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AlfonsoP

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    Comment #15380616

    The book PDF is here: https://www.u-cursos.cl/usuario/9553d43f5ccbf1cca06cc02562b4... Or buy a used second edition at $20: https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/047170055X/

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    Comment #14135623

    Think outside the box. Current chips have gates on a dozen metal layers measuring ~1µm, but you could scale to 10,000 layers at ~1mm. Sure there are many unsolved challenge to buil…

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    Comment #13958214

    Nitpick: Pixel has 3 years of security updates, and 2 years of Android OS updates.

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    Comment #9259417

    I sincerely hope YOU are joking, right? I can think of many examples why even small businesses need more than 100k IOPS. Case in point: 5 years ago I did consulting work for an ema…

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    Comment #9259255

    You say larger companies survive crashes, but their valuations still take huge hits. Look at the last dot-com crash: MSFT crashed from $59 to $21, AAPL crashed from $4.90 to $1.00,…

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    Comment #9233311

    > most ppl will never need more than 100k IOPs, let alone 500k+ These types of statements are always false. If there is anything the computing industry has taught us is that people…

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    Comment #9212897

    Real hardware has always generally been cheaper. AWS is a success because there are no upfront costs, it lets you scale up very quickly, and you don't need in-house hardware expert…

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    Comment #9205576

    It is very obvious to me that these keyboards on Amazon are a lot thicker than the MS keyboard (and probably a lot heavier). Look carefully at the thickness of the edge: the MS one…

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    Comment #9192541

    I wish it would sort by network throughput instead of latency.