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tybit

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2016-11-07

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  • Yes, but it’s a common misconception that impact is a bad thing.

    The body, including bones, muscles, tendons and joints, adapt to stress. Many people do too little, not too much, as they get older.

    There’s a limit to that recovery of course, and balancing it with stress is not always simple.

  • I also think fsync before acking writes is a better default. That aside, if you were to choose async for batching writes, their default value surprises me. 2 minutes seems like an eternity. Would you not get very good batching for throughout even at something like 2 seconds too? Still not safe, but safer.

  • Yes, the greenest browser is one that doesn’t use AI. They aren’t claiming they’ve built that though, just the greenest AI.

  • It’s interesting that the author chose to use SHA256 hashing for the CPU intensive workload. Given they run on hardware acceleration using AES NI, I wonder how generally applicable it is. Still interesting either way though, especially since there were reports of earlier Graviton (pre v3) instances having mediocre AES NI performance.

  • Yeah, investing in the top companies leads to higher returns for most periods when looking short term.

    Over longer periods, the top companies by market cap tend to change though. https://www.investmentnews.com/equities/only-one-of-the-worl...

    So if you want to invest in the top companies, you either need to think they won’t change anymore, or you need to find when to buy and sell. Index funds solve this problem for you, albeit with slightly lower returns in the short term.

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