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Is none at Apple actually using FaceTime? I remember seeing group FaceTime for the first time approx a year ago. It looked like a 90' screen saver. I was completely astonished. Like 10 years ago was late for this kind of update.
In Czechia we have a system where all sellers have to log bills to prevent tax evasion. IBM also provided the system. It cost ~ 15m$ to set up and ~15m$/y to run.
Given the rate of ~millions of bills submitted per day, of which the government only gets the total price and taxes, you have like ~hundred bills per second.
I could scale a gunicorn+sqlite on my 2014 MacBook Pro to be able to receive this rate of requests with a payload which could fit inside a single TCP packet. Sure, there is auth/backups/analytics... etc. Yet, I still just do not see how could IBM charge the extra 14m$ to set that up...
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OT: I thought that I would not see this in mid-2021.
Awesome job, love the enthusiasm.
Faster log10 is all nice but I would love to see a more aggressive compilation cache and improved tooling rather than these minor improvements.
In the past I attended several meetings with customers where I was actively discouraged asking questions which would help us deliver a good meaningful solution as long as the customer would be happy "investing in a ML solution". And they were...
What are the alternatives for contemporary languages nowadays? I have small kids and BASIC got obsolete since then :)
PDF from the page https://archive.org/download/zx-books-img/BeginnersComputerH...
- CPU on chip
- System on chip
- Network on chip
I'm looking forward to the next X on chip which I'm not aware of.
I usually understand that people read mostly titles. It was a bit funny though that someone likely managed not to read both the posted site and a link in a comment they replied to.