningfully diversified. If there is no other way to monetize video content than YouTube, there's no meaningful diversification you can do. You either
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by cwyers 8y ago
The original Bitcoin paper is all about payments: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf If Bitcoin isn't any good for that, it's kind of a failure.
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by cwyers 8y ago
The fundamental issue here is simple: 1) In 2019, in order to be secure, a computer needs some bare minimum of sysadmin. 2) Computers are like people -- herd immunity helps a lot. Unmaintained PCs are not merely a threat to their owners, bu
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by cwyers 8y ago
https://medium.com/@cfatechblog/bare-metal-k8s-clustering-at... Of all things, the Chik-fil-A tech blog gives a pretty good explanation of why you might want this.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Hy-Vee has Blue Apron-style meal kits in most stores now: https://www.hy-vee.com/mealtime/ They're also opening up Hy-Vee Fast and Fresh stores, which are smaller locations built around these and other premade hea
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by cwyers 8y ago
Yeah. There's two things here that can be conflated. For instance, here's the ingredient list of La Choy soy sauce: Water, Hydrolyzed Soy Protein, Corn Syrup, Salt, Caramel Color, Lactic Acid, Potassium Sorbate (Preservative). Con
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by cwyers 8y ago
> If you need an always-connected phone capable of making calls from the side of the road or wherever you happen to be, WiPhone is not that phone. However, if you're like most of us, 80% or more of your time is spent near accessable
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by cwyers 8y ago
The story of Saturn is a lot more complicated than that, and it seems like corporate (and union) politics played a much bigger role than the profitability of the cars: https://www.newsweek.com/how-gm-crushed-saturn-77093
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by cwyers 8y ago
I've had that game in mind for a while, ever since I heard about it from them calling out Sony for only enabling cross-play for the big publishers. I think between that and this, it's pushing me to buying it.
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by cwyers 8y ago
This article hits one of my biggest pet peeves -- _tell the reader what you're about_. Presumably, the reason you have this on the Hasura blog is at least in part lead generation, right? And it worked, in that I showed up on Hasura&#x2
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by cwyers 8y ago
Since the workers are stateless, you may want to have your services closer to the data store, instead of the user.
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by cwyers 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the game plus season pass was $80 at launch. Where are you getting $200 from? And what is someone _doing_ if they can burn through a game like Odyssey in a week? According to How Long To Beat, even if you skip the side
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by cwyers 8y ago
I feel like I'm way out of touch with what I read online about game prices, and I don't think that I'm looking at things wrong. Games still cost about what they did when I was a teenager -- which is to say game prices haven&#
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by cwyers 8y ago
> 1. Flour tortilla -- made in Brooklyn by a small plant that sells them to bodegas and small supermarkets. In a strange coincidence I used to walk by that plant and I talked to the family that owns it. The tortilla contains the followin
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by cwyers 8y ago
This is why I haaaaaaaaate the Jamie Oliver chicken nuggets video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKwL5G5HbGA Except for the part where the kids totally no sell his smug act and he just stands there dumbstruck. Those chicke
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by cwyers 8y ago
> a) Similar to Reddit’s gold, if you want to support Aether, you can buy a 'unique’ username (with a checkmark, like Twitter) that makes you the unique owner of that username for the donation duration. If you want to do so, check o
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by cwyers 8y ago
To be clear, Castle Wolfenstein and its sequel were written by Silas Warner and published by Muse Software, which went out of business in 1987 after going through Chapter 7 bankruptcy. Because the trademark was lapsed, Id was able to use th
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by cwyers 8y ago
Linux didn't start off competing with Windows, it started off competing with commercial UNIX. (Most people were running Linux on hardware that had Windows licensing costs rolled in.) The price gap between Linux and a "real" U
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by cwyers 8y ago
I have worked with database code that was meant to only work with the database it was running on, and database code that was meant to be agnostic to what database you used. I always thought that the costs of the second were underappreciated
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by cwyers 8y ago
That's amazing.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Canada's largest Bitcoin exchange has lost $190 million in assets because its founder died and nobody else has access to the cold storage wallets. https://www.ccn.com/190m-gone-how-canada-biggest-bitcoin-exc... Traditi
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by cwyers 8y ago
Movies Anywhere does this for supported movies (which is not as many movies as I'd like it to be, to be sure). I can buy a movie on Vudu and watch it on Amazon Video or Microsoft's video stores (Windows/Xbox) or I think on iT
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by cwyers 8y ago
File sizes, basically. The marginal benefits of streaming music over downloading it are small. Consumers are willing to pay for streamed video over downloads.
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by cwyers 8y ago
Movies would come with UltraViolet codes, which you would enter into the website, and then you would be able to watch the movies on linked retailers (mainly Vudu). It's largely been replaced by Movies Anywhere, which Disney spearheaded

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