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by martinpw 5y ago
Slide 26 is interesting - arguing that cloud providers have an advantage for future CPU design since they can analyze so many real world customer workloads directly. In previous roles I have worked with CPU vendors who have been very keen o
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A couple of observations: - According to the text below the chart, the metric is "CPUs in use rather than CPUs purchased". Assuming servers are replaced after 5 years, and assuming unit sales have not changed massively over that
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by martinpw 5y ago
This was a great interview, thanks Ian.
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by martinpw 6y ago
> The US is an oil exporting nation now. That is irrelevant. Oil is fungible. Block oil exports from the Middle East and the price of oil skyrockets worldwide including in the US.
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by martinpw 6y ago
> economic interdependence deserves the bulk of the credit for this relative peace. That was the thesis of a book called The Great Illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Illusion The book argued a European
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Apparently it was the reverse for the Ancient Egyptians when they marched into the Middle East, encountered the Euphrates and were shocked to find a river flowing South.
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by martinpw 6y ago
Yes, sounds very significant if true, but I don't see it reported elsewhere, and I believe wccftech is more of a rumor site than a high quality source of news.
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by martinpw 6y ago
This is really cool. And cute.
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Intel: Subpar 10 nm yields, server CPU plus 7 nm delays, production outsourcing(notebookcheck.net)
9 points by martinpw 6y ago|0 comments
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A counter-argument: The military presence to protect oil supplies is not just to protect US supplies. Even before self sufficiency, the US did not import much oil from the middle east - 5x more came from Canada than all the Persian Gulf for
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by martinpw 6y ago
Why is the graph not monotonically increasing? Does the complexity of the problem to be solved increase each time? If so, does that make the relative improvement from the previous result even more impressive?
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by martinpw 6y ago
Your "high risk" comment seems like an overstatement. That press release does not give any actual numbers, but links to two studies. I quickly scanned the studies, so may have missed something, but the Denmark one seems to indicat
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by martinpw 6y ago
Are the old x86 Macbook Airs already discontinued or are they still available via some less obvious page on Apple's site? I picked one up last month since I liked the form factor and needed x86. Seems like I may have got it just in tim
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by martinpw 6y ago
You really need to have something more verifiable than that before just throwing around a claim like that. What study are you talking about? You could at least try and find a link.
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by martinpw 6y ago
I think this is a valid point, especially if the review count is gameified so you are rewarded when leaving more reviews. I see plenty of Google maps reviews from people tagged as "Local Guides" that respond to questions about a l
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by martinpw 6y ago
What does the color information represent in the image?
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Shipping containers in Los Angeles becoming homes for the homeless(cnn.com)
4 points by martinpw 6y ago|0 comments
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Actually your argument is not sound as the person you are replying to already pointed out in a previous response to you that you seem to have missed. You actually contradicted yourself. Note: "There were 80 cases confirmed traced to
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by martinpw 6y ago
The EPA quote clearly implies that for the US it is > 50%. The realclimate article says: "the rise in atmospheric CO2 is entirely caused by fossil fuel burning and deforestation". So then the question is what is the ratio betwe
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by martinpw 6y ago
> there is a long way to go before indoor levels are an environmental issue Well of course. It's right there in the title of the article "...by the end of the century." That doesn't make it uninteresting to consider
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by martinpw 6y ago
It is pretty uncontroversial that CO2 increase in the atmosphere is almost all from human activity, and that a large part of that comes from burning fossil fuels. For example the US EPA website says: https://www.epa.gov/ghge
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by martinpw 6y ago
Even keeping the bedroom door open helps. I did some tests with a CO2 meter - with the door closed it reached 1100ppm after a nights sleep. With the door cracked open it was around 700ppm. One thing is that air diffuses out fairly effective
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by martinpw 6y ago
> The main problem seems to be a lack of manpower since development of such a software is a massive effort and takes decades of work of highly skilled mathematicians/engineers/programmers Point of reference. I interviewed with
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by martinpw 6y ago
> California can solve its consumer water problems with a couple of desalinization plants From the article: California has 11 desalination plants, and another 10 are being planned
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by martinpw 6y ago
There is a great podcast called The Ancient World that has an episode on the Rosetta Stone here: https://ancientworldpodcast.com/2014/04/episode-r1-broken-st... The whole set of R-prefix episodes on rediscovery of
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by martinpw 6y ago
Very interesting set of posts. Part 4 on what Keller did to shake things up was particularly enlightening (and impressive). I wish there was a part 5 discussing why he left. I've seen lots of speculation but no good inside information.
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by martinpw 6y ago
Yes, clearly every asteroid has its own gravity. I guess what it should say is that it has a strong enough gravitational field to allow a spacecraft to be placed into orbit and have it stay there.
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by martinpw 6y ago
There is a related interesting observation that every breath you take contains on average one molecule that was breathed out by Julius Caesar in his dying breath: https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/are-we-really-
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by martinpw 6y ago
Where did you check this? AFAIK YouTube profits (if any) are not broken out anywhere. At least not as of early this year: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/03/google-still-isnt-telling-us... Alphabet said YouTube
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by martinpw 6y ago
It's actually easy to work around the AMD deoptimization by just pretending to be an Intel CPU when the check is made - no need to fork the code. On the bigger point, it ends up hurting them because companies often use gcc to benchmark

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