I found my research field in undergrad ( that lead to grad research ) from going to university talks. To apply it to this situation, once you are in an EE program get the events list for multiple departments and try going to every talk scheduled. Talk to your teaching assistants ask them what they are doing and to tell you about events.
I did wander somewhat but every major to topic I started on I finished. I see another comment recommending a physics program and that is true. I did my undergrad in this, went to talks for physics, CE, CS and EE. The topic I choose was the one I found myself staying up to 3am for just one more experiment run. Once that kept happening it's a good signal you can keep after something and contribute to advancing research.
Isn't this new server CPU a drop in replacement though? So the DC could pull off the old CPU, drop in the new one and not touch the existing RAM setup, yet be able to deliver better performance within the limits of the existing RAM. Then once RAM prices drop (okay that might be a while) separately upgrade the RAM at a different time.
That's semi-dependent on supplier arrangements; i.e. lots of shops won't want to upgrade CPUs on a server out of fear that they can't get support later; sometimes that's justified by contract, sometimes it's not.
The undersea cables actually connecting the entire internet. Sometimes sharks just take a bite of them, they're reasonable well protected but it's enough damage to cause outages and disruptions.
It's the single pin under everything because there are a limited number of those cables especially in some regions so a single shark can take out the entire internet for some countries.
Conceptually, it's the difference between your wifi versus running a single fiber to each room in your house. The difference in bandwidth is multiple orders of magnitude.
This is never going to change because from a physical perspective free radio is a shared medium while each individual fiber (or wire) has its own private bandwidth.
Only a little bit. Just clicking around, a new Hawaii cable is supposed to have 24 Fiber Pairs and 18Tbit per Fiber Pair at the end of this year. If you lose several tbits of bandwidth, you're going to have a hard time making it up with satellite.
For small island countries and such, satellite capacity may be sufficient; and it is likely helpful for keeping international calling alive even if it's not sufficient for international data. But when you drop capacity by a factor of 1000, it's going to be super messy.
No. They're not setup to be a principal route between two nations and most satellite networks until very recently didn't even route messages through other satellites but instead retransmitted them to a ground station with access to hardline internet. Even Starlink mostly does this still because it's way cheaper and easier.
You can see an unofficial tracker [0] of the Starlink downlink network and see how outside of some rural areas your data is only moving a few tens of miles away most of the time before it's sent down to a ground system. Their sats have 3 200 Gbps laser communicators for intra constellation routing which is pretty small for the task of replacing fiber optic links.
I feel like having them as a single brick is a bit hyperbolic, since undersea cables are pretty redundant in most of the world. Get rid of one and traffic just routes around it. Ships have been routinely destroying cables in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea in the past couple of years without causing significant disruptions.
"most of the world" is doing a seriously large amount of heavy lifting in this sentence.
There are many regions that are served by a single line, more than you think.
Even "well connected" places have fewer cables than you expect, and the frustrating thing is that you don't know that you can route around an issue until you try.
BGP is really resilient, which is great, but if your path is not clear then you'll only realise it when the failover doesn't happen, you'll think there's a redundant path.
Only mildly. There's not huge amounts of dark capacity just sitting around waiting to take over so if a major fiber connection goes down the remainder will get congested with the extra capacity. It won't cascade like a power outage but the remaining lines will slow down.
The whole Internet was designed for precisely this use case. If there is an outage, the distributed system will try to find another path. No actual central point of failure. As you say, the single brick is hyperbolic. But yea, those sharks can certainly be disruptive at times.
Well that depends on how much traffic that cable was supporting, how much free capacity is available on other cables heading to the same area, how much additional latency the rerouting will add and how sensitive to latency the rerouted traffic is doesn't it?
Hey you can always tell yourself to take it easy because in 6 months the AI will get better and you could build the whole thing that's preventing you from sleep, in 30 minutes in the future. Unless you are worrying about the progress towards AGI.
I appreciate the lifetime thinking this little website provides. It's beautiful to look at and conveys a message worth repeating. Your quality of life especially at the end of it is a cumulative reflection of yourself and what you have done in the past.
I had to copy and paste your URL, I'm not sure why I couldn't click your title. It was a fun and informative little game though! I did go into it thinking I would be making artificial vanilla flavors though.
I like the idea, but it needs more users working away cooking recipes. I was looking for 'foundation recipes', i.e. the original seed recipe used to inspire all the others. For instance the original fried rice. I could just contribute my mods then instead of starting a totally new recipe. For instance lately I'm making saag paneer with 1/2 beet greens. I could start with saag and then mod it to be the beet greens.
I don't have a solution, but I see a problem with this solution that a bot could just start upvoting and building its own following anyways. As a long time lurker, I think encouraging the quiet humans to speak up might help improve the quality of the site. I've only started trying to actively speak up here because I want to help contribute to the human voice on the internet. Plus I lost my job and have more free time for caring about those kinds of things now.
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