retcore

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by retcore 4y ago
Is there any record of the DoE _not requesting that the first announced specification didn't require a leapfrog step up due to the shifting industry performance and especially performance per Watt targets, roadmaps, application specifi
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by retcore 4y ago
I'm convinced that position:sticky wouldn't exist if browsers weren't beholden to advertising traffic. Someone needs to create a rival foundation to Mozilla, with some advertising and transaction processing chops, figure out
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by retcore 4y ago
Bon môt. Anecdotes are historical or much more rarely fanciful but never fictional exemplary stories. The fictional variety may be called a vignette.
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by retcore 4y ago
London (City of London) pre pandemic used to regularly have troops of charity employees hard selling their pitch and only accepting monthly subscription payments via Direct Debit, which is the legal equivalent of granting joint custody of y
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by retcore 4y ago
I'd have suggested illicit piggy backing the SMS broadcast SS7 signal channel, like the original WhatsApp did.
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by retcore 4y ago
Also cousin of Dodi Fayed and second cousin to Adnan Kashoggi.
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by retcore 4y ago
Sounds like, "Move fast and break ,[habitually other people's] piggy banks." SAC is totemic in a industry founded by other people's money and the carry without any equivalent downside. Speaking as a former prop trader,
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by retcore 4y ago
Only available for existing Z/OS sites via your organization rep.
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by retcore 4y ago
>You used to have social interactions when waiting anywhere London perfected ignoring everybody long before even the rise of mass circulation newspapers according to diaries of family who knew the place a hundred years ago. The Tube of t
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by retcore 4y ago
Isn't being a generalist what you should do on the way to becoming a domain expert? My generation (definitely older given the replies :~) ) was sold straight onto the specialization dope. I think that smack is what's screwed the p
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by retcore 4y ago
From 51:25 in this BBC documentary [0] you're introduced to Horst Herold [1] the President of the BKA (Federal police) who instigated the creation of the Suchsystem Inpol sowie Analysen [2] to catch the Baader Meinhoff gang by trawling
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by retcore 4y ago
No, Azure was never a Linux distribution variant but a NT derived distributed hypervisor OS codenamed RedDog led by Dave Cutler with some heavy VMS experience in the team. It's almost COM+ under the hood.
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by retcore 4y ago
Operating word was "enterprise" :~) Edit: I think I get your query about "minimum SLC size": I imagine that the cache isn't scaling 1/3 of capacity across all SKUs 1-4TB.
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by retcore 4y ago
Yes. However Western Digital is predicting latency of the same order as Optane DIMMs in this 2016 blog: https://blog.westerndigital.com/storage-class-memory-3d-nand... CXL Optane wasn't going to happen because of the n
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by retcore 4y ago
Yes. I was quoting from the vendor literature, and thought about changing to 1M IOPS but I think it's quoted this way become the competition is offering ca 300K R4K at best, so the comparison matters.
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by retcore 4y ago
The new Optane is called Storage Class Memory and is coming in CXL format cards without the programmatic dichotomy imposed fatally on Optane.
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by retcore 4y ago
Both Gen 4 and 5 drives keep sequential and random in the same order. Frankly this is excellent and the new news is the old news.
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by retcore 4y ago
Company is 3 years old. https://www.nextorage.net/en/company/ Existing Gen 4 product is very interesting: "Dynamic SLC caching stores cache size up to 1/3 of the total storage area of SSD" I want
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by retcore 4y ago
Product of the English system here: what are "English numbers"? I've never seen 0.5 written ".5" going back to Principia.
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by retcore 4y ago
Technically 8 H100CNX cards on Gen5 128GBs backplane can get one card a third of the HBM bandwidth. Given that Gen 6 and 7 are following much more quickly than the Gen 3 > 4 development, we may be there in a couple of years. I'm hop
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by retcore 4y ago
>which will give much better performance on low-bandwidth connections, Er, IRIX was pushing 12 bits and alpha channel around over X on twisted pairs c.a. 1993.
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by retcore 4y ago
RFC 1034 A fully qualified domain name must have a final dot/period after the tld. Adding the dot to a address that isn't resolved via DNS seems to be confusing the lookup. Edit: leaving the above despite being untrue save semanti
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by retcore 4y ago
>Figma is absolutely valuable as evidenced by its customer base. See how quickly Quark lost the most loyal and hegemonic user base to Adobe InDesign just over Adobe choosing to use the TeX paragraph formatter. Gone in eight quarters. Fig
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by retcore 4y ago
>you often need to seem nice and likable to wealthy people in order to get that idea off the ground. Almost the entire if superficial opposite of what created the Silicon Valley of wonder and lore.
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by retcore 4y ago
In the nineties the UK basket of consumer goods used to calculate inflation suddenly included a well specified PC. Not only was this PC a vastly disproportionate weight in the new calculation of deemed essential domestic goods, but strangel
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by retcore 4y ago
I'm fascinated to learn more specifically about this sequence of events. Can you suggest any good sources? >They could have given Fortune 500 advertisers the ability to blacklist channels their ads appear on That's just... I do
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by retcore 4y ago
Pre pandemic, London air quality was returned to worse than before the Clean Air Act by wood burning for vanity hearths. Related earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32765950 and earlier NYT article with
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by retcore 4y ago
>Blaming technology for obviating business models is not a valid complaint. But where your value proposition is created by code your code defines your business model to a critical extent.
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by retcore 4y ago
Echoing my thoughts down the page, the problems that you mention, from a "normies" perspective, make a interesting thought exercise in wondering how you could attach suitable features to satisfy these needs. It's easy to mumb
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by retcore 4y ago
The difference between the Nikon D750 and D850 happens to be one of the most considerable and well defined product differentiation achieved in modern photography :~) The D850 is a seminal state of the art camera that internally is identical

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