mike_d

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by mike_d 2y ago
Mellanox and friends not being able to build fast enough switching gear at a reasonable price point was what got Google into the hardware game in the first place ;)
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by mike_d 2y ago
They are building racks of 4090s. Nobody can get H100s in any reasonable volume. Hell, Microsoft is renting GPUs from Oracle Cloud to get enough capacity to run Bing.
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by mike_d 2y ago
> This is like saying $popularApp will fail because they buy expensive hosting at AWS. For any given mobile app startup, AWS is effectively infinite. The more money you throw at it the more doodads you get back. Nvidia's supply chai
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by mike_d 2y ago
Yes. Google was building custom HPC hardware 5-8 years before Nvidia decided to expand outside the consumer and "workstation" markets.
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by mike_d 2y ago
Uh, yes? There are dozens of specific US laws that govern this and tons of existing case law that committing a serious crime overseas is punishable in the US regardless of its legality elsewhere. The Travel Act for example makes it illegal
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by mike_d 2y ago
Posts like this underscore why the smart money is betting on Google as the long term AI winner. Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, etc. are trying to address problems with consumer video cards and spending billions to try and out bid each other to wi
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by mike_d 2y ago
> What the government did with Sprint was akin to allowing GM to be purchased by Ford. The government depends on three carriers (ATT, Verizon, Sprint) for its own redundant critical communications (Continuity of government, military comm
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by mike_d 2y ago
For take 3 consider explaining exactly what the issue is that you are upset about. This appears to be just a few generic definitions of what URL shorteners are and some links to a Twitter thread of random articles about URL spoofing. Do you
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by mike_d 2y ago
> Why haven't banks stepped in and offered something here? Real banks won't do business with unregulated/unlicensed entities. That is why "fintech" is all built on top of random banks you've never heard of.
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by mike_d 2y ago
> Griddy was the company that hit the headlines [...] Yes, most sane well regulated places don't allow things like this to exist in the first place.
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by mike_d 2y ago
> You are completely able to get a stable rate for power in Texas. No one is forced to choose a rate that can spike to $7/kWh. Yes, everything is fine if you have money and can choose. Other states explicitly ban these types of pric
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by mike_d 2y ago
They seem to be making a big deal out of nothing. These are all cases where someone did something, it was reported/discovered, and it was investigated and handled by security/global investigations.
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by mike_d 2y ago
They can view videos they are assigned to review, but they can't just pull up a random private video.
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by mike_d 2y ago
Oracle has north of 160,000 employees. 2,500 of which are in Texas. The founder and CEO both live in other states.
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by mike_d 2y ago
> Texas actually has roughly average electric grid reliability compared to other states [...] having substantially below average electricity costs The Texas grid is better compared to a third world country. It works great except when the
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by mike_d 2y ago
> Companies charge as much as they can, not how much it costs to produce plus fixed overhead. Companies will sometimes overtly pass a cost on to the consumer in the hopes of creating political pressure against that cost. For example take
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by mike_d 2y ago
> For use on flights where they give you "messenger only" internet access. They still rate limit these flows to a very low speed.
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by mike_d 2y ago
Right of first sale still applies. Nothing obligates a company to continue selling you goods if they don't want to.
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by mike_d 2y ago
France: Hold by beer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unr...
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by mike_d 2y ago
The deals with these warehouses generally forbid it, and there are in fact investigators working on supply chain compliance (warehouse police). There is a line out the door for these mixed pallets, and if you are caught fucking around they
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by mike_d 2y ago
I think a much better solution is Apple just geofencing schools in the US and not allowing social media apps to be opened.
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by mike_d 2y ago
Because phones have become the command center for our lives. Your FreeStyle Libre pings your phone when you have low blood sugar. When your watch detects a serious fall or a heart abnormality your phone calls emergency services. You use you
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by mike_d 2y ago
You seem to be confusing being able to reach IPv6 with native IPv6. With rare exceptions AWS does not document how their internal network functions because it is a trade secret. However for the longest time it was fairly easy to test: if yo
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by mike_d 2y ago
It used to be very rare for DDoS providers to publicly advertise their services, you kinda had to know a guy who knew a guy. If you put up a website offering this service the Good Guys of the Internet would track you down and get your provi
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by mike_d 2y ago
> a) According to [0], AWS has provided IPv6 addressing to EC2 instances since 2016. Yes, but that isn't what we are talking about. 2022 is when they added native IPv6 support, prior to that it was just a fancy NAT like translation.
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by mike_d 2y ago
IPv6 depends on IPv4 addressing if you have downstream devices that need to reach the entire internet. If you go to ARIN they have an explicit policy of allocating IPv4 blocks to facilitate IPv6 deployment. CGNAT is a term that broadly used
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by mike_d 2y ago
Sorry I should say gas stations are profitable standing alone. Once two gas stations exist it is a race to the fixed price floor (all stations buy from the same distributors in the same way all charging stations will buy from the same grid)
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by mike_d 2y ago
DDoS attacks are usually volumetric attack. Send more bits than the pipe the website has to the internet. To combat this you need to buy enough pipes to the internet for your regular internet traffic, as well as an extra 500 Gbps or so. Tha
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by mike_d 2y ago
That is exactly the problem. These services are constantly at war with each other and are attacked by competitors. Cloudflare provides DDoS protection to the DDoS providers so they can keep their services online, which directly benefits Clo
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by mike_d 2y ago
> as long as they are profitable Which will be a big part of the problem. Gas stations aren't profitable. The convenience store with $6 bags of chips next to it is. We also learned in the early 2000s with the "datacenter in a s

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