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by namibj 7mo ago
Instagram Arabian spring Uber Airbnb Cloud-ification/shift to web apps and mobile-first ....tiktok? Or is YouTube considered "short video sharing app"? Because I see no evidence tiktok in particular killing TV... To be fair,
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by namibj 7mo ago
The design spect tsunami resistance is for getting away with just a couple days downtime plus what the grid concerns. A much higher much rare case is what happened and which they didn't have a plan ready on hand. Even if you treat the
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by namibj 7mo ago
Question the concept of mass layoffs?
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by namibj 7mo ago
Compare to the Facebook global BGP breakage and the amount of hands-on authorization that needed to happen to recover. And no, there are plenty systems you don't want to have root ssh on. Mainframes require 4-eyes administration to do
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by namibj 7mo ago
Yes, I was just pointing out why we choose to make the memory chips so fragile/dependant on the controller doing all the magic training for them.
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by namibj 7mo ago
Because DDR3/4/5 dies are made to a price with half to three quarters of their IO pins shared between the dies in parallel on a rank of a channel, and for capacity often up to around 6 ranks per channel. E.g. high capacity server
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by namibj 7mo ago
Do they make any promises about persistence of local NVMe after something like a full-region power outage yet? Because if you can't do durable commit on a single-region cluster that will be just temporarily unavailable without loosin
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by namibj 7mo ago
mmap is also for non-disk-backed memory: Your link refers to https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/mm/huge... , which contains this tidbit: > If the user applications are going to reque
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by namibj 7mo ago
Yeah, the resonant waves tend to be surface flexing (the top side expanding the bottom contracting and thus the sheet as a whole bending; and ofc vise-versa) which has a natural frequency related to the lever arm length amplifying the movin
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by namibj 7mo ago
The divide by two is to get the quartz small enough to fit that package.
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by namibj 7mo ago
> Oh, I completely agree—but they're so frequently used as a gotcha for why the rise of solar is just trading one "foreign master" for another. "Oh no, solar panels rely on rare earth minerals, so that means you have
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by namibj 7mo ago
Maybe today, but basically everywhere south of Canada solar is so high ROI that it's just a question of time before sunlight hours have electricity so much cheaper that the primary daytime parking locations become the favored (slow-)ch
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by namibj 8mo ago
There's zero exponential scaling involved. There is quadratic compute and reasonably log-linear storage, though.
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by namibj 8mo ago
A major problem is there not being a way a city can legally speed limit a road such that it can ticket cars who go faster than what the bikes allow assisted. If you take away their legal reasons for overtaking you while you go as far as the
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by namibj 8mo ago
Well, you can switch from high efficiency to field weakening once you run out of supply voltage to handle full field back EMF as you increase speed. That can readily double your speed on flat or downhill terrain if normal torque is sized to
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by namibj 8mo ago
Driving what's better described as an electric dirt bike with street tires through pedestrian paths is also asking for dead pedestrians?
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by namibj 8mo ago
Nah, usually can't have huge pages. Almost certainly can't have giant pages. Can't even fit all L3$ capacity into the L2 TLB if done via 4k pages...
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by namibj 8mo ago
It's sad that NDA fetishist Broadcom has a de-facto monopoly on PCIe fabric switches; notably we would have functional open source drivers for at least simpler topologies for a while now, and could just set up cheap FNN topologies by u
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by namibj 8mo ago
That sounds like broken behavior from you password manager: deleting credentials without making that destructive action clear enough to prevent minor levels of negligence from accidentally destroying them.
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by namibj 8mo ago
The AI boom is worse for DRAM fab planning than the crypto boom was for GPUs. It's way way way bigger, somehow has huge money behind it, and DRAM fabs are investments with usually no less than 5 years latency from starting to build any
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by namibj 8mo ago
See ndriscoll's answer; but besides that there should at least be a feature to tell your local app that a road in question is not to be considered private for yourself; imagine it telling you to go around a long way instead of cutting
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by namibj 8mo ago
Same problem for pedestrian plaza structures btw. Though there it's arguably worse as it has a good chance of affecting routing choice not just user presentation.
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by namibj 8mo ago
It's sadly easy to confuse "take public transit" with "driving a train" on the UI :( Given that for most other modes it's used by the driver.
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by namibj 8mo ago
We should push the typically publicly funded (and via that path: the big single entity that pays you the largest (single) share of your income as a transit company gets to dictate a LOT if they try and it's inherently close to free) to
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by namibj 8mo ago
Password database leaks turning into spam/proxy farms of very well aged accounts.
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by namibj 8mo ago
I'm looking to switch from feeding the default android "recorder" app's .WAV into Gemini 3 Pro (via the app) with (usually just) a `Transcribe this please:` prompt; content is usually German voice instructions/expla
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by namibj 8mo ago
IANAL. Presuming (I haven't checked myself) the git author information supports this, it should be fine to treat this as licensing the code it specifies under MIT; based on that license name being (to my understanding) unambiguous and
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by namibj 8mo ago
Just crypto tie them to the server/site and let them do it, CRLs were an issue due to distribution to every device, not because of a hastable like sparse set structure being too much. Also this isn't every connection, but only ev
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by namibj 8mo ago
E.g. the German ID card can all on it's own, just using a server certificate configured/parametrized for this and signed by the government, do a simultaneous pseudonym passkey mint and age gate check. That way you could easily bl
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by namibj 8mo ago
Experience counter examples for why a specific definition is not going to work. Many times, at various levels of "not going to", usually hovering slightly above a syntactic level, but sometimes hovering on average above a plain d

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