mastax

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   by mastax 4y ago

   The coherent memory interconnects between nodes is typically what makes supercomputers different than just a bunch of consumer hardware. It allows different types of programming or at least makes them easier.
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   by mastax 4y ago

   Honda is one of the most conservative car companies. Among other things they took way longer to start introducing turbochargers into their mainstream lineup. It has its benefits.
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   by mastax 4y ago

   I had a couch that was slightly shorter than the vacuum, which kept getting wedged underneath. Didn't eat too many USB cables, surprisingly.
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   by mastax 4y ago

   Given the surrounding context I read that sentence to mean that focusing on compute density allowed them to sell each core at a lower price vs focusing on performance, not that Graviton 3 is cheaper than Graviton 2.
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   by mastax 4y ago

   The recent Assassin's Creed games had a limited approximation of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh4Iy-p943M
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   by mastax 4y ago

   C# has a lot of performance oreinted features that are rare to find in GC languages. Value types and real Generics, of course, which helped during the dark years when the JVM was clearly better. There's relatively efficient and conveni
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   by mastax 4y ago

   I hope this succeeds. Remote desktop sounds like an easy problem and there are many implementations, but most of them don't work well in practice. TeamViewer works very well, but the company is a bit scummy and the pricing is crazy. Wi
8. 668.▲
   by mastax 4y ago

   For reference gas in the USA costs between $5.60 (mostly in California) and $3.60 per gallon. (According to GasBuddy.com)
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   by mastax 4y ago

   I always plan to remove the rind but find that it has completely dissolved.
10. 670.▲
    by mastax 4y ago

    Creality has already eaten the entry level world.
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    by mastax 4y ago

    I do like the way they added type-switch and switch expressions to get some of the sum-type ergonomics out of the existing object oriented type system.
12. 672.▲
    by mastax 4y ago

    The FAA has been dragging its feet certifying lead free aviation fuel.
13. 673.▲
    by mastax 4y ago

    The gel detergent is more convenient than the powder for the reasons you mentioned
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    by mastax 4y ago

    > Try zstd --adapt. This feature automatically adapts the compression ratio as the IO conditions change to make the current optimal tradeoff between CPU and “keeping the pipe fed”. I didn't know about that, that's neat. These t
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    by mastax 4y ago

    I just used fclones the other day on a 20TB archive of mostly videos at work. Saved 1.8TB by hard linking the duplicates. I like how fclones makes it easy to have a two stage process where you scan for duplicates and populate a text file, t
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    by mastax 4y ago

    You can also use .mode csv .headers on .output file.csv Then run a query and it gets output to file.csv.
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    by mastax 5y ago

    That was fun! Showed some caveats to "I have cloudflare so I'm fine."
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    by mastax 5y ago

    No[1]. Unless a surprising proportion of the Jews from the "Former USSR" are from the Baltics, there are far more Israeli Jews from e.g. Morocco than from Northern Europe. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De
19. 679.▲
    by mastax 5y ago

    Power and area efficient. You can fit 4 E cores in the area of 1 P core. Adding AVX-512 to the E cores would significantly hamper that, though I don't know by how much.
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    by mastax 5y ago

    You can configure samba to look for ZFS snapshots: vfs objects = shadow_copy2 shadow:snapdir = .zfs/snapshot shadow:sort = desc shadow:format = zfs-auto-snap_frequent-%Y-%m-%d-%H%M
21. 681.▲
    by mastax 5y ago

    I'm pretty sure refrigerators have electric heaters in the door gaskets as well.
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    by mastax 5y ago

    Does anyone have a good primer about optical networking links? Single and multimode fiber, connectors, transcievers, etc. When and why you would choose different technologies, how much they cost, etc. I'm realizing that I have a large
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    by mastax 5y ago

    Almost every hardware device has one or more CPUs on it. As Foone joked, "USB is a standard to let you connect 8051 microcontrollers to PCs." Given the choice between burned-in firmware and externally-loaded firmware, the latter s
24. 684.▲
    by mastax 5y ago

    AMD and Intel GPUs also have closed source firmware.
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    by mastax 5y ago

    See also: Renode https://renode.io/about/
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    by mastax 5y ago

    Not where I live. Blue and white collar people can both be middle class.
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    by mastax 5y ago

    There's ssh clients on iOS as well. There's termux which is a linux userland compiled for Android, more or less. I vaguely remember some play store policy issues with that. Last time I tried it I couldn't install anything as
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    by mastax 5y ago

    It turns out the way to get good at writing is to write, a lot . Scott fits the bill.
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    by mastax 5y ago

    I tried all of the available compression formats in parquet, natively in duckdb, and compressing raw duckdb files as a whole. IIRC just GZIPing SQLite files beat them all. The SQLite files were much smaller uncompressed (~220mb vs 800mb) wh
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    by mastax 5y ago

    Aside: the make job server is very simple and UNIXy. There's a pipe shared between `make` and its subprocesses. `make` writes `N-1` bytes to the pipe. When a job wants to do parallel work, it reads a byte from the pipe. When it's