DaoVeles

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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Absolutely, some days I could be convinced that people would fight back with me saying "water is wet". When you see those really great things here it does restore some faith in the place but they are getting further apart all the
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
It was the latest console generation that merely doubled the RAM from the previous generation that showed this in action. That plus silly things like Macbooks with 8GB base line for over a decade.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
In a past life (2000's) I was doing some dev stuff on Ps3, trying to figure out so decent uses for Cell's mass of compute and working around RSX's limited memory bandwidth while having the luxury of Blu-ray storage to burn th
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Even in the 90's I recall decompressing ZIP files on a 486 being limited by the HDD speed. It felt like even then we would head towards compressed memory systems once it could be compressed quickly enough.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I forgot were I saw it but it was an analysis of cache to die size and how it has effectively stopped scaling. Larger cache just means larger chips now. It sort of makes sense because SRAM cannot have the same transient nature of a calculat
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Reminded of Kaze Emanuars work on optimising N64 software. ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvSqzfO_LV_QzHdmEj84SQ ) The RAM was so terrible that essentially you try to keep the processors running in cache for as long
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
That is how I generally see it. The technological suite needed to get to that stage is astounding. It is a great indicator of progress and decline, like how the quality of crockery dropped in the roman empire showed how their economics hamp
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Don't hold back, that level of puns is what I live for.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Maybe Vermin Supreme? ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin_Supreme
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I know a couple that lived off grid and made it work for a long while. They only had to give it up in their early 80's after several decades on location. Not a bad way to be. The thing that did them in was failing health and they neede
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Pretty much. There will be a bottom limit on the price of the panels, simply due to the logistics of moving materials, I mean there is a price of salt per ton that is almost entirely this. But everything else around solar such as inverters,
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
There a few people I know who live off grid, they all say the same thing. The longer you are out there the closer to 100% you will be challenged for your stuff. Be it a semi-local crazy, warlord, gypsies or cult few have heard of - they all
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
As with anything, the middle way is probably a better option. Enchantment is good - to a point.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I recommend the youtube channel Posy. He only uploads about once a month but every time it is an exploration of something that seems so simple but it sparks that child like wonder in the world. The good sense of humour helps as well. https
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
It really does feel like this is 'The Great Filter century'. Either we make it through to a Star Trek society, or the gravity of our externalisations catch up with us. While I am more on the side of decline and fall (not absolute
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I do hope that moves like this accelerate RISC V development in a significant way. While there are a lot of RISC V cores in the wild, the top end of performance is not great. Way behind in terms of performance per watt. But the upwards tren
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
They are making up ground in terms of IP even if it is things like Loongsuns LAA64 which is basically just MIPS and RISC V slammed together. China is hungry and their goverment is throwing a lot of investment behind that hunger. https:&#x2
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Welch was an addict (addicted to growth for himself) that made his problems everyone else's problems.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
It has only been 6 years!? It has felt like a bed rock of Linux gaming in almost forever. I cannot tell you the last time I have come across something that doesn't work via Proton. It is one of the many crown jewels of Valve. EDIT - ’F
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I was hoping for something a lot more silly like NASA tapping over the Moon landing tapes. A sort of "We cannot get the old app back because we don't know where it is". Instead it is the usual case of development in search of
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I get where you are coming from. Some times it can look like an endless wave of articles and studies that say "do this" - "Don't do this!". It can be exhausting if you are too focused on it. I do not advocate for a
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I am doing through the book 'How not to Diet' by Michael Greger. Yes, it has an agenda (plant based diets) but I do like how he goes into detail about how various studies try to isolate various effects. The need for either very th
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
> What else would you be able to justify using this platitude? Have you been reading Earthly Ed's books? ;) Yeah, that justification taken to its extremes goes down a VERY dark path.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
This was the argument I had with my wife over getting a cat. Eventually she decided ended up with a stray off the street. But there is always that element of, as Joe Rogan called it, "opening a can of murder" every time you feed t
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
This is why I feel like OpenAI and the public release of ChatGPT has probably done more damage than good. In trying to get ahead of everyone else, they have thrown a lot of great tech under the bus trying to get market dominance. It has mad
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
* Flips table! * I love it!!!
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
It is always wild to see the ways in a business that could have been sustainable for decades can suddenly implode because they get far to ambitious. Alas there is the Japanese saying "A thousand years of good will can be ruined in a si
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
What sparks your flame? Is it viable as income? If so, try that. Sorry I couldn't be more specific. It is odd that we treat time like it is the most worthless thing when it is the most valuable thing we have.
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
Sorry, I am very slow to respond to these things. I will take a Richard Stallman pun/joke, "I am not against the government or the state, and not just because I have a Pro-state gland" groans! ID's are a common thing,
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by DaoVeles 2y ago
I suppose because a large part of these models is recognition-probability, the shine is sort of an approximation of what is likely lighting. It isn't just the lighting that you expect but the culmination of thousands of similar yet sli

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