lazylizard

the singaporean "singpass" has been an amazing convenience. at this point its like why is any company still asking you to fill in personal particulars on forms? they should ask for access to singpass and you just authorize them.

you apply to or for anything.. and they just give you the option of authorizing via singpass.. and you use your passkey-like singpass app to authorize it... and its done!

you go to hospital and they need your medical records? singpass

you go to university and they need your academic history? singpass

you apply for bank loan? insurance? license? food handling permit? singpass

is there meaning to the ranking? wouldn't how big a city be be a function of its area? how big before it isnt a city anymore?

is manila a city? chongqing?

is thu duc really a separate city from ho chi minh?

where does bangkok end and nonthaburi start?

on the other hand. gdp is ~200 days of work. 1 day is 0.5% gdp. 1 hour (assuming 8hr day) is 0.06% gdp. gdp/capita is nearly us$90k. 1hr of work is >us$5k!

it might be more cost effective to expand public transport to transport every singaporean to where he/she needs to be on time, than to make them wait..

the 50b of revenue that nvidia just booked last quarter. dont they all get deployed on machines that run linux?

is it wrong for a concert to have all the tickets sold via ebay auctions?

hardware always goes faster. software often goes slower.

full circle right? 20yrs ago it was china forcing foreign firms to transfer tech to local jv partners...

saith the "programmer",

but it works on my laptop!?

how did solaris zones get left out of the story?

eels -> 鳗鱼

sharks -> 鲨鱼

but whale also...鲸鱼

one of the funniest foods ever..a vietnamese dude making a fake thai chilli sauce with mexican chillies in usa...

an unserious answer to the question

What kind of people do you think lives in Hong Kong and Taiwan?

the yue?

how about pricing airfares in $/kg*mile ?

the thai pm should read this eh? becoming vietnam is what they should be doing!

i think unraid is a raid4

there's not much market for that apparently..

i cannot understand the urge to compete with the pig or cow or chicken (especially) for meat production. they are so good at turning feed into meat.

why not plant based lobster, crab, sea cucumber or sea urchin or sharks fin or something similar. that is unproductive? or impossible to farm? and perhaps even endangered? something that plant based processes are closer to competing on price.

im not sure when i can play video games and sleep..

https://slurm.schedmd.com/containers.html support for containers sort of exists. singularity is the friendliest.

https://modules.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ re-used libraries are packaged this way usually. not in container images.

there's no abstraction or live mirgation. there's only queues of jobs waiting to get cpu and/or gpu time.

conda

use conda?

example tiny hpc cluster...

100 nodes. 500gb nvme disk per node. maybe 4 gpus per node. 64 cores? all other storage is network. could be nfs, beegfs, lustre.

100s of users that change over time. say 10 go away and 10 new one comes every 6mths. everyone has 50tb of data. tiny amount of code. cpu and/or gpu intensive.

all those users do different things and use different software. they run batch jobs that go for up to a month. and those users are first and foremost scientists. they happen to write python scripts too.

edit: that thing about optimization.. most of the folks who setup hpc clusters turn off hyperthreading.

on a compute node, / is maybe 500gb of nvme. thats all the disk it has.

the users mount their $home over nfs. and get whatever quota we assign. can be 100s of tb.

i actually allow rootless podman to run. but frown at it. its not very hard for a few jobs to use up all that 500gb if everyone is using podman.

i don't care if you run apptainer/singularity though. since it exists entirely within your own $home and doesnt use the local disk.

used to play http://wiki.utopia-game.com/index.php?title=Welcome_to_the_U...

i dont imagine most people can wait 2 weeks for a command to execute...haha

you can also run a proxy on the vps instead of the nat.

why not one of these?

https://www.amazon.sg/NVIDIA-Jetson-Orin-64GB-Developer/dp/B...

is it?

why no draid?

i host mail with spamassassin, a static webpage, and roundcube.. on a single core 32 bit atom with 2gb ram, 500gb seagate sshd, and debian... via a wireguard tunnel to a gcp instance.

in fact i only admin it via ssh. first to the gcp instance, then to the atom inside the wg tunnel.

its not that horrible.