This is good advice and it's worked for other things I've been addicted to. I guess you can think of this as my retirement from Hacker News. Thank you kind stranger.
I don't think many of us find it acceptable judging by the comments here. Programmers aren't the target audience though, the actual target audience probably has no idea how much faster these things can and should run.
Says the company that only hires in India now and is notorious for disloyalty towards the workers that made them. $150 billion is bullshit as well, R&D spending they have committed to is actively going down year over…
Oh 100%. As far as I am concerned, anybody that has touched that stuff is blacklisted and radioactive.All its gonna take is a little prick and the financing on the whole house of cards falls apart. So don't think my…
Lmao. Don't pay any attention to the thing about incels, which whether true or not, so obviously does not establish that android was a causative factor. Look at the percentage of US people that have Android. iPhone is…
The pressure should obviously be applied on the underage children with the Apple products, or better yet on Apple. Perhaps the children should be punished and have their iPhones taken away and replaced with budget…
Yep, and I like it this way.
Worrying about whether or not somebody has an Android is going to be very bad for your mental health given that something like 42% of the US cell phone market is Android. Is it possible that you are living in a bubble…
You can't compare cores like that. Take a look at the cache size on the Telum II, or better yet look at a die shot and do some measuring of the cores. Then consider that mainframe workloads are latency sensitive and…
There are really applications that are large enough and hard enough to parallelize and/or shard that any rewrite on a different platform would turn into a performance catastrophe, even if you hired the best engineers…
Yeah the architectures focus on different things. The huge caches on the z series chips are designed primarily around the kind of latency sensitive workloads more common in finance than the massive floating point…
They aren't the best, they are different, and the best in certain areas. In terms of cache size they are way out in front. That architecture has very very fat cores. That's the main thing that makes them different (not…
The legacy workloads are in some sense legacy, but in another sense the term legacy is misleading because at larger shops with capacity growth there has been no shortage of modernization of the various frontends and…
I'd expect them to be significantly better than the competition in that area given the large part of the CPU that is a dedicated coprocessor specifically for crypto (called CPACF). There is much less area given to…
While new processes don't often get created for mainframes (most of the tasks it is particulary suited for have already been automated by this point, and the market of companies doing those tasks is pretty statics)…
My theory: every (I'm exaggerating, more like most) systems programmer in the company was told to join Azure or get cut. Then outsourcing or something. It's been obvious that they don't have many experienced people left…
There are an enormous number of people such as myself that work in tech and believe the same exact thing. At the end of the way we dont need to argue about this. The truth should be empirically knowable. If it's as…
Lmao
Do you have any examples?
False equivalency and you know it.
Asimov is probably my least favorite major science fiction author (that I've read a significant number of works from). Something about his worldview always seemed off to me, although I didn't know he actually seriously…
Gotcha. That makes a lot more sense. I was led to believe by the wording of the comparison that they were the same operations. Appreciate the explanation.
Reading the press release about the "Hypercomputer" and I can't tell what part of this is real and what part is marketing. They say it comes in two configuration, 256 chips or 9,216 chips. They also say that the maximal…
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The only way to keep standards high is to cease using degrees solely as class indicators and stop requiring a bachelor's degree for the overwhelming majority of white collar jobs (that we all know don't need the…
This is good advice and it's worked for other things I've been addicted to. I guess you can think of this as my retirement from Hacker News. Thank you kind stranger.
I don't think many of us find it acceptable judging by the comments here. Programmers aren't the target audience though, the actual target audience probably has no idea how much faster these things can and should run.
Says the company that only hires in India now and is notorious for disloyalty towards the workers that made them. $150 billion is bullshit as well, R&D spending they have committed to is actively going down year over…
Oh 100%. As far as I am concerned, anybody that has touched that stuff is blacklisted and radioactive.All its gonna take is a little prick and the financing on the whole house of cards falls apart. So don't think my…
Lmao. Don't pay any attention to the thing about incels, which whether true or not, so obviously does not establish that android was a causative factor. Look at the percentage of US people that have Android. iPhone is…
The pressure should obviously be applied on the underage children with the Apple products, or better yet on Apple. Perhaps the children should be punished and have their iPhones taken away and replaced with budget…
Yep, and I like it this way.
Worrying about whether or not somebody has an Android is going to be very bad for your mental health given that something like 42% of the US cell phone market is Android. Is it possible that you are living in a bubble…
You can't compare cores like that. Take a look at the cache size on the Telum II, or better yet look at a die shot and do some measuring of the cores. Then consider that mainframe workloads are latency sensitive and…
There are really applications that are large enough and hard enough to parallelize and/or shard that any rewrite on a different platform would turn into a performance catastrophe, even if you hired the best engineers…
Yeah the architectures focus on different things. The huge caches on the z series chips are designed primarily around the kind of latency sensitive workloads more common in finance than the massive floating point…
They aren't the best, they are different, and the best in certain areas. In terms of cache size they are way out in front. That architecture has very very fat cores. That's the main thing that makes them different (not…
The legacy workloads are in some sense legacy, but in another sense the term legacy is misleading because at larger shops with capacity growth there has been no shortage of modernization of the various frontends and…
I'd expect them to be significantly better than the competition in that area given the large part of the CPU that is a dedicated coprocessor specifically for crypto (called CPACF). There is much less area given to…
While new processes don't often get created for mainframes (most of the tasks it is particulary suited for have already been automated by this point, and the market of companies doing those tasks is pretty statics)…
My theory: every (I'm exaggerating, more like most) systems programmer in the company was told to join Azure or get cut. Then outsourcing or something. It's been obvious that they don't have many experienced people left…
There are an enormous number of people such as myself that work in tech and believe the same exact thing. At the end of the way we dont need to argue about this. The truth should be empirically knowable. If it's as…
Lmao
Do you have any examples?
False equivalency and you know it.
Asimov is probably my least favorite major science fiction author (that I've read a significant number of works from). Something about his worldview always seemed off to me, although I didn't know he actually seriously…
Gotcha. That makes a lot more sense. I was led to believe by the wording of the comparison that they were the same operations. Appreciate the explanation.
Reading the press release about the "Hypercomputer" and I can't tell what part of this is real and what part is marketing. They say it comes in two configuration, 256 chips or 9,216 chips. They also say that the maximal…
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The only way to keep standards high is to cease using degrees solely as class indicators and stop requiring a bachelor's degree for the overwhelming majority of white collar jobs (that we all know don't need the…