jsolson

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by jsolson 2y ago
Generally I'm a huge Stephenson fan (I own all of his major works in first editions), but I hated Seveneves. The third part is the only bit I can claim to have really enjoyed. That said, I loved Anathem, so perhaps something of your th
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by jsolson 2y ago
Funny story, if you're using Rook Ceph and say "I'm going to try to update these parameters to see if it will let me (and trigger a re-encoding)" it absolutely will let you change them, but it does not trigger anything t
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by jsolson 2y ago
You're sorta describing TPUs, especially early ones: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/a... That first generation also included the ability to apply a handful of fixed activation
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by jsolson 3y ago
GCE fares a little better than this: - VMs with SSDs can (in general -- there are exceptions for things like GPUs and exceptionally large instances) live migrate with contents preserved. - GCE supports a timeboxed "restart in place&quo
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by jsolson 3y ago
I should've aimed for more clarity in my original comment -- the first link is to locally attached storage. The second is network attached storage (what the GP was likely referring to, but not what is described in the article). Persist
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by jsolson 3y ago
In most cases, they're physically plugged into a PCIe CEM slot in the host. There is no network in the way, you are either misinformed or thinking of a different product.
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by jsolson 3y ago
Same for Google (the GP is incorrect about how GCE Local SSD works).
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by jsolson 3y ago
This is also true for GCE Local SSD: https://cloud.google.com/local-ssd The GP is incorrect.
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by jsolson 3y ago
This is untrue of Local SSD ( https://cloud.google.com/local-ssd ) in Google Cloud. Local SSDs are PCIe peripherals, not network attached. There are also multiple Persistent Disk ( https://cloud.google.com/pers
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by jsolson 3y ago
The memory doesn't have ECC, the controller does. You lose data space for syndrome bits. This is not, in practice, different from fixing data space and adding chips for syndrome bits, but it reflects differently in specs.
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by jsolson 3y ago
I mean, they weren't exactly shy about it: https://go.dev/blog/generate
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by jsolson 3y ago
Yeah, zero favorites, joined in Feb 2007.
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by jsolson 3y ago
The second one has a link labeled "free up or get more storage." I suspect it links here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/12005619?sjid=1774262812...
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by jsolson 3y ago
There is a difference between "my lawyers advised me that it was probably ok" and "Microsoft's legal team spent 100,000 billable hours pouring over case law to demonstrate that it was not, in fact, ok." > I don&#
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by jsolson 3y ago
I agree that the act of voting itself is too squishy/personal, but the things that led up to it and their handling afterwards? My curiosity stems from whether the board was involved in signing the contract for Microsoft's investme
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by jsolson 3y ago
They are a small board, and Microsoft has a very large number of lawyers. I do not believe it is possible for them to have thought this through. I believe they'll have read the governing documents, and even had some good lawyers read t
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by jsolson 3y ago
I worked for Amazon for a bit over two years, followed by Google for a bit over the last decade. It never would have occurred to me to visit an Amazon office, so I didn't know about the ticket thing. I rarely worked with anyone remote.
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by jsolson 3y ago
A perspective from an American: - Yes, typically we can refinance whenever we like, _but_ it extends the mortgage for a 30 year term, along with additional direct immediate costs (plus human inertia). Unless interest rates were alarmingly h
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by jsolson 3y ago
I have one of those, although I bought it for the Zynq FPGA SoC. I tried to find a use for the Epiphany cores, but the speeds and feeds were too unbalanced for anything I was looking at at the time. The way that particular story played out
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by jsolson 3y ago
TAP is a protocol, though, not a framework?
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by jsolson 3y ago
Yes, but sometimes that's what's called for. I think I may have found my answer to where LLMs might be useful for short communications: softening something that might be interpreted as "curt" or even "rude" whi
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by jsolson 3y ago
I find they're useful as a tool for achieving a particular structure or tone that isn't "my voice," including populating boilerplate from bullet points. Sometimes I'll go back and revisit everything they've pro
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by jsolson 3y ago
Note that GKE Sandbox allows GKE users to sandbox the workloads running on GKE nodes. The GKE nodes themselves are still GCE VMs.
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by jsolson 3y ago
Following more or less directly from this: - If you walk backwards from where the non-deterministic Turing machine halted, the list of taken state machine transitions is polynomial in length (naturally, as the machine stopped in polynomial
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by jsolson 3y ago
Some of this is not current. Constant-rate TSCs are ~15-20 years old. Synchronized TSCs are at least ten. Also RDTSC produces a 64-bit result, so it does not overflow at a rate of several Hz.
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by jsolson 3y ago
They break things apart and preserve interface protocols, but leaving the die isn't free. AMD's approach has all of the upsides and downsides that come with microservices, and taking effective advantage of it requires a similar le
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by jsolson 3y ago
That makes sense, as you're fucked by any false positive. If it's a graph of potential stacks, though, wouldn't you eventually find the one that unwinds, if one exists?
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by jsolson 4y ago
Instead, Google created Google Offers. It then shuttered it a year or so later, refunding every transaction that had gone through it. I was working for Amazon's bet (AmazonLocal -- https://local.amazon.com/ ) at the tim
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by jsolson 4y ago
Mount Evans is NIC silicon -- great chip, but it doesn't have the lane count / topology to be an effective switch chip as far as I'm aware.
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by jsolson 4y ago
With clients in the cloud (CitC) the natural/default is to have a complete view of Piper. No more narrowed clients/explicitly tracked subtrees.

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