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by blasdel 3y ago
Read the book first, in 2010 a UK man built one from scratch as best he could http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568989970/
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by blasdel 5y ago
If he were an American, that time would put your father in La Société Charly Miller: https://rusa.org/pages/CharlyMiller I had fun the whole time! Mentally I don't really suffer anything, though I did cry like a b
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by blasdel 5y ago
Haha I just kept gallivanting around Paris afterwards, I spent 10 days in France and cumulatively slept maybe 30h total. I hadn't done much riding that summer because of a broken ankle and actually re-fractured it mid-ride from vibrati
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by blasdel 5y ago
My personal fastest 24 hour split was about 600km, while riding the first half of the Paris-Brest-Paris brevet in 2019. I had my first sleep after that in Brest and took much longer breaks for the return journey for a total ride of 1240km i
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by blasdel 5y ago
A programmer that doesn't make websites is like a glass artist that hasn't made bongs
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by blasdel 5y ago
Randomized admissions were the implicit thesis of the satire we get the word from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
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by blasdel 6y ago
AWS EC2 | Seattle, DC | Systems Development Engineers EC2 Recovery Systems is seeking hands-on engineers with a passion for designing and developing highly scalable, distributed software. Our systems monitor the entire EC2 fleet and automat
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by blasdel 6y ago
Don't forget that Rome also has a wildly nonuniform interconnect between the core complexes, and the system integrator gets much less control over it than Intel's UPI links. When you really need to end up with a very large single
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by blasdel 6y ago
Now Tayne, I can get into: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk
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by blasdel 6y ago
> And that if there are evidence or facts that overturns their current belief, they'll gladly accept it. There are no such equivalence in religion. It is explicitly the role of a Prophet, Messiah, Bodhisattva, etc. to do such things
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by blasdel 6y ago
When done with video it looks like a real-world raytracing demo: https://www.stratusleds.com/aerial-leds
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by blasdel 6y ago
The /mysql/tmp/greetings.txt trick was cute but do kids these days not know about https://linux.die.net/man/1/wall ?
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by blasdel 6y ago
More reasonable VMMs use the word "hypercall" for these paravirtualized interfaces
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by blasdel 6y ago
https://xenproject.org/developers/security-policy/#organizat...
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by blasdel 6y ago
In a previous life I wrote code that only ran in Cygwin, it depended on a dummy networking driver to talk to the WinCE core of a sonogram machine. Running Windows VMs as kernels for Cygwin environments felt less weird than most modern conta
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by blasdel 6y ago
https://www.backstabbr.com/
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by blasdel 7y ago
https://www.nethack.org/v366/release.html
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Take a Way: Exploring the Security Implications of AMD’s Cache Way Predictors [pdf](mlq.me)
63 points by blasdel 7y ago|21 comments
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by blasdel 7y ago
Meltdown goes much further back than that, potentially all the way to the Pentium Pro (1995) It was also independently implemented in POWER and ARM A75
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by blasdel 7y ago
5 years ago after a princess tea party I ended up with some tall silver tiaras full of sparkly gems, and I started wearing them on my bike helmets. A tiara fits perfectly into the spot for roadies to park their sunglasses. The constant feel
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by blasdel 8y ago
https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
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by blasdel 8y ago
A1 is launched under ARM's new "Neoverse" branding that might help to distinguish this class of products from Raspberry Pi expectations: https://www.arm.com/company/news/2018/10/announcing-
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by blasdel 8y ago
Yes T2 performs quite admirably! If your CPU-bound workload doesn't use much memory, smaller sizes of T2 Unlimited can be a much better deal than C4. T3 gives you both threads of your physical core and commensurably more CPU credits pe
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by blasdel 8y ago
Thanks for the reminder, ironically I put a lot of work into launching that platform!
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by blasdel 8y ago
The c5, m5, t3, c5d, m5d, z1d, r5, r5d, m5a, r5a, a1, c5n, p3dn instance families all use the Nitro Hypervisor, which is based on Linux KVM code but offloading a lot of functionality to the Nitro System instead of using the normative QEMU s
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by blasdel 8y ago
There's a Github Pages FAQ describing why it was made and how it fits with other solutions: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/ and a high-level design document about how it works https://github.com/
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by blasdel 8y ago
There's a new "Elastic Fabric Adapter" in preview for 100Gbps networking instances: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-previews-and-pre-announ... That will allow applications to use a range of sup
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by blasdel 8y ago
You're asking for unikernels, which have had a recent renaissance: http://unikernel.org/projects/ Some of the density advantages depended on Paravirtualization, which is quite difficult to make safe against Meltdo
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by blasdel 8y ago
AWS uses virtualization domains to separate customer workloads, and Meltdown required that they all be HVM to provide strong guarantees: https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2018-01... Your ac
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by blasdel 8y ago
The modern instance families support Turbo Boost, which is the X% guaranteed and up to %Y extra best effort you desire. On many of the largest instance sizes you get P-state control which lets you "disable that best effort extra bit&qu

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