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> As an outsider to 'enterprise-grade' computing, I'm curious about situations where a high number of cores in a single processor would be superior to multiple processors with the same total energy draw sitting on a single motherboard?

Databases are the big one I'm aware of.

Intel's L3 cache is truly unified. Intel's 28-core Skylake means that the L3 of a Database is TRULY 38.5MB. When any core requests data, it goes into the giant distributed L3 cache that all cores can access efficiently.

AMD's L3 cache however is a network of 8MB chunks. Sure, there's 32MB of cache in its 32-core system, but any one core can only use 8MB of it effectively.

In fact, pulling memory off of a "remote L3 cache" is slower (higher latency) than pulling it from RAM on the Threadripper / EPYC platform. (A remote L3 pull has to coordinate over infinity fabric and remain cohesive! So that means "invalidating" and waiting to become the "exclusive owner" before a core can start writing to a L3 cache line, well according to MESI cc-protocol. I know AMD uses something more complex and efficient... but my point is that cache-coherence has a cost that becomes clear in this case. ) Which doesn't bode well for any HPC application... but also for Databases (which will effectively be locked to 8MB per thread, with "poor sharing", at least compared to Xeon).

Of course, "Databases" might be just the most common HPC application in the enterprise, that needs communication and coordination between threads.
the new Macs are USB-C & Thunderbolt 3. I'm using two external monitors on two of those four ports on mine.
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That's a nice overview but IMO it fails to take into account how the founders (oftentimes inadvertently) influence how helpful/harmful a VC is.

The most common (negative) example of this I've seen is when founders sell the VC on the solution, not the problem they're solving.

Everything starts out fine (you have a VC who is really excited to help you build and sell product X, even if they don't really care about problem Y). But then you realise that actually, the market wants you to pivot slightly to product Z to solve the same problem Y.

And that's when the VC pivots from being helpful to harmful.

There are probably multiple other examples of how founders can influence the value-add of their VCs, but that's the big one that springs to my mind. And I bet it accounts for 90% of the 'harmful' instances.
My last job was for a small startup.

They used Java. The rest of my programming jobs, -large and small, has been either Java, PHP, .Net and once a bit of Delphi. Lately there's also been a lot of TypeScript.

There's been a few jobs I wanted to apply for but couldn't because I'm not good enough with C/C++ and Qt.

Maybe things are different in Silicon Valley but around here the most exotic language I see is Python.
Its almost as if that was a bad thing and we want to prevent that bad thing from happening again.
I thought of a nice analogy.

Do you also think this article should have been written in extremely ornate calligraphy? With the letters forming little animals and demons like in an illuminated manuscript?

Maybe you find that idea ridiculous, which is my intention.

You might think that the particular font used is irreverent compared to the words themselves.
If someone used such an ornate font as to render the words unreadable that may seem self-defeating on the authors part.

That is analogous to using such ornate language as to render ones meaning unclear. It is the content, the information and ideas generated in the readers mind that are important, not the font used, or the words used.
Can't imagine there are still many mostly empty office parks left in RTP. I'm not a commercial real estate expert, but I'd expect if that were the case you wouldn't see so many brand new office-park type buildings going up. E.g. new buildings like this one that Microsoft moved into within the past couple years: https://goo.gl/maps/VRVCHMccD1S2

There's dozens of buildings like these either recently built or under construction in or near RTP.
A few Canadian banks did this back in December.

If this upsets you view it through the lense of risk management than any sort of value judgement of crypto currencies.

If the rate of charge backs starts climbing the issuing bank will take notice. Investing is not something that should be done on credit, especially for something with the volatility of crypto currencies.

> A study conducted by LendEDU last year found that roughly 18 percent of Bitcoin investors used a credit card to fund the purchases. Of those, 22 percent couldn’t pay off their balance after buying the digital coin.

This is just depressing:(
I'm a newb what does it stand for?
Learning to fall is a hugely beneficial asset. It's how skateboarders are able to get up, over and over. First thing you learn is how to fall properly, without seriously injuring yourself. It will happen, but being able to roll away, or bail correctly is essential.
/r/worldstar
You can't store your stuff in public areas. This has little to do with scooters, leave your motorcycle on the sidewalk and it's likely to be gone when you get back.

PS: A much better solution IMO is to simply pick them up and sell em for scrap. Problem solved.
On the surface, this looks bad. But, the underlying logic - that Wells Fargo doesn't want to loan you money so that you can buy money - seems reasonable to me. If you have cash in a Wells Fargo checking account, you can still buy cryptocurrency with it.
Casey Neistat pilots Kitty Hawk, the world's first flying car
To be fair, when companies try to avoid these problems by putting a physical bump in their not-entirely-compatible USB connectors, lots of other people scream bloody murder about how it's a conspiracy to force us all to buy more cables.
There's two fundamentally unrelated but easily muddled situations here.

