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by inkyoto 3y ago
If I recall it correctly, when Spectre/Meltdown mitigations were released, they were applied (to Intel CPU's at the very least) as microcode updates. What exactly comprises the Intel CPU microcode is somewhat of a mystery, but I a
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Strong memory ordering […] > But it is a no-go for SMP scalability. The SPARC architecture introduced the TSO and defaults to the total store order, and SPARC (and later UltraSPARC) systems were one the first successful highly scal
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Affordable replacements are all good and important to have, with a caveat. Lithium-ion batteries at the $25 pricepoint come from a single well known place of manufacturing and are usually of the unknown quality. They may or may not be safe
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Go compare prices of e.g. Hetzner or OVA and come back to me again with that "fiction". I have given two real examples of two real and highly useful fully managed services with made-up data volumes along with their respective
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> AWS and Azure are datacenters too. They are, but they are not data centers in the traditional sense of the term. The GP was referring to the traditional data centers as far as I understand. > You're paying a x10 markup to make
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Cluster management, file systems, disk / storage systems, network management, database systems. … and fully managed cloud services (serverless databases, API gateways, messaging components, supplementary services etc etc). Which i
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Data centers are one of the best demographics […] Hardly. Data centers are a dying breed, and their number has been rapidly dwindling in recent years. DC (and the mythical «on-prem» by extension) has effectively become a dirty word in
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It has already happened. Philips has designated 3x months for a single toothbrush lifespan, which may or may not be the case (depending on one's toothbrush using habits) as the head clearly does not annihilate automagically after three
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> The problem with Kappa architecture that other commenters here are highlighting is that this results in holding a large m in memory at all times (fragile, expensive), and handling out of order events by re-doing the live operation on t
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by inkyoto 3y ago
There is (long abandoned tho) a GNU superoptimiser that supports multiple hardware architectures including HP PA-RISC, Motorola 68k and 88k, Intel i960 amongst others – https://www.gnu.org/software/superopt/ It is
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by inkyoto 3y ago
The author has carried out an assessment of how the use of the ARM assisted hardware virtualisation (normally used to isolate and run VM's but not containers) affects different metrics of running different runtimes in a container env
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> Jails are basically like a VM-like/light […] With all due respect, they are not. The definition of a «virtual machine» is a settled matter, and the «M» in «VM» is important and is the differentiator: it allows one to run a differ
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by inkyoto 3y ago
You can use the aws_appautoscaling_scheduled_action terraform resource to create a scheduled scaling policy action to mimic a scheduled Fargate container fire-up, e.g. from zero Fargate container instances to one or however many are require
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Such advice is not helpful. The infinite scroll buffer is useful for some people with long lived terminal sessions, and that helps them with their respective workflows and habits. I am one of them. The parent ran out of memory with iTerm no
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Thank you for the clarification. Wikipedia links both, «cash reserves» and the accounting style reserves definitions, into a single article, which I have found somewhat puzzling. A subsection in the same article outlining or expanding on th
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by inkyoto 3y ago
That was really helpful, thank you for the detailed explanation.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I am not going to bet my life on it, but as per [0] the definition of the «[cash] reserve» is: «In financial accounting, reserve always has a credit balance and can refer to a part of shareholders' equity, a liability for estimated cla
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Apple Q2 2023 report indicates USD 166 billion in cash reserves.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
We kind of have it, except it does not seem to have taken off and has been relegated to a second-class citizen at best. I am talking about LLVM Bitcode[0] – when the binary product (a executable or .o/.a files) is shipped in the LLVM I
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by inkyoto 3y ago
I would go as far as to say that it is now largely an archaic idiom to write «for i in 1:length(arr) ... end», and there is no reason to write such a code to process a collection of elements (an array, a list etc) in its entirety . Yet, pe
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Both do. A single, isolated Chinese character may have multiple unrelated meanings with some of them having an entirely unrelated pronunciation. It is, in fact, ubiquitous. The idea is that each honzi has exactly one meaning is a misconcept
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Google Board does, although the text input only. It support both, Yale and Jyutping, romanisations. Microsoft Bing Translator does support Cantonese tho.
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Which vitamin K2? There are distinct: – short-chain menaquinone or menatetrenone: MK-4 – long-chain menaquinones: MK-5, MK-6, MK-7 (found in natto) and poorly studied MK-8 and MK-9. The study does not mention which one of them was used in t
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> If you are a non-native Cantonese speaker, and don't differentiate between "low falling" and "low level", native Cantonese speakers will still understand you. Whilst it is true that in the case of Cantonese s
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by inkyoto 3y ago
It is true that the tone change in Cantonese is largely predictable due to it having the lexical nature. Since the parent raised a question about a generic solution to the tone marking problem, I thought I would use the tone sandhi as an ex
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by inkyoto 3y ago
> It will be very helpful if someone come up with automatic tonal detection systems for language learners to automatically check the correctness of their pronunciations […] The number embedded in the Jyutping pronunciation indicates the
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Not so soon. SPARC is still (somehow) alive and is produced as SPARC M8. The highest spec'd CPU (SPARC M8-8) comes with 256 CPU cores and 2048 threads in up to 8 CPU configurations. https://www.oracle.com/a/ocom&#x
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by inkyoto 3y ago
Anandtech has measured the 104 Gb/sec per a CPU core for the M1 Max and 210 Gb/sec circa per a CPU cluster bandwidths. M1 Max has 3x CPU clusters: 1x power effecient (2x cores) and 2x performance ones (4x cores each). Where it
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by inkyoto 3y ago
For the sake of the conversation, > Apple uses LPDDR4 modules soldered to a PCB, sourced from the same Korean company that everyone else uses. Apple might have sourced and soldered on LPDDR modules from the same company, but it is not LP
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Because the server is entirely abstracted away from computing applications that do not require direct access to the underlying hardware and only have to produce a computation result. Conceptually, «serverless» is a reincarnation or an evolu

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