Let me give you a very real use case that we deal with every day -- our facility uses a piece of commercial software with key parts that are single-threaded. It is no longer under active development and there is no expectation that another (multi-threaded) software package that does the same thing will become available any time soon. The faster it runs, the less money production costs because our employees spend more time doing actual work and less time staring at the screen between workflow steps waiting for that single-threaded task to finish. So we source the fastest single-threaded CPUs we can find for these stations.
That is very clearly Intel, but I would have no problem using AMD if (ever) their single-threaded performance becomes the best available given our budget. We're not "fan boys" and aren't loyal or tied to any particular vendor, nor do we have a vested interest in seeing a particular vendor fail. We really don't care about anything in this case except getting that part of the job done as quickly as possible.
For running multi-threaded jobs, we use a mix of Threadripper 1950X workstations and some Intel machines (mostly Xeon E5 servers as well as a few newer higher-end Intel workstations). On these jobs, threads are commodities and available thread count rules, so the best machine is the one that isn't running something else at the time. But we are also well served by having a diverse mix of CPUs -- some with tons of slow threads, others with less faster threads. They're just tools.
I have no problem buying / using Intel or AMD, and we have and use both. What has always been and forever will be a fundamental aspect of CPU selection is Know Thy Workload. Just because you are dismissive of a specific type of performance doesn't mean that it's not very important to many other people.
. . . or go out and get a better paying job. There's literally never been a better time to do either. It's a total employee job market right now, especially in technology.
. . . in a free market. Check out BP's and Enron's historic stock prices for proof of this, trued up chronologically with the Horizon spill and the Lay / Skilling shred-fest, respectively. Of course, we bailed out the auto and financial industries and sent future generations the bill, but that's free market intervention.
They haven't done anything new or innovative in decades, and moving to subscriptions is absolutely TERRIBLE for their users -- now you can never buy their bloated software, just rent it, forever. That company seriously needs to die in a fire.
Let's see the actual demographic makeup of their devs. Spoiler: it's overwhelming male and white / Asian / Indian like all other big tech firms. This is just a cheap soundbite to placate the SJW crowd with absolutely no substance behind it, and everyone knows it. Besides, I'm confused: doesn't the H1B program that Microsoft et al abuse exist in practice solely to bring (temporary) immigrants into the country (to work as indentured tech servants and save big corps money)? Their statement here about caring about immigrants is 100% trash -- follow their money.
If they'd missed the deadline, I could see Musk making his engineers stand outside screaming in Japanese at the passing crowd "these are ribbons of SHAME!"
C'mon folks, us cavemen used to have to code this stuff ourselves back when the earth was still cooling.
Remember Microsoft's Terraserver? Back then you could write your own front-end for it (well, you had to if you didn't want to consume the data thru Microsoft's site as there was no API). We'd calculate distance between points using Great Circle Distance with the Mean Earth Radius (6371 km) as r in the formula, which gives you pretty good results and is my guess as to what Google's using to calculate this stuff.
Even before ransomware, it was always cheapest just to make and keep good backups and then when (not if) something happend on your network, you simply nuke the affected nodes to bare metal, reinstall, and restore. Seriously, fuck these guys.
I would say, "be careful what you wish for." Because odds are he would have a lot less friction with the Republicans in Congress and be able to get a lot more traditional Republican agenda-type stuff done. I do think Trump is done after this term anyway -- not because he gets impeached, but because he doesn't really want the job (he just wanted to win the election, but is now learning that the job itself is miserable, at least compared to what he's used to) and won't run for re-election. So my guess is that Pence will be the likely Republican candidate for POTUS in 2020. It will be interesting to say the least.
I'm no Trump fan, but how is this "winning"? Let's say, for the sake of argument, he ends of getting impeached (incredibly unlikely even for him, given how historically difficult it is to actually make that happen) -- we all would end up with President Pence. Is that what you really want?
The "March for our Lives" gun control march has been kept at the top of the news BY THE MEDIA for the last 30+ days. Do you think a national pro-life (anti-abortion) march would gain the same favorable coverage? Hell no . . . the only coverage it would get would be of its pink hat-wearing counter-protesters.
Such arrogance. And you wonder why Hillary and the Democrats lost and continue to hemorrhage governships and House and Senate seats nationwide. Does your tribe ever do ANYTHING other than blaming everyone else for all the world's problems while acting like smug douchebags?
I've seen this happen on huge college campuses as well. Legions of kids crossing streets while paying zero attention to the potential for oncoming traffic. Usually it's because their face is buried in their phone, but sometimes it's not, and they literally step right off the curb into traffic for seemingly no reason. It might make me sound like an old guy but my generation had a healthy fear of death by car instilled into it (by our parents and guardians) which seems to be sadly lacking these days. It's amazing that more people aren't routinely run down.
