One thing that really squicked me out when I left Google is how other companies, even large and sophisticated ones, are using all kinds of garbage that comes from canonical or red hat or percona, and they have NO IDEA what's in there. Say what you want about google's NIH culture, but in regards to code provenance and verifiable builds they are doing the right thing and many others are not.
The center of a mass market grocery store is terrifying. Safeway carries something like twenty different kinds of marshmallows, but only one kind of, for example, ground corn. They don’t sell food.
Really? I first read it on a Kindle and it was totally infuriating. The jumping is not very convenient, certainly not anywhere near as fast as two bookmarks.
I'm sorry but there is no way your characterization is accurate for any given point on the map. The entire Los Angeles metropolitan statistical area only authorizes about 2500 new dwellings per month, and not all of them get built. Prior to 1990, the rate was normally above 5000 dwellings per month. This is despite the fact that Greater LA has grown more than 22% in population since 1990.
Wait, I only just noticed where you said “intense residential construction”. You must be joking. Current rates of construction across the state are far below historic norms. The only people who think this is a building boom are those who haven’t glanced at a fifty-year housing starts chart.
So they need supportive housing. I endorse building a lot of housing of all kinds, everywhere, as fast as we can. SF has by far the highest municipal revenues per capita in the nation and it can afford to build.
Hrmm, what is a way to solve the problem of HOMElessness, other than throwing people in jail? Trying to think here, just brainstorming. Here's my list of top solutions to HOMElessness:
1) Zone 90% of the city for detached single-family homes?
2) Mandatory decade-long design review for every new home?
3) Lots of parking lots?
4) Designate every extant building a "historical resource"?
Some combination of those policies should eventually solve the housing crisis, I think.
Here’s the number to keep in mind. A medium-sized cloud datacenter uses about as much power as a single passenger airliner, but emits no carbon. That’s your comparison.
A lot of people seem to cling to this number, 3-5 year lifecycle for servers. But, much to the disappointment of software developers, machines in large clouds are often in service for 8-10 years. When you build your own computers there’s nobody to tell you that the warranty has ended, so you just leave them in the rack as long as they are TCO-positive.
I've never owned a polyester garment that could be washed in water. Aren't they all dry-clean only? Blends (like denim) I can see but in general it seems like people just wash their clothes too often and use the machine too much instead of hand-washing.
You can touch your chin with your eyes closed even though you can't see it and in fact haven't ever seen it. It's possible to lose this sense, too, which pretty much rules out the idea that it's merely a mental model. People with nerve injuries may lose their ability to touch their chins with their eyes closed, as I just described.
Sure but what have they built that’s this complicated? The recent AMD flaws have been things like frequency scaling doesn’t work (zen). The more features you have, the harder it becomes to validate the product.
It's hard to imagine how one gains confidence in this kind of product. How does this vendor have the resources to qualify this chip? Intel can already barely qualify theirs. The last seven generations of AMD parts shipped with serious defects that were discovered by customers in the field. Centaur and Via are far smaller. Is it really possible to be scrappy and scrappily produce a bug-free assembly of billions of transistors?
I don’t see how the Uber model can ever approach the price of a taxi. Traditional taxis had purpose-built vehicles, shared garages, parts bought at wholesale, and cars on duty all day every day. Uber drivers have disposable Toyotas, pay individually retail prices for insurance, maintenance, and parts, and their vehicles are usually parked. The traditional model has the advantage on cost.
I can't find any examples of this not working. Can you give an example? The GP's complaint of "x and y to business" works perfectly well for me. E.g. "55th and 5th to barclays center" works perfectly.
It is, though. Under memory pressure the kernel will drop any page that's backed by a file, and then page it back in as needed. "swap" is just making _all_ memory be backed by files.
Actually the butter is the important thing in this article. The self-driving revolution isn't going to enable beautiful and wondrous accomplishments. Instead, it's going to enable international megaconglomerates to more cheaply exploit the desperately poor migrant workforces of far-away places. That's all you're going to get out if it: butter at the same price, but from Tulare County and the butter company saves ten cents per ton by cutting out the trucker.
The accompanying technical blog is more interesting than the announcement. It implies they may have ported or adapted Borg’s antagonistic workload scheduling features to cloud. Huge if true, as they say.
Or in other words, when your ARM without SMT stalls, the execution resources are wasted, as Xenu intended. Letting another program use the functional units unused by your program is an abomination before Xenu.
This is common but not universal. The agreement I have with google, by contrast, gives them a perpetual, irrevocable, nonexclusive right to use anything I create while I work here. This is not the same as owning those things.