In 2001 we started a GSM-operator on Compaq Server (it was before they were bought by HP) with whole 1Gb(!) of RAM and 2x10Gb SCSI disks.
It served up to 70K of subscribers, call center with 30-40 employees, payment systems integration, everything.
Next was 8 socket Intel server. We were never able to saturate it's CPUs - 300 Mhz (or was it 400 ?) bus was a stopper. It served 350-400K of subscribers.
And next: we changed architecture and used 2 servers with 2 socket Intel CPUs again but that was time when Ghz frequencies appeared on market. We dreamed about 4xAMD server. We came to ~1 mln of active subscribers.
Nowadays: every phone has more power than it was those servers.
Typical react application consumes more resources than billing system.
Gigabyte here, gigabyte there - nobody counts them.
I understand motivation for remix of "Let it be" - McCartney was very dissatisfied with "wall of sound" by Spector.
And it's already done.
But "Sgt. Pepper" - I think the only motivation is to try squeeze a little bit more money from fans.
My hope is that sometime in future we will get a remix of Metallica "Justice for All" with bass on it.
But Hetfield already stated that they don't plan to do that:
> "And why would you change that? Why would you change history? Why would you all of a sudden put bass on it? There is bass on it, but why would you remix an album? You can remaster it, yes, but why would you remix something and make it different? It'd be like… I don't know. Not that I'm comparing us to the Mona Lisa, but it's, like, 'Uh, can we make her smile a little better?!' You know?! Why?"
I don't see anything wrong in measuring gallons per mile and measuring in yards and other non-metric systems when it's something local. Maybe it's convinient if you live somewhere where everybody accustomed to that.
It's when I see articles about space exploration with miles and pounds - it feels wrong.
In Soviet Union considerable part was in cooperation. And more in Stalin era then later.
Citing Russian wikipedia:
> By the end of the 1950s, there were more than 114 thousand workshops and other industrial enterprises in its system, where 1.8 million people worked. They produced 5.9 % of the gross industrial output, for example, up to 40 % of all furniture, up to 70 % of all metal utensils, more than a third of upper knitwear, almost all children's toys. The system of commercial cooperation included 100 design bureaus, 22 experimental laboratories and two research institutes.
China is capitalism all the way now.
IDK about North Korea but they don't seems like a "communist country" for me.
"Summa Technologiae" by Stanislaw Lem. It's the book about everything existing, possible and impossible too. For me it gives motivation to learn new, think about something new, try to find limits of what I already know.
"Mathematician's Apology" by G.H.Hardy. IDK why exactly this book (essay?) influenced me. I'm not a mathematician but I certainly found something that touches me.
"ANSI Common Lisp" by Paul Graham. I did not became a lisper because of that but it helped me to came out of my cave. I considered myself an experienced programmer but that was something about "other" programming. I remember the feeling that I had a secret magical weapon in my hands.
"Programming Erlang" by Joe Armstrong. This book is not about Erlang mainly but about ideas and conceptions behind Erlang. Actor model, messaging, "let it fail", "happy path" - all that influenced me a lot.
"Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modelling" by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross. The book about how to make data clean, inambigious and easy to understand.
I used NTFS with linux a year ago. It's read-write and suitable if you need to access files on Windows partition.
It was OK but not great: I used it to share media files between Windows and Linux and soon I noticed that if I'm playing mp3s from NTFS partition a lot of CPU used.
Psychodelics are not something that one will use everyday.
From the list: " psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT) , ibogaine, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) , ketamine, and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)" - I think only MDMA is abusable.
It was absolutely the same in Soviet Union.
I still remember formula from my childhood: 3 empty bottles (10 kopeks each) + 3 kopeks = 1 full bottle of lemonade (33 kopeks).
I think it was a good thing, less glass garbage at least.
> You usually return them at shops that sell them, even if you haven't bought them at this exact shop.
It seems that such things needs some central regulation, they did not survive in pure capitalism