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by StillBored 1y ago
Checksumming doesn't prevent 'bit rot', it can only detect it, which if your detecting it with modern hardware, its likely because your not using ECC ram somewhere. Every modern harddrive, and most if not all nvme/sata S
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by StillBored 1y ago
I will stick this here to expand on your point. People complain about lack of US manufacturing, and short term thinking and its all heavily tied to a couple fundamental truths about companies in the USA. Corporate raiding and looting is a c
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by StillBored 1y ago
They should be weighing the final cuts rather than trying to quantify the amount of fluid on the plate. Otherwise they are simply failing to account for the amount of water that is evaporating away. And given how much my food steams while c
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by StillBored 1y ago
Because literally the entire rest of the ecosystem is immature demoware. Rather than each vendor buying into opencl+SPIRV and building a robust stack around it, they are all doing their own half baked tech demos hoping to lock up some porti
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by StillBored 1y ago
POSIX threads, used by C/C++ and a lot of other language runtimes is somewhat platform independent and provides for affinity, priority and policy controls. For starters: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3&#
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by StillBored 1y ago
But that stuff tends to be much lower margin, and while this year you might have the best power/price numbers, next year someone figures out their product is even lower power on some newer fab that is slowly lowering its price and now
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by StillBored 1y ago
Its odd all these MBAs and few in the tech space appear to know that when a technology company stops investing in the future they are done. It might take 20+ years for that to happen but it will. Sure, stretch the timeline for the next node
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by StillBored 1y ago
I'm not sure I understand what your trying to say here WRT to cpu microarch optimization with multiple cpu microarches in the machine. Maybe something about SMT/hyperthreading? But that doesn't appear to be what your saying e
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by StillBored 1y ago
Which is just caching/locality asymmetries, knowledge of which has been at least partially integrated into schedulers for a couple decades now. It just goes to show how hard scheduling actually is. But also, you call it a 'massive
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by StillBored 1y ago
Is it? No one has come close to solving the problem of optimizing software for multiple heterogeneous CPU's with differing micro-architectures when the scheduler is 'randomly' placing threads. There are various methods in lin
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by StillBored 1y ago
They have, at least in some places. Where I live (Austin TX) I've been in multiple high schools that have extensive Manual machine shop/3d printing/CNC/Electronics/etc labs for students to use. It might even be at t
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by StillBored 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_panic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_queen Once you get a few of them, the search engines will start pointing out a long list of other moral/etc p
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by StillBored 1y ago
Wayland is architecturally garbage. Not for technical reasons, but social ones. Although social isn't the right word to describe a technology that encourages toolkit/DM/etc fragmentation which in turn breaks core functionalit
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by StillBored 1y ago
Internal inertia is a powerful thing. This was discussed at length on comp.arch in the late 1990's early 2000's by insiders like Andy Glew. When OoO started to dominate intel should have realized the risk, but they continued to ca
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by StillBored 1y ago
What I don't understand is all this MBA training and everyone thinks they can copy the crazy margins that Apple has pulled off while being 12-24 months behind them. Be that matching the ipad's price point with obviously inferior h
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by StillBored 1y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but IIRC Gerstner's time at IBM was 100% financialization. He didn't solve any of IBM's core problems. Outside of the momentary bright spot of "Global Services" the largest impact he
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by StillBored 1y ago
I think there is a common problem with a lot of these ML systems. The answers look perfectly correct to someone who isn't a domain expert. For example, I ask legal questions and it gives me fake case numbers I have no way to know are f
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by StillBored 1y ago
This is what happens when your population isn't mathematically educated enough to be able to figure out how to plan a defined benefit pension, and there are politicians who are actively trying to destroy a social safety net. A bit of p
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by StillBored 2y ago
I came here to comment similarly, the lower pixelated software rendered Quake seems to work well with the textures. They have a bumpmappy fuzzy feel that gets lost with the sharp corners everything is super flat texture mapped and filtered
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by StillBored 2y ago
This was known about HDDVDs a few years back too. I pulled my Harry Potter collection out for my kids and their friends to watch and evntually concluded that every single WB disk was bad, even some that weren't even opened. It was uniq
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by StillBored 2y ago
Except that anyone who has even basic knowledge of history understands that democracies fall to democratically elected leaders. Those leaders tend to share a number of personal attributes, and a style of rhetoric that remains similar with o
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by StillBored 2y ago
Its like a rite of passage to be hit by an environment related bug on linux, which is mysteriously less a problem on other unix's. Which is sorta funny given how pragmatic Linus and the kernel are about fixing POSIX bugs by making them
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by StillBored 2y ago
While heating, That isn't even a particularly efficient unit (EER 9), and not all all unusual for r410 (which is basically banned for new sales in the USA since jan 1st) But it has a 150W pan heater, but I don't think that is its
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by StillBored 2y ago
In areas with moderate outdoor temperatures. Anywhere that the heatpump is going through defrost cycles, that statement is likely false because the COP is likely 1 or less when that starts happening. Then on the generation side, its worse i
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by StillBored 2y ago
Usually heat pumps are installed with a second stage heating. In places with inexpensive gas, or low temperatures that will frequently be a gas furnace rather than resistive coils. Then the calculation is usually to take the electric price
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by StillBored 2y ago
I agree, that is slower than the internet connection at my house, which could just host a few TB of spinning rust attached via USB faster. Before I moved to backblaze I was half seriously lining up a few friends to share a similar setup tha
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by StillBored 2y ago
! So, they have a 72TB tape and drive integrated into something not much larger than a 3.5" disk drive that they are planning to shrink to a 3.5" disk drive enclosure? So basically they just leapfrogged LTO9 without a drive? I mea
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by StillBored 2y ago
How quickly we forget Huawei... QC's fine, but I think the huawei situation shows that QC has probably been getting a little fat/lazy on the modem side for a few years too. Only a real competitor could prove that if true, 2013 int
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by StillBored 2y ago
Sure, there are ACPI bugs, they hit windows too. But to claim there are "works on windows but not linux" bugs everywhere is bogus. If it works in windows, it should work in linux too, that is the point of a platform power interfac
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by StillBored 2y ago
Alibre Atom3d? I too have failed at freecad, and am a fusion360 exile. The old school "purchase your software" lifetime license model and the fact that I've not needed the "advanced 3d modeling" feature of Design pr

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