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by fivea 5y ago
> Is this common in academia? This is extremely common in academia. This is typically used to ensure exceptional long time researchers and PhD students, who already have all the context they need to have, have a shot at staying in the in
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> Chances are nobody is going to apply for a job that doesn’t compensate them? Having "UCLA professor of X" on a CV looks way better than having nothing. Keep things in perspective: there are people who pay large sums of money
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It's as if their bravado rhetoric for internal consumption leaked, but it just ends up looking pathetic and full of despair. It's really a shame that the people of Russia have to be subjected to this humiliation. Russia had an ima
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> Yes, they entered the market around those years, but what does that change? It means the hardware was purchased after it started to be discontinued. It's hardly a reasonable take, and makes little sense, to complain how you can&#
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> I can share with you that my solar-powered Pi3B+ hosting yourdatafitsinram is holding up quite well, being linked to on HN - a funny contrast to the kind of systems it links to in the table. If all a server does is serve mostly static
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by fivea 5y ago
> Systems like Power System E980 can handle up to 64TB RAM, which is a lot of data. Doesn't that kind of system cost millions of dollars? Hadoop and the like are popular because they run on COTS hardware that costs peanuts. It hardl
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> I believed that until I realized I couldn't individually upgrade my CPU or RAM because I have a mobo with LGA1150 socket and only supports DDR3 (and it's only 6 years old). DDR4 was released in 2014, which would suggest you p
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by fivea 5y ago
> To be fair that $2000 also gets you +32GB RAM, +512GB storage, and +10 CPU cores. Even though it's not an apples to apples comparison, keep in mind that a 1x32GB DIMM sells for less than 150$, and you can buy 1TB SSDs for less tha
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by fivea 5y ago
> L1/2/3 are CPU caches, not SSD. Why did you omit the reference to "file system"? Are we supposed to ignore the fact that a linker's main job is reading object files and write the output to a file? I find this s
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> https://github.com/rui314/mold would suggest otherwise. Does it, though? I mean, if you read that link you'll notice it boasts the linker's performance by comparing it with cp and how it's "so
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> Exposing my limited understanding of that level of the computing stack - it is but Apple seems to have very very good caching strategies - filesystem and L1/2/3. That would mean that these comparisons between Threadripper and
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> Is it? It's a double-height Mac mini with more ports and better cooling. Proportions is a central topic in design, and they can make the difference between an elegant design piece and a block. The Mac Studio, regardless of how imp
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> A lot of software does not take good advantage of multiple cores. It sounds pointless to come up with synthetic benchmarks which emulate software that is not able to handle hardware, and then use said synthetic benchmarks to evaluate t
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> The 3990x runs a bit faster on the initial compile stage but the linking is single threaded and the M1 Max catches up at that point. Isn't linking IO-bound?
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> Canada locked down nursing homes completely yet 98.5% of COVID deaths were in nursing homes. Isn't this explained by Canada's outstanding response to COVID that allowed it to have a much lower death rate than analogous countr
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> There has to be some sort of law of the internet that on a long enough timeline the political conversation will converge on modern American politics. The Soviet Union already invented that strategy. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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> They already did something like "jail everyone" in the last century, it's not impossible for them to play by the same book again... Let's rephrase it then: Putin can't jail everyone and still expect to have any
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> Fear, as you say, is the purpose. I would add that multiple aspects of Putin's attack plan for Ukraine relied heavily on its ability to instill fear. Putin's regime expected Zelenski to flee at the sight of Russia's mili
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by fivea 5y ago
> 80% of energy used is in the world is from fossil fuel (...) That's a clear example of lying with statistics, given that only a very limited number of countries in the world started investing in shifting away from fossil fuels. It
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> Why do you mention Chernobyl and Fukushima together? Fukushima basically only did some economic damage, Chernobyl was a catastrophe. Both Chernobyl and Fukushima were disasters. It just so happened that Fukushima also was the final str
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by fivea 5y ago
> How much would renewable cost if it wasn't supported by fossil fuel (e.g. for extracting and processing the resources needed to build solar panel)? I find your comment pointless, given that in a not so distant past the bulk of ene
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by fivea 5y ago
> Solar and wind are cheap, but intermittent. Batteries can help store energy from day to night. You don't need batteries per se, only energy storage systems. Pumped storage, pressurized air, flywheels, ultracapacitors, and of cours
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by fivea 5y ago
> Yes, unfortunately there are no easy solutions to all this. How is Putin ceasing to throw Russia's unwilling and unwitting armed forces onto Ukraine not easy?
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> So it begins... It began the moment Putin decided to invade neighbouring countries. It's as if NATO had a very precise goal.
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> If you write a jpeg-processing service, it’s intuitive to raise an exception on a malformed jpeg (..) Not really. Having to parse a malformed doc is not an exceptional situation: it's a basic use case, and one which is very close
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> The 3D model will differ from the actual construction. From the very beginning and more and more over time. Not really. The point of construction is to turn the "3D model" into reality. Some problems in the original planning
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From the article: > One man – a 33-year-old from Russia, who asked us not to share his name – told me he feels addicted to crypto, and is stuck in a cycle of trying to recover his losses but only losing more in the process. We are at a p
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> Hashim Yasir, 19, is an NFT project founder and crypto trader who lost “a good amount of money” in the recent crash. He tells VICE that it affected his mental health for some time: “[Up until then] I felt like I was finally getting pre
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by fivea 5y ago
> Without wanting to pass judgement but as someone who experienced burnout in past positions, if you don't have the time or energy to do some form of weekly shopping (even if online) and cook some food, it feels to me that the solut
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> If you read this Hetzner, please add managed PG to your cloud! I dare say that if they offered managed Kubernetes with autoscaling at prices not too far away from their Hetzner Cloud offerings (vcpu, IP, block storage, etc) then there

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