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If you buy a matched OS + laptop in any other situation, why not also for Linux? Buy an XPS next time, or any other vendor (Lenovo?) with tested hardware, and just put an Ubuntu US…

The network stack integration was less than transparent too. Random places all over the system where e.g. a magical ioctl() just didn't work properly. Who really wants to spend the…

> The argument about Windows not having a single, central dentry cache doesn't hold water This was more about cache coherency, and it's not an argument, it's a trait shared by ever…

Contra opinion: the VM option reduced the service interface between Windows and Linux to a single kernel implementation and a few drivers, rather than every possible userspace prog…

Do what exactly? This is essentially a performance optimization for folk bagholding oceans of vulnerable hardware

This method was talked about since the Spectre/Meltdown days. It has often taken Google much longer to release patches they've been sitting on, e.g. many original containers patche…

Chrome is not open source, it's a derived proprietary superset of the open source Chromium. They are not the same thing in very material ways

We could argue this ad infinitum, K8s of course doesn't remove all proprietary elements from a solution but it is a huge step up. Speaking as an ex-Googler, it took over 10 years b…

Ever tried to host multiple apps on a single machine? Oh look, a custom Nginx config only one person understands. Oh look, some hacked up letsencrypt config only one person underst…

Kubernetes does a whole lot more than just restart jobs when a node fails, in fact of all its features this is one most people probably see in action the least. Kubernetes centrali…

Just for completeness, updating parent comment's Lambda estimates, not counting provisioned worker costs, and assuming no request takes more than 100 ms. Lambda requests: ((1.5e9 *…

I stopped reading at "3000 cores"; there is a lot of money to be made mopping up disasters like that, it's clearly even something of a growth industry. We had one machine push 2,40…

The emphasis here being on the word "should". I wouldn't buy just yet until some third party has published a sustained load/heat test. Apple have sucked at this for quite some year…

The use case is benchmarks basically, and maybe faster cold boots. About the only place the typical heavy computer user is likely to notice major difference between SATA and NVME i…

Small but important nitpick: since at least 2005 there is no "on the NYSE", the price you're likely seeing is the best price consolidated across all national market system venues, …

The average web page can be as nasty as it likes, but if I can deliver apps that _feel_ awesome and optionally can deliver metrics that provide a commercial basis for that awesomen…

Effectively this is arguing for the project's attention to detail being low, we covered this already

Marketed as a single codebase platform where the most ubiquitous deployment target has a user experience that tells your customers you hate them 4.39 MB in 50 requests is a showsto…

The gallery app looks to be authored using it: - It needed to show a loading spinner on a 250 Mbit connection - It hung the browser while 'booting' the page for a solid 3-5 seconds…

Hoping someone snarfed a git clone, revision history is waaay more interesting than the code itself