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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 performance per Watt targets, roadmaps, application specific development or any bureaucratic and budgetary revision reasons?

(Post Sandy Lake and AMD 7001/2 AVX512 timeframe, GPU market including crypto demand wafer budgets, 100Gbps + and Omnipath spinkill / Slingshot introduction interconnect and even plain old changes in the codes desired to be run.

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 and transaction processing chops, figure out how to sustain enough revenue to tax deduct enough smart promotion, and ideally, I'd personally wish, fork Pale Moon.

The German Zugabeverordnung law was very strict against any "free" commercial offer tied to the obscuring of linked purchases. But instead of being extended to embrace the creation of sponsored funnels providing free entertainment websites, as is probably now long forgotten but fallacious doctrine, the internet instead made "free", "free".

https://marketinglaw.osborneclarke.com/marketing-techniques/...

https://competition-attorneys.de/lawyer/zugabeverordnung-ger...

The law was scrapped in 2004, unlikely [ed] not [/ed] coincidentally with establishing peak web commercial libertarian lobbying, the more political and in earnest post dotbomb.

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, which is the legal equivalent of granting joint custody of your funds to the extent that the Halifax savings and loan used to refuse to cancel a direct debit payment for the customer, claiming that the customer has no such right, and the severality of granting regulated but effectively unfettered withdrawal authority lead me to think twice about taking them to court. The UK Direct Debit system doesn't even verify the customers name against the account details, wide open to fraud. Anyhow the argument for declining both cash and once off card donations wasn't anything to do with the sidewalk venue, but the charity wanting me to give them my tax deduction as well. They'd be lined up across Cheapside in funnel formations. No wonder that WFH is still so popular.

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 downside. Speaking as a former prop trader, of cutting edge products including those I've designed as principal, when you're touching the wider economy a entirely different set of rules either applies or someone's gotta be responsible. I don't believe that anyone's understood what "the buck stops here" means for two generations.

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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 family who knew the place a hundred years ago. The Tube of the eighties celebrated the apotheosis of ignoring one another and the British seem to make a art form out of studious but "polite" asociability* in every queue.

Actually reading this discussion I've realized that I have seen almost nobody using headphones in London in recent years, eliminating possibly the highest barrier to interaction. Curiouser I have most recently only noticed people glued to their phones whilst walking not standing at the bus stop.

*as opposed to anti social manners for clarity

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 specialization dope. I think that smack is what's screwed the planet.

I recognized the (very, top schools) hard sell for bunkum at a very tender age. The flip side is that you don't actually become a expert much before middle age. That's also how it should be, but my second and third decades of my career were very lonely. If I would beg any sympathy for my generation's reprehensible stewardship, this might be it if I could ask without being self serving. As stands, over to you lot. Look back hard at the events in history just now being declassified. For the first time in the information era newly released history is not only relevant but crucial, because the generation born fifty and sixty years ago still living, and able to talk with you, was isolated almost entirely if not hermetically, from the rest of mankind and are, albeit well concealed by superficial wealth, personal or circumstantial to society, shitting ourselves when not freaking out angrily.

Personally I think the freaking out behaviour has been copied by the headless right rather than is actually endemic, but understanding social mimicry in traumatic stress is just another example of how much you have to figure out and filter out, similarly to plotting a course to high professional status just as any independent thinking, and the state of many professions today is that attaining independent thought is a de facto domain expert qualification.

Traumatic mimicry could be easily applied to the reinventing the DBMS from discovery of ACID (early MySQL, 00's; MongoDB, 10's) , the Russian Dolls rewriting of Windows display layers, and potentially almost any project recently enabled by putatively inexpensive compute.

Of course I'm hinting that philosophy and other non technology understanding can make being a generalist both much easier and more pleasurable, but this is a personal journey, find your reasoning where you can but remember that you're a generalist.

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 Analysen [2] to catch the Baader Meinhoff gang by trawling citizens data. Until the violence of the Baader Meinhoff gang, there was sufficient popular sentiment including in politics, against any Federal use of power as prohibited by the constitution. This was effectively reversed with the assassination of Alfred Herrhausen [3] using a enfilade of shaped charges to slice through his armoured limousine. Herold created the first European data dragnet to identify anyone who profiled similarly to his quarry. The gang were apprehended only using indirect evidence ,[edit: of their whereabouts]. Violence and the ensuing police reactions disheartened and suppressed opposition to Federal government enforcement.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p093wy1r/cant-get-you-... ,

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horst_Herold ,

[2] https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/INPOL ,

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Herrhausen

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 almost COM+ under the hood.

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 wasn't going to happen because of the necessity for drivers in either block or direct access mode. Couldn't plug and play.

CXL itself is a good reduction in buss latency and there's been virtually nothing other words the occasional battery backed NAND DIMM on any memory buss, so SCL on CXL isn't going to be poor.

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 comparison matters.

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 of SSD"

I want to bench this in a enterprise test. This is a lot of SLC and portends high random 4K writes that are very hard to achieve without something like a Pliops or GRAID array controller.

Claims are, "random read/write up to 1,000 K IOPS", which is three times that of most enterprise drives.

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 development, we may be there in a couple of years. I'm hoping that Gen 6/7 will have significant effects on the cost of the high end by making specialized boards less attractive and leveraging commodity switching.