its pretty clear negligence to not have learned everything possible from the ukranian forces at all levels.
the US has learned this same lesson many times though, with people of all stripes posting their workouts running back and forth on aircraft carriers on strava. same with their patrol routes around bases
Learning probably hasn’t taken place because I think there is a disrespect on the part of the US forces towards the Ukraine and that probably was true in Vietnam and Afghanistan…
Exterior has frequently been Pininfarina w/ a distinct design language...changing it up wholesale would necessarily result in something quite different
It's definitely giving spam numbers as "official support lines" of companies like JetBlue and Delta. I think the spammers flood review sites w/ those numbers and the bot scrapes the reviews.
Author spent a ton of time writing this up "for fun"...but glad people are still doing this and old school blogs. The effort required seems substantial...
Not sure about the AI style transfer images... sure it's a valid way to get the illustrations you want but I don't have to like it...
If you want a workstation, you are probably better off building it yourself, or having your local computer store do it. The primary exceptions are AMD strix halos or the nvidia dgx spark.
I haven’t seen a non-laughable workstation config from the big vendors since the dot com bubble. Presumably they exist, I guess?
DISCLAIMER: Only speaking for myself, not employers or affiliates.
I've been pretty darn happy with the Puget Systems custom workstation I ordered last year before the memory craze started (especially since it has 192GiB of DDR5).
I also ordered another family member a custom "Tiki" system from Falcon Northwest and that has also been quite excellent from what I've seen and they've told me.
Now is obviously not the most economical time to order a new system, but when it is appropriate (and for what it's worth) I think those are two great system builders.
I wouldn’t count them as a big vendor, but I’ve only heard good things. Local shops around here charge like $99 to put a machine together, install an OS and run burn in testing. You get more choice than an outfit like puget, but less carefully tested part / cooling selection, etc.
The last I checked, the really big players tended to add value add gimmicks (water cooling is a common one, custom psu form factors are another) with reliability / compatibility issues. That’s the tier to avoid, not the Puget systems of the world.
I picked both Puget Systems and Falcon Northwest because for the most part, both focus on pre-tested off-the-shelf parts with good reliability data from their own servicing.
My Puget Systems workstation for example has a simple AIO for cooling with some Noctua fans and a Fractal Design 7 XL full tower case.
The Tiki system I ordered for a family member from Falcon Northwest does have a custom case, but almost everything else is fairly standard inside. The super small form factor was important to them.
Could I have built either of these systems myself? Absolutely -- I've done that for at least prior 20 years or so, and I've built dozens for employers, but it sure was nice to buy one that just worked this time instead of having to having to fiddle with memory sticks or find exactly the right bios settings for stability, etc.
I'm well aware of the premium I paid but I can honestly say it has been incredibly nice to have a workstation that just works without having to fiddle with bios updates or hardware. I also don't really have the time to spare so I was entirely willing to trade funds for time.
Non-standard parts are not about value-adding, they're about cost-cutting if you're feeling charitable, and about forcing vendor lock-in if you're not.
It is too inefficient to design a machine which _might_ have two GPU and a flock of additional drives installed into it. It just makes sense to instead design around having independent hardware in its own case, which can meet its own power/cooling needs. This has been a design goal since the trashcan Mac.
Having a PCIe bus increases bandwidth and reduces latency, but once you account for eGPU and for people who would be happy building custom solutions on platforms other than macOS, there's likely not enough identified market for a modular design.
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