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by rphlx 10y ago
Stratix10 (the large, Intel 14nm family) was delayed, delayed, delayed, and delayed some more. Last I heard it was supposed to be in high-prio customer hands by end of 2016, but unclear if that meant "more eng samples" or the actu
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by rphlx 10y ago
Yeah. IMO most of the blame here falls on the TV rather than the switch. Even when it's implemented well, Ethernet pause frame generation should not be enabled - certainly, not by default - on a consumer product, because it's real
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by rphlx 10y ago
They paper launched like 4 years ago, but FWIH they're still not in vol production yet. Many tapeout delays.
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by rphlx 10y ago
TBH, I am hoping somebody pushes a decent implementation of this to github. I am personally not willing to pay monthly, and definitely not willing to share brokerage credentials, with a SaaS version.
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by rphlx 10y ago
Perhaps that was true in the mid 90s, but today Intel optimizes x86_64 for its highest margin core business: server/datacenter workloads. Any resulting benefit to desktop PC gaming is appreciated, but it's a side effect rather tha
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by rphlx 10y ago
> ~23,000 people who blindly jumped on the hypetrain I haven't touched ETH or the DAO personally, but it is unfair to label every investment in them irrational. Over the past 5 years cryptocurrencies have provided multiple opport
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by rphlx 10y ago
Whenever they're about to lose, those with the power to do so usually change the rules to ensure they win. Cryptocurrency developers are rarely an exception to that. Actually, the Bitcoin devs deserve a huge amount of credit for not at
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by rphlx 11y ago
Even so the current Apple SoCs are phone/tablet parts which cannot match broadwell IPC or clock frequency, except maybe on the lowest-end mobile parts. You can be sure that they're working on that, but my guess is it's at lea
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by rphlx 11y ago
I will politely disagree. RSA-2048 implemented properly, on its own, has a significant security margin today and it's unlikely that HW advances over the next 25 years will erode that, even at a superbly-funded first-world intelligence
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by rphlx 11y ago
It's getting better (particularly on high-end phones) but single-threaded performance is still nowhere near circa-2013 desktop x86_64 (3.5ghz+ haswell). And it'll probably never catch up due to the thermal and battery life constra
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by rphlx 11y ago
> Source trees that contain a directory named “vendor” that is not used in accordance with the new feature will require changes to avoid broken builds That seems a little bit distasteful.
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by rphlx 11y ago
FYI, that will pretty much break DNSSEC.
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by rphlx 11y ago
Well, it would be much worse if they refused to implement those enhancements, or tried to force proprietary or gmail-specific alternatives. They pretty much had to do something to improve e-mail's abysmal confidentiality and authentici
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by rphlx 11y ago
Also, move sshd to a random & rarely-used TCP port. Won't help much against a skilled & determined targeted attack, however the "security through obscurity" is not entirely worthless. Using something other than 22 is
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by rphlx 11y ago
I agree and IMO it's basically impossible to fully defend a dynamic site against a well-engineered L7 DDoS, short of operating at top-10-website scale and simply have more resources than the attacker(s). That does create a sort of &quo
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by rphlx 11y ago
This post shows a naive, or intentionally distorted, understanding of animal behavior. Relative social status exists and will be pursued and aggressively defended in every sexual species. If you want that to stop, you better get rid of male
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by rphlx 11y ago
I've heard that, based on how the ACA was written, the penalty is only weakly enforceable; if you refuse to pay it, the IRS cannot garnish your wages or seize assets for it, etc. They can subtract it from a tax refund if you are owed o
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by rphlx 11y ago
I agree. Stock options are a well-engineered exploit of employee optimism.
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by rphlx 11y ago
Cryptocurrency mining, as it was in 2014. Although it's mostly- rather than fully- passive.
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by rphlx 11y ago
24/192 lossless is a digital Veblen good; some people will pay more for it (and/or the HW to play it & store it), and almost all of them will enjoy it more, if only because it costs more. Whether it actually sounds better is s
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by rphlx 11y ago
In my experience talented early employees tend to take a tremendous amount of insufficiently-compensated risk. The founders can of course lay them off at any time, dilute them, give them paychecks that bounce, outsource their jobs after a
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by rphlx 11y ago
The current batch of ARM microserver parts are indeed pretty primitive compared to x86, but each year they will copy more & more of the tricks and optimizations that Intel implemented 10-15 years ago, including the superb virtualization
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by rphlx 11y ago
Human nature being what it is, a large fraction of password-manager users probably also reuse passwords, or nearly reuse them, which is nearly as bad. With the password manager being there for cases where some BOFH admin required two relati
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by rphlx 11y ago
This is a somewhat misleading headline as Microsoft/Google/.. are mostly "pulling", not "pushing". Broadcom is the real pusher of 25 and 50GE; they basically bypassed the IEEE & developed it in near-secret,
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by rphlx 11y ago
That's a good question - AFAIK nobody has any real idea how much Uranium is present within nearby asteroids. Hopefully they will create some more RTGs & send some probes to find out!
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by rphlx 11y ago
Uranium enrichment is actually a physical rather than nuclear process, and thus it cannot produce other elements such as Plutonium. However once you have enriched enough uranium to create an operating reactor, its spent fuel will contain a
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by rphlx 12y ago
An undisclosed amount, mining an undisclosed (but top-50) cryptocurrency, with an undisclosed (but legal) technology. Mining is so rediculously hyper-competitive that I hope you'll understand the lack-of-detail. You learn to keep your
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by rphlx 12y ago
Network stacks are layered and even after 40+ years, on every OS I've seen, L4 (TCP) never queries nor uses any L1/L2/L3 link quality/stability/availability information when computing retrans intervals, etc. Doing t
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by rphlx 12y ago
Unnecessarily complex daemon; three lines in /etc/network/interfaces and a few shell scripts will suffice, thank you very much.
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by rphlx 12y ago
> It's entirely possible to starve to death while never once wanting for work. Perhaps on an individual basis, but not in large groups. An economic and social system in which most humans are starving will rapidly collapse, and be re

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