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by seriesf 7y ago
One thing that really squicked me out when I left Google is how other companies, even large and sophisticated ones, are using all kinds of garbage that comes from canonical or red hat or percona, and they have NO IDEA what's in there.
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by seriesf 7y ago
But that’s so untrue. Google internally has a number of different platforms with universal reach.
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by seriesf 7y ago
The center of a mass market grocery store is terrifying. Safeway carries something like twenty different kinds of marshmallows, but only one kind of, for example, ground corn. They don’t sell food.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Really? I first read it on a Kindle and it was totally infuriating. The jumping is not very convenient, certainly not anywhere near as fast as two bookmarks.
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by seriesf 7y ago
I'm sorry but there is no way your characterization is accurate for any given point on the map. The entire Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area only authorizes about 2500 new dwellings per month, and not all of them get built. P
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by seriesf 7y ago
Wait, I only just noticed where you said “intense residential construction”. You must be joking. Current rates of construction across the state are far below historic norms. The only people who think this is a building boom are those who ha
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by seriesf 7y ago
I'm sure that's a gross exaggeration. In any case there have only been 33 homicides in SF in 2019, which is down by about 20% vs. the prior year.
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by seriesf 7y ago
So they need supportive housing. I endorse building a lot of housing of all kinds, everywhere, as fast as we can. SF has by far the highest municipal revenues per capita in the nation and it can afford to build.
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by seriesf 7y ago
There are other laws against those things. We don't need one against sleeping outside.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Hrmm, what is a way to solve the problem of HOMElessness, other than throwing people in jail? Trying to think here, just brainstorming. Here's my list of top solutions to HOMElessness: 1) Zone 90% of the city for detached single-fami
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by seriesf 7y ago
Here’s the number to keep in mind. A medium-sized cloud datacenter uses about as much power as a single passenger airliner, but emits no carbon. That’s your comparison.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Because they can’t easily use AVX or whatever.
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by seriesf 7y ago
A lot of people seem to cling to this number, 3-5 year lifecycle for servers. But, much to the disappointment of software developers, machines in large clouds are often in service for 8-10 years. When you build your own computers there’s no
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by seriesf 7y ago
I've never owned a polyester garment that could be washed in water. Aren't they all dry-clean only? Blends (like denim) I can see but in general it seems like people just wash their clothes too often and use the machine too much
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by seriesf 7y ago
You can touch your chin with your eyes closed even though you can't see it and in fact haven't ever seen it. It's possible to lose this sense, too, which pretty much rules out the idea that it's merely a mental model. P
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by seriesf 7y ago
The Crown Victoria was essentially purpose built for taxi duty, even though it was also marketed to the public.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Sure but what have they built that’s this complicated? The recent AMD flaws have been things like frequency scaling doesn’t work (zen). The more features you have, the harder it becomes to validate the product.
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by seriesf 7y ago
It's hard to imagine how one gains confidence in this kind of product. How does this vendor have the resources to qualify this chip? Intel can already barely qualify theirs. The last seven generations of AMD parts shipped with serio
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by seriesf 7y ago
I'm assuming the population of dupes will eventually be depleted.
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by seriesf 7y ago
I don’t see how the Uber model can ever approach the price of a taxi. Traditional taxis had purpose-built vehicles, shared garages, parts bought at wholesale, and cars on duty all day every day. Uber drivers have disposable Toyotas, pay ind
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by seriesf 7y ago
I can't find any examples of this not working. Can you give an example? The GP's complaint of "x and y to business" works perfectly well for me. E.g. "55th and 5th to barclays center" works perfectly.
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by seriesf 7y ago
It is, though. Under memory pressure the kernel will drop any page that's backed by a file, and then page it back in as needed. "swap" is just making _all_ memory be backed by files.
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by seriesf 7y ago
"you had to manually tell it how much memory an application could use" So it was the cloud, essentially.
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by seriesf 7y ago
squashfs is another linux feature that boils down to compressed swap.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Actually the butter is the important thing in this article. The self-driving revolution isn't going to enable beautiful and wondrous accomplishments. Instead, it's going to enable international megaconglomerates to more cheaply e
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by seriesf 7y ago
Not sure but a 9200-series Xeon with two sockets would be 224 threads in a box.
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by seriesf 7y ago
The accompanying technical blog is more interesting than the announcement. It implies they may have ported or adapted Borg’s antagonistic workload scheduling features to cloud. Huge if true, as they say.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Or in other words, when your ARM without SMT stalls, the execution resources are wasted, as Xenu intended. Letting another program use the functional units unused by your program is an abomination before Xenu.
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by seriesf 7y ago
This is common but not universal. The agreement I have with google, by contrast, gives them a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive right to use anything I create while I work here. This is not the same as owning those things.
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by seriesf 7y ago
Can you give us an illuminating example of the fulfillment you’ve gained from ... ip-over-udp tunneling? It doesn’t really sound that revelatory?

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