The problem for Russia is that that’s only good news if someone is willing to take on more debt. But bond sales were suspended in July because nobody was buying them, so there’s no real path to increasing that debt-to-GDP ratio.
Sexbots are a lot easier though, all they have to do is lie there, take it, and tell us what we want to hear. LLMs are already reasonably good at the last bit.
Yeah I was referring to the original nationalist government, and was under the impression that that position was never formally abandoned, even though it has nothing to do with what the people want now. But thanks for adding more detail, there was definitely stuff in there I didn’t know!
Oh absolutely, China is clearly in the wrong here. I’m just saying the history is a lot more complicated than in the contrived XL Texas example from above.
IIRC Taiwan thinks there should only be one China too, except they should be in charge, which slightly complicates matters.
Yeah the buildings are a weird selection. I don’t know most of them and they’re mostly just boring skyscrapers. We’ve got much prettier and well-known buildings in Europe, should have used those.
One of the main advantages of Optane doesn’t easily show in a benchmark: it doesn’t have to do any cleanup. Normal SSD’s cheat all the time by caching writes in DRAM and an SLC portion of the NAND. Usually that works fine and you won’t notice, but if you keep writing then at some point performance will plummet dramatically. Also, the SSD’s need a breather every now and then to rewrite that cached data to it’s final place, during which time performance is also worse.
Optane doesn’t need any of that. You can write to it at max speed 24/7 and it’ll just take it and keep going, at ridiculously low latency. Perfect for handling large non-stop data streams, or workloads that need a guaranteed low latency (both for reading and writing). It’s a real shame the concept failed, the tech was fantastic.
Guild Wars 2 is also fairly fast to level, and you can join PvP immediately as everyone is set to max level for that.
Good blog. You touch on this point in the blog but IMHO it should be one of your main talking points.
Yeah that’s completely normal, looks absolutely fine to me. For more info on how linux uses memory I suggest reading https://www.linuxatemyram.com/
To add: that link suggests looking if your swap usage is changing. Linux is quite happy to stuff some memory that isn’t actually used in swap. If it was right about it not being used you should see the swap usage not changing much, so your SSD isn’t really being used either apart from the initial swap-out. If your swap usage keeps fluctuating wildly there is more going on which might warrant further investigation.