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Comment · 5 years ago
The author also drastically overestimates the capabilities of cloud vendors. CDN and edge have been and will continue to be great business (as you well know) despite pundits predicting their sublimation to cloud subsidiaries for over a decade. For one, capacity planning a public cloud is a lot different and a lot harder than cdn/edge. So the cloud vendor must then act a lot like a cdn/edge, which none have shown any competence in doing. There's a reason Amazon still uses Akamai, Level3, and others for their own Prime Video. CloudFront is a joke in comparison to any prime CDN in terms of network breadth, latency, and overall support from the vendor.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is a beautiful comment. Thanks for sharing.
Comment · 5 years ago
There's no mention of OOB support. You could of course hook up something to the reset pins and serial port, but this places it categorically behind low end x86-64 servers.
Comment · 5 years ago
PowerPC was also the dominant embedded platform for two decades (the rover that just landed on Mars is PPC). Point being, ARM's presence in highly vertical markets like embedded or phones means very little to desktops and servers outside of Apple.
Comment · 5 years ago
Brush fires in a rural area
Comment · 5 years ago
Of defense contractors, Oshkosh is one of my favorite and makes amazing vehicles. I think the USPS will get a reliable and durable platform from them. As far as electrification, they have experience with that in the HEMTT and could upgrade the platform as the USPS dictates. They also have autonomous vehicle experience so there is a lot of longevity to the partnership. So as far as government boondoggles can go, this sounds ok to me.

I have an Oshkosh P19, an aircraft/structural fire truck. The thing is unstoppable with a fully locked drive train on demand and great construction quality. They also fixed a bunch of issues in the FMTV that were inherited from BAE Systems. The MTVR, JLTV, and HET are all well regarded AFAIK.

Comment · 5 years ago
IBM i (OS/400) has had single address space, tagged pointers, and an number of other "novel" things in the loop for eons. Many people interact with it daily, indirectly, in most of your big box retail stores (think stores like Costco, Lowes, etc).
Comment · 5 years ago
If you read the other DE respond in the tweets, it was DEC/Compaq Alphas. I think it's kind of insane to have gone from 64b back to 32b (and the DE claims it caused big issues). Seems like API alphas running Linux would have been a better play until Opteron made it clear amd64 had a lot of runway.
Comment · 5 years ago
Car loans are 0% for anyone with good credit right now. We live in a managed economy now sadly, so you are actually throwing away money by paying outright instead of taking on interest-free debt and doing almost anything else with the theoretical reserve-principle; even sticking it in a checking account is going to be a net gain.
Comment · 6 years ago
This seems like a win for everybody. In the past a lot of people spent money on luxury goods which translated to over-paying brand name and status symbol. I would consider products like Beats headphones to be in that category; they were technically inferior to many other headphones but cost as much or more than professional headphones. It is interesting to see Apple engineering maintain broad appeal in product design while adding quite a bit of functionality.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is perfect for my needs, thank you!!
Comment · 6 years ago
I've used bootstrap in the past as a non-designer to get a decent set of defaults for web applications. I definitely appreciate that aspect. But I am wondering if there is a lighter weight alternative. Maybe using reboot directly?
Comment · 6 years ago
d'oh, I meant mbps commit not gbit :S
Comment · 6 years ago
he.net is .09!

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