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by devonkim 7y ago
Which Microcenter location though? The Fairfax one the employee in the section on Sunday said the two boxes in the floor cases were 3700X and not 3900X because the boxes for the 3900X are larger.
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by devonkim 7y ago
I am genuinely intrigued. I've been going to my local Microcenters in the DC VA area for weeks now and they said they have gotten ZERO shipments in since release day of the 3900X and have a couple 3700X maybe on shelves. This doesn&#x2
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by devonkim 7y ago
Come on, "literally no reason"? Maybe because AMD can't keep up with demand for their new CPUs. I can't buy a Ryzen 3900X without paying substantially inflated ebay prices, the BIOS issues out of the gate are super annoy
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by devonkim 7y ago
Maybe I’m too much of a sysadmin but this looks like they’re trying to make a successor to the SATA DOM form factor that also works for embedded use cases.
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by devonkim 7y ago
We are pretty close to someone saying they actually tried doing this commercial https://youtu.be/YHQXBAjkmOQ
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by devonkim 7y ago
You bring up a good point that some kinds of projects simply take a great deal of time and resources to advance the industry. Millions of token indie games aren’t going to change AAA gaming any more than millions of screenplays will change
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by devonkim 7y ago
I dropped Dropbox on Linux for (of all irony) OneDrive and am working through configuring the client that’s on Github.
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by devonkim 7y ago
Because Jenkins has its own ssh client, that wasn't supported as of last year with elliptic curve based keys and I had to re-launch a bunch of servers in production to downgrade back to RSA or DSA keys because they were basically the o
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by devonkim 7y ago
Things are not quite cut and dry operationally. Some places may have only a few hundred MB of data but they need really high availability and performance (probably picked the wrong solution IMO but still...) which is better guaranteed hosti
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by devonkim 7y ago
Thrift, ProtoBufs, and Avro solve the messaging compatibility layer problem at least (optional fields in a schema are all you need 99%+ of the time) and so far nothing out there has managed to solve any data schema incompatibility problem a
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by devonkim 7y ago
The PCG line with Transmeta Crusoe processors. I had one for a stint. Fun machines https://www.zdnet.com/product/sony-vaio-pcg-c1ve/
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by devonkim 7y ago
CORBA and the object mapping model (similar to the issues of ORMs) is what led to the dreaded ClassCastException problems that required every service to re-deploy at once which was completely broken and indicative of the architects being en
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by devonkim 7y ago
They’re an enterprise multi-channel marketing company (e-mail, SMS). They’re one of the biggest in the industry. Formerly known as AppBoy.
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by devonkim 7y ago
Perhaps the surface area business value proposition to paying customers is the incorrect place to look for innovation? RedHat has done a tremendous amount for the Linux kernel over decades, and Ansible was basically a RedHat employee projec
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by devonkim 7y ago
The problem with any M&A is no different than what happens in marriages - do the two blend together, does one dominate the other's culture, etc? The truth is that IBM's history (and to be fair, almost all 10-figure+ market cap
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by devonkim 7y ago
Trackpad no, but the IBM / Lenovo X1 Carbon series were pretty solid laptops for a while and also quite expensive for years. And more recently the Surface Book models have been really nice to work with if it weren’t for pesky power man
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by devonkim 7y ago
More like I need hardware that Just Works (a lot of Windows laptops that are of similar quality to MacBooks were nearly the same price, go figure) a native POSIX-like environment that works mostly with my Linux-centric tools and don’t like
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by devonkim 7y ago
Economists have not necessarily been blind to social needs - policy makers and politicians benefiting from a revolving door of oligarchs enabled by various institutions culturally stationed to manipulate a larger population into working und
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by devonkim 7y ago
I’d argue “wasting money” with higher wages for employees is more of an indicator of being comfortable in its business model and margins rather than just a few people paid millions. For example, Costco seems a lot healthier than Walmart and
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by devonkim 7y ago
QLC literally drops write endurance by an order of magnitude but most consumers won’t be hit by it. Most of the performance is from the SLC cache and it tanks once it gets full or with sustained usage. The bet is that won’t matter for 99% o
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by devonkim 7y ago
SSDs were held up in prices artificially for a while related to the memory price inflation that happened throughout 2018 and some of 2017. QLC was mentioned but prices are down across the board and everything in consumer land is down sharpl
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by devonkim 7y ago
Apple’s taken one step forward with the iPad Pro being USB C based at least.
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by devonkim 7y ago
I was asking somewhat rhetorically but am glad to see that there’s some serious efforts going into weak supervision. At the risk of goalpost moving, I am curious who besides those in the Bay Area at the cutting edge are working on this perv
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by devonkim 7y ago
I watched a talk by someone in the intelligence community space nearly 8 years ago talking about the data dirt that most companies and spy agencies are combing through and the kind of abstract research that will be necessary to turn that in
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by devonkim 7y ago
Furthermore, as computers get faster and cheaper in every dimension what makes economic sense to use “Big Data” tooling and efforts gets substantially larger with it. The limits of single nodes 15 years ago were pretty serious but most prob
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by devonkim 7y ago
Prior to WWI Americans typically self-identified among their ancestral lineage like Irish-American, German-American, Italian-American. It took a war and the associated shared trauma and government propaganda machine to start developing a di
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by devonkim 7y ago
We already know within the US that it doesn’t work though - the poorest with the worst diets (not on subsistence farming here, key point) have the most unplanned pregnancies which lead to lack of economic advancement in our current incentiv
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by devonkim 7y ago
Every other person I know that goes to Iceland subsists off of hot dogs. For dining out at restaurants in Reykjavik, the cost has been comparable to tipping well at middle to mid-upper US metro establishments that aren’t chain restaurants (
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by devonkim 7y ago
That's the story that we have as the public - Slack started as a chat feature within another project. Similarly, Youtube's supposed origin story is that it was the video part of a dating app. At that time, online dating apps were
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by devonkim 7y ago
I expect front end people to be able to fire up developer tools and tell me where to troubleshoot slow network responses definitively as DNS related before filing a support ticket saying “my queries are slow because of DNS.” I wound up trai

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