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by thu2111 6y ago
In fairness it's not like Microsoft are alone in that. Single-thread performance is still incredibly important. The Mill focuses on single thread performance almost exclusively for that reason: nobody ever made the mythical auto-parall
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by thu2111 6y ago
No? It might. Keller's new startup doesn't sound particularly impactful or likely to satisfy a need for big career kills (assuming he has any such need). We don't really know why Keller left. All we can say is that from the o
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by thu2111 6y ago
That makes no sense. Intel's designs are fine, industry leading actually. Intel's biggest problem by far is the repeated inability to launch new process nodes. It makes no sense for Intel to give up on what it's good at to
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yeah, absolutely. There's still a lot of excellent engineering being done at Intel that you can't find elsewhere. It's not like Apple where their core product had eroded into irrelevance, they were making tons of undifferenti
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by thu2111 6y ago
Intel's problem isn't really that they're involved in too many businesses that don't make sense or they aren't good at. Their core businesses are still their core competencies. The problem has been a catastrophic se
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by thu2111 6y ago
If you're relying on the SSD firmware wear leveling logic then yes, but the setups I'm talking about are more advanced than that. LSM trees only write in long contiguous regions and this enables things like zonedstorage.io which h
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by thu2111 6y ago
Parler hasn't been found guilty of anything in a court of law and given the free speech protections in the constitution, probably won't be, so this sub-thread is irrelevant. The correct analogy is that a landlord cannot throw you
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by thu2111 6y ago
Then the left would have gone after whichever hosting provider they did use. And it obviously doesn't help with smartphone apps getting banned.
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by thu2111 6y ago
For contrast, YouTube was knowingly and illegally hosting pirated content for years before Google bought them and developed ContentID, and relied entirely on volunteer moderation (user flags) to detect it. Facebook has up until very recen
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by thu2111 6y ago
If AWS cancel any customer that fails to succeed to an entirely arbitrary standard at problems that are "hard" then yeah, it kinda is AWS' problem. Or more specifically it's now Silicon Valley's problem because when
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by thu2111 6y ago
K/V stores have made incredible strides in recent years. And what's more the improvements don't seem to be slowing down. Every few months at least, a new paper comes out that shows some huge percentage increase in performance
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by thu2111 6y ago
Johnson won the London mayorship, leadership of his party and then an election (by a landslide), all of which were open and competitive contests. Love him or loathe him, he got to be PM by fighting for it: it wasn't handed to him on a
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by thu2111 6y ago
Microsoft revenue increased a lot when Steve Ballmer was in charge. I don't think anyone would claim MS was a great organisation during that period though, given how many major industry trends they just totally missed. Ballmer didn&#x2
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by thu2111 6y ago
Can you evidence that? I've seen absolutely no evidence of the CCP being dynamic or creative. Chinese history forked the day Taiwan became independent, and Taiwan has been well ahead of China in basically every way for my entire life.
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by thu2111 6y ago
This is an old, stale debate. The common usage of the word "communist" is defined not by vague Marxist theorising or tiny enclaves nobody has ever heard of, but rather the typical end state of actual communist revolutions. That&#x
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by thu2111 6y ago
Jack Dorsey: "We are the free speech wing of the free speech party" Mark Zuckerberg: "Trump says Facebook is against him, liberals say we helped Trump. Both sides are upset about ideas and content they don’t like. That’s what
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by thu2111 6y ago
The words in question were just a throwaway comment about a slow merge window, the comment in question an amusing way of saying he was wrong about quiet times. This is a non-story.
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by thu2111 6y ago
I checked it out yesterday. It had Maria Bartiromo on it, along with many other American conservative commentators. She's not exactly at Nazi.
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by thu2111 6y ago
You don't actually know that. Clearly, ISIS didn't need YouTube to spread. It conquered large parts of Syria and was defeated via military means. Plenty of ISIS sympathisers turned up in the west later, but I don't recall rea
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by thu2111 6y ago
The problem those firms have is not government coercion but unchecked extremism in their own employee base.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Yeah, seconded. Those aren't even riots. They are deliberate political acts explicitly stated to have the goal of wiping out the police and local government authority - how is it possible an actual "autonomous zone" was creat
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by thu2111 6y ago
Minority according to who? I feel like practically every US news source was flooded for years with wacked out conspiracy theories alleging that Putin controlled everything and had "hacked the election". It was all garbage.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Honestly, UK also has problems with mail voting fraud. It comes up every election. It has not, yet, boiled over into this kind of problem, but clearly, the UK should not be complacent about that. People need a high degree of trust in the sy
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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't think anybody ever has picked up a paper because they were dying to get the details about that particular scoop - and honestly, that was one of the most memorable ones. That was over a decade ago yet you remember it and are s
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by thu2111 6y ago
So it turns out that we were able to test this theory EU supporters have about overwhelming negotiating power much faster than anyone anticipated, in the form of bulk purchasing of vaccines. This is a perfect example where the EU should hav
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by thu2111 6y ago
Right. WhatsApp/iMessage etc end-to-end encryption is meaningless because a single firm can turn it off invisibly any time they like. In fact we only have their assurance that it even exists at all, given the difficulty of reverse engi
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by thu2111 6y ago
What an interesting conclusion to draw. I wonder where you get your news from. The UK/EU deal isn't perfect but Norway and Switzerland already pricked their ears up and senior politicians in both countries are now publicly questio
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by thu2111 6y ago
Not any more but I used to. Yes the Sun has a lot of readers compared to the FT. None of them are the sorts of people who are anywhere even close to power or influence, except in the vague way that any large group of people has power in a d
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by thu2111 6y ago
Are you specifically denying that there have been nightly riots in Portland for months? (the original claim in question)
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by thu2111 6y ago
The other video discussed (see my comment elsewhere in this thread) shows a vote counting coordinator telling re-counters/auditors to ignore duplicated signatures. They're literally asking her, when can we report this fraud we fou

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