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by devonkim 6y ago
Caches in web architectures seem to be similar to NUMA style addressing and makes me think that cache invalidations in web should have failovers to an L2 or L3 if the L1 is gone differentiating between an expected invalidation or an unexpec
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by devonkim 6y ago
We have things like cybersecurity insurance that's required to be carried for vendors when working with the government, but much greater investment in both private and public sectors into secure coding and operational practices (namely
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by devonkim 6y ago
Sometimes attacks are probes and discoveries meant to determine or validate efficacy of a set of attack vectors including but not limited to human assets. Other uses are for distractions from other efforts. And yeah, sometimes they’re prank
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by devonkim 6y ago
At the moment when PC GPU prices are going through the roof into insanity territory, Stadia and its hardware requirements seems like a great idea in comparison to paying $2k for a GPU to play almost any title fairly smoothly at 4k on a shin
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by devonkim 6y ago
In the US, electricity rates are typically much cheaper than the EU. My rate is roughly .08 €/kWh, for example, and I don't get any subsidies to convert to solar, so I have no way to make it pay off for myself within 15 years (bey
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by devonkim 6y ago
Manassas just elected its first Democrat mayor in like 100 years, for what it’s worth. The area isn’t as prosperous as the rest of NoVA but it’s kind of being forced to stop being looked at as a slum. Home prices YoY led the entire state th
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by devonkim 6y ago
If I had known he was literally down the road from me I’d have tried to pay my respects earlier and didn’t catch this in local news at all. It’s not that bad here probably compared to 10 years ago, especially with the VRE train routes to DC
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by devonkim 6y ago
The current problem is that we don’t have a reliable, scalable way to merge in features of knowledge engines that have ontological relationships of entities with generative engines that are good for making more natural looking or sounding q
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by devonkim 6y ago
A system of laws people agree to. Many Americans clearly don’t want to live by the same set of laws and so secession is coming back again. The tribalism currently being shown is that people almost discriminate viscerally more on basis of po
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by devonkim 6y ago
It’s important to defend the product and the software ecosystem because so many people are confusing AWS’s offering with what the current state of the system is. It’s so bad that some people actually think that AWS _is_ the developer of Ela
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by devonkim 6y ago
It’s a complex question but the problem is that _everyone_ that points out one reason or another is usually right - we disagree upon which factor is the biggest. Malpractice, bloated administrations in insurance and hospitals (just like our
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by devonkim 6y ago
This seems to be a longstanding trend in game dev houses across the industry worldwide, so the question is whether it was sufficient enough to cripple Cyberpunk development into its current state and whether the churn was worse than industr
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by devonkim 6y ago
Yeah, the other situation is that PC players have oftentimes gotten buggy and unplayable ports from consoles for years, and now that a PC first development studio wound up screwing console players first it’s much more visible and the outcry
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by devonkim 6y ago
The total cost of healthcare is high and allocated all over the place in the US depending almost solely upon the mercy of one's employer. From a total systemic cost the US has the highest cost in the world per person on every metric po
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by devonkim 6y ago
Sid Meier also worked with the Firaxis folks on the recent XCOM reboot and this is well known and documented now how the stats work out in the game and how the game will cheat for the player eventually on lower difficulties. Nothing more fr
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by devonkim 6y ago
Productivity is a measure I hate to use for individuals because it’s similar to the problem of root cause analysis in systems - our individual productivity comes from many different levers and influences and we tend to act like what works f
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by devonkim 6y ago
When one has eliminated competition in its operating markets, public perception doesn’t matter anymore.
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by devonkim 6y ago
It doesn’t work if the step blocks, needs some error handling, etc. Then comes the fun of writing yet another deployment system that fails to learn from other systems. Why we keep reinventing wheels in infrastructure management and control
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by devonkim 6y ago
A lot of people seem to miss that one of the primary points of using K8S is that it’s a PaaS. Instead of relying upon cloud provider based services one could use K8S constructs and make it easier to port applications and services across hos
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by devonkim 6y ago
As an ops and infrastructure engineer I cringe every time people talk about trying to automate all these processes early in the life of an organization or if there’s zero way for the company to have explosive growth. Not every company is g
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by devonkim 6y ago
There's enough break-downs I'm seeing where these new cards aren't really caught up with the newest RTX cards because DLSS 2.0 is the big differentiator and stuff like nVidia Broadcast just aren't there for AMD. The othe
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by devonkim 6y ago
A long time ago when I was writing Verilog and VHDL what people were doing beyond the 1Bn gate (I still keep using gates rather than transistors as a unit, funny) scale were statistical sampling methods to try to uncover certain stuck &#x2F
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by devonkim 6y ago
In a more general sense, these are all various attachments people and society drives people to have. This isn’t to say that indifference to our world is the path that makes sense - this would be a fast way toward suicide. Rather, a life of
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by devonkim 6y ago
Sysadmins were supposed to “go away” after transitioning to the cloud. Instead, what I’ve observed is that so many years ago companies hired more and more developers that wound up trying to solve problems sysadmins long ago solved with litt
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by devonkim 6y ago
Vowel lengthening matters in Korean technically but is more often context-sensitive than length sensitive like it regularly is in Japanese for reasons I don’t know. 눈 can mean snow or eye in Korean depending upon how long you extend the vow
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by devonkim 6y ago
While I’m all in favor of fixing externalities in capitalism it’s tough to see how to offset this carbon tax without hurting the poor. This is part of why even conservative think tanks (the folks supporting carbon taxes anyway) are coming a
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by devonkim 6y ago
Sounds about the same as generalized AI in time tables
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by devonkim 6y ago
The best video I saw for XCOM TFTD was this strategy guide for terror cruise ship attacks https://youtu.be/WziO005uM3g The problem with TFTD was that it crossed the time-reward curve threshold for many missions. The feedbac
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by devonkim 6y ago
This is the reason for “root cause analysis” being obsolete and against best practices for complex systems. The practice seems to be something that less sophisticated management wants for a political scapegoat rather than to actually solve
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by devonkim 6y ago
Hashicorp’s hosted Terraform service has cost estimation built in nowadays and you can setup Sentinel rules to keep people from deploying infrastructure changes that are beyond a certain cost ceiling (or below)

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