I'm pretty sure the largest handwritten shell program I used back in the day on a regular basis was abcde (A Better CD Encoder)[1] which clocks in at ~5500 LOC.[2]
Not that I'd know anything about it, but this was one of the tools recommended on What.CD back in the day. Along with Max (my friends tell me) https://github.com/sbooth/Max
The greatest loss was truly not even What.CD the incredible tracker but the forums. I've never again found a more concentrated group of people with taste.
I toggle Num Lock a few times in the rare event my workstation doesn't immediately respond, if the status light on my wired keyboard remains on things are likely good and borked. Though, I feel like this was more a more dependable test in the days of PS/2 (and PC/AT before that) than it is these days with USB because the former dumb serial interfaces were implemented at such a low level.
As far as Caps Lock is concerned I've had that mapped to Ctrl for as long as I can remember.
That is 192 EPYC cores though. The EPYC 9654 costs half as much as the A192-32x, has half as many cores, but still beats the Ampere in geometric mean of the phoronix suite.
I just looked it up - that is a mistaken statistic. 50% of their CPUs are not Arm, but AWS has 50% of all server-side Arm CPUs.
"But that total is beaten by just one company – Amazon – which has slightly above 50 percent of all Arm server CPUs in the world deployed in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) datacenters, said the analyst."[0]
In part that'll be because they mandated every service team migrate to ARM. Service teams had to have extensive justification to avoid it. With good reason, too, the reason for the effort was the significant cost savings.
And one presumes also gave them incredible leverage on negotiating future chip buys from AMD/Intel.
There must be so much fear of not getting their chips into AWS by now that I can only imagine they're selling near cost.
Not to mention no one pays AMD or Intel the Suggested Retail Price for those CPU. You could expect any larger order from DELL or M$ / Google to be 50% off those prices. Of course Amphere would offer some discount as well but when you put together and the performance the difference isn't as big as most claimed.
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