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by ralph87 6y ago
If you buy a matched OS + laptop in any other situation, why not also for Linux? Buy an XPS next time, or any other vendor (Lenovo?) with tested hardware, and just put an Ubuntu USB stick in. "I bought the top result for 'wheel&#x
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by ralph87 6y ago
The network stack integration was less than transparent too. Random places all over the system where e.g. a magical ioctl() just didn't work properly. Who really wants to spend their life reimplementing every last baroque detail of tha
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by ralph87 6y ago
> The argument about Windows not having a single, central dentry cache doesn't hold water This was more about cache coherency, and it's not an argument, it's a trait shared by every other Linux-over-X implementation (UML,
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by ralph87 6y ago
Contra opinion: the VM option reduced the service interface between Windows and Linux to a single kernel implementation and a few drivers, rather than every possible userspace program ever written. It's an amazing and obvious trade off
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by ralph87 6y ago
Do what exactly? This is essentially a performance optimization for folk bagholding oceans of vulnerable hardware
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by ralph87 6y ago
This method was talked about since the Spectre/Meltdown days. It has often taken Google much longer to release patches they've been sitting on, e.g. many original containers patches were like this.
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by ralph87 6y ago
Chrome is not open source, it's a derived proprietary superset of the open source Chromium. They are not the same thing in very material ways
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by ralph87 6y ago
We could argue this ad infinitum, K8s of course doesn't remove all proprietary elements from a solution but it is a huge step up. Speaking as an ex-Googler, it took over 10 years but I'm so happy the rest of the world finally has
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by ralph87 6y ago
Ever tried to host multiple apps on a single machine? Oh look, a custom Nginx config only one person understands. Oh look, some hacked up letsencrypt config only one person understands, etc etc. > K8S on a single node does nothing for yo
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by ralph87 6y ago
Kubernetes does a whole lot more than just restart jobs when a node fails, in fact of all its features this is one most people probably see in action the least. Kubernetes centralizes all the traditional technical nonsense related to provid
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by ralph87 6y ago
Just for completeness, updating parent comment's Lambda estimates, not counting provisioned worker costs, and assuming no request takes more than 100 ms. Lambda requests: ((1.5e9 * 4) / 1e6) * .20 = $ 1,200 Lambda
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by ralph87 6y ago
I stopped reading at "3000 cores"; there is a lot of money to be made mopping up disasters like that, it's clearly even something of a growth industry. We had one machine push 2,400 requests/sec average over election nig
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by ralph87 6y ago
The emphasis here being on the word "should". I wouldn't buy just yet until some third party has published a sustained load/heat test. Apple have sucked at this for quite some years now, it's folly to touch a MacBoo
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by ralph87 6y ago
The use case is benchmarks basically, and maybe faster cold boots. About the only place the typical heavy computer user is likely to notice major difference between SATA and NVME is probably running something like "find /", o
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by ralph87 6y ago
Small but important nitpick: since at least 2005 there is no "on the NYSE", the price you're likely seeing is the best price consolidated across all national market system venues, the primary listing exchange is mostly only a
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by ralph87 6y ago
The average web page can be as nasty as it likes, but if I can deliver apps that _feel_ awesome and optionally can deliver metrics that provide a commercial basis for that awesomeness to whoever is paying me, I don't really care much a
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by ralph87 6y ago
Effectively this is arguing for the project's attention to detail being low, we covered this already
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by ralph87 6y ago
Marketed as a single codebase platform where the most ubiquitous deployment target has a user experience that tells your customers you hate them 4.39 MB in 50 requests is a showstopper on any mobile network, especially when alternative solu
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by ralph87 6y ago
The gallery app looks to be authored using it: - It needed to show a loading spinner on a 250 Mbit connection - It hung the browser while 'booting' the page for a solid 3-5 seconds - It downloaded 4.39 MB in 50 requests - Opening
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by ralph87 6y ago
Hoping someone snarfed a git clone, revision history is waaay more interesting than the code itself
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by ralph87 6y ago
Running a site the size of the BBC on Lambda is nothing short of an exuberant waste of a government-subsidized budget, it's absolutely crazy. Lambda VM time has a massive markup compared to regular compute. It only makes sense where us
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by ralph87 6y ago
> This entire post is just unnecessary fear-mongering. You perhaps missed the bottom 30% suggesting there may be better options. Docker's registry protocol treats layers essentially as opaque slabs, as any user will no doubt be awa
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by ralph87 6y ago
$45/mo would be the minimum payment, assuming the free limit announced today actually lasted. Let's say they begin crying 12 months from now and knock it down even by 50%, now you're looking at $810 minimum per year per clien
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by ralph87 6y ago
500GB/mo. presumably per IP address for anonymous pulls. Amazon have absolutely no problem revealing the true cost of egress when it suits them. Also, "500GB/mo.", at launch. Let's not forget those generous free lim
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by ralph87 6y ago
It really has instant appeal to me as an adult, but I'm not so sure about target market any more. Kids these days are all glued to their mobile phones, it seems if you want to blow a kid's mind, something that turns their phone in
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by ralph87 6y ago
> Docs and Sheets Try out Office online, insanely more featureful. Scold anyone mailing Docs share links by saying you can't open it, insist on a file instead
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by ralph87 6y ago
PyPy is the awesomest thing created since sliced bread, but C extension interoperability is still a source of perf problems in a few scenarios AIUI. Glad to have Pyston in addition to PyPy
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by ralph87 6y ago
Too little for what and too late for what? Qt has a massive install base in embedded and desktop, and plenty of weird niches like kiosk and interactive media. Also try building out some specialized UI featuring any kind of heavy computation
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by ralph87 6y ago
This page feels almost like quackery, however Knuteson's background is part physics professor part quant. See https://www.bruceknuteson.com/
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All positive returns to major market indices over 3 decades occurred overnight(overnightreturns.org)
10 points by ralph87 6y ago|6 comments

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