And Tom Brady threw for over 100 more yards than Nick Foles but the Philadelphia Eagles ended up with Super Bowl rings last month because -- according to the rules of the game which BOTH TEAMS AGREED TO -- their team won. If you don't like the rules of the game, either don't play, or get them changed -- the process to do that is very clear. Until then, cry me a river.
This incident makes no one a "monster" -- just like CSX and Amtrak aren't "monsters" when a pedestrian gets struck by one of their trains (which is almost universally because someone trespassed onto the right-of-way, or just plain decided to commit suicide by train). You can't bubble wrap the world.
And yet, in most cases now they're orders of magnitude safer than the distracted meatbag texting away on their iPhone. Or the late-night drunk trying to make it home from the bar without getting caught. Yeah, even now I'd probably take my chances with the self-driving cars instead of humanity at the wheel, thanks.
. . . to the existing legal system. So many have speculated what would happen when a self-driving car inevitably killed a 3rd party. Might as well get the process started so the litigation / legislation is resolved quicker and things move ahead . . .
Indeed, this is one (rare) example where the private sector might be able to take some lessons from the Feds, at least in ultra-crowded metro areas. E.g., check out this guide to (and whole website about!) teleworking from the US Federal gov't: https://www.telework.gov/guida...
Why would you assume that the receipt / delivery side can't / won't be automated? Or have a shipment drop? Amazon has already been working on that kind of stuff for years. As the automation of driving results in greater efficiencies, the other parts of the ecosystem will also necessarily evolve to catch up. It's not a matter of if, but when.
Huh? The beancounters care. They will move things towards the greatest efficiency possible at EVERY step of the process, which is their highest point of profitability. That's what a logistics company DOES -- literally, its purpose is to offer the most efficient transport possible and pass those savings along to its customers. The human drivers are all going to be gone within five years anyway and I assure you that's already on every shipper's short- and long-term rate sheets. Why would these huge companies waste millions of gallons of fuel / KW of electricity for no reason?
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How many college kids lived off of ramen noodles -- especially in tech -- and went on to do amazing things?
I didn't mention a specific vendor -- you did.
Let me give you a very real use case that we deal with every day -- our facility uses a piece of commercial software with key parts that are single-threaded. It is no longer under active development and there is no expectation that another (multi-threaded) software package that does the same thing will become available any time soon. The faster it runs, the less money production costs because our employees spend more time doing actual work and less time staring at the screen between workflow steps waiting for that single-threaded task to finish. So we source the fastest single-threaded CPUs we can find for these stations. That is very clearly Intel, but I would have no problem using AMD if (ever) their single-threaded performance becomes the best available given our budget. We're not "fan boys" and aren't loyal or tied to any particular vendor, nor do we have a vested interest in seeing a particular vendor fail. We really don't care about anything in this case except getting that part of the job done as quickly as possible.
For running multi-threaded jobs, we use a mix of Threadripper 1950X workstations and some Intel machines (mostly Xeon E5 servers as well as a few newer higher-end Intel workstations). On these jobs, threads are commodities and available thread count rules, so the best machine is the one that isn't running something else at the time. But we are also well served by having a diverse mix of CPUs -- some with tons of slow threads, others with less faster threads. They're just tools.
I have no problem buying / using Intel or AMD, and we have and use both. What has always been and forever will be a fundamental aspect of CPU selection is Know Thy Workload. Just because you are dismissive of a specific type of performance doesn't mean that it's not very important to many other people.
. . . or go out and get a better paying job. There's literally never been a better time to do either. It's a total employee job market right now, especially in technology.
AMD CPUs are better for many reasons anyway.
Yeah, unless you need the best single-threaded performance available.
Quit being a zealot. Use the right tool for the job at hand.
. . . in a free market. Check out BP's and Enron's historic stock prices for proof of this, trued up chronologically with the Horizon spill and the Lay / Skilling shred-fest, respectively. Of course, we bailed out the auto and financial industries and sent future generations the bill, but that's free market intervention.
They haven't done anything new or innovative in decades, and moving to subscriptions is absolutely TERRIBLE for their users -- now you can never buy their bloated software, just rent it, forever. That company seriously needs to die in a fire.
Let's see the actual demographic makeup of their devs. Spoiler: it's overwhelming male and white / Asian / Indian like all other big tech firms. This is just a cheap soundbite to placate the SJW crowd with absolutely no substance behind it, and everyone knows it. Besides, I'm confused: doesn't the H1B program that Microsoft et al abuse exist in practice solely to bring (temporary) immigrants into the country (to work as indentured tech servants and save big corps money)? Their statement here about caring about immigrants is 100% trash -- follow their money.
