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Improve lossy link performance with Forward Error Connection(github.com)
1 points by markonen 6y ago|0 comments
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by markonen 6y ago
I was looking at getting the Xeon-based NUC recently and one of the reasons I decided against it was that ECC SO-DIMMs seem to be a really marginal product. If you want ECC, something that takes full-size DIMMs seems much easier to buy me
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by markonen 6y ago
I've always wondered whether payloads weren't super-expensive precisely because the launches were, too. I mean, if you are spending hundreds of millions to launch something, that something better work once up there, right? So you
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by markonen 6y ago
It doesn't have a ton of games, but if it has the games you're interested in, why not? I just ordered the Premiere bundle (to get 4K) and expect to play Red Dead Redeption 2, Jedi Fallen Order and The Elder Scrolls Online. They do
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by markonen 6y ago
The absolutely funniest interpretation of ”legitimate interest” is in a recurring spam message I get from (of all things) an email lead marketing company. They have small print after each of their emails that says that GDPR allows them to e
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by markonen 6y ago
Apple's angle here is that everybody who needs a Mac has to buy or rent one. That seems super obvious. It also happens to align them with people who are in the business of selling or renting Macs, sure. But the point is not to screw AW
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by markonen 6y ago
It’s the next step up from 10G (which our peak traffic is outgrowing). If you look at older/used networking gear, 40G QSFP+ might look like the next step, but to me that’s starting to look a bit like an evolutionary dead end at this po
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by markonen 6y ago
I looked up one of the devices mentioned here: Juniper’s 2U-sized PTX10002. Turns out the list price for PTX10002-60C-AC-R is $720,000.00. :-o The traffic volumes these devices are intended for are truly mind-boggling to me (as someone curr
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by markonen 6y ago
Pretty sure Mac is going to do well this quarter, too. And surely Apple Silicon means that margins are going up.
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by markonen 6y ago
Apple's Mac category revenue was $9 billion in the latest quarter, up 29% year-on-year—growing faster than any other category. And this was before the M1 launch. At this revenue run rate, a standalone Mac company would be in the Fortun
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by markonen 6y ago
Sure, but not macOS workloads. What most (all?) of these benchmarks fail to capture is the difference made by the specific optimizations for Apple's software stack. Things like the five times faster ARC retain/release cycle or the
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Max Schrems hits Apple with complaints over ad-tracking device(bloomberg.com)
127 points by markonen 6y ago|30 comments
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by markonen 6y ago
More likely than not, those servers are at AWS. And if that's the case, once all the components have ARM images the server instances can be switched over to the M6g instance type for significant cost savings.
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by markonen 6y ago
A better title would be an ”ambitious multi-year vision for Adobe Reader” as this isn’t changing the PDF format at all: it is simply a new, buzzword-compliant (AI! ML!) content-reflowing UI for the reader app.
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by markonen 6y ago
We’re using Minio storage on our own hardware to save on S3 egress transfer fees. It wouldn’t be very attractive based on the storage fee alone, but if you have any traffic at all, the traffic will dominate your calculations. Of course, you
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by markonen 6y ago
Objects in a PDF are specified in points, which is a physical measure (1/72 of an inch, or 0.3528 mm).
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by markonen 6y ago
Cloudflare is serious about that restriction. They use it to upsell the Enterprise plan which doesn’t have it.
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by markonen 6y ago
CPU - WDC 65C02S @ 8 MHz - 40-pin DIP package
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by markonen 6y ago
When the scam is big enough, there are consequences for the auditors. Enron sank Arthur Andersen, for example. Didn’t hurt the consulting arm (now Accenture) though.
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by markonen 6y ago
Apple will sell you a 16GB laptop with a 256GB SSD for $1199.
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by markonen 6y ago
The first and second stages of a Falcon 9 use a combined ~163 000 litres (43 000 gallons) of RP-1 fuel. This is less than the fuel capacity of a Boeing 777-300ER. So if the Starlink launches happen twice a month, the carbon footprint from t
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by markonen 7y ago
There is nothing inherently asynchronous about the Lambda product, unless you’re talking about the Node.js runtime and even then that’s more about Node than about Lambda. Each Lambda invocation gets a dedicated VM for the duration of the re
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Wuhan to quarantine cured patients for 14 days after some test positive again(scmp.com)
3 points by markonen 7y ago|0 comments
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by markonen 7y ago
Something like hardware offload comes to mind as potentially platform-specific.
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by markonen 7y ago
I learned about this vi feature the hard way—by accidentally encrypting something important with no idea about what I had typed in as the key. Luckily for me, vi defaulted to Enigma encryption back then…
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by markonen 7y ago
I think you're exactly right. It has become a HN trope that every cost optimization story gets a response like this: your infrastructure costs are trumped by the cost of your developers, so why spend the expensive resource (developers)
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by markonen 7y ago
My read was that they actually saved over $8000 per month: - They mention that the initial savings of $1500/mo from omitting unnecessary headers was 12% of their egress cost (so the total before this was $12500) - Then they got an addi
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by markonen 7y ago
This is now also being made into an Apple TV+ original series, starring Gary Oldman.
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by markonen 7y ago
I'm not sure if you're referring to KeyDB or something else as "closed source commercial software", but KeyDB is BSD licensed like Redis: https://github.com/JohnSully/KeyDB/blob/unstable&#x
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by markonen 7y ago
The OP has posted a follow-up, but it’s also from 2016: https://www.slashgeek.net/2016/06/07/cloudflare-making-inter... Two things that have changed since then are 1) Cloudflare’s Privacy Pass browser extensi

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