What do you propose? Continue social distancing and masking? About the only middle ground is masking in medical settings and crowded, non-social spaces. I guess vaccination rates are low, but that should be a good thing for people who are vaccinated.
> Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, stirred alarm among developers last month when he predicted that A.I. technology sometime this year would effectively match the performance of a midlevel software engineer
Either Meta has tools an order of magnitude more powerful than everyone else, or he's drinking his own koolaid.
"Disabling bad memory" as in DRAM isn't a thing that happens, to anybody. DRAM is made in its own fabs and goes through QA before being packaged. So whether it lands onto DIMMs or in a SoC package, it's known-good dies that are being used.
And you cannot look at the number of SKUs without also taking into account how many different die designs are being manufactured and binned to produce that product line. Intel and AMD CPUs have far more bins per die, and usually fewer different die sizes as a starting point. Apple isn't manufacturing a M3 Max and sometimes binning that down to a M3 Pro, or a M3 Pro down to a M3. You're really just seeing about two choices for enabled core count from each die, which is not any kind of red flag.
Disabling cache as a binning strategy isn't too common these days, unless it's a cache slice associated with a CPU or GPU core that's being disabled. Large SRAMs are manufactured usually with some spare cache lines so that they can tolerate a few defects while still operating with the nominal capacity. SRAM defects are usually not the driving force behind a binning decision.
Back when Intel was stagnant at 4 cores for the bulk of their consumer CPU product line, they did stuff like sell i7 parts with 8MB L3 cache and i5 parts with 6MB cache, more as a product segmentation strategy than to improve yields (they once infamously sold a CPU with 3MB last level cache and later offered a software update to increase it to 4MB, meaning all chips of that model had passed binning for 4MB). Nowadays Intel's cache capacities are pretty well correlated with the number of enabled cores. AMD usually doesn't vary L3 cache sizes even between parts with a different number of enabled cores: you get 32MB per 8-core chiplet, whether you have 8 cores or 6 cores enabled.
I don't know to what extent the cache sizes on Apple's chips vary between bins, but it probably follows the pattern of losing only cache that's tied to some other structure that gets disabled.
I used to think these were interesting and used them to inform my next HDD purchase. I realized I only used them to pick a recently reliable brand, we're down to three, and the stats are mostly old models, so the main use is if you're buying a used drive from the same batch that Backblaze happens to have also used.
Buy two from different vendors and RAID or do regular off-site backups.
Mirrored raid is good. Other raid levels are of dubious value nowadays.
Ideally you use "software raid" or file system with the capabilities do scrubbing and repair to detect bitrot. Or have some sort of hardware solution that can do the same and notify the OS of the error correction.
And, as always, Raid-type solutions mostly exist to improve availability.
Backups are something else entirely. Nothing beats having lots of copies in different places.
Meta's success for the past 10 years had more to do with Cheryl Sandburg and building a culture that chases revenue metrics than whatever side project Zuckerberg is doing. He also misunderstands the product they do have. He said he didn't see TikTok as a competitor because they "aren't social," but Meta's products have been attention products, not social products, for a long time now.
They're as silly as they sound. Growing up, there was a sign when you enter the school's bus storage and maintenance area. More recently, I've seen them at Starbucks (for coffee), in the vinegar section of the grocery store, and on untreated lumber.
This isn't California being California, but it is well-meaning legislation getting out-of-hand because of enforcement mechanisms. It's like website cookie warnings. It was a nice idea, but it lead to a silly place.
Replying because I remembered coffee too, and had to look it up. ‘Good’(?) news is that it was decided in 2019(!) that coffee does not require a Prop 65 warning.
Dependency conflicts become an issue for large projects in any language. It's less of a problem when the language's runtime is feature-rich since libraries will be less likely to use a third-party HTTP client. You can choose libraries with fewer dependencies, but that only gets you so far. At some point, you can put the libraries in you monorepo, but upgrades come with a large cost.
I think WFH should stand for Where's Fucking Housing because that's like 90% of the "WFH crowd"'s motivation from what I've seen - since companies almost never pay enough to live near enough to their office. If they did, then the price differential between US and overseas would be even worse..
You see, it’s of critical importance that Santa Clara valley retain the character of a quaint mid 1960s town of single level shops and tract houses. Where jimmy can ride his Big Wheel in the Cul De Sac.
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