thoraway1010

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by thoraway1010 6y ago
A couple of notes. You may not have identified the product / market fit in terms of what McKinsey or others is actually selling. It really may not be the best product / best solution you are so intent on forcing them to sell. Some
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Some big.little's have very good interconnect / memory access. Some systems have remote NUMA memory - you are going off one board over an internconnect to another board to memory there. The headline is so misleading. I could wire
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
And in this case it was a good thing. These are just normal machines (4 socket?) tied together with an interconnect. So the rule works surprisingly well!
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
No kidding. Despite the HN posters saying it's "factual" this is likely just 4 socket systems tied together with an interconnect. If intel is really going to market these type of systems, they need to be a LOT LOT more transp
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
if you are good at market research / product market fit / good engineering and solving actual problems you will be EXTREMELY successful both with the big mgmt co's and working as a consultant yourself. Successful projects bre
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Uh - you realize they charge a PREMIUM and have some of the highest margins because they are FAR FAR more trusted than most android and other phone mfgs? You realize samsung is pumping ads directly to your handset - and these other folks ne
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Except it is very user friendly. Try to cancel your newspaper subscription - you have to call in and jump through hoops. Try to cancel your cable or internet, you didn't realize the rate you got was a "promo" rate that requir
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
If you make $10B/year on revenue of $20B/year (great margin at that scale) you keep quiet I think for good reason :)
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Small anecdote, but good experience with DARPA and SBIR both. One thing I liked - they seemed pretty low overhead / low hassle and outcome / objective focused. That contrasts VERY strong with most govt contracting which is under a
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
No kidding. Early adopter of gsuite for domains (work and personal email). The google home devices CANNOT get your calendar from your google calendar. My Alexa device can easily. The thing of stuff just stagnating and no care to scrub the r
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
I'd keep it, I hate working on boxes and when I move left outside box I go back. THAT is the annoyance especially if I'm doing entry work. I'd always wondered WHY this happened.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
If you have an older house homekit can add a lot without a re-wire. Ie, you have a lamp but no switch wired for that socket etc. You want to do a ceiling light in your kids bedroom but since it's temp are using an extension cord for th
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
What's funny is if you go sailing on the ocean for extended periods (months) you realize that sat data / phone costs are RIDICULOUS in this age. $3 - $5/MB. So your 4 GB movie is $20,000. You'd think, why would anyone pa
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Exactly - this is the #1 issue we need to address economically to my mind.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Lots of potential uses: Imagine Amazon was bidding on a big Department of Defense contract ($ in billion). DoD let's say wants to send drones / UAV's whatever to do big sensor passes out in far off areas / imagery, wideb
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Let's be 100% clear. Based on a complaint from china regarding non-Chinese citizens with non-china accounts, zoom cancelled the non-china accounts. Full stop. Let that sink in. If you are wondering who zoom will accommodate you have yo
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
HSM's properly implemented do not result in clearext backups of these highly important keys. You can do backups without that.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Not really a total basket case. They had a long and fantastic history actually of institution building, including credible tax services etc. It was really the Zuma years that messed things up and the new folks don't seem interested in
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
And not the first government run entity in SA to have funds stolen from it. Transnet/PRASA (railways) Eskom (electricity) SAA (airline) All have had just totally monumental theft often at the top levels. It all seems to be pretty conse
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
I do this with my elderly parents. Doubles as a "powers gone out - are they freezing" alert.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Verizon is fine - the stories saying verizon and ATT down are basically totally garbage.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
I filled up with gas literally at the closest station (.1 mile away? You could see the lot from station). BOOM, charged for an empty tank. No worries, I'd actually kept my receipt from the gas station showing exactly when I'd ref
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Copy is great! I do a few hundred million row DB reload in a script. No real time pressure, but I did wonder, couldn't this be faster? COPY is really much nicer, I'm pretty sure I'm down to essentially disk read / networ
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Still so annoying. I wish browsers at least might do something like skip quick redirects in history?
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Actually - Apple drove the smartphone market with ARM.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Seriously, there are help desk techs and IT techs in ohio and idaho who would think $1.2 million per year was fine money. These are NOT poorly compensated folks. They may be badly treated though - I could believe that.
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Couple of quick things. Can you even use venmo to send money to people to write checks on behalf of third parties? I thought there was lots of restrictions on that type of activity in general and limits in these person to person platforms i
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Poor pay? Amazon has created tons and tons of millionaires. If you work 15 years at your local retail job - you are lucky to own a house. If you worked 15 years at amazon as an engineer - you can retire in a very nice house. The stock perfo
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Google's ad network provides a lot of support to these "free" content options. Google is not bad at creating own content, the amount of data for example they can slurp up from phones running google maps is pretty darn high. O
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by thoraway1010 6y ago
Be interesting to see if some cloud players start migrating workload to ARM as well in the future. Apple has a knack for pricking up on trends a bit early or creating them. I think iOS really kicked of ARM / smartphone market share.

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