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by dis-sys 7y ago
> I think $750 is still a ridiculously good price Threadripper 1950x comes with the same core count, more memory channels, more PCI-E lanes and more memory. You can grab one for $499 from amazon.
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by dis-sys 7y ago
so you silently replaced E5-2696v2 with E5-2690v2 and then took one CPU out of the machine before doing the comparison?
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by dis-sys 7y ago
my oldest Xeon workstation is a dual E5-2696v2 with 128G ECC RAM. it has a total of 24 cores. Compared to that, I am pretty sure most i9-9900k setups are just for kids. ;) the cost of the above xeon system (dual cpu + mb + RAM) is slightly
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by dis-sys 7y ago
old Xeon are not all E6-2680v2 kind of junk, you can buy a pair of used Xeon Platinum 8175M + a decent brand new dual socket motherboard for less than $2,500 USD.
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by dis-sys 7y ago
Rather than keep spreading incorrect info, how about just relax and watch how Tesla's 100% owned factory gets built in China? See below for some weekly drone footage of Tesla Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai under construction [1]. [1] https
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by dis-sys 7y ago
Ren said his daughter (the CFO) is fully prepared to complete a PhD when locked up in prison.
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> A great first step in encouraging technological openness would be dropping the Chinese Firewall[1,2]. A great first step in encouraging technological openness would be dropping the decades long high tech embargo against China.
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> Is that what you’re referring to? yes, they had to introduce that extra hop to workaround the fact that it has 4 less channel compared to the regular 8 channel EPYC.
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by dis-sys 7y ago
Who are "we" here? Readers of hacker news, or your family which you may or may not have the right to represent?
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by dis-sys 7y ago
There are rumors that AMD is not happy with TR2's memory performance as the 4 channel memory controller is the bottleneck, they are probably looking at 8 channel memory option for TR3. ;)
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by dis-sys 7y ago
the problem is new TR is not on their 2019 roadmap PPT
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by dis-sys 7y ago
Last time when I checked, the 11km South West Rail Link in Sydney took 6 years to complete. 12 years after Kevin Rudd promised to build NBN for everyone, after billions of tax $ already spent, my places in inner west Sydney and inner south
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by dis-sys 7y ago
The Beijing-Shanghai line was designed to operate at 350km/h with the plan to upgrade to 380km/h, it was downgraded to 300km/h after the 2011 Wenzhou accident in which 40 people killed.
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> This is just a part of that 'negotiation' strategy. Your explanation doesn't answer the question why Huawei got picked. Huawei products got banned in the US way before the trade war, Huawei's exports to US is pretty
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> Does China gain an advantage, by not using / having access to the same services that the whole rest of the world uses? Of course. Back 15 years ago, no one was developing any serious systems in China, US companies obviously refuse
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by dis-sys 7y ago
what are Apple/Microsoft's domestic partners in China? note that, not talking about Apple's data center partner or Microsoft's cloud partner, just talking about Apple/Microsoft's core business (iphone, mbp, win
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by dis-sys 7y ago
then start to use clean room process to reimplement all future bug fixes? nice!
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by dis-sys 7y ago
The license can change any time they want. They can change the license to prevent certain companies from using future releases and/or security patches. Let's don't forget the fact that Huawei had legally binding contracts wit
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by dis-sys 7y ago
Seeing Huawei got recently blacklisted for all US made chips, parts and some Android services from Google, an interesting question to ask is whether the US government will one day force some foreign companies (e.g. Huawei, ZTE and DJI for e
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> When was the last time mainland China had a leader with a one character given name? The person commonly known as Sun Yat-sen in the west. His given name is 文, he used it to sign all official documents.
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> It would seem to be terribly damaging to Google and Android if they can't convince OEMs that this is something extraordinary that no other OEM will need to worry about. what makes you believe that this is something extraordinary?
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> Singapore, which is quite "China-friendly" is saying exactly that. No, that is a fundamental misjudge. Singapore can be safely regarded as one of major anti China forces in the region. If you just look back several years, Sin
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by dis-sys 7y ago
I read both Chinese/English sources and I am really interested to read your mentioned propaganda. Once your source is provided, those who don't read Chinese can get a little bit help from Google Translate as well, I found its qual
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> a form of fraud in which scammers bribe or trick employees at mobile phone stores into seizing control of the target’s phone number and diverting all texts and phone calls to the attacker’s mobile device. why bother to do that? in aust
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by dis-sys 7y ago
It is done immediately.
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by dis-sys 7y ago
No - it is not a secure personal identifier (in many countries). According to Australian laws, someone can port your mobile number to his/her sim card by filing an online form, as long as they know your date of birth and account number
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> compiler libraries such as LLVM make this a whole lot easier, making it possible for a single person to develop a new language that is close to C in terms of performance. The TinyGo project is interesting, but it is not a new language
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by dis-sys 7y ago
> But once you branch-out to other districts, e.g. Jiading--the industrial district just a few subway stops to the north, it's a different arrangement. Bicycle is fine is many not that great areas, e.g. Zhabei, Yangpu and most part
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by dis-sys 7y ago
oh, you can ask the same question to those millions of Chinese developers forced to work 996. surely that is the solution to the problem.
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by dis-sys 7y ago
As clearly mentioned in the reply, $7,000/month is the fair market rate for someone who can propose/promote/complete such a project with visible impact on the community.

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