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by discodave 5y ago
You mean T4 and U5! Oh wait, pretty sure those are EC2 instance types. :p
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by discodave 5y ago
With Nitro they disclosed that every EC2 machine deployed in the last 5+ years has at least one ARM chip because each server has a nitro card. So reading the tea leaves... the first generation of EC2 ARM (a1) could have been almost as s
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by discodave 5y ago
You can look at the EC2 t instance series to see how AWS might think about constraining resources. All Intel t instances, like t2, or t3 give you two hyperthreads, but cap your CPU utilization. Lambda runs on EC2...
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by discodave 5y ago
Servers are the #1 expense according to James Hamilton of AWS. But power is important for sure.
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by discodave 5y ago
Or, he likes press releases to distract from other ahem, issues that Tesla has. Like the current court cases about their "self driving" technology. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/tesla-autopilot-sel
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by discodave 5y ago
Great examples! I want to call that "priority inflation" as it sounds similar to the idea of "title inflation".
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by discodave 5y ago
Blog author here: Yeah, I understand the tension idea. But even then, say you had 14 LPs each in tension with another LP. That's a 7-dimensional tension equation to figure out. Say you had 6 LPs in 3 pairs in tension with each other, t
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by discodave 5y ago
That's a nice quote!
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by discodave 5y ago
Yes, spinning rust is still used for low cost storage. You can look up Dropbox Magic Pocket and I think some stuff that AWS has made public about S3.
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by discodave 5y ago
Edit: I did this calculation for the Dropbox migration out of S3 in this blog post: http://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2020-06-21-the-three-fs-o... Short answer: The cost of just the hard drives to replace an $89MM S3
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by discodave 5y ago
I didn't know that, thanks!
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by discodave 5y ago
I never asserted that Amazon's performance management system was effective. (although I worked at a place that never fired anybody and I'm not sure I recommend that either)
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by discodave 5y ago
In my experience at Amazon, line managers (5-20 people) still often act as if they have unregretted attrition goals. It's up to the Sr managers and directors if they spread the 6% goal around all their teams, or let one or two teams &q
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SaaS Sprawl and the Potential for Market Consolidation(platformonomics.com)
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by discodave 5y ago
Because that's how they sell cars, and nobody has gone to jail yet.
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by discodave 5y ago
Can you point to data that shows these systems are currently safer than people? As far as I am aware, neither Uber, nor Google/Waymo, nor Tesla has released data showing these systems are safer than people.
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by discodave 6y ago
They spent a lot of money subsidizing rides. It would be nice if they were making losses to plough money into R&D, but that is/was not the case.
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by discodave 6y ago
I totally agree! I recently wrote a blog post saying something like this: http://blog.drgriffin.com.au/posts/2021-01-13-facts-will-not...
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by discodave 6y ago
That is exactly what the person you're replying to meant.
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by discodave 6y ago
> I think I will always struggle to understand the popularity of the term serverless. AWS marketing is very good. Serverless was a creation of the AWS Lambda team / AWS marketing department "I helped start the serverless moveme
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by discodave 6y ago
This headline is irresponsible. Old people die all the time, lots of people will die shortly after getting the vaccine. Things like car accidents, undiagnosed medical conditions, heart attacks etc. Here is an actual quote from the article:
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by discodave 6y ago
Is this another way of saying "All models are wrong, but some are useful." Us mathematically, and computer inclined people like to think math has a sort of universal truth to it. But it only has truth within the bounds of it'
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by discodave 6y ago
Another example of this strategy is the Reichstag fire. The Nazis blamed it on communists, and used it to claim emergency powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
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by discodave 6y ago
Incorrect, see my other comment.
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by discodave 6y ago
Incorrect, see my other comment.
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by discodave 6y ago
Correct, see my comment above.
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by discodave 6y ago
The three are: Prime, Marketplace (3rd party), AWS. > After two decades of risk taking and teamwork, and with generous helpings of good fortune all along the way, we are now happily wed to what I believe are three such life partners: Mar
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by discodave 6y ago
> Isn't "logistics as a service" pretty much what Fulfillment By Amazon is? There is a lot of crossover between FBA, and a UPS or FedEx, but it's not 100%. FBA is basically B2C, as opposed to B2B or C2C. Back during t
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by discodave 6y ago
I like that idea, just for how crazy it is! My bear case for Intel Web Services would be: 1. As IBM, HP and others discovered, the expertise required to run cloud services is very different from what's required to sell servers (or CPUs
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by discodave 6y ago
In 10 years, the biggest markets will likely be: 1. Mobile (I include cars, IoT etc) 2. Server/cloud (most new servers will be deployed to AWS, MS, Google, and maybe Alibaba) 3. Graphics / ML (you mentioned Nvidia and CUDA) How wo

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