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by dis-sys 8y ago
anandtech is reporting that the chip might be for the LGA2066 platform[1] for home use. ;) Before you get too excited, the current generation of 28-core xeon running at 2.5G costs you over $10k each [2]. I won't be too surprised if Int
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ballmer will have a heart attack.
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Wondering whether Microsoft has ever acquired any major open source project/product? from memory, minecraft/skype/github are all closed source stuff. It is also pretty amazing that Microsoft still refuses to open source any o
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> China has fewer doctors and nurses per capita That explains why the public spending on healthcare is less - less doctors/nurses per capita, together with far less pay for doctors/nurses. the 1.6 doctors per 1000 population vs
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> Beijing has signaled to investors like Alibaba that it has chosen a winner, and that it will never let SenseTime fail. Chinese government invested in many startups, the best example is probably Deng Yaping's search engine company
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doctors in the west get paid top $, while Chinese dentists/doctors are getting paid much lower, e.g. far lower than PHP programmers.to give you a quick example: it costs up to $1,000-$2,000 to remove a bad wisdom tooth in Sydney, it is
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by dis-sys 8y ago
Interesting! they are offering 22-cores Power9 chip for $2.5k each, that is significantly cheaper than a 22 cores Xeon (2696v4). can't wait to see some benchmark results showing what you can get from a dual 22-cores Power9. too bad tha
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by dis-sys 8y ago
He didn't do anything wrong and the way and excuses how Google refuses to provide any support for their paying customers is just not acceptable. It is pretty clear that Google refuses to provide any support to actually minimize its own
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by dis-sys 8y ago
What I am trying to point out is that bittorrent is a well established protocol with a long list of client implementations[1]. 17 years[2] after the release of its original client in python, a particular library implementing the exact same
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I did that more than 10 years ago using libtorrent. In 2018, an article on how to write a bittorrent client using an existing library is not that cool any more.
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Great news! I think Amazon should provide more specs on those NVME drivers. what kind of R/W latency/max bandwidth/low and high QD throughput I can expect?
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it is a cancer. those rubbish bikes are probably not cleaned for 12-18 months, half of them are broken due to the lack of maintenance, most of them are now full of illegal advertisement stickers with hookers cell phone numbers. just disgust
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> it is obvious that the United States is capable and willing to throttle China on these "already substantial, but heading for decline things-that-matter markets" that is not very smart. the ZTE drama is a wake up call for Chin
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> The Wassenaar Arrangement bans the export of many high end equipments necessary for chip making to China. While all the other countries/regions can specialize in one part of the semiconductor industry, China has to do all of them
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I won't call it a consumer SSD, it beats most enterprise SSDs in mixed workload and Q1D1 workload.
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Smartphone maker Xiaomi is rushing to get its IPO done, the market is betting a $100 billion valuation [1]. This reminds me what its founder Lei Jun said a few years ago - "Even a pig can fly if it is in the middle of a whirlwind"
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by dis-sys 8y ago
This article is really good with lots of details in those linked discussions. wondering what happens to other critical libraries such as RocksDB/LevelDB, what actually happens when there is hardware error not limited to unplugged usb c
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this is like writing a PS4 emulator for Gameboy.
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more than 20 trillion public debt as of today, and it is increasing faster. Eventually, the federal revenue is going to be less than the interests that need to be paid annually. what US is going to do about it? explain to debt collectors th
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those eventually end up in exports are usually not counted as imports, because such chips stay in those so called tariff-free zone to be used in production and then shipped overseas without clearing custom twice. domestic consumption is als
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> If North Korea offers to denuclearize then there will be huge pressure on the US to withdraw from South Korea. then just borrow more money to maintain the presence there. when US treasury bond yield is reaching 3% and the public debt i
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> There were numerous attempts by Xinhua University Group in the past to launch memory businesses. Judging by that those fabs stand dark for years, none of them succeeded, and a lot of taxpayers money just got wasted again. That is the e
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by dis-sys 8y ago
When the $ spent on importing chips is more than the amount spent on importing oil, you know full well that that there is no real alternative but to invest heavily into the semiconductor industry. In 2016, $227 billion worth of chips were i
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by dis-sys 8y ago
AMD's share price is still 75% lower than its peak achieved after the release of AMD64/AMD X2.
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yet the same people are jumping up and down lecturing Chinese about how bad is the CCP. I thought it is up to them to judge that.
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> America's respect for individual liberty and the rule of law has eroded over the years, but it is still considerably stronger than what's found in China. individual liberty such as those mass shootings protected by the consti
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by dis-sys 8y ago
> If I were ordered to do something that deeply immoral by the state I might pretend I was going to comply, but only long enough to pack a "go bag" and get myself and my family out of the country. explain these to those killed
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Battle City clone using React(shinima.pw)
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This article has the lowest quality ever seen on HN. The title is hugely exaggerated. Using a list of proxies and hope that is enough to scrape _anything_ on web?
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> If we came here with very little (my parents arrived with $200 in their pockets), worked hard, and eventually became successful then why can't other people do the same. such logic error is called "survival bias" - they

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