theevilsharpie

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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
> Where is this narrative that Zen 3 instances are faster than Graviton 3 instances coming from? Various benchmarks have shown EPYC Milan performing well compared to contemporary Xeon and ARM-based processors, but the most direct compari
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> If you read past post mortem, you should notice that configuration induced outages have been the sole category of all large-scale outages. Is it really that surprising? GCP's services are designed to be fault tolerant, and can eas
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
This is (probably) off-topic, but I wanted to touch on it anyway, because it jumped out at me. The topic of the article is as follows: > Editorial: Students pay high price for UM diversity goals The title explicitly lists this as an edit
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
Inflation is a thing that exists, so decent $100 CPUs are going to be hard to come by if you expect to run modern applications in 2021. However, there's plenty of competitive CPUs that can operate below 100W. CPU reviews tend to focus
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When testing games, CPU reviews tend to test reduced resolutions and quality settings with the highest-end GPU they have, as a means of highlighting the differences between the CPUs. While there aren't any nefarious intentions on behal
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> There's no way that Intel processor is beating a 5950X that is also drawing 300W. At that point some Ryzen's will be operating at close to 6GHz per core. Modern desktop CPUs are already being pushed well past the peak perf&#x
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I'm struggling to think of a situation when running virtualized vs. bare metal where compiler optimizations would matter. Certain hypervisors have the ability to disable features on the virtual CPU to enable live migration between diff
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
A binary running in a VM is still executing native machine code, so compiler optimizations should have the same effect whether running on bare metal or a VM.
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0.5% of global GDP would be more reasonable, although a fraction is an odd way of writing it. It also doesn't tell us much other than Google and Facebook are large companies with significant earnings. You can probably provide a similar
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This isn't even close to being true.
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> Instructions per Clock matters too, but the market would have a hard time buying an x86 chip that stopped at 3 GHz, even if it was double the IPC. AMD's response to the later-life Pentium 4's was the Athlon 64, which was cloc
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
An actual town square is a scarce resource (due to being a physical piece of real estate) that's usually managed by a municipality in a way that ensures fair access. Online video sites are in no way, shape, or form, a town square. They
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
(Disclaimer: IANAL) A "whistleblower" in the USA is a legal term of art used to describe someone who reports wrong-doing to the government. The conduct being disclosed doesn't necessarily have to be explicitly illegal, but in
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
> Where in the world is GCE and Azure with ARM processors to compete? I can't speak for Azure, but Google Cloud looks like they've gone all-in with AMD's EPYC platform for their premium option, and offers the E2 instance f
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
A substantial amount of the power generation in California comes from solar, whose output peaks at noon and drops off substantially in the evening. This leads to a situation in the 4-10 PM range where power usage is still at peak levels, bu
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
The San Onofre plant was shut down because the replacement reactor that was installed was defective and unsafe to operate, and repairing it wasn't worth the expense. They didn't shut it down for funsies.
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
A snippet from the blog post: > This chart shows CPU operation in AWS (t2.2xlarge with 8 virtual cores) at different times after several idle CPU periods. Would you expect such unpredictable CPU behavior within a single cloud provider? &
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
> n2-highmem-4 4 32GB $0.262028 For Google Cloud, the N2 machine family is actually quite expensive, and I tend to avoid them if possible. Rather, I use the E2 series for smaller machines, and the N2D series if I need a machine bigger th
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
In the Cloud pricing based on On-Demand rates table, the AWS and Azure memory-optimized machines have 32 GB of RAM, but the Google Cloud machine has 961(!) GB of RAM, with a giant price tag to match. I'm only partway through reading
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> Region: US West – Los Angeles (US West in Azure, US West 2 in Google Cloud) Also, while I'm not familiar with AWS or Azure's pricing, Google Cloud's us-west2 region is relatively expensive for a US region, with compute c
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
FYI to the blog author, the image showing the machine CPU and RAM configuration incorrectly uses Azure's names for the Google Cloud VMs.
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SEV is completely different from SGX, and doesn't (currently, to my knowledge) have an equivalent on Intel chips that are currently on the market. Google Cloud's confidential compute feature makes use of SEV under the covers.
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Earnings potential is a broad signal; individual borrowers still have quite a bit of risk even when pursuing a degree with a "high earning potential". Those risks can include things like the borrower drops out or gets kicked out o
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> What's the point, if there isn't a discount for paying upfront? In a past life, I did some work with government clients who preferred to be charged up-front in a lump sum, because it was much easier for them to get funding fo
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> Until Apple can find a way to challenge their single-core performance, Intel will still be leading a class of their own. M1's single-core performance beat out all but the highest-end AMD and Intel desktop chips at the time of its
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ECC reporting is part of the memory controller (which is unified across all Zen architecture parts), and is fully supported and functional. You can see the reporting working as expected within the Hardware Canucks article linked in the gran
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by theevilsharpie 5y ago
> This is 4 years old now, but does produce some interesting results. > https://hardwarecanucks.com/cpu-motherboard/ecc-memory-amds- ... The author of that article doesn't have hands-on experience with ECC DR
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> I mean let's be real, in the US you definitely could. Pretty much anyone can sue anyone for anything. No, for this particular example, it would almost certainly not be possible. In the US, employees are shielded from personal liab
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> What's worse, in several jurisdictions (some places in the US included, IIRC), if a company is found to have caused damages based on this sort of "negligence", the developers are legally to blame - not management. [citat
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> Just like on the monopoly board, one cannot win when all the spaces are already owned - that’s the situation we fundamentally have. Monopoly has a fixed game board with no possible means of expanding or changing the spaces the player c

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