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by drewg123 5y ago
4x CX6-DX in a dual-socket Rome. Its mostly an experimental platform, never intended for production, to shake out issues that we'll see when next generation platforms show up with DDR5 and PCIe Gen5. With a current single-socket setu
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by drewg123 5y ago
I came here to make a joke about how quickly you'd blow through your data cap, but the article says: AT&T's announcement said its new fiber plans have "no equipment fees, no annual contract, no data caps, and no price in
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GPU Prices Drop Along with Crypto(tomshardware.com)
12 points by drewg123 5y ago|1 comments
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by drewg123 5y ago
I thought M1 silicon could run amd64/x86_64 efficiently via Rosetta, due to changing the memory ordering model to an x86 one. I was hoping that Parallels could somehow take advantage of that.
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by drewg123 5y ago
Is the VM running arm64 or amd64?
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by drewg123 5y ago
Most of our customizations and modifications have been upstreamed. We get similar performance on production 100g and 200g boxes when running the upstream kernel. I see no reason I shouldn't be able to hit 380Gb/s on a single-so
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by drewg123 5y ago
I came back to FreeBSD when I started at Netflix. Given my "once burned, twice shy" feelings about the ports system, I came back only because FreeBSD has ZFS boot environments, which makes rolling back from a bad update trivial.
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by drewg123 5y ago
Comparing to Linux? No. There are no public numbers. However, I'm up to serving 709Gb/s of TLS encrypted traffic to from a single host to real Netflix customers with FreeBSD.
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by drewg123 5y ago
It depends on your workload. For static content, especially kTLS encrypted static content, FreeBSD is quite a bit better.
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by drewg123 5y ago
I'm a FreeBSD desktop users since 2015 (and 1998->2007 before that), having used Ubuntu LTS as a desktop 2007->2015. What I miss most from Linux is apt/dpkg. I think Ubuntu (debian really) does a fantastic job of packages.
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by drewg123 5y ago
Wow, it looks like its compatible with bpftrace.. That's pretty cool. I wonder why the author didn't use it.
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by drewg123 5y ago
One returns ETIMEDOUT, and the other returns EIO. Even without further understanding the code at this point, we can add two printf calls to identify which path is being followed Printf debugging feels like stepping back in time. I guess
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by drewg123 5y ago
I suspect its the Mike Smith who was a FreeBSD committer and core team member 20-ish years ago.
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by drewg123 5y ago
I agree, the app is horrifically bad. Its hard to find the included content, it takes a long time for it to bring up the description of the video, the play delay is terrible, and it has smooth fast forward/rewind which I personally d
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by drewg123 5y ago
I enjoyed "For All Mankind", "See", and "The Invasion". I get it for free due to a laptop purchase. I'm not sure if I'll pay for it once that runs out..
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by drewg123 5y ago
How does that even work? They require an internet connection and sign in?
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by drewg123 5y ago
That's interesting. I wonder if most of the unvaccinated population has already been infected with an older variant of covid-19, and if that previous infection provides a more effective immune response than the vaccine for omicron?
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by drewg123 5y ago
I wonder how under-reported mild breakthrough cases are, due to self testing? I'm fully vaccinated and boosted, and I had what I suspect is Omicron about 10 days ago. I had a mild fever (approaching, but not reaching 101), a sore thro
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by drewg123 5y ago
I had a dermatologist named Dr. Scales. And an oral surgeon, Dr Paine. Where I grew up there was a chain of funeral homes named "Amigone", run by a family of the same name.
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by drewg123 5y ago
Yes, attrition of hospital staff is terrible. I was hospitalized last fall for a non-covid issue, and a volunteer came into the room who was a retired nurse. She told me that the current patient loads for nurses are about 2x what they wer
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by drewg123 5y ago
Did you take a test? The person I'm staying with also tested positive, but she had no symptoms at all..
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by drewg123 5y ago
I think a lot of this depends on the typical severity of Omicron (and future variants). I'm vaccinated and boosted. I wear a mask in public. I don't go out much. I do travel fairly regularly (fly maybe 1-2x per month). I finall
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by drewg123 5y ago
These programs are worth billions for larger airlines according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_revenue When there are billions at stake, it does not strike me as a stretch that the credit card partners wou
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by drewg123 5y ago
I agree 100% with the author -- logo as a child is what started me on programming. My first programming experience was in ~1981 or so when my elementary school teacher brought an Apple II into our classroom. She was getting her MS in educ
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by drewg123 5y ago
Chase seems to be one of Air Canada's credit card rewards program partners[1]. My guess is that this relationship has something to do with Chase's refusal to issue a chargeback. [1] https://www.aircanada.com/us&#x2
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by drewg123 5y ago
Who else thought they were talking about the Linux kernel network driver NAPI? ("New API")?
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by drewg123 5y ago
The folks who are in a financial position to afford private flights are the same folks to fly first class and use airline lounges. Both of them have gotten far, far worse since the start of the pandemic. Food and beverage options in first
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by drewg123 5y ago
I'm still peeved at what happened to my company around ~2006 or so which resulted in the exact same situation in the article. In my case: Company A submits a driver with a feature in their driver that basically triples performance for
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by drewg123 5y ago
Not a sysadmin horror story, but I remember as an undergrad in the late 80s / early 90s what happened to me when i left my terminal unattended. Every time I ran my project via "a.out", I would see "Segmentation fault:
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by drewg123 5y ago
TL;DR: Vendor's driver performs far better than what's upstream. This is what happens when the kernel community is confrontational and generally a pain in the neck to deal with. After enough friction caused by the netdev folks,

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