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by melted 11y ago
My workload was CPU-bound. Test TensorFlow CIFAR model training on the VM with the same amount of CPU on all three major providers. In my case Azure was ~30% slower, whereas GCE and AWS were neck and neck.
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by melted 11y ago
Basically everyone who wanted one already has one. I have a hero 4, and even though I got it at a 50% discount, it still was too expensive for what it does imo.
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by melted 11y ago
I didn't say Azure is at a competitive disadvantage (though it is, when it comes to Linux -- their Linux VMs are substantially slower than competition). I merely said that given choice, people prefer Linux as a platform, and they do so
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by melted 11y ago
I think it's not so much "open source is our future" as it is "if you can't beat them, join them". I'm sure there are plenty of folks at Microsoft who realize that sticking with Windows in Cloud puts them
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by melted 11y ago
Convenience beats perfection every time. I type this from a 2015 ThinkPad Carbon though. :-)
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by melted 11y ago
How does a company stay private if it's underpaying its employees, and their only chance of breaking even is the IPO? Or alternatively, why would employees choose to stay after the company decides not to IPO?
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by melted 11y ago
Simple, repeatable builds, almost no learning curve. I do agree that this is a vastly less potent value proposition than "build your C++ in minutes instead of hours", but it's a start. I think Google will offer the distribute
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by melted 11y ago
I know. Would be pretty cool to have the same on the iPad as well, with the kind of polish that Pythonista offers. I'd pay for that.
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by melted 11y ago
What did you expect, it's only been a few months. There's tremendous inertia when it comes to build systems, people don't change them on a whim.
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by melted 11y ago
I wouldn't call it "useless". It's less useful than the internal distributed version, sure, but it does offer value: a drop dead simple build file syntax that can be learned in 15 minutes and then just works.
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by melted 11y ago
Seems pretty efficient to me, at least per watt.
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by melted 11y ago
You do realize you came up with this text using a deep biological neural network, right?
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by melted 11y ago
I think there's a ton of potential, TBH. Look at Pythonista, for example. My 12yo is having a ton of fun with that. I don't see why such environments couldn't exist for other pedagogically interesting languages such as e.g. R
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by melted 11y ago
Mark my words, in the next couple of years we'll see custom silicon that massively improves performance per watt for DNNs by using fixed point, quantization, and saturation arithmetic. The gain in performance per watt will be at least
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by melted 11y ago
It's not clear who or what it serves right now. It stands to reason (from simple arithmetic) that the more money developers make the more money Apple will make as well. They do make billions off that store. Making more money means surf
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by melted 11y ago
Take a break. Say, a year if you can afford it. Go do something unrelated to software. If you're anything like me in 3-4 months the itch will be back.
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by melted 11y ago
Good. Maybe we'll get "silicon valleys" everywhere else as well when situation becomes completely untenable.
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by melted 11y ago
No one has any idea how to run an App Store. Even Apple's App Store is vastly inadequate to sell the gigantic number of apps available on it. Top N apps make out like bandits, everyone else is basically dying. It will always be power l
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by melted 11y ago
That doesn't inspire a ton of faith in Dropbox, TBH.
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by melted 11y ago
There's no way any of this will remain "free" though. Established players won't allow it, you'll have to license their patent portfolios to make anything at all.
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by melted 11y ago
And it isn't even close. Just the other day Google released a bit of PR that indicates their current cars will pull over and stop if it starts to rain. That basically means their cars aren't usable in all but the driest locales. A
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by melted 11y ago
Someone is going to make a killing on tiny, inexpensive RJ45 60GHz access points and switches that support PoE. Killer use case: stick it into a wall, and everything in the room gets gigabit speeds. No wall warts to deal with.
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by melted 11y ago
To properly grok the word "grok", you need to read "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein. Quite possibly the best sci-fi book ever written.
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by melted 11y ago
60GHz basically means "same room only". Won't go through walls for sure. Should be useful for open space offices though.
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by melted 11y ago
That's actually up for philosophical debate. For instance, if I were to tell you there might be a fly in your house somewhere, you wouldn't consider it unlikely even in the absence of evidence, whereas if I said there was a kangar
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by melted 11y ago
He's the best thing that ever happened to T-Mobile. If it wasn't for Legere, it's unlikely T-Mobile would still be in the business, let alone growing its customer base. I've been a satisfied customer for 2.5 years now.
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by melted 11y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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by melted 11y ago
I switched my parents to Ubuntu about 5 years ago. They didn't even blink, and for me maintenance is easier since I can even upgrade the OS over ssh. Zero problems so far.
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by melted 11y ago
No, I'm not talking about stop and frisk or "am I free to go". I'm talking about pointing a toy weapon at an officer when he/she can't tell if the weapon is real or not. Or reaching into the police cruiser, pun
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by melted 11y ago
Yes, that's how things are done in this country. You can fuck with them afterwards, in the court of law. When they're enforcing the law, fucking with police is the stupidest thing you can do. They have families to come back home t

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