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by fock 4y ago
got a Fujitsu S740 for about 40USD (used, 2.5 y.o.). It's a thinclient (similar to the T620 below) and as such sadly doesn't have Wifi-onboard (but 1 SATA M.2 and 1 E-Key inside). Otherwise beats any SBC by an order of magnitude p
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by fock 4y ago
yes, pay is obviously an issue (likely also for the HPC-center - though I would take a job if they agreed that I can hire/apprentice people properly (a lot of the grunts education focusses on clicking through menus and nothing more tod
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by fock 4y ago
well, it's supermicro for us but indeed a good deal (2x 7713 and 512GB memory at 15k each - somehow the vendor (big reseller) was 30% cheaper than all others). Still list prices are a a bad joke with other OEMs and the rebates are real
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by fock 4y ago
there is no money for dedicated techs nowadays. Also hiring a competent sysadmin to do on-prem HPC-Linux might prove challenging. And while it is grunt work sometimes (but more so is academic research in lab, which to 90% could be rationali
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by fock 4y ago
we just bought the same (-some memory) for 200k dollars. Dark fibre costs maybe USD2000 (hard to come by numbers) per 50miles/per month and then those 4 servers at each location don't really need a fancy server room...
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by fock 4y ago
they however need the quotes. Otherwise you drown in noise about the great cloud. Have you tried searching for performance figures without disabling amazon, azure and google in the search? You won't find any. Still it's probably j
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by fock 4y ago
curiously at the small chair I work, the professor goes against that flow and we do our small cluster all on our own. We also don't have much money (small), so dedicating probably half a year of state-funded PhD-time paid off (still qu
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by fock 4y ago
hey - it's using bazel, that makes things great. Well, bazel won't work on your system, because protobuf needs a patch for a new libc. Why didn't you use Ubuntu? Now it builds! Oooh, wait they are vendoring protobuf in tensor
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by fock 4y ago
for that price, you probably can buy 3 equivalent machines, a consulting shop to setup redundancy (this thing isn't!), install a living cabin to your colo and have someone sitting there on watch 24/7... (should have read the licen
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by fock 4y ago
> I fear there is no strength behind any pendulum swing back to architectural simplicity, appreciation of the available capacity of hardware and how to use it, and local-first. I'm pretty sure, the ecological devastation we are livi
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by fock 4y ago
> GNOME has kind of always been on the opposite end of the configurability spectrum from KDE, IME. which gets weird, when they push on you things like: - opening WiFi-portals in whatever crap browser your distro ships with GTK. Executin
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by fock 4y ago
I don't know, but I guess that the intricacies of tax law are written down. And to study that ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/1/112b here?) you need to be able to be quite proficient at reading.
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by fock 4y ago
> They don't call him a genius though no, but about half the other posts here do - so I put down what my perception of the case is. > with emphasis on his business acumen To me, the business acumen of his parents seems a lot high
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by fock 4y ago
Well, to understand tax law, you need to understand language quite well (see another post these days on the frontpage...) - which usually comes with some skills in applying it. It smells a bit fishy, if you claim a person can do the first,
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by fock 4y ago
> that means fundamentalist indoctrination, no math, no history, near illiteracy, it looks like it was the same here. He essentially practiced the life of a middle age peasant. I guess many had their farm going by the age of 12 ... and p
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by fock 4y ago
So, as a European I read: mormon paper (Deseret...) hails parents who made their child work their farm. Because reading things like: > His spelling and grammar lagged behind grade level. He consistently misspelled the word “business,” an
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by fock 4y ago
the S-Bahn there actually has a DB-provided live-map https://s-bahn-muenchen-live.de I don't know, if they have an open API though (Google of course gets access. Which is......)
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by fock 4y ago
funny if you think that you can hire 2-3 FTE engineers for that hardware easily anywhere non-SV. And then (still) can afford to buy a bit of colocation, fibre and compute (200k for 2000 cores + 8 TB memory we got quoted now) - and that stil
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by fock 4y ago
> They also deliberately cripple products, like selling SKUs with VT-x disabled Ha, that has been a long time, no? I remember buying a computer with a Q8300 in 2008 or so and there I had to assure a specific revision.
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by fock 4y ago
how is sabotage linked to a statement of fact?
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by fock 4y ago
https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets/blame/d8a436fc0eec66... a quick look on his linkedin will tell you that that paragraph is there for a bit longer than he is working at Qonto. I guess you could tell us
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by fock 4y ago
it's a factual statement.
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by fock 4y ago
On a meta-level I'd also be very interested, how many people actually now about corruption of the smallest governing body where they live (and can name some members which got voted in). Given the fleeting lifestyle propagated here and
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by fock 4y ago
well, if you look at GDP, russias industry is about the same size as the one of Germany. Germany has a lot less workers (and gas ;)) for that amount of $ and they produce millions of cars. I guess Russia (which I don't know for any con
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by fock 4y ago
Maybe we should reevaluate wether it's actually necessary for a free and democratic society to have these distanced families as a norm. The societal model you describe essentially evolved in lockstep with capitalism (people moving into
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by fock 4y ago
and I wonder what the advantage is vs. MDP. It was a pretty ok "product" when I ran it 10years ago on an old Pentium III notebook with 256MB of memory. I think it still would work if I booted it now.
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by fock 4y ago
thanks, now I've skimmed the verge piece and read your summary and have to admit: wasn't the main point of the verge that it's absolute ridiculous that the "apple approved"-way of fixing things requires two peli-cas
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by fock 4y ago
maybe because crypto is supposed to be currency ;)
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by fock 4y ago
Yes, I agree on that, spack can lock everything except the kernel and libc. I also don't think this is a failure of "python" as some others have raised that in the vincinity. Managing binaries is just out-of-scope and should
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by fock 4y ago
And this is not a Python problem either. It's a general problem.

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