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by halbritt 8y ago
My entire infrastructure is on k8s which should make multi-cloud easy... Nope.
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by halbritt 8y ago
I'm curious to see if this is true. I faced some pretty serious resource allocation issues earlier in the year. The us-west1-a region was oversubscribed. I was unable to get any real information from support with regard to capacity.
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by halbritt 8y ago
GCP has a few features that set it apart from other cloud providers. GKE is head and shoulders above the other offerings from AWS and Azure. GCP can be a fair bit cheaper than AWS and Azure for certain workloads. Raw compute/memory i
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by halbritt 8y ago
80% of my support experiences are laughably bad. 20% of my support experiences are amazing. Fortunately, I don't require decent support to keep my service running. My sales rep tells me that he's aware of the problem. I speculate
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by halbritt 8y ago
Did they ask you for a screenshot? That's my favorite.
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by halbritt 8y ago
I'm not sure about the market share, but I agree with the last two sentences. ...and I'm a happy GCP customer.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Unless you want something fancy, just check Amazon. The most commonly installed ones are obvious and quiet a bit cheaper. I've installed a few toilets in my day and they were always a few hundred dollars. I was a bit blown away when
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by halbritt 8y ago
This. I think I even have a cheaper version than that. Check Amazon for available washlets. The mass-market Toto toilets are ~$250. Make sure you get the elongated bowl version. I have two in my house, one elongated and one round. The
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by halbritt 8y ago
Maybe. My thing has adjustable pressure, it oscillates, and one can adjust the location. The warmed water is nice, but it has an "eco" mode so there are definitely times when it's not warmed and it's no big deal. I&#x2
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by halbritt 8y ago
Upvote just because I love Factorio.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Death toll from Chernobyl is presently at 31 with an estimated number of 4000 premature deaths. So, yeah.
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by halbritt 8y ago
No conversation needed. If people can't seem to figure it out, they're the sort that won't want to talk about it. See the aforementioned western taboo around discussing such things. If they do figure it out, folks are gener
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by halbritt 8y ago
I have somewhat inexpensive mass-market Toto toilets in my house. I've added a washlet for $400. There's wiring nearby. The warm water is really nice. Until I die, I won't ever not have a washlet at home.
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by halbritt 8y ago
I have a couple of Toto toilets in my house. They have washlets that fit most of their products. I have one. I don't mean to overstate this, but it is life-changing. I can't imagine going back to a time when I used only paper a
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by halbritt 8y ago
Many people have posited that a shrinking population will have a more deleterious effect than a booming one. We’ll see in Japan in the next two decades. Europe is next.
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by halbritt 8y ago
For women it makes a big difference as there is generally a choice to make between 25-35 as To whether they’d like to further their career or take time out to have a child. Most women also reasonably choose to prioritize family over career
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by halbritt 8y ago
That sounds lovely.
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by halbritt 8y ago
David Bull also sells prints at reasonable prices. https://mokuhankan.com The site is kinda hard to navigate. He did a reprint of The Great Wave that I want to get.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Thanks for the detail. I can clearly see the benefit of a couple orders of magnitude less latency.
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by halbritt 8y ago
My experience totally reflects this. Most enterprise IT infrastructure is idle the majority of the time. I'm running infrastructure for a SaaS app in k8s. I feel like I'm doing well sustaining >50% efficiency, i.e. all cores
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by halbritt 8y ago
That's GCP on preemptible nodes and you are correct. Not a great deal.
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by halbritt 8y ago
My back of the napkin calculation says that I can get 270 petaflops with 2160 n1-highmem-16 each with 8 v100 gpu on preemptible instances costing roughly $13k/hr or about $10m/mo
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by halbritt 8y ago
How, specifically does the architecture differ dramatically?
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by halbritt 8y ago
What is the distinction between low latency networking commonly used in supercomputers today and cloud computing? What is the cutoff? I've commonly seen 500 microsecond latency between certain AWS zones. That's pretty impressive.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Supercomputers tend to need very high bisectional bandwidth. With the Clos network style topologies that are commonplace in large data centers today, I'm not sure one couldn't achieve decent results in the public cloud. AWS networ
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by halbritt 8y ago
It sucks that it’s not commonplace for managers to be accountable to their reports. Google has kinda structured things in this way, at least as far as I can tell from the outside. Managers can’t decide who is hired or fired and performance
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by halbritt 8y ago
Another characteristic of tech is that it is comprised of very, very many people that effectively have no idea how to accomplish the task they were hired to do. For example, a civil engineer would need to have a degree in their field and th
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by halbritt 8y ago
The role of HR is to shield the company from liability.
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by halbritt 8y ago
Further, to that point, any manager that dislikes a report is likely going to have a very difficult time getting quality work out of that report regardless of how talented they may be. Ergo, the report's performance may be suffering, b
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by halbritt 8y ago
Marine lumber generally isn't selected for hardness. Generally speaking, rot resistance is the most desirable characteristic. Apparently greenheart is superior to most other wood in this regard. Teak has traditionally been used for

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