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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Did that letter suggest the British were seen as equals? No. Chinese emperors saw every other state outside the Celestial Empire as a tributary state and expected a full submission to the Chinese emperor, hence the language. > The p
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Eastern Europe had to continue with phage therapies because they didn't have great access to antibiotics […] This is a very bubble centric view of the history. Eastern bloc countries, notably East Germany, Hungary and Yugoslavia,
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by inkyoto 4y ago
It is not 1kg but 2kg, and it is not iron but tungsten. Which was, essentially, the Soviets response to Reagan's star wars programme: you deploy your satellites with lasers into the orbit, we deploy our satellites loaded with 2kg tungs
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by inkyoto 4y ago
We have done something similar: a sandbox account that developers and solution designers can play around in, experiment and manually create resource in as long as resources are properly tagged (we have devised internal naming conventions).
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by inkyoto 4y ago
It is a feature and a good one (with a caveat though). terraform is best used on a per solution basis: one solution, one dedicated terraform project that will manage its state and its own state only. Multiple projects and people work carry
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by inkyoto 4y ago
It is certainly not laughable to me. You have singled out Quicksort as the sole example of performance gains whereas I have used it as a single isolated example of very large performance gains that can be had. SIMD instructions have seen a
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Soo... basically a 2x speedup in going from 4x128b to 2x512b ALUs, after discounting the frequency difference. But realistically, Intel's client configurations are 3x256b, which is only 25-40% faster in that paper. 2.4x difference
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by inkyoto 4y ago
«Whole system performance» is a meaningless term as it is a function of many, usually poorly controlled, input variables, and your whole system is different from my whole system. If my VPN tunnel allows me to have faster transfer sp
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Low level runtime optimisation that yields substantial performance gains in the user facing or system level software, ranging from cryptography through to data processing algorithms and very high throughput JSON parsing. Take OpenSSL as an
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> Stuff like SVE2 is really marginal when looking at whole system performance. It is not. A recent paper ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/2205.05982.pdf ) from Google engineering has compared performance of a vectorised (SIMD)
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> No, it's because they lost the lead in fabs. AMD passed Intel, was it because of their designs? No, it's because they use TSMC's fabs and TSMC passed Intel. Apple blew everyone away with M1, was it because of their desi
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Thanks for sharing results and for the write-up. It is another welcome addition to a series of recent reports attesting the SIMD instructions having entered the mainstream computing, from the high performance JSON parsing to now the quick s
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by inkyoto 4y ago
Yes, you can if you use Bitcode which has been a stable format since around 2015. It is possible to distribute an application as a pure Bitcode binary that can be statically translated into the underlying hardware ISA unless the source code
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> It doesn't know how to auto-import existing resources […] It doesn't know how to detect existing resources and incorporate them into its plan. You are offerring an oversimplified view of cloud deployments. How do you propose
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by inkyoto 4y ago
> For this I have the following possible explanations: > - They supported a war against Germany not for the protection of Poland but in order to topple the fascist government and stop the atrocities that were being committed. What on
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> Variable-width is the new hotness […] Hardly new. The VAX 6000 Series Vector Processor supported variable length vectors with up to 64 vector elements: With the VAX, the vector register has a maximum length of 64 elements. Each el
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I understand even less why Intel has been creating numerous AVX extensions (1,2 and 512) instead of focusing on a single programmable variable vector length extension that would not require the addition of new opcodes every time the CPU sup
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> Initially, their privacy policy promised the data would only be used for tracking of the spread of COVID but it was later revealed by the parliament that the police had in fact accessed the data for investigation purposes Australia is
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> The thing is, you cannot harden it even more. Yes, you can. You seem to have never used Trusted Solaris implementing the B1 TCSEC level and running on the certified hardware where all system objects are labelled and MAC is enforced at
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> You have an increased number of hoops to jump through if you want your computer to be programmable. > At first, it was Gatekeeper. Yeah, appeared in 10.8. Then notarization. Now, on M1 you need to sign your binaries ad-hoc or they w
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by inkyoto 5y ago
> Where would they come from? Logging components being the worst offenders immediately spring to me. Especially the ones that receive data points over a network in heterogenous environments. syslog running on a flavour ABC of UNIX receiv
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> Isn't that awesome? It depends. In a world where commands produce, expect and consume well defined and highly structured data streams, it is actually great. It works well in Windows but only because scripting as the concept is r
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> 100% reliable file iteration. I want to do a "for each file in this directory" in a manner that doesn't ever run into trouble with spaces, newlines or unusual characters. In UNIX file names, there is exactly one unusua
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> Some prisoners of war dying of malnutrition or disease is hardly an evil act from a tiny nation of farmers struggling to feed themselves while fighting to survive invasion from russia . Lastly, you are confusing who was invading whom
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> A nation with a history of illegal invasion of its peaceful neighbors, including mine . Historical facts prove you otherwise. Historically, Russia has been far more often on the receiving end of illegal invasions (I have not even atte
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> The Red Army raping its way through Germany […] In fact, it was much worse and started way before. According to informal accounts that Russian historians silently omit due to not boding well the narrative of the glory and the purity
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> The soviet union illegally and unprovoked invaded Finland in 1939 and conquered territory . The Soviet invasion of Finland in 1940? Yes, it was absolutely illegal, and I irrevocably concede with that fact. Finnish alliance with Nazi G
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> Less than a hundred years ago russians marched into my country and tried to murder every man and rape every woman . You had better back such a sweeping statement up with hard facts and numbers as its emotional quotient veers past
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Top political leadership physically heading the country's troops in the battlefield has been unheard of since medieval ages, as this role has been delegated to the military commandership and to the army it commands long since then. T
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> it's always russian people invading . Let's cross check this statement against the historical record of invasions of what we now collectively know as Belorus, Russia and Ukraine. A list of major invasions that took place t

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