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Is there any record of the DoE _not requesting that the first announced specification didn't require a leapfrog step up due to the shifting industry performance and especially perf…

I'm convinced that position:sticky wouldn't exist if browsers weren't beholden to advertising traffic. Someone needs to create a rival foundation to Mozilla, with some advertising …

Bon môt. Anecdotes are historical or much more rarely fanciful but never fictional exemplary stories. The fictional variety may be called a vignette.

London (City of London) pre pandemic used to regularly have troops of charity employees hard selling their pitch and only accepting monthly subscription payments via Direct Debit, …

I'd have suggested illicit piggy backing the SMS broadcast SS7 signal channel, like the original WhatsApp did.

Also cousin of Dodi Fayed and second cousin to Adnan Kashoggi.

Sounds like, "Move fast and break ,[habitually other people's] piggy banks." SAC is totemic in a industry founded by other people's money and the carry without any equivalent downs…

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>You used to have social interactions when waiting anywhere London perfected ignoring everybody long before even the rise of mass circulation newspapers according to diaries of fam…

Isn't being a generalist what you should do on the way to becoming a domain expert? My generation (definitely older given the replies :~) ) was sold straight onto the specializatio…

From 51:25 in this BBC documentary [0] you're introduced to Horst Herold [1] the President of the BKA (Federal police) who instigated the creation of the Suchsystem Inpol sowie Ana…

No, Azure was never a Linux distribution variant but a NT derived distributed hypervisor OS codenamed RedDog led by Dave Cutler with some heavy VMS experience in the team. It's alm…

Operating word was "enterprise" :~) Edit: I think I get your query about "minimum SLC size": I imagine that the cache isn't scaling 1/3 of capacity across all SKUs 1-4TB.

Yes. However Western Digital is predicting latency of the same order as Optane DIMMs in this 2016 blog: https://blog.westerndigital.com/storage-class-memory-3d-nand... CXL Optane w…

Yes. I was quoting from the vendor literature, and thought about changing to 1M IOPS but I think it's quoted this way become the competition is offering ca 300K R4K at best, so the…

The new Optane is called Storage Class Memory and is coming in CXL format cards without the programmatic dichotomy imposed fatally on Optane.

Both Gen 4 and 5 drives keep sequential and random in the same order. Frankly this is excellent and the new news is the old news.

Company is 3 years old. https://www.nextorage.net/en/company/ Existing Gen 4 product is very interesting: "Dynamic SLC caching stores cache size up to 1/3 of the total storage area…

Product of the English system here: what are "English numbers"? I've never seen 0.5 written ".5" going back to Principia.

Technically 8 H100CNX cards on Gen5 128GBs backplane can get one card a third of the HBM bandwidth. Given that Gen 6 and 7 are following much more quickly than the Gen 3 > 4 develo…

>which will give much better performance on low-bandwidth connections, Er, IRIX was pushing 12 bits and alpha channel around over X on twisted pairs c.a. 1993.

RFC 1034 A fully qualified domain name must have a final dot/period after the tld. Adding the dot to a address that isn't resolved via DNS seems to be confusing the lookup. Edit: l…

>Figma is absolutely valuable as evidenced by its customer base. See how quickly Quark lost the most loyal and hegemonic user base to Adobe InDesign just over Adobe choosing to use…

>you often need to seem nice and likable to wealthy people in order to get that idea off the ground. Almost the entire if superficial opposite of what created the Silicon Valley of…

In the nineties the UK basket of consumer goods used to calculate inflation suddenly included a well specified PC. Not only was this PC a vastly disproportionate weight in the new …