A) USB-C PD, USB-C audio, or even just straight-up USB-C data devices, and/or USB-C hosts not adhering to standards.

This is definitely a problem, but it's something that needs to be addressed by device manufacturers, not by the spec itself.

B) Protocols other than USB over the USB-C connector (Thunderbolt 3, Displayport, potentially analog audio output?) not being universally inter-compatible.

I don't see how this one is a real issue. Imagine for a moment that you had a magical morphing port that could be an audio jack, HDMI port, thunderbolt port, or USB port, and it just became whichever one it needed to be when you plugged something in. This is the situation we're in with USB-C multi-protocol, the port on the host device changes identity based on what it's connected to. That wouldn't mean that you could suddenly run your hard drive off a 3.5mm headphone cable.
It's interesting though that a fly will bounce against the window all day (barring statistical luck) while a wasp or bee will bounce once, understand that that place cannot be passed, bounce the next window once and then find the open one very soon.
There's a list of reddit alternatives at (where else?) Reddit: https://redd.it/8585ox

Raddle seems to be the inverse of Voat
> I disagree with gun registries being a precursor to confiscation and prosecution.

I have two friends who openly advocate for this method of removing guns from the US. Regardless, I think this is something gun owners fear. When Canada had a registration list, it seized weapons that were legal when purchased and later made illegal by bureaucratic decision, without compensation.
Pretty sure they don't allow you to buy Forex or investment funds or a mortgage on the credit card either.
Before your edit to remove the I.P address: 146.185.172.196.

Q: Using DigitalOcean to host a VPN?

Bans still happen for abuse/spam and banning well-known VPS/Server/Cloud Providers isn't all that uncommon when it becomes an issue. This happens on every platform, otherwise there wouldn't be a platform. Voat has experienced many DDOS attacks in its days - so it wouldn't be surprising if some of the attacks originated from a VPS Provider and got the IP range banned.
A blockchain is a closed virtual world proving only claims about itself
For example, a transaction may contain proof that the private key associated to the address mentioned in a previous transaction has signed this new transaction.

A blockchain is an axiomatic system with a growing list of proofs. Each transaction accepted to the blockchain is a new proof. About existing proofs, you can derive new proofs.

A proof is a claim for which all untruth can only originate from the untruth in the underlying axioms.

It is pointless to try to use a blockchain to prove anything about the real world, because proving anything about the real world is fundamentally impossible.

Some people simply refuse to graduate to the understanding that proof is only possible for an abstract world for which you can provided the complete construction logic, i.e. its axioms.

You cannot provide the construction logic of the real world, because you did not build the real world by yourself.

For example, a blockchain is absolutely not usable for KYC ("Know Your Customer") or AML ("Anti Money Laundry").

In the real world you cannot prove that John is John. He may say that he is John, and he could provide some paperwork that seems to say that too, but all of that does not prove anything.

We generally assume that the cost to fabricate the documentation somehow exceeds the benefits of doing so. Still, the internet has drastically cut down on the cost of fabricating any possible piece of information.

President Obama could not prove that he was born in Hawai, if only, because such proof cannot possibly exist. Imagine that you personally saw a baby in the hospital back then. On what grounds can you insist today that it is the same Obama?
My Macbook Pro has 4 USB-Cs and I have a dongle for ethernet (which is rare).

If I'm using my external monitor I bought a DisplayPort to Thunderbolt/USB-C cable.

If I'm out and about and need HDMI, I have another dongle (but that's no different to my previous Mac which needed a dongle for HDMI as well)
>Elon Musk says the first 'full suicide features' are coming in August

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbmQxZkSswI Fry Meets Bender In A Suicide Booth
There’s issues with benzos like the one you mentioned. Besides what the other commenter said about withdrawal and other issues, your tolerance will build very quickly with benzos. You can’t just take them daily and have the same or even remotely close to the same effect.
Will our institutions be incompetent under this administration? Maybe.
Can they be incompetent, period? Sure, its like swinging a dead cat and hitting the target.
Checkout exhibit A: https://www.propublica.org/article/us-immigration-agency-wil...
I don’t think that logic follows. Apple could’ve taken the scenarios into account and designed things in the way such that they weren’t issues. They’ve done it before many times even with standardized technologies.

For example, Air buds headphones (Bluetooth) work fine with Android phones. But Bluetooth has been a pain in peoples ass for a decade, and Apple went through a lot of trouble to make the experience very nice when used within its own ecosystem. without abandoning compatibility.
There are so many problems with mixing credit cards and crypto-currencies. Many entire companies in the space have been killed or forced to pivot drastically because of it.
Things move too fast for a country to be fully self-sufficient in ALL technologies, unless you either accept being behind, and/or be stuck in trade wars.

