foobiekr

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by foobiekr 3y ago
Cumulus is dead. Mellanox only bought it because there wasn't much else. I another 2-3 years it will be as relevant as Vyatta.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Reality is a notebook in the attic, if found, will at least get a few minutes interest. Only the crazy narcissists think anyone is going to care about their curated babble once they're gone.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
China has fishing fleets all over the world, and the pacific coast of south and central America in particular: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/26/world/asia/ch... .
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by foobiekr 3y ago
By reputation, Jensen doesn't really have much in the way of SW understanding, and in that sense he is like a lot of former chip guys. They got _insanely_ lucky that CUDA took off and there's an amazing irony in SW being their pri
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by foobiekr 3y ago
They barely exist in the network switch market. The new NVLink switches may change that for tier one inter-chassis transport to replace Infiniband RDMA, though. Reality is Mellanox has never been a substantial networking player. Yes, in HPC
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by foobiekr 3y ago
It’s Chinese fishing that is the concern.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
We need to keep hearing about it because more than half the global population is in denial about it and we are not doing much to prevent it while preventable catastrophe looms.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Under confidence is extremely rare in new and inexperienced coders. For me, what really boosted my confidence long term was getting yelled at by people who actually knew what they were doing because I sure didn’t. But that ended up being mo
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Strong agreement. What we have right now is a lot of people doing light glue code and pretending it is engineering.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
The page is pretty misleading. And design wise looks like a scam targeting conservative talk radio listeners.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Famously, popcount was a common request from intelligence agencies, at least as far back as the DEC Alpha.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Not only are they 1000x slower than memory, if you bump into thermal management, much slower than that. Worse, if you run into wear leveling write amplification, orders of magnitude slower. Yes, you can use caching to hide this, in main me
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by foobiekr 3y ago
> stop the discrimination once clear end conditions are met I think it's interesting that no one is willing to address this part.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Any free space optical approach you can imagine will be slower and noisier than the equivalent technology in a fiber. You are not going to get DWDM channel density in free space or throughput. This is not real.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Current generation 12 slot chassis with 51.2Tbps per slot is 612Tbps per chassis, and so a pair is 1228Tbps which is roughly your estimate. Companies like Juniper and Cisco sell tens of thousands of the previous generation per year _today_.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
The article is 100% rubbish. Just complete trash. Each submarine cable is 12+ strands which are DWDM multiplexed to 20-40 channels at 100-400gbps. The entire _planned_ starlink constellation has less aggregate switching capacity than a pair
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Sometimes emergencies happen. Having random IT systems do this means it is guaranteed to go wrong several times a year.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Isn’t the asynchronous aspect meant to allow this? Just have people muted off hours.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I think that’s right. In practice it just took time for memory to increase a bit and for statistical input methods to show up. Certainly actively bad writing systems delayed IT adoption. In fact, famously, the underlying theory of the Fifth
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by foobiekr 3y ago
There's a reason that men succeed at suicide a lot more frequently than women. Help is often not an option. In his excellent review [1] of Nostalgia Critic's idiotic, embarrassing and awful review of The Wall, Dan Olson points out
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Let's say we eliminated all agricultural use of animals tomorrow. All that would accomplish is one-time shift the point on the continuum that the earth and society can support. The real problem, and the real elephant that no one wants
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by foobiekr 3y ago
A friend with similar opinions worries that the Quiverfull movement will result in Christian nationalists taking over. Me, I like to think that obsessive natalism will result in the Moties from "The Mote in God's Eye."
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Apple doesn't even tell you the clockspeed of their CPUs in their products. This is utterly not out of character at all. The only reason they talk about all the stuff in the M2 ultra is because they are beating up on Windows laptops.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
You could say the same thing for most amphetamines. I don't think caffeine is particularly harmful, but it is a huge stretch to paint it as purely beneficial and without side effects. As a point of fact most people getting their "
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Extended time fixed focus creates eyestrain. In a monitor environment, people look up, they look around, they look elsewhere, and so on, and even so monitors cause eye strain. This is not a controversial take. Yes, there are tech bros who w
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Everything that poster said is true. And I am pro-psychedelics.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Apple is not publishing a bunch of details but what we know already means it will not be a viable monitor replacement for extended use. The same is true for SimulaVR and for the same reasons: eyestrain. Also, this -- https://www.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
You may discover that once you take money your specific interest is no longer the focus.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
I highly recommend that people go check out the bbby subreddit. It is readily apparent why there are investors who think this way, starting with a conspiracy theory about secret messages in a children’s book.
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by foobiekr 3y ago
Disrupted sleep, lack of REM sleep, poor attentiveness, …

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