matt-p

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by matt-p 11d ago
I think that's basically true, but the barriers exist because the state can't realistically afford a 100% take-up rate. Adding friction means people who don't really need say the extra £100 a month often won't bother wit
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by matt-p 14d ago
I wonder where eu-west is.
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by matt-p 14d ago
I wouldn't. When you're operating at say 95% realtime capacity suddenly losing even lets say 10% of your compute leads to major pain.
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by matt-p 20d ago
Super super cool technology. Last I heard, most deployments outside submarine networks still require a spare fibre, and the interrogators are at least an order of magnitude more expensive than OTDR, which you’d probably still want anyway. I
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Show HN: See fiber breaks linked to a map(react-networks-lib.rackout.net)
13 points by matt-p 20d ago|3 comments
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by matt-p 21d ago
You say stupid, but I actually would find it sad to see beautiful buildings that are in many cases hundreds of years old defaced with loads of small condensers bolted on to the face. That doesn't mean they shouldn't have A/C
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by matt-p 21d ago
I mean yes, true, thank you - fixed. Though I honestly thought permitted development existed for them in scotland and stuff too.
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by matt-p 21d ago
It’s not banned, but getting permission to install the outside unit is essentially “hard” in some parts of Europe. In England, if you own a house, you generally have permitted development rights to install one, subject to some fairly common
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by matt-p 22d ago
I don't know about 'very likely' though I too know some, if you were doing that you'd buy the 10G upgrade anyway right? Or a studio which comes with 10G
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by matt-p 22d ago
Eh, for what? Most people use it only for 'internet' and 1G full duplex is generally still enough for that. Happy for 2.5G though :)
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by matt-p 23d ago
I think it's actually good to have a forced reboot from time to time, but then I'm not very disciplined in closing stuff I'm no-longer using! Especially like docker containers I was using months ago, that I forgot to shutdown
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by matt-p 23d ago
Another option is a 'maxed out' mini e.g M5 Pro/64GB. Mini is super easy to travel with if you know there'll be a 'dock' at the far end e.g office<>home or whatever.
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by matt-p 23d ago
2.5Gbe as standard is nice.
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by matt-p 23d ago
Faster CPU and Ethernet is certainly worth $100. Sucks though, I agree.
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by matt-p 23d ago
Obviously not OP, but: Lock-in to x86 or ARM is painful from an operator like AWSs perspective. With x86 you end up with two vendors to play off against each other, which isn't great. ARM gives you the ability to design your own silico
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Data Centers and Water: FAQ(congress.gov)
2 points by matt-p 23d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Interactive single-line diagram of a data center power system(react-networks-lib.rackout.net)
5 points by matt-p 24d ago|0 comments
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by matt-p 24d ago
Courts, lobbying (writing to your MP), campaigning, demonstrations, elections ideally. I know that non-compliance is the path of least resistance, it's just got really bad consequences.
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by matt-p 24d ago
I agree, though it's not a very difficult challenge. There's still some nonsense here too like for example the TV License
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by matt-p 24d ago
Two very different ideas at play, I agree. Only easy to argue in hindsight that it should of more tightly specified everything to aid better roaming. Wi-Fi: general-purpose, massively interoperable LAN radio → let the client make decisions.
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by matt-p 24d ago
UK has similar rules but, as with pretty much all other similar regulations, there are de minimis carve-outs: ≤ £1m turnover: no packaging EPR obligation, regardless of packaging volume. £1m turnover + >25 tonnes of packaging: small prod
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by matt-p 24d ago
Maybe it's super convenient for you in the moment, but the aggregate effect is pretty bad. If everyone just ignores laws because they're too much hassle and they don't expect to get caught, enforcement becomes incredibly diff
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by matt-p 27d ago
Yes
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Show HN: Play with a interactive data center power diagram(react-networks-lib.rackout.net)
3 points by matt-p 27d ago|0 comments
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by matt-p 1mo ago
Yeah a RCD on the memory stick, it's PCB is designed around it. The actual DRAM chips themselves are not different though, which is why I mention it would be super easy to produce more consumer unregistered and less server registered a
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by matt-p 1mo ago
We are starting from a frankly completely unimaginable hypothetical that there's 0 new "datacentre demand". In that scenario producing consumer chips is still profitable, much less profitable but still much better than giving
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by matt-p 1mo ago
Typically (not always!) server memory is 'registered' so won't work with consumer CPUs which run on un-registered.
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by matt-p 1mo ago
Datacentre NVMe disk is still usable in a standard desktop. Sever memory less so, but essentially if there were no 'new' server market whatsoever then you could redirect 100% of memory production to consumer chips without enormous
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by matt-p 1mo ago
Even ignoring routing, it's still very 'nice' to be able to buy almost any model in one place. Amazing for enterprises, or companies who are letting users choose from a variety of models for ai tools.
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Show HN: Interactive component to map fibre breaks (OTDR)(react-networks-lib.rackout.net)
9 points by matt-p 1mo ago|0 comments

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