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by mmt 8y ago
> One of the things that helped me a lot during my studies was the ability to mentally vizualize complex topological situations. I don't think that's a skill you get from I'm not convinced that's a skill you get from
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by mmt 8y ago
> If I wrote down all my Spotify songs AND all my Skype messages AND all my texts, Spotify, Skype, and Verizon don't suddenly gain an ownership stake in what I've done. Bringing up actual communication content is where you star
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by mmt 8y ago
Although I agree that over 90% is less effective (and your explanation is clearer than mine [1]), do you have a reference for 70% (and is it w/w or v/v?) is the most effective? Last I read up on it, I found the number to be clos
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by mmt 8y ago
> They're not able to survive 100% alcohol (or close to 100%) IIRC, there's something of a peak in the effectiveness curve below the close-to 100% [1] point for ethanol, having something to do with too high a concentration not
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by mmt 8y ago
> For all the complaints about the decreasing quality of air-travel, almost everyone I know chooses flights based on cost and time, not service. Almost everyone I know does the opposite, but only to a limited degree. I think it's al
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by mmt 8y ago
> need to be replaceable with little to no effort. For instance, I don't want a new NoSQL platform, I want high-availability, managed, on-the-fly-scalable Postgres. I don't think the latter is easily replaceable, though, either
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by mmt 8y ago
> I feel like I'm missing a big bucket or two. Not sure what though. Considering how huge an employer the public sector is in the US, it stands to reason there's a huge value to in the government-as-an-enterprise, even if only
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by mmt 8y ago
> It is up there in the rules. It wasn't always, and it's quite an exceptional standard, compared to the rest of the site. > Maybe the right forum would be GlassDoor? Unfortunately, Glassdoor has no facility for discussion.
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by mmt 8y ago
Location: San Francisco Bay Area California Remote: OK Willing to relocate: no Technologies: datacenter, hybrid cloud, AWS, server hardware, GPUs, PostgreSQL, network engineering, bash/shell, Linux system administration, Devops culture
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by mmt 8y ago
> nor are these threads a good place for companies to reply, or for the community to discuss or work anything out. This keeps being repeated as if it's somehow obvious or undisputed, but it's not, nor is the actual "good
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by mmt 8y ago
> The widespread use of preemptive concurrency for reasons aside from parallelism, demonstrates my point. If your point is that kernel threads are more attractive that the alternative, once they already exist, then yes, but that continue
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by mmt 8y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it already, but, in California, find your county's health center (usually a hospital, often more than one facility). Contact them, possibly by just going to their primary care (ideally walk-in) c
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by mmt 8y ago
> There have always been appliances in IT. Indeed, and, as a general rule, they were astonishingly expensive, especially in up-front purchase cost. > The only difference with public cloud solutions I posit that another difference is t
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by mmt 8y ago
> Didn't we already discuss this? The answer is no. We did, but you never made the case for the answer being no, which means the answer is still yes. > GUI toolkits based on C/C++ could use userland-based cooperative multi
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by mmt 8y ago
> It obviously has to be more expensive than buying the stuff yourself, otherwise they wouldn't make money. What you are buying is essentially flexibility. > - are a cash-strapped startup and are fine with paying extra as long as
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by mmt 8y ago
> isn't really that much work I suspect that it's this little parenthetical tidbit, and implicit disagreement with it (or differing definitions of "much") that drives the creation of this kind of abstraction. In some
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by mmt 8y ago
> The point of my comment there was that I'm not sure what you meant by 'inapplicable'. Inapplicable to the context of the over-arching discussion, which is POSIX advisory file locks. These are not the "threads"
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by mmt 8y ago
I like to add, "does it need to beyond what's delivered by Moore's Law?" (which I use a metaphor for all increases in computing performance, including I/O, which has, of course, increased at a much slower, but far f
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by mmt 8y ago
> Very few handled anything that couldn't run off a beefy postgres installation. My impression, from attempting to evangelize scaling "up" before scaling "out" (because it's both cheaper and much lower eff
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by mmt 8y ago
> perhaps serverless computing is inefficient today but it could help improve hardware utilization. This was a big selling point of virtualization, originally. It was certainly true for environments that suffered from poor utilization
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by mmt 8y ago
I've read this analogy before, but it's weak enough to be inapplicable. With wireless networking and even phones, the wires have actually been eliminated, replaced wholesale by something else, radio. A better analogy would be so
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by mmt 8y ago
> I saw OP threw in technical points where the hobby machine is not like a production HPC box - after issuing a dismissal of the work entirely. Which would make it a non-shallow dismissal, as it provided a number of specific discussion p
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by mmt 8y ago
> HPC means an aggregation of computing resources to deliver orders of magnitude of higher performance than one could get from a single workstation. > the post I was reacting to was claiming that it cannot be 'real HPC' with
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by mmt 8y ago
> If the normal state of the dam is to generate electricity It isn't, at least not in the sense that you likely mean. That seems to be a common misconception about the Hoover Dam. Its ability to generate electricity is completely se
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by mmt 8y ago
> But how do you choose which bad reviews to ignore ? Content-free ones like "hated it" or "didn't work" or even "DOA" (and nothing more) can generally be summarily ignored. Other ones I don't exac
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by mmt 8y ago
> The shorthand here is that this is a novel, massively parallel architecture I'll bite.. I'm actually not at all experienced with supercomputers or HPC clusters, only 1990s proprietary MPP systems, what has been termed "g
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by mmt 8y ago
It would be 40 gigabits per second, and I hadn't even noticed the capital B (which I assume was a typo) until you pointed it out. I was about to say that this is a consistent convention for networking to use bits instead of bytes, but
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by mmt 8y ago
In what way is that a problem, though, in the context of what I desribed? I'm not merely counting 1-star reviews but actually reading them for content. IOW, what content would a competing vendor be leaving in a review that would co
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by mmt 8y ago
To be fair, you original comment did use both "supercomputer" and "HPC". I'd argue that, although in most people's minds, the two are indistinguishable (perhaps like the words "envious" and "jeal

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