What do you call the kind of tui graphics aesthetic that is being emulated on this webpage? and are there any frameworks to use it in the browser?
Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
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#192May be instead of asking target market or audience, who are their competitors? (Edit: Previous Discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682360 ) Also thinking if the Website is not finished? All the "Read More" actually hide very little information, if so why hide it? And doesn't seems to explain the company very well. Seems like we need to listen to their PodCast to find out what is going on. ( Edit: Found…
>Get the most efficient power rating and network speeds of 100GBps without the pain of cable
100GBps would be impressive, 100Gbps would be ... not much?
Even 100GBps(800Gbps) is not much for 2048 cores, depends on application, in certain applications, 32 cores could drive 100Gbps...
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#193What do you call the kind of tui graphics aesthetic that is being emulated on this webpage? and are there any frameworks to use it in the browser?
Expensive, since they engaged Pentagram for branding.
More seriously, the animations have "ascii-animation" classes in the dom, tui is probably more fitting aesthetic label if you ask me. Not sure if a lib is involved or its custom. Either way it is done very nicely.
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#194If Joel Spolsky and Paul Graham had a baby....
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#195To me this is a webpage that promises the technology before the days of AWS and GCP with some cool ascii art animation.
Sure, they have a solid team of engineers but what is the value proposition exactly? A blackbox server that we built to our taste (AMD Milan, what if I want Intel Xeon?) to provide you custom software to manage and monitor server health and notify you if you could upgrade/downgrade to a different size? Oh and no cables with lots of aesthetics to make your datacenter look pretty... And?
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#196>AMD MILAN Intel is losing on the client and server. everyone is jumping ship to either ARM or AMD for client/server. hopefully Intel new engineer CEO can turn it around like AMD engineer CEO (Lisa Su)
ARM I've seen evidence people are jumping ship too, but is the same true of AMD? This is the best shot they're going to get at it and I for one haven't heard all that much noise pro-AMD. They make really nice chips, but what happens if BigCorpXYZ just gets a quote from AMD and goes straight to Intel to get it matched - i.e. the Cloud isn't that performance-intensive, so now they get to stay on the Intel stack for les…
Dropbox moved to AMD quite a while ago. Seems popular.
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#197Soo... we’re switching back to blade servers again?
The problem with this model is its no longer commodity hardware. You are kinda locked into their exosystem of specialized network and server equipment.
And it of course introduces some unique failure modes to mitigate too.
Not to say its not a cool idea, it’s just interesting to see how hardware trends oscillate between commodity and highly specialized proprietary designs.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your approach to pay is really refreshing and attractive as an engineer, and also seems like the exact type of thing most VC or larger tech firms would really hate. That alone feels like evidence of your conviction
https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...
This would be a lot more convincing if the number was double what it is.
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#199Looks cool. Please add an RSS feed to your blog, oxide. So people can keep up. The rss logo is not a link (at least on mobile) and there is no auto discovery tag (that my reader can find).
Also your site badly crashes Brave iOS browser fwiw.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
Duh! I got tricked by the things near the PDU as "oh, these must be the pure-compute nodes". So maybe that's the better question: what are the 4U worth of stuff surrounding the power? More networking stuff? Management stuff? (There was some swivel to the back of the rack / with networking, but I can't find it now) Edit: Ahh! The rotating view is on /product and so that ~4U is the fiber. (Hat tip to Jon Olson, too)
Control-plane most likely, and having a mid-centered PDU probably adds to heat on the upper stack, which shortens life over time. As someone who has designed quite a few datacenters, whats more interesting to me in this evolution of computing is the reduction in cabling. Cabling in a DC is a huge suck on all aspects - plastics, power, blah blah blah - the list is long.... But there are a LOT of cabling companies that…
On the topic of naming, there was thought put into it...
> With accelerating conviction that we would build a company to do this, we needed a name — and once we hit on Oxide, we knew it was us: oxides form much of the earth’s crust, giving a connotation of foundation; silicon, the element that is the foundation of all of computing, is found in nature in its oxide; and (yes!) iron oxide is also known as Rust, a programming language we see playing a substantial role for us. Were there any doubt, that Oxide can also be pseudo-written in hexadecimal — as 0x1de — pretty much sealed the deal!
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2019/12/02/the-soul-of-a-new-com...