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Entirely unsurprising - we know Amazon uses their own ARM CPUs internally for large swathes of AWS infra and services.

None of the other cloud providers are using ARM at this scale yet. They’re using Ampere chips, whereas Amazon invested in building their own - it tells you the level of commitment Amazon have here.

My employer is moving workloads to ARM on AWS as it’s much better for price/perf, and our shiny new M1/M2 Macs run the same binaries. We’ve had very little issue doing the shift - Amazon Linux and Debian both support ARM well.

Must be really putting a dent in Intel’s data centre sales though.

dgVoodoo 2 is also a nice tool for this - I've found compatibility can be better, and it also handles 3dfx Glide. http://dege.freeweb.hu/dgVoodoo2/dgVoodoo2/

Bit of a late reply, but thank you for your work on bufferbloat & better queuing and shaping.

It makes such a difference to internet usage!

Unfortunately a lot of twitch streamers get some very unpleasant spam attacks - things like racist chat flooding using bots.

Requiring an account to be verified, or a follower, or in extreme cases a subscriber is the only practical response as twitch moderation tools are practically useless.

If you're on macOS, your choice for a 27" 4K is realistically either the 'looks like 1080p' high DPI mode, or the 'looks like 1440p' high DPI mode. The 'looks like 1080p' mode makes all of the UI elements huge. The 'looks like 1440p' mode makes text slightly fuzzy as it's being downscaled from 5120x2880 to 3840x2160.

It's not terrible, but it's nowhere near as nice as the 27" 5K.

I agree with this a lot - I went through a progression from simple -> full IDEs personally - writing a mix of PHP and JS for the web, along with C# for console apps, some python, and some terraform - I used to use a mix of a generic text editor with syntax highlighting and full MS Visual Studio.

Then it was VS Code, because VS Code gave me basic code completion and debugging which beat the text editor, and was massively faster than full MS Visual Studio. But VS Code's debugging features are buggy at best, PHP is a community supported language only, the .NET support is very easy to get tremendously confused/broken, and Python support for code completion never seems to work for locally installed packages etc.

Now I use the JetBrains suite of IDEs - PHPStorm, Rider, PyCharm do code completion, suggestions, etc on a scale that none of the VS Code community or MS plugins provide. PyCharm has really nice support for dealing with Pipenv. Rider has a NuGet integration. Rider debugging has always worked for me. An official JetBrains plugin provides the single best terraform authoring experience I've used. For me it really is the best solution.

Yes, the JetBrains IDEs are heavier than VS Code, and yes they cost money, but you're not cobbling together a solution from a disparate set of plugins and crossing your fingers. There's actual support.

With web development I find there's a lot of resistance to paying for dev tools - people are used to free. Additionally practically everyone seems to suggest VS Code at entry level to new developers. But once your project is non-trivial, it really isn't that good of an experience, in my opinion.

I do a pool called backup with two raidz vdevs - 7x3T in one raidz vdev, and 9x4T in one raidz vdev. Data is striped on each of the two raidz and I lose one 3T and one 4T's worth of capacity. This allows me to lose any one drive at a given time without data loss, and up to two drives (as long as they come out of separate vdevs).

As far as I could work out from the btrfs documentation, this isn't currently possible? Plus, RAID5/6 in btrfs is still of questionable stability?

Except Apple have a lovely ‘Skip’ button at every step of the process.

If you don’t want to use iCloud you’re not forced to by virtue of being internet connected, and there’s a clear option to not allow your iCloud account to be involved in auth or password resets.