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by matt-p 1y ago
No I now use Google drive, Dropbox is arguably 'better', but it's far far easier to just use drive nowadays. I would say though that I know some power-users such as design houses working with big 3D files still use it heavily
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by matt-p 1y ago
I sometimes even write design docs that will probably only ever really be read by me. It's so powerful to write these things down. A example doc would of been really helpful, I'd love to compare the final structure of mine with ot
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by matt-p 1y ago
The difference is nowhere near as stark in the UK, and for society a reduction in the cost of building houses or infrastructure is good.
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by matt-p 1y ago
Let's say answering a phone is 11/hour and laying bricks is 11.20/hour. No big shock that people will take the phone job, but if you remove that option more people will flow into the laying bricks job.
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by matt-p 1y ago
A huge number of these jobs will go yes. A call centre supervisor may be safe taking escalation calls that need a human and so on but the masses will be replaced by this kind of tech. However what will actually happen is society will use th
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by matt-p 1y ago
Indeed, the Victoria line in London manages 36 TPH and we've not bothered beating it since. It's much easier to run 26-30TPH with slightly more carriages.
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by matt-p 1y ago
Because it's driven by investor/market sentiment. That's literally all. If your investors have ask you why you've not laid off 10% of your workforce due to AI efficiencies, when that's the prevailing sentiment, then
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by matt-p 1y ago
Cloud front is pretty much free for your first TB. Fastly has a free plan. Though why should it be for free?
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by matt-p 1y ago
Does Google cloud offer them on a "aws outpost" style model? I think that plus cloud access is probably the easiest and ' best ' way to offer them. Last thing you need to be dealing with is super micro, gigabyte etc buil
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by matt-p 1y ago
AMD and even people like Huawei also make somewhat acceptable chips but using them is a bit of a nightmare. Is it a similar thing here? Using TPUs is more difficult, only exists inside Google cloud etc
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by matt-p 1y ago
This was true a few years ago, but today the regulatory environment is very positive for these kind of services. You will see many non-eurostar open access operators on those tracks within the next year or two. I wouldn't massively bot
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by matt-p 1y ago
Honestly they need far greater economies of scale to drop the price to where it needs to be. They should be competing with a daytime fare and giving you a bed in exchange for having the ability to run the train slow.
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by matt-p 1y ago
We have sleeper trains in the UK, it would obviously be great if they were cheaper but honestly there's not that much demand for travel from London - Scotland or Penzance in general. This is exacerbated by the fact a daytime train is
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by matt-p 1y ago
The UK has adequate loading gauge for double deckers on HS1/Chunnel and HS2 (though I'm not sure if the Euston extension will support it or not). We can run London - Europe double decker today and if we connected HS2 to HS1 it wou
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by matt-p 1y ago
No they don't. You use the same hub to hub model as airlines. E.g London to Edinburgh, not London to Edinburgh stopping in 4 places. One of the nice things about traveling at night is you have less time pressure and congestion so when
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by matt-p 1y ago
Like most things that's half true. It's true you don't want a telecom worker laying a gas pipe, however you can coordinate this stuff if you want to. Typically the deepest utility works first then backfills just to the level
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by matt-p 1y ago
It won't even make it through your home "gateway", in practice it's usable at layer 2 only.
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by matt-p 1y ago
You can't multicast over the internet.
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by matt-p 1y ago
In theory I think you're right, but you do need a really smart control plane. Just because a connection is fast doesn't mean it's not metered (let's say fast 5G, starlink, rural fiber) and so on. Are all of the issues P2
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by matt-p 1y ago
Not sure I follow your maths there. If we assumed an average of 6Mb per stream that's 3000 streams, practically speaking a little lower. It's all relative I guess but it's not that high.
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by matt-p 1y ago
I have found it's hard to get past ~18Gbps on commodity servers and ~90Gbps on high spec, carefully specced servers. I presume you find the same?
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by matt-p 1y ago
If you also ban virtual and pre-paid cards it cuts this to almost zero. There is a difference, this rocket company is not really going to generate a new virtual card every time? You think their business bank account even supports that?
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by matt-p 1y ago
I think the most depressing thing is how unsurprising this is. This is why free trials require credit cards upfront, as they're more difficult to fake, not because you're about to be stealth billed. It's thanks to people like
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by matt-p 1y ago
I think you're reading a graph for a single tenant not overall infrastructure. m7i.4xlarge on AWS spot price right now is $0.39/hour whereas renting the server is about half that per hour.
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by matt-p 1y ago
I'm sure they're doing this, they'd be mad not to - firecracker has cgroup support.
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by matt-p 1y ago
on what?
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by matt-p 1y ago
Outside of the big clouds just buying a 1 Year lease (say) on a dedicated server is so cheap that you'd not be saving much vs spot instances and with spot instances you need code to manage this and you're introducing risk of slowd
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by matt-p 1y ago
What's wrong with minio out of curiosity? Ceph an option?
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by matt-p 1y ago
Even if the cooling system was free p&p will be $7 million.
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by matt-p 1y ago
But that's embedded compute on a satellite isn't it, not a data centre in space.

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