BearOso

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by BearOso 6mo ago
Probably because with USB 3.2 2x2 they were reviewing too many longer cables that didn't meet the requirements, so they lowered the length so companies didn't submit them only to fail to get certified. It's worth noting that
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by BearOso 6mo ago
The cable length is only for the spec. You can get longer cables that achieve the higher bandwidth, they're just not certified for that.
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by BearOso 6mo ago
It's mostly explained if you go to the project page. For me, the I would say the hardest thing about something like this is gleaning the Microsoft driver APIs. In the 9x days, Microsoft documentation was not quite thorough and difficul
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by BearOso 6mo ago
This was using an exploit already fixed in a recent version and publicly known. It's worthless on the black market or as a bug bounty.
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by BearOso 6mo ago
> To reduce us to anything less is to deny the awesomeness of the cosmos itself. Teacher: "Photosynthesis makes energy from water, CO2 and light. The mitochondria are the power centers of the cell." Grade-schooler: "How do
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by BearOso 6mo ago
It's also crazy more expensive to run than we thought. That doesn't bode well when their loss-leader period is over and they need to start making money.
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by BearOso 7mo ago
The commit I linked shows that it didn't even read the user name and email from git's config file, but used a test name, which means it's woefully incomplete. Then there's stuff like this: https://github.com&#
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by BearOso 7mo ago
You have to maintain a completely separate implementation of AI generated code that's translated from C, so not even idiomatic zig. Edit And then I go their repository and read commits like this https://github.com/h
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by BearOso 7mo ago
They mention Anthropic, so I assumed something similar. At $5 per 5 million tokens, 13 billion would cost $65,000. However, the image in the article shows over 17 billion used, which is $85,000. That's an entry-level programmer's
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by BearOso 7mo ago
This is effectively what fossilize for steam can do. It records the shaders and structures at an intermediate level, then rebuilds them for the specific hardware. It also does distribution, so you always have ridiculously low shader compile
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by BearOso 7mo ago
It was SimCity Classic.
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by BearOso 7mo ago
That first bullet is a bit sketchy. Benchmarks, particularly geekbench, may have increased 6x, but that's being manipulated. The GPUs have become much larger, so 6.8x is believable there, as is the inclusion of a matmul unit boosting A
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by BearOso 7mo ago
At the traditional 96 dpi, you have to be 3 ft away to exceed the retinal density. Personally, I sit at half that distance. Something around 200 would be more ideal. Laptops you might sit even closer. Mobile devices, unless you get really c
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by BearOso 7mo ago
For function-multiversioning, the intrinsic headers in both gcc and clang have logic to take care of selecting targets. You also don't need to do dispatch manually when writing manual optimizations--the same function name with differen
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by BearOso 8mo ago
> Things like the famous fast inverse square root are short, but I would hesitate to describe it as simple. Not the best example. That snippet was in use at SGI for years and actually written by Gary Tarolli. Quake's optimization wa
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by BearOso 8mo ago
It's fairly easy when it's in print like this. When it's handwritten I have trouble just going back to 1900.
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by BearOso 8mo ago
From the beginning, one of the advertising tricks they have used for AI is FOMO. I presume that is so they can sell you as much of it as they can before you realize its flaws. Everybody's so worried about getting in on the ground floor
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by BearOso 8mo ago
Only if you instantiate it once. If you use it like an agent and stick it in a loop and run it until it achieves a specific outcome it's not.
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by BearOso 8mo ago
Did you pay attention in computer science classes? There are problems you can't simply brute-force. You can throw all the computing power you want at them, but they won't terminate before the heat-death of the universe. An LLM can
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by BearOso 8mo ago
Microsoft doesn't seem to care unless you're a company. That's the reason community edition is free. Individual licenses would be pennies to them, and they gain more than that by having a new person making things in their eco
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by BearOso 8mo ago
PulseAudio, when it came out, was utterly broken. It was clearly written by someone with little experience in low-latency audio, and it was as if the only use case was bluetooth music streaming and nothing else. Systemd being from the same
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by BearOso 9mo ago
Thanks for the extra info. I'm glad it hasn't turned out to be much of an issue. I've looked at your repository and it seems to be off to a great start. Personally, I'm anxious to do some bigger rust projects, but I&#x27
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by BearOso 9mo ago
If Rust has one weakness right now, it's bindings to system and hardware libraries. There's a massive barrier in Rust communicating with the outside ecosystem that's written in C. The definitive choice to use Rust and an exis
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by BearOso 9mo ago
Rust becomes a significant burden if you need a GUI or hardware-accelerated graphics.
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by BearOso 9mo ago
HFCS came about when there was an abundance of corn and nothing to do with it. So when they discovered corn syrup they added corn subsidies and heavily tariffed cane sugar. Ethanol appeared and is a far greater corn sink, so HFCS no longer
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by BearOso 9mo ago
My understanding was that the meat-packing process in the US involves a butchering method that results in more fecal matter contamination, posing the risk of salmonella, which necessitates the wash. Those bacteria occur naturally, so you ca
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by BearOso 9mo ago
They, and everyone at the time, were kind of forced to switch to lead-free solder by RoHS. At that point, there probably hadn't yet been tests showing the results of constant thermal cycling, so the brittling effect was unknown. Apple
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by BearOso 10mo ago
This guy is one of the top names in AI. This is pure propaganda written to instill "fear of missing out" and encouraging people to buy into his platform, lest they become "obsolete."
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by BearOso 10mo ago
Programmers aren't good at checking if the name is taken. We've done this particular one before. Phoenix (Firefox) had to change names because of Phoenix Technologies, then again because of the Borland Firebird Database.
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by BearOso 10mo ago
> Front loading That's the problem. Front-loading washers have generally been a terrible invention. Unbalancing and mold are among the widespread problems. The actually reliable washers are still top-load.

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