Different countries have different "personalities" and thus will shine in some areas and stink in others. You have to think global to be competitive because you cannot do everything on your own.

The US is mostly an integrator of hardware and technology made abroad, for example. US focuses on cutting edge stuff, and "glues together" the parts from abroad to make it. When a product becomes a commodity, it slips offshore and the US then jumps into the Next Big Thing.

This model may not work for China. For one, they depend much more on personal relationships than contracts. Business relationships in the US are more transnational: easy come, easy go. This is well suited to fast-paced change. China's relationship model may struggle against this approach. But that doesn't mean there are not other niches. Germany and Japan do quite well by focusing on perfecting a niche(s) and less on changing quickly.
> "low cost, highly effective guerilla marketing' based on past performance?"

I'm not sure that quite covers it either, since at least in the case of SpaceX he had a sizable number people rooting for him back when his rockets were still blowing up every time. Back in the Falcon 1 days.

I was one of them. I think rockets are really fucking cool. I think a lot of the leeway and fandom Elon has gotten comes from a hardcore contingent of rocket enthusiasts and electric car enthusiasts who really want to see him succeed because they were already passionate about that domain before Elon entered the picture.
I've stuck with old.reddit.com for now. Opinions on the redesign aside, it does not exhibit any of the issues mentioned here.
Sweden Tries to Halt Its March to Total Cashlessness
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> My goal when commenting is to counterbalance overly pro-surveilance comments

And yet answering his question directly instead of avoiding it with a strange remark (home invasion, wtf?) would done a much better job at that.

I've heard the Brave New World speech many times and I buy into the concept... but I'd also like to be educated on reality. Spouting the former when someone asks for the latter is just annoying.
Yea, if anything NN regulations make it easier for smaller ISPs because they don't have to buy routers that can do packet shaping, throttling or other types of filtering in order to compete with the bigger companies.
IMO it's less about the people borrowing money and more about the potential fraud.
Steven Pinker’s ideas are fatally flawed. These eight graphs show why
Other than the adultery, of course.
Looking at the last couple of years, I’d say “very Apple-y.” So unfortunate given they are the only large company in the space which prioritizes privacy.
Glad to hear the tool works well for FB employee's. As always the contribution to the community is much appreciated. But as others have pointed out, the tool name could use a rebranding. The popular SonarCube is just one example where confusion can arise.
Don't forget about the added sucralose!
Not having USB-C on my laptop doesn't even matter. The Google Pixels 1/2/C and Nexus 6P have USB-C, but they don't transfer data at that speed.

I also don't want to fry my devices however and I'm scared of these poor quality miswired cables, so I am a steadfast advocate of buying my USB-C cables from Anker.
Utopia. Our own bodies have more bacteria than cells in a constant state of symbiosis and infighting. It's seems like it's an optimization algorithm to keep life going. Suffering as a needed reinforcement feedback is deeply woven in the fabric of nature; without suffering living beings wouldn't survive a day. We can dream of something better, isolate ourselves, but that won't change the ongoing optimization algorithm that is deep inside us and nature.
Recommendations for a USB-C compatible one? USB-C significantly complicates a simple idea, unfortunately.
The upvote/downvote-system by itself seems like a bad idea in regards of free speech. You'll end up with the largest group agreeing to each other and upvoting each other thereby silencing (and driving away) other groups. The votes themselves take almost no energy and simple puns get showered in upvotes while long and well thought-out but slightly unusual posts die in the desert.

If you go with the voting system alone with moderate moderation you'll probably always end up with mediocre content that is easy to consume by a majority of your users. Depending on your users you'll get funny cat gifs or ever repeating racist jokes.

The subreddits seem to help a bit since they filter users by interest first and employ strict moderation throughout but after they reach a certain threshold they, too, seem to go downhill fast.

I have no solution but the effortless vote system doesn't sound like such a good idea after all these years.
If you are not logged in, it defaults to the big blocky, whitespace filled, media heavy new UI. There is no longer a sense of a compact text website. If you are logged in, you can get the old look.

My MacBookPro (2010) now crashes frequently when using the new UI on subreddits that have a good percentage of videos - not sure why. Otherwise, it has been a reliable machine even for streaming.
seems like he is speaking for himself while you are representing a whole bunch of people...
Betting on crypto with your credit card is a bad idea, full stop.

But I remember in 2013, I read about someone who was planning on maxing out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin at $90. I was exhorting them not do it...

Ha. I wonder how they fared.
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Mozilla Discloses Past Relationships with Facebook
Great! Another file format for me to learn.
Why can't everyone use one of the standard file types, like YAML/JSON?
I hope so, but they should really both have been in C++11, so that's going to be about 10 years waiting for them.
And voip, and sharing files, sending encrypted emails, managing your contacts, taking notes on a computer, make a backup, simple photo edition, email clients, todo management, rss readers, deal with your encryption key, work in a terminal, packaging in Python...

