Does anyone remember mongrel2? A neat web server that used zeromq for backend communication (based on scgi). I always felt it had huge potential. It was also kinda famous in the early days of HN, back in the days when RoR was in vogue etc.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=mongrel2

Consumer grade motherboards generally have 20ish pcie lanes, which more or less boils down to 16x gpu and 4x nvme + something for random peripherals. You'd need something like threadripper to do better.

OP was talking about white-collar jobs, not service industry.

Yes, but something like 90% of the workforce is unionized, and 5 weeks vacation per year is by law, with a "sixth week" being a common perk.

It annoys me greatly that the megacorps have all these fancy devtools that we plebs have no hope of touching. One example being Metas Sapling, which afaik is their way of making git-compatible vcs perform decently well at their scale. Sure it is nominally open-source, but the readme has enough notes like "Not yet supported publicly, OSS is buildable for unsupported experimentation." to dissuade any casual users. And afaik the others have their own things, mostly even less public.

https://github.com/facebook/sapling

I appreciate that of such companies Microsoft seems the most dedicated to upstreaming what they can directly into git. Most of those heavy performance features are off-by-default, but they are there to `git config` (or `git maintenance` or `git clone`) yourself.

afaik far bigger factor is that windows file io is just generally much slower than linux. both of these are further exacerbated by av solutions which are ubiquitous in windows. that is why ms introduced "dev drive" in windows few years back which in their own benchmarks showed biggest gain specifically with git: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/06/01/dev-dr...

it's doubly funny because once the tools are released to public i bet majority of those high-res mods will be ai generated.

For slightly less dinky option rtl838x/rtl839x based switches are quite common and relatively cheap. What makes them special is that they are well supported by openwrt

https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/targets/realtek

> there has been a 25GbaseT spec for 10 years that no one has bothered to manufacture

because dealing with fiber is easier than cat8 copper. unless you want poe there is very little reason to use base-t.

I think the larger point is that dumping baseband and going with OFDM/etc over wider spectrum allows those cat5e runs that are rolling off at 600Mhz (or whatever) and the super clean cat8/whatever to coexist with bad cables, bad termination, etc. The spec could easily be built for say 50Gbit, and fall back to 2.5Gbit/etc on 200M chicken wire runs.

Then the argument about "but we have to pull more cable to guarantee those speeds" or "It consumes to much power" all go away, and instead the analog side gets a bit more complex, but given the $100+ phy's in 10GbaseT the argument that it drives cost is bogus when triband Wifi7 USB nic's are $30.

but why bother? basic fiber is dirt-cheap and optics are not that expensive either.

POE and existing wiring, and terminating copper on the lower end is dead simple for the kinds of people who wire houses, being able to run on cat3 phone cable would be even more of a bonus. There is a market for attaching APs, security cameras, and a load of other stuff on copper.

I saw a comment by the author that they did it as 9 scans with Reality Capture which presumably then were combined with some post-processing.

Mujoco is also key part of nvidias Newton physics system

https://github.com/newton-physics/newton