mktmkr

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by mktmkr 7y ago
Sure, on a handful of their machines. But they have a lot of private and dedicated hosts, too.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
How are these relevant in a datacenter context? If you are the sole tenant of a machine then you will disable all the mitigations.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
The historical context here is that AMD once had a monopoly inside Google's datacenters and pissed it away by shipping the horribly broken Barcelona followed by the not very broken, but also not very fast, Istanbul. This is a return t
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by mktmkr 7y ago
In the “what a time to be alive” category, this is essentially a repeat of Opteron.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Yeah but AMD should just beg Amazon to remove that instance type. It's hilariously slow. I don't know if Naples was just the beta of Rome or what but if you use it you won't like it.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
"Well optimized MySQL" sounds a bit like having a really attractive liver cancer. Cloud services expand your options and it's worth pondering them. Don't ask what is the best MySQL, ask for a given amount of items I need
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by mktmkr 7y ago
OK but that's a comparison of a $3200 machine with 7x more CPU and more than double the memory of the $100/month virtual machine. The operating costs of the metal machine (electricity, repairs) and its lifetime are unstated.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Hard to take seriously and barely rises to the level necessary for rational debate. Is there a workload that is demonstrably 100x slower on AWS or GCE compared to the fully-loaded cost of bare metal?
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by mktmkr 7y ago
No because fewer than 20% of households in Los Angeles have school-age children. That puts a ceiling on your worst case right there.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
No, but to make sure we are talking about the same thing, a car share is a bit like renting a car by the hour. Uber is a computer-dispatched taxi service. Uber is not "car sharing". It is also not their other bullshit moniker &q
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Car shares are definitely not for driving to work but I fail to see why you can't use them to pick up your kids. Car sharing solves the problem where people can easily journey to work without a car, but they want one for other purposes
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by mktmkr 7y ago
I think you are overstating the case that the market will pass this saving through. In reality there is some market-clearing price for a dwelling without a parking space and there's nothing the developer can do to influence it. This
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by mktmkr 7y ago
In SF as well, but the local government has shown itself unable to resist calls to later add parking entitlements to structures after they are built. For example all "live-work" developments are forbidden by law from participating
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by mktmkr 7y ago
1 shared car is shown to replace between 7 and 20 private cars in various deployments. Building new housing with dedicated car-share parking is a great way to go.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Yeah, except no. This is just one of those tropes that motorists use to force cities to subsidize them. Every study on this topic has conclusively shown that parking causes traffic. The construction of parking precedes the worsening of tr
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by mktmkr 7y ago
LA has and has long had fewer cars per household than the national average (1.6 vs. 1.8 in the latest census). 12% of households have no car.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
The cars are the reason the buses are slow. 22% of LA workers travel to work without a car, which isn't great but it's not zero either. Metro LA added a dedicated bus lane on Flower and they are moving more than one bus per minu
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by mktmkr 7y ago
There is also the reverse process: people who are older than officially recorded. When my in-laws came to the USA from Vietnam after the war they wanted to be able to work for a long time before anyone forced the to retire, so they just sa
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by mktmkr 7y ago
This is why one uses mlockall.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Somehow, 22% of Angelenos travel to work without a car. That's not as good as San Francisco, but it's a lot better than, say, Nashville.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Considering the number of such stations, explosions are rather rare, although one did recently explode in the USA. It turns out to be difficult to get a decent explosion out of bulk liquid petrol. Even setting it on fire is not as easy as s
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Isn’t netlink’s PROC_EVENT_EXIT pretty straightforward?
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by mktmkr 7y ago
They seem to be claiming to have reduced "missed" cases of AKI from 12% to 3%, but it is not clear if this has anything to do with "AI" or is purely a result of improved process/UX/human factors. I'm skept
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Sure but just because it's there doesn't mean you have to use it. It's there for nostalgia reasons, mostly.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
You don't have to use the tiny screen. Mirrorless cameras generally come with a large display. I almost always use the display on my Olympus because it's easier and I don't look like I have a machine on my face (this was al
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Apparently iOS 12.4 came out last week but I have automatic updates on and the update is not installed. I just triggered it manually a moment ago.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
You are getting downvoted because the kids don't get the reference.
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by mktmkr 7y ago
Curious what you think is deficient about only having a 401k (and, presumably, Social Security) as a retirement plan. Isn't this the entire sales pitch of Vanguard, that you put a couple of bucks in your 401k every week and then you re
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by mktmkr 7y ago
"NA" didn't design these cities, it was the old people who did it to themselves and, now, the younger people too. The best part is they're still showing up at planning commission hearings all over the country angrily de
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by mktmkr 7y ago
This is the hazard of putting concrete numbers in a blog post like this. Among your readers will be people with experience sending this amount of traffic every second.

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