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by kev009 5d ago
It's easier to see in hindsight but servers have eaten a lot of macro economic headwinds. 1999 and 2002 correspond roughly to telecom and dotcom bubbles popping. So open source operating systems were also pulled up into these position
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by kev009 5d ago
Dell puts a fair amount of engineering into their servers (as do other main brands like HPE and Lenovo) so it's unfortunate they've lost their roots from the old mail order sales company. If someone else is paying I'd prefer
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by kev009 9d ago
AFAIK those sold relatively well, considering the TCO of both sides (NICs were very expensive and there were like a dozen companies vying for position once upon a time). They were also interesting because they were cut-through. CX4 was no
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by kev009 10d ago
You can, to some degree, do an online defrag with zfs rewrite -P now although it is not the primary intent. The displayed fragementation may not go down or may even increase, but all the files will go through the allocation policy. zfs fr
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by kev009 11d ago
ef_vi is a solarflare proprietary feature which is now a support product, AMD moved on to Pensando. Once you move away from busy poll, you rapidly lost grounds to use DPDK. The PMD is a deliberate design to elide latency and lower interco
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by kev009 12d ago
I don't think there is a ton of overlap. tokio is appropriate for general userspace apps, ranging anywhere from a CLI, GUI, API or web app. DPDK and SPDK are specialized fast paths for building network data paths and storage solution
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by kev009 18d ago
pfSense is -CURRENT, Netflix OCA is -CURRENT, etc. It's not too hard.
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by kev009 18d ago
Definitely an accomplished architect, there are a lot of fine construction details in these photos. So much that it makes the IT/low voltage installation look like a hack job.
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by kev009 19d ago
Corporate IT is kind of a parallel universe to me, so it is interesting to see how widely used these products are and how impactful these types of events are. There are a few broad categories to building one of these platforms.. core virtua
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by kev009 20d ago
Another oddly interesting interface related to SMD was IPI. Sun used it for a bit as their high end disks.
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by kev009 23d ago
Most of these things have large categories that are inherently disinflationary. You can't make a new authentic vintage Ferrari. Whether they are fungible is the main problem and case by case. But you generally don't do it to bu
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by kev009 23d ago
Antiquities and heirlooms can be a good stable investment, the same reason people trade art or watches or guns or cars. Some of these are fun to use without reducing value.
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by kev009 26d ago
I run a web to text usenet gateway and it has been an interesting challenge to scale it to deal with this. Article fetch and retrieval is extremely efficient but I apply JWZ threading and that can cause a single article to make a number of
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by kev009 26d ago
Wow this is a deep dive, most people focus on the PC era. The Ultima/Impression were some of the very first commercial PCI cards, behind maybe NCR SCSI. Another interesting vendor in that era was Number Nine.
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by kev009 1mo ago
Fluency in one's native language, what an achievement. Neither of these words are complicated. The treasury is unsalable bonds according to the thread, which means the US is in a financial collapse, but also has unlimited capacity to
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by kev009 1mo ago
The way it's written is ambiguous as it could also just mean the peak demand rate, not a capacity peak. I was doing some benchmarks for something recently and noticed how tricky it is to capture all the nuance of a test in prose.
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by kev009 1mo ago
"Looking up synonyms" huh? You have yet to make a coherent argument and keep trying to attack the messenger, typical behavior when people get called out for false entitlement. Your "psychopathy" accusations are pure co
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by kev009 1mo ago
Whatever point you are trying to make is not coming across, what even are these numbers and what do they have to do with citizenry of the United States? You also have a quantum view of the United States that it is and isn't impoverish
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by kev009 1mo ago
Expecting an onslaught of cash as some permanent way of being, especially given the fickleness (and fragility) of any state let alone political regime is an incredibly daft move. I don't care if it's Europe or Israel or Banglades
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by kev009 1mo ago
Directly and indirectly, there are a lot of other knock on effects. Value objects (only recently being added) help. You could treat it similar to an HFT application, having ephemeral workers that don't do GC and dies on heap exhausti
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by kev009 1mo ago
Claude code seems like a beginner's trap at this point.
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by kev009 1mo ago
Wasn't ScyllaDB designed to be a drop in? The idea of running a Java or Golang DB sounds like fresh hell to me.
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by kev009 1mo ago
I wouldn't consider Rust a manual memory environment. There are ways to do that at edges if needed, but it is otherwise very much automatic which is kind of the whole point of its design.
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by kev009 1mo ago
Who would have guessed printing a bunch of money would be a working class tax
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by kev009 1mo ago
The lonely men sewing VC's ugly sweater vests, at the financial end of the world.
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by kev009 1mo ago
I haven't kept up with POWER after POWER9, but I recall it to be a true hardwired control RISC, pure as the driven snow. This had some interesting properties (along with other clever designs like eFuses and pNOR) for creating a really
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by kev009 1mo ago
It's basically MIPS all over again The conclusion is honest, and you can of course brute force any ISA into any role. I used to loathe x86 for that reason, but now that I'm older I respect the game.
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by kev009 1mo ago
I've assumed it worked fine on Linux but your comment brought me to this after a quick search: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118721 . I've not seen any major issues on Linux e1000e defaults but never
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by kev009 1mo ago
Most realtek is F tier, they basically repeat the bad part of this NE2000 saga, and the simplicity comes at the cost of CPU cycles. In that sense the Intel PCH controllers were great.
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by kev009 1mo ago
In this era 3Com was still the gold standard, but intel eventually dominated the market because they integrated 100mbit and then gigabit on the PCH relegating any margin in the expansion card market to servers. As someone that has worked o

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