What used to be an abandoned church is now one of the most powerful supercomputing centers in the world

indefinitearticle · 2 months

yup. See also the this museum in Paris that houses computers, satellites, etc. in an old priory. Awesome place.

EquanimousMind · 2 months

For some reason I was turned off by the style of their web page -- especially the stock images of satisfied customers...

dcreemer · 3 months

excellent eye. 2008 650 in yellow of course.

boris4ka · 4 months

No one takes 19th anymore -- it's too crowded.

Gadsden · 4 months

Depends on the application, but you might look into GlusterFS.

flynnfx · 4 months

Wired Autopia recently ran an excellent in-depth article about Ural.

zhemao · 5 months

Ah I see what you are saying now- point taken. I'm going to leave my down-vote for your original comment though, as IMHO you missed an easy chance to teach.

zhemao · 5 months

True, but isn't that the whole point of using a branching factor of 32 rather than two -- a trade of space for time?

Speaking not-theoretically, having a e.g 10-million element vector implemented as a typical linear block of memory means O(1), or one real calculation to find the desired entry. Implemented as a balanced binary tree means O(log n) complexity, but in this case n actually is 10M, so in practice the average lookup cost is about 23 comparisons. With a branching factor of 32, we get an average of 4-5 lookups. Five is certainly more than one, but not necessarily that much.

Anyway, the point is in the OP's statement, the "32" is important in O(log_32 n).

spankr · 5 months

Agreed. Excellent company.

HoneyBadgerAtHeart · 5 months

I've had the Moab (older model) for three+ years. Great jacket, no problems. It been through high heat and intense rain storms with no unexpected issues.

monabona · 8 months

Look, all I did was spend 60 seconds and one search, and found tons of individual doctors in my area listed as taking money from pharma companies. here is an example. I'm not making a political statement one way or another, just saying that individuals are listed.

Edit: spelling

monabona · 8 months

I did a quick search and found many individuals.

LinuxLiberty · 8 months

Don't believe for a moment that there is no profit motive. There are many mandates from school systems and governments that say if you want to sell your products to the school system for example, you must meet various accessibility standards.

I am not for a moment saying that there aren't awesome people at Apple, Microsoft, etc. that want to produce amazing products that are fully accessible. Just that sometimes a society might need to guide for-profit corporations a bit.

edit: clarity

joke-away · 8 months

Happy to hear it - you set a good example.

joke-away · 8 months

Yes, I read the whole thing before posting -- even the comments. My point, perhaps a bit too subtle, is that these DNS entries show his domain uses Google Apps for your domain. Probably also implying that he uses calendar, docs, wiki (sites), etc. because it's so darn convenient. Even if you start by using just email and promise to take backups of the mail (e.g. via IMAP), soon you have hosted calendars, docs, and so on, and the backup gets harder...

joke-away · 8 months

$ dig textfiles.com mx
...
textfiles.com.      3600    IN  MX  30 aspmx4.googlemail.com.
textfiles.com.      3600    IN  MX  30 aspmx5.googlemail.com.
textfiles.com.      3600    IN  MX  40 smtp.easydns.com.
textfiles.com.      3600    IN  MX  10 aspmx.l.google.com.
textfiles.com.      3600    IN  MX  20 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
textfiles.com.      3600    IN  MX  20 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
textfiles.com.      3600    IN  MX  30 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
textfiles.com.      3600    IN  MX  30 aspmx3.googlemail.com.

Whitworth · 9 months

"we are definitely not in the swamp anymore"

dcreemer · 9 months

and back up now -- offline for ~30 minutes

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