If they'd missed the deadline, I could see Musk making his engineers stand outside screaming in Japanese at the passing crowd "these are ribbons of SHAME!"
C'mon folks, us cavemen used to have to code this stuff ourselves back when the earth was still cooling. Remember Microsoft's Terraserver? Back then you could write your own front-end for it (well, you had to if you didn't want to consume the data thru Microsoft's site as there was no API). We'd calculate distance between points using Great Circle Distance with the Mean Earth Radius (6371 km) as r in the formula, which gives you pretty good results and is my guess as to what Google's using to calculate this stuff.
Even before ransomware, it was always cheapest just to make and keep good backups and then when (not if) something happend on your network, you simply nuke the affected nodes to bare metal, reinstall, and restore. Seriously, fuck these guys.
We tried my way and it worked. We tried your way and it didn't. The logical thing is to go back to my way.
Too bad you're such a smug prick like so many other know-it-all liberals. Otherwise, people might actually listen to you!
I would say, "be careful what you wish for." Because odds are he would have a lot less friction with the Republicans in Congress and be able to get a lot more traditional Republican agenda-type stuff done. I do think Trump is done after this term anyway -- not because he gets impeached, but because he doesn't really want the job (he just wanted to win the election, but is now learning that the job itself is miserable, at least compared to what he's used to) and won't run for re-election. So my guess is that Pence will be the likely Republican candidate for POTUS in 2020. It will be interesting to say the least.
I'm no Trump fan, but how is this "winning"? Let's say, for the sake of argument, he ends of getting impeached (incredibly unlikely even for him, given how historically difficult it is to actually make that happen) -- we all would end up with President Pence. Is that what you really want?
The "March for our Lives" gun control march has been kept at the top of the news BY THE MEDIA for the last 30+ days. Do you think a national pro-life (anti-abortion) march would gain the same favorable coverage? Hell no . . . the only coverage it would get would be of its pink hat-wearing counter-protesters.
Such arrogance. And you wonder why Hillary and the Democrats lost and continue to hemorrhage governships and House and Senate seats nationwide. Does your tribe ever do ANYTHING other than blaming everyone else for all the world's problems while acting like smug douchebags?
I've seen this happen on huge college campuses as well. Legions of kids crossing streets while paying zero attention to the potential for oncoming traffic. Usually it's because their face is buried in their phone, but sometimes it's not, and they literally step right off the curb into traffic for seemingly no reason. It might make me sound like an old guy but my generation had a healthy fear of death by car instilled into it (by our parents and guardians) which seems to be sadly lacking these days. It's amazing that more people aren't routinely run down.
And Tom Brady threw for over 100 more yards than Nick Foles but the Philadelphia Eagles ended up with Super Bowl rings last month because -- according to the rules of the game which BOTH TEAMS AGREED TO -- their team won. If you don't like the rules of the game, either don't play, or get them changed -- the process to do that is very clear. Until then, cry me a river.
Correlation is not always causation. E.g., violent crime in the US has also dropped as the rate of gun ownership has gone up over the same time period. Which one is it?
Wrong. And is is just one company's stats. https://medium.com/waymo/waymo...
This incident makes no one a "monster" -- just like CSX and Amtrak aren't "monsters" when a pedestrian gets struck by one of their trains (which is almost universally because someone trespassed onto the right-of-way, or just plain decided to commit suicide by train). You can't bubble wrap the world.
And yet, in most cases now they're orders of magnitude safer than the distracted meatbag texting away on their iPhone. Or the late-night drunk trying to make it home from the bar without getting caught. Yeah, even now I'd probably take my chances with the self-driving cars instead of humanity at the wheel, thanks.
. . . to the existing legal system. So many have speculated what would happen when a self-driving car inevitably killed a 3rd party. Might as well get the process started so the litigation / legislation is resolved quicker and things move ahead . . .
Indeed, this is one (rare) example where the private sector might be able to take some lessons from the Feds, at least in ultra-crowded metro areas. E.g., check out this guide to (and whole website about!) teleworking from the US Federal gov't: https://www.telework.gov/guida...
Why would you assume that the receipt / delivery side can't / won't be automated? Or have a shipment drop? Amazon has already been working on that kind of stuff for years. As the automation of driving results in greater efficiencies, the other parts of the ecosystem will also necessarily evolve to catch up. It's not a matter of if, but when.
Huh? The beancounters care. They will move things towards the greatest efficiency possible at EVERY step of the process, which is their highest point of profitability. That's what a logistics company DOES -- literally, its purpose is to offer the most efficient transport possible and pass those savings along to its customers. The human drivers are all going to be gone within five years anyway and I assure you that's already on every shipper's short- and long-term rate sheets. Why would these huge companies waste millions of gallons of fuel / KW of electricity for no reason?