greggyb

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by greggyb 6y ago
Your point has changed at least twice in this thread. My point was simply that "monopoly" is not an accurate term here. You can't say "oligopoly may be more accurate, so I've been correct."
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by greggyb 6y ago
I've just come across the statistic before. Here's a quick search hit, saying e-commerce as of a year and a bit ago that indicates 35% of e-commerce. https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2019/12/a
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by greggyb 6y ago
Fun fact: Amazon is <10% of retail in the US, and lower globally. I don't really have much to disagree with you about, but maybe you want to check the "monopoly" claim.
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by greggyb 6y ago
This still isn't a complete solution, or at the very least holds non-obvious implications. Specifically, date math is not commutative[0]. And, yes, Postgres or java.time might force any arbitrarily ordered expression to always evalua
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by greggyb 6y ago
Don't forget that calendar math is not commutative! Jan 27 + 5 days = Feb 1 Feb 1 + 1 month = Mar 1 Jan 27 + 1 month = Feb 27 Feb 27 + 5 days = Mar 4 (or Mar 3 in a leap year!) Therefore... Jan 27 + 5 days
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by greggyb 6y ago
Note that HN doesn't support markdown, but does have its own limited markup. Specifically, backticks are simply displayed, rather than marking a code snippet or block. You can indent by four spaces for a code block as below: This
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by greggyb 6y ago
Bryan Cantrill does a pretty good survey of caching strategies in the intro to this Papers We Love talk on the ARC in ZFS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8sZRBdmqc0
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by greggyb 6y ago
A year is not nearly enough time to spin up a new fab. It is impossible to say with any certainty that TSMC did not respond correctly to a variable that has been known for only a year.
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by greggyb 6y ago
Europe saves on shipping from ASML to any fabs on the continent! That's a competitive advantage! /s
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by greggyb 6y ago
Now I just open in a new temporary container tab with Firefox and Temporary Containers addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
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by greggyb 6y ago
You got your quote wrong by an order of magnitude of order of magnitudes. (; > requires roughly 100 times the energy contained in the mass of Jupiter, said Lentz. That’s about 30 orders of magnitude higher than the power of modern nuclea
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by greggyb 6y ago
Big boat bottomed out becoming barrier that blocks brother big boats! Bodes badly for bearing boxes between big bodies of water!
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by greggyb 6y ago
Even without the built-in option, you could always rip audio out of a video file with ffmpeg or similar.
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by greggyb 6y ago
I think the alliteration of "big boat" is superior.
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by greggyb 6y ago
From TFA: > Again, there's a vast and sprawling ecosystem of current and historical horrors that made this situation possible – but we can't say that it's a situation that could never occur in a just world, because even in
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by greggyb 6y ago
$ youtube-dl $url $ youtube-dl --extract-audio $url https://youtube-dl.org/
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by greggyb 6y ago
Yes. I didn't say that this wouldn't happen. I just observed that none of the three players among AMD, Nvidia, and Intel have an active interest in working together. Practicality will trump, but I suspect that given a choice among
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by greggyb 6y ago
It is unlikely that Nvidia and AMD will want to use Intel as their foundry. It is unlikely that Intel would be willing to offer pricing compelling enough to entice those two to use their foundries. So long as TSMC and Samsung remain competi
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by greggyb 6y ago
Whether they compete on cutting edge nodes is irrelevant to whether they compete . My comment was explicitly in response to the idea of a TSMC foundry monopoly. It's certainly valuable to understand the specific nature of their comp
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by greggyb 6y ago
Intel has proven for the last 4 or so years that a mature 14nm node can be competitive with <=10nm nodes. Progress in chip manufacturing doesn't happen exclusively at the node size of the cutting edge. As the manufacturing technolog
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by greggyb 6y ago
There is enough hireable talent. Samsung is producing 8nm at volume, and TSMC 7nm, with Apple reserving all of the upcoming 5nm. Clearly the talent is there to support multiple cutting edge nodes developed in parallel. Whether Intel could a
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by greggyb 6y ago
Samsung, Global Foundries, UMC, and SMIC are other large players in the foundry space. It would be very difficult for TSMC to eliminate these competitors.
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by greggyb 6y ago
I see the paradox of tolerance come up from time to time, and often with links to Wikipedia, usually implying that intolerance should be suppressed. A perusal of the literature around the topic suggests that moral philosophical consensus is
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by greggyb 6y ago
Just like 99 -- even representing the year with only two digits, just like we did back in 1999!
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by greggyb 6y ago
There's no way to upgrade from one Postgres version that keeps the database up and responding to arbitrary queries for the duration.
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by greggyb 6y ago
Agreed. There isn't really a viable desktop-class offering from Raptor. This is a shame. For those who have need for the workstation-ish features Raptor offers in its Talos line, the premium isn't too great over a roughly equivale
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by greggyb 6y ago
There's a check box next to the cookies. When you click it, an 'X' fills the box. You could convince me that either state of the box accepts cookies and the other declines.
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by greggyb 6y ago
FYI the common idiom is "case in point," rather than "case and point." The phrase represents this idea: I have a case to make (or an argument), and there is a single element that is conclusive enough to make the whol
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by greggyb 6y ago
You could price out a desktop for your own comparison. I don't think it's fair to compare something explicitly designed to be a workstation to a desktop-class machine.
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by greggyb 6y ago
Doing a quick spec out of a Talos II that is similar[0] to my Threadripper 3970x workstation puts the price at ~2x.

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