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by Const-me 2y ago
> firehouse of money from search It’s not just search. They make such vast amounts of money because they hold a monopoly across several layers of the stack: web browsers (65% market share on desktop, 67% market share on mobile), internet
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by Const-me 2y ago
Last time I did embedded Linux software professionally I had ARM Mali Midgard GPU in the target chip, and consumed GLES 3.1 GPU API.
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by Const-me 2y ago
I don’t like missing 3D GPU drivers, and missing .NET runtime. If it had these two things I would try OpenBSD for embedded use cases, instead of Debian or Alpine Linux. Linux GPU story is not stellar but for embedded applications it’s not t
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by Const-me 2y ago
I think the amount of mental overhead with base 2 coins is still less than with the proposed [ 1, 3, 11, 37 ] solution.
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by Const-me 2y ago
In ideal world, I would prefer coins to be powers of 2. It requires 7 coins in [ 1 .. 64 ] range to reach 100, but the average of popcnt( 1 .. 99 ) is only 3.19 coins per transaction, way better than 4.1 coins.
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by Const-me 2y ago
> a language that attracts poor development practices I agree, but note there’s another way to frame it: “python can be used by people who aren’t professional software developers”.
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by Const-me 2y ago
Because big tech companies who own these social media platforms have exceptionally deep pockets?
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by Const-me 2y ago
My guess is, because what’s in these current standard libraries and OSes are good enough. Synchronizing multiple CPU cores together is fundamentally slow, there’s no ways around it. They are far apart on the chip, and sometimes even on diff
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by Const-me 2y ago
The integrated GPU of the 5700G uses old architecture from 2017, this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_Vega_series Pretty sure it does not support ROCm. BTW if you just want to play with a local LLM, you ca
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by Const-me 2y ago
> where most profit accrues to a number of powerful corporations, and small manufacturers and creators have no market power You’re describing the status quo with online ads still legal. Amazon has 37.6% share of e-commerce; small manufac
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by Const-me 2y ago
> similar tangible harm caused by lack of regulation on data collection? There’s a spike in teenager suicides, girls in particular. The phenomenon is well researched, it correlates with popularity of social media among teenagers. I belie
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by Const-me 2y ago
I discovered that setting after building a new desktop PC recently. It was disappointing to find the awful keyboard lag introduced by the new OS, as I use MS Office daily. About start menu animations, I actually prefer the UX without them.
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by Const-me 2y ago
> Seems like it can't be disabled any more? Try that checkbox: https://www.howtogeek.com/742678/how-to-turn-off-animations-...
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by Const-me 2y ago
Because modern world is full of computers with slow mobile CPUs and high-resolution high refresh rate displays. On such computers you need a 3D GPU to render anything, even a scrolling text, at the refresh rate of the display. A 3D GPU is a
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by Const-me 2y ago
> thanks to modern hardware, very little performance penalty I would not call 1 order of magnitude performance penalty for accessing a local file system “little”: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/419
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by Const-me 2y ago
I would add that on modern WinNT, Direct3D is an essential part of the kernel, see dxgkrnl.sys. This means D3D11 is guaranteed to be available. This is true even without any GPU, Windows comes with a software fallback called WARP. This allo
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by Const-me 2y ago
For old-school software developers 4*8 is easy because both numbers are powers of 2. I compute expressions like that as 2 ^ ( log2(4) + log2(8) ) = 2^(2+3) = 2^5
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by Const-me 2y ago
It seems the demos are just broken. I'm getting this error: WebGPU error [frame][validation]: Fill size (7160950) is not a multiple of 4 bytes. - While encoding [CommandEncoder "main-frame-cmd-buffer"].ClearBuffer([Buffer &qu
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by Const-me 2y ago
> Arm32 has been discontinued .NET 9.0 preview still includes ARMv7 builds for Linux: one based on glibc library, another one for Alpine.
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by Const-me 2y ago
I also frequent some Russian forums. I have an impression that on average, Russians don’t blame Putin for starting the war against Ukraine. They hate him for being unable to win the war he started. They don’t seem to oppose crimes committed
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by Const-me 2y ago
> The one I notice the most is the filesystem I’m not sure it’s the file system per se, I believe the main reason is the security model. NT kernel has rather sophisticated security. The securable objects have security descriptors with ma
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by Const-me 2y ago
It's much easier to work with source code where most things, including low-level details, have good names. You only write code once, but if the software is long-lived, different people will read that code for years to come, doing suppo
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by Const-me 2y ago
I ported inference of couple open-source models from Torch/Python/CUDA into D3D11 compute shaders which runs on all 3D GPUs not just on nVidia. Whisper was the first, but I can’t say I’m happy because too much complicated C++ htt
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by Const-me 2y ago
> There is no good reason to use big-endian serialization For this particular use case of variable length integers, I think there are very good reasons. Easier to debug because the encoding doesn’t change bytes. You encode 0x01FF45 and y
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by Const-me 2y ago
The encoding proposed by that blog post matches the encoding used in MKV container, see section #4 “Variable-Size Integer” in that specification: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8794.html All modern CPUs have instruc
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by Const-me 2y ago
> if AMD used the same 33w, nobody would buy their chips because performance would be so incredibly bad I’m writing this comment on HP ProBook 445 G8 laptop. I believe I bought it in early 2022, so it's a relatively old model. The l
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by Const-me 2y ago
Android mobile devices aren't that bad. I'm using an android phone without a Google account for a few years now, works pretty good for me. I have multiple non-google app stores (one of them, Samsung, came pre-installed), using a t
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by Const-me 2y ago
Personally I don’t want maximum performance. I want maximum reliability, and minimum amount of time spent configuring the hardware. If I were assembling a new computer tomorrow, I would probably get the 65W Ryzen 7 9700X with two 5600MT&#x2
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by Const-me 2y ago
Thanks, corrected the typo
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by Const-me 2y ago
Here’s a summary. Ryzen 5 9600X: 6 Zen 5 cores, 32 MB L3 cache, 65W TDP, available Aug 8 Ryzen 7 9700X: 8 Zen 5 cores, 32 MB L3 cache, 65W TDP, available Aug 8 Ryzen 9 9900X: 12 Zen 5 cores, 64 MB L3 cache, 120W TDP, available Aug 15 Ryzen

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