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by dis-sys 9y ago
S&P is arguably worse - S&P was fined $1.5B for its shameful role before GFC, it refused to downgrade problematic assets because their business revenue relies on all those junk assets being rated AAA[1]. [1] http://www.bb
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by dis-sys 9y ago
Moody's? Is that the same credit rating agency which intentionally inflated credit rating for risky mortgage investment and eventually fined almost $1b[1]? It is just so funny that an agency that has already destroyed its own creditabi
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by dis-sys 9y ago
A 2016 work project I did requires to crawl 100 million web pages from around 100k different web sites each night. There was no existing infrastructure what so ever. I was told that it is a big data project and internet scale processing pow
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by dis-sys 9y ago
Without the so called incremental improvement offered by Ryzen 7, there is no motivation for Intel to drop its prices on 8 cores chips. Intel now has to answer the challenges both on the 8c16t category and 16c32t as well.
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by dis-sys 9y ago
I am excited about the fact that the design is focused on SSD from day one (not just optimised for SSD). Wondering whether the authors have plan to optimise it for Intel Optane which has lower latency and much higher random IOPS at low QD.
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by dis-sys 9y ago
After playing the exact same game on x86 related patents for decades, Intel is now complaining that Qualcomm is doing something similar?
817.
by dis-sys 9y ago
will he/she be called into a HR meeting to make a Performance Improvement Plan? ;)
818.
by dis-sys 9y ago
It is normal to see such data move +/-1% in a few months time. It is far more shocking to see 18% windows users in China are still running their XP. Must be very easy for NSA to do their job.
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by dis-sys 9y ago
Lessons learnt by ransomware developers - rather than using a single pretty arbitrary test, always rely on a more robust statistical model to detect whether your code is running inside a sandbox. Lessons learnt by NSA - never over estimate
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by dis-sys 9y ago
AMD should just drop the support for VME. There is no need to carry such baggage in 2017. If you need to run your legacy systems that require VME: buy yourself a processor designed in 2016.
821.
by dis-sys 9y ago
In linux, you get a nice SIGBUS for unaligned memory access.
822.
by dis-sys 9y ago
When you go to those weekend open inspections in Sydney, you are almost guaranteed to be asked for your postcode. They record that as well. I actually did some experiments - for different properties in roughly the same area/price range
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by dis-sys 9y ago
Jepsen test results basically show that latency caused by replica distance won't screw your data. On the other hand, clock drift can stop your system, or even potentially corrupt your data, depending on how fast such incident can be de
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by dis-sys 9y ago
You can't deploy your MariaDB Galera/MySQL Group Replication systems across the Pacific and then expect it to further scale from there.
825.
by dis-sys 9y ago
I really like the fact that the CockroachDB team recently did a detailed Jepsen test with Aphyr. The follow up articles from both CockroachDB and Aphyr explaining the findings are very interesting to read. For those who might be interested
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by dis-sys 9y ago
People rarely think about the crashes China had in the last 5 decades - the great leap forward movement, the culture revolution, the massive layoff in the mid to late 90s that saw tens of millions out of their jobs. Suddenly the exact same
827.
by dis-sys 9y ago
1. US government is preventing Chinese acquisition of both US and foreign companies. [1] 2. Boeing's assembly line in China is Boeing's only oversea factory. All planes assembled in China are for the Chinese market. [2] 3. US laws
828.
by dis-sys 10y ago
None. My question is what is the advantage of upgrading Intel (quad core) processors every 3-4 years? I bought i7-4770 almost 4 years ago, I couldn't name any single application that is too slow to run on i7-4770 due to its single core
829.
by dis-sys 10y ago
I won't call it a normal nvme. Companies don't make/sell nvme SSD with such awful sequential R/W performance. On the other hand, its random write performance at low QD is not matched by any competitor. It is $45 unit pri
830.
by dis-sys 10y ago
I am using Optane Memory as a 16GBytes SSD with very good write latency. In more details, I am using it with my Raft[1] library implemented in Golang. Raft log entries are saved into RocksDB with fsync enabled, it is basically a I/O la
831.
by dis-sys 10y ago
You mean Intel doesn't want to tell the _full_ story? I have to agree with you on that. Official statement from Intel included below - "A system that is Intel® Optane™ memory ready includes: a 7th Gen Intel® Core™ processor, an In
832.
by dis-sys 10y ago
Bought my Q6600 quad core processor 10 years ago. 10 years on, Intel still refuses to make 8 core processors mainstream to PC. Lucky enough, I don't have to listen to Intel's stories on why 8 cores are not useful for PC, I can pay
833.
by dis-sys 10y ago
so.. patent laws are so broken that patent trolls are everywhere suing startups to get $ from them. google now has a business that can directly benefit from such increasing number of patent trolls. sounds not very inspiring to me. who is al
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by dis-sys 10y ago
Here comes one interesting problem - as an economic rival to China, if the US keeps refusing to sell its techs/high tech products to China, what US can really do about the current trade deficit with China? For the general tech transfer