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by rrss 5y ago
Important to note that the agreement was made in 2007, so reliability as a factor would be reliability as assessed in 2007, not 2021. I think that in 2021, Falcon 9 ‘s track record arguably suggests it is more reliable than Ariane 5, but i
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by rrss 5y ago
yeah, for a single process. but I’m mostly interested in doing this for a process tree (like a browser), and I don’t think this would work well in that case, since the limit would apply to each process individually. this would work if there
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by rrss 5y ago
I dearly wish overcommit could be disabled per-cgroup, but AFAIK this is not possible. malloc failing seems like a much simpler indication of memory pressure than the alternatives like PSI.
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by rrss 5y ago
I think this happens when the kernel starts swapping executable images / shared libraries in and out and keeps going for a long time because according to the kernel metrics it is making great progress, even though user space is complet
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by rrss 5y ago
this is great progress and Alyssa Rosenzweig is awesome, but afaik the gpu is not usable from Linux yet because the kernel driver is not yet written. the asahi team is very talented, but I don’t think their progress means building a softwar
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by rrss 5y ago
Yeah, and I don’t mean to suggest that there are no further levels to discover and understand or more fundamental properties to explain the ones we know, just that there is a limit to what we know, and that at some level things which are ex
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by rrss 5y ago
This property is called Dennard scaling. It mostly does not apply to the latest few generations due to increasing static power (leakage current). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
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by rrss 5y ago
The difficulty is that eventually you reach a level where there are no satisfying answers to this sort of question. There are a lot of interesting levels to explore between “why did aunt Minnie go to the hospital” and fundamental physical p
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by rrss 5y ago
Johnson publicly announced the SR-71 in 1964, so the plane wasn’t top secret at the time (in the mid 1970s). New York Times story about the announcement: https://archive.md/oFO9J
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by rrss 5y ago
though Hero’s engine is a steam engine, it is practically useless as anything besides a curiosity and certainly could not have powered an industrial revolution
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by rrss 5y ago
“We are instituting a policy in which the government employs people to hit travelers in the face with a board as they enter the airport” “If you would prefer not to be hit with a board as part of your travel experience, please apply for our
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by rrss 5y ago
definitely kill TSA precheck (and clear). It’s absurd to me that the government now offers a paid subscription service to enable people to bypass an entirely government-created problem that has little to no benefit.
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by rrss 5y ago
in my mind, keysight is the original HP in the sense that Hewlett and Packard started an electronics test & measurement company, and AFAIK keysight is the only electronics test & measurement company descended from HP. also, all the
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by rrss 5y ago
> It’s honestly hilarious to me, that Packard ever said any of this considering how absolutely shit HP is in my opinion. Are you talking about your opinion of the company “HP Inc” today? IMO it is not surprising that companies change a l
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by rrss 5y ago
it’s fascinating that you are apparently incapable of making any genuine, honest comment on this subject, and favor spewing continuous sarcasm.
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by rrss 5y ago
> compared to the uniquely hellacious experience of installing CUDA drivers on Ubuntu, this seemed to be... a single header file, and a single .c file. > Turns out, it is that easy: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/s
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by rrss 5y ago
I don’t really follow - most people inspired by Apollo have only ever known about it via film or words. A huge fraction of the movies people have suggested here are nonfiction about the space program.
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by rrss 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. It’s cool that google has a ton of money and can give people free access to lots of big servers, but it sounds like what you are excited about (lots of cpu cores, RAM, many VMs) seems to be mostly unrelated to
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by rrss 5y ago
> that blog runs on a TPU. You can just SSH into them. By “runs on a TPU,” you mean it runs on a CPU in a VM somewhere that also has access to TPU hardware, right? If this is the new TPU phraseology, that’s pretty confusing IMO.
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by rrss 5y ago
this sure sounds like external inspiration: “I think Apollo 11 was one of the most inspiring things in all of human history. Arguably the most inspiring thing. And one of the most universally good things in history. The level of inspiration
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by rrss 5y ago
pretty sure this is just called “culture”
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by rrss 5y ago
presumably the same one where freedom of speech is valued because the people empowered to make decisions for others about what is right or wrong can be wrong.
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by rrss 5y ago
Sure, interesting idea, but this is not open source as it is widely understood or as it is defined by OSI.
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by rrss 5y ago
I don’t understand how it could be made profitably 50 years ago but not today.
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by rrss 5y ago
in case others are interested, I was curious about the original and found a good description the mechanism of the original in the patent: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3710668A/en .
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by rrss 5y ago
why?
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by rrss 5y ago
Draper has repeatedly said that he doesn’t think Holmes did anything wrong. He thinks that her downfall is because of a “witch hunt,” that she is a “great icon” “bullied into submission” by a corrupt FDA and big healthcare, and has said tha
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by rrss 5y ago
sure, that’s the standard way of teaching and is useful background, but you don’t need calculus or the continuous Fourier transform to come up with or understand the DFT. Once you know what a basis is for a finite dimensional vector space,
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by rrss 5y ago
Thanks for your reply. There are several different classes of electricity imports, and I think it is important to consider them separately - there are imports under long term contracts, opportunistic imports due to lower prices in the short
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by rrss 5y ago
Read http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Final-Root-Cause-Analysis-Mid... and see if you still think these analysts are omniscient.

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