I find it a good news: there is always something you can take as a mission. There is plenty of things to do.

And that's just the geeks stuff, not even talking about the important specie level issues.
Banks are doing this from a perspective of risk management. But I will bet any number of Bitcoin that crypto nerds will construe this as a narrative that the big banks are attacking them once again.
Free speech also means that others have the right to say the things you don't want to hear.
>I'm a little puzzled about why Shahid thinks this is 'funny', as it seems pretty obnoxious.

By "funny" I think he meant odd or perplexing.
You should fit right in (assuming the Swedes are like the Norwegians : )
I think we can consider that an implementation detail and that fragile connectors are not mandated or inherent to the specification. There are a lot of ways to skin the cat even within the constraints given.

Your concern is totally valid, but that it’s more about design/manufacturing quality rather than lightning versus USB.
I mow the lawn near beehives and they do not steer well. There is a special terror that comes from a mouth hit from an inbound bee. The more loaded up they are and the sunnier it is the worse they get.
He’s the scapegoat for all the other government officials on both sides of the aisle who have had their pockets filled up by the telecom industry.
CRISPR: Edited cells might cause cancer, find two studies
There's actually a small polyfill for external SVG use that works with IE. Think I used this one:

https://github.com/Keyamoon/svgxuse
> Before 2015, carriers had Title 2 status, and could not treat traffic differently. Net Neutrality came about when they won some court cases saying that they were not title 2 carriersn some court cases.

This is wrong, but oddly not quite as wrong as the FCC chair’s description as it at least as some connection with reality.

Enforcement of “net neutrality” rules (the FCC name was always “open internet”) has gone on for quite a long time, first under a casd-by-case regime without specific regulations and from 2010 under Title I regulations that were substantively similar to the Title II regulations adopted in 2015 (though they had looser rules for mobile broadband providers.)

The court struck down the case by case approach in 2010, and the Title I approach in (IIRC) 2014, specifically pointing to Title II as the authority that the FCC needed to invoke if it was going to apply rules of the type it adopted in its Title I regs in 2010. So, in 2015, the FCC turned around and adopted rules under Title II.
China is actually slightly less than 1/6 of the world's population.
USAA just did this a few weeks ago. My knee-jerk response was to be upset, but then I read the arguments regarding creditors retaining the right to determine what is purchased with said credit, as well as the implications for whether cryptocurrency would be considered a cash advance.
Okay, cool.

Meaning no disrespect, what I'm saying is, I think that's dumb.

Not the first part, that's a problem I face personally: I'm a developer working on a product that doesn't have any qualified demand upfront. (Heaven help me, it's a programming language!) I'm really hoping the Zig creator's plan works out because that would be my ideal life (modulus living in NY. Wonderful city, but I like forest.)

The second part: attempting to limit copying of a digital artifact after it's been written is really hard and I think that setting up your business strategy to rely on it is pragmatically and strategically foolish. That's not to say it can't be done. More like, imagine an alternate universe where Microsoft open-sources DOS and Windows from the very start and Bill Gates has only $100M net worth...

As an aside, in re: getting those 10,000 fans. I've found that a lot of people are lacking one or two skills that would really help them succeed, and if they can connect with other people who have those skills then together they can really take off. If growing a fanbase feels daunting to you, that's okay, you can get a consultant, coach or co-founder that can do it. Kevin Smith found Jason Mewes whose performance in "Clerks" catalyzed both their careers. Anyhow, for my own project, I am going to try "Tupperware parties" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupperware#Tupperware_parties

Finally, working on projects you love and believe in is great and I don't knock it, I'm doing it myself, but if you're starting a business to make money you really should pre-qualify your idea, and doing that by pre-selling and/or crowd-funding gives you pretty $$$olid feedback that there's real demand for your product.
Not only that but for large VC firms the service and advice provided will not be consistent, depends on which people you interact with and which year you're getting support.
He doesn't in multiple ways. First, there's a board at the FCC that voted on this. Not too important though, as the presidents party gets three votes, other party gets two.

Next, the FCC's legal mandate to deal with net neutrality is vague. This is why the 2010 rules were overturned in court, and barring a new law being enacted, the legality of the 2015 rules are ultimately in the hands of the courts. Until the courts decide, the FCC can create rules based on their interpretation.
By that logic they should ban gift cards and in-game currency too.

Sure, you can use your checking account, but if my credit card is going to restrict my usage and I'm going to be hassled into circumventing it, then why even have it?

I actually have a Well Fargo credit card, I'll be keeping an close eye on these restrictions.
They're might only be one intended target.