[–] 2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

What are the interesting kernel features?

I see zfs mentioned and custom optimisation flags, but those seem pretty easy to do in nixpkgs. I didn't look at the patches.

I guess the binary cache is nice if you want that specific kernel config.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago* (2 children)

    I'm not that familiar with the details of what's going on in this industry, and this post is probably the most I've read about the actual mechanics of it.

    What I don't understand is how it makes sense to build so much compute capacity so quickly. There seem to be predictions saying that we'll need vastly more DCs and electricity running compute in the future, but isn't that the same as:

    I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10 000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them

    Or possibly like when GPU bitcoin mining peaked, but now with orders of magnitude more money behind it?

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