I'm about done with NVIDIA. Here's to hoping Intel improves their Linux driver support... They step up their game, and I could be convinced to switch. But right now.... It's all crap.

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100%

Kevin Rose killed digg. He took what was good and ruined it.

Reddit embodied what was good about Digg and ran away with the market share.

As long as Reddit doesn't fuck with their algo, and try to pull a "Kevin Rose" (not unlike what Tik Tok just did) it will be ok.

Fuck digg, and fuck Kevin. Go back to making videos where you pretend you're "edgy" because you have a 40oz in a brown paper bag.

Kevin and his idiot people killed Digg a long time ago when they implemented their own algo to determine what users could see and corrupted it with a bunch of advertising. It should have been left alone. Nobody cares and nobody wants it back.

So? How much single threaded rendering does anyone actually do?

I understand why in some cases single threaded performance is important, but not for the vast majority of use cases.

I don't actually know. My desktop runs Linux. I patch it a couple times a month perhaps, and grab a cup of coffee while it reboots.

But to the point of "Why hasn't it gotten faster", you have to understand what its doing. Servers have entire subsystems to inventory & boot, a modern Dell server has at least 3 OS'es (4 if you have an expander backplane) hiding under the hood before the one you see boots. So servers have a bit more stuff. But the fundamentals are the same for desktops & laptops. RAM and DDR training. Yes, PC's have gotten a lot faster. RAM has gotten a lot bigger, and more to the point we keep juicing more speed out of it. Getting DDR5 to hold on to the bus and emit a usable signal at 4800Mhz with signal integrity to travel 1 meter to the socket take a little bit of tuning.

Enjoy the cup of coffee.

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The BSD's use something called Bhyve. I was pretty stable on TrueNAS Core when I used it, but not very feature rich. I only ran Linux VM's, so don't consider this an endorsement.

https://bhyve.org/

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Clearing caches, ok... But... And maybe its because I'm just a BIND 9.x guy... How do I lower the TTL for a Microslop hosted record? Even for records I host, changing the TTL doesn't force the remote caches to expire early.

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Which can basically undermine everything else at any point in the future.

... maybe they shouldn't be having AI do coding? Or QA?

The thing that gets me is that anybody who has any technical knowledge, upon looking at crypto's underlying technology: blockchain, can clearly see it doesn't make sense.

Blockchain isn't any less fault tolerant than existing systems, and because of its precarious "decentralized" nature, requiring random self-interested parties to see a financial reason to run nodes based on the price of the tokens, there's no guarantee whatsoever: a) the "price" of a digital abstraction that has no intrinsic value will continue to go up or say above zero, or b) there's any other reason to run the software and waste resources when it accomplishes nothing for society.

Here is a great documentary that explains it all. No self-respecting software engineer would buy into this goofy scheme.

If you want "immutability" just use cryptographic signing in traditional, relational databases.

If you want "decentralization" there are better facilities out there that aren't tied to sketchy ponzi-scheme-like digital tokens, such as IFPS.

Between this and off-shoring a ton of IT to India, this is pretty much how it is for us. Manager is no longer 1/2 a state away, but still in a building and we rarely see him in person. ALL meetings are done via teams. We collab all day long via Teams chat just fine, but still RTO required. I show up, sit in a cube with noise cancelling headphones on while I listen to something on my ipad... rarely chat with but 1 or 2 other team members that are local. Only a handful of meetings all YEAR really need to be in person.

I run my own DNS. Google is not one of my forwarders, or even involved. If my server isn't authoritative, it goes to the root servers for the TLD, and tracks it down from there. Frogs can go surrender to my house dynamic IP. I'll accept Nouvelle-Aquitaine with land & titles, and let them keep Paris.

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Sitting here staring at the pile of DDR3 DIMM's/SODIMM'd/UDIMM's in my ewaste recycle pile... Has to be like 512Gb at least...

No low ballers! I know what I have! :)

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Most companies with less that 100k employees have outsourced their email. Even those above that head count have strong incentive to outsource. Email is actually kind of difficult to do right at scale. The people that know how have their own little community. Much of the software that used to be used to implement email at massive scale is no longer publicly available, or was always private (Yahoo & Gmail). MS Exchange used to have trouble breaking 1M inboxes, requiring hundreds of hosts. Sun's Comms suite was once the telco standard, hosting 100's of thousands of inboxes per server, has now been subsumed into Oracle Cloud as their messaging service.

There's been a distinct lack of innovation too. Most of the major innovators are now dead or well past 70. Core RFC's have languished for years and even decades. John Postel has been gone since the 90's, Ned Freed, who created much of the MIME extensions passed in the early 2020's. The other big names, Eric Allman, Wietse Venema, William Yeager, are all in their 70's & 80's. The protocols are considered mature, work well with the occasional hairball, and powerful interests have built walled gardens, and are content to print money with them.

Honestly, the whole Internet email ecosystem is ripe for someone to come along and disrupt things.

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Only second to the quality of answers... most of which being, "Why would you do THAT?"