TomV1971

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by TomV1971 8y ago
I’ve been on the receiving end where hobbyists were trying (and eventually succeeded) to hack our DRM scheme. It was really fun to read the forums and see how, day by day, they managed to get closer. Since it wasn’t really crucial IP to beg
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by TomV1971 8y ago
Reminds me of comfort noise in the telephone system. Even though the system encodes silences noise free (so improve compression), it deliberately inserts noise because otherwise people think the line is dead.
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by TomV1971 8y ago
Here is one of them: https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/cursites/csitinfo.cfm?id=0... Intel graciously paid for trees to brighten up the street and has a nice street sign saying so. (It doesn’t say why they did.) T
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by TomV1971 8y ago
If that were true, why didn’t they do this kind of authentication right from the start? There is little upside in screwing over millions of existing customers.
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by TomV1971 8y ago
Other phone manufacturers aren’t as prolific in updating the low level firmware of their devices once it’s on the market?
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by TomV1971 8y ago
I’ve worked with many LCD panels: while they all support one of a few signaling standards, there is no standard for the cables and connectors. (Or if there is, nobody follows them.) For each LCD panel, you need to make a custom cable. So th
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by TomV1971 8y ago
Yes, but even for your WiFi example, fixes to work with a non-compliant third party are often reactive. In many cases, that’s the only practical way.
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by TomV1971 8y ago
They already IPO’d. :-)
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by TomV1971 9y ago
I assume that there might be technical reasons to do it that way. For example: a soft delete may be just a stronger version of public vs private settings. The whole software infrastructure still assumes a link exists and doesn’t need to cov
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by TomV1971 9y ago
Last time I checked, HIP didn’t support reading from textures. That’s something that’s not only useful for pure graphics. So it is (or was?) not a straight substitute for CUDA.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
Yes, but it means AMD will have to do the original work. They can’t use a CUDA to HIP converter.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
I retried. Still doesn’t work. Looks like I’ll be forced into human to human interaction.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
“We’re sorry but we can’t cancel your account automatically. Please contact support.” Yeah...
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by TomV1971 9y ago
Last month I stayed a weekend at the Salisbury hotel right across Carnegie Hall for $180 per night. Nothing fancy, but a surprisingly big room at a prime location.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
The author mentions that they fired his management before they fired him.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
Thanks for posting this link! I don’t care at all if a photograph from a photographer whom I’ve never heard of is a composite, but today I learned about the location of the moon North Pole, moon libration, and moon roll, and that’s really c
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by TomV1971 9y ago
Tangentially related: the singing Commodore 64 floppy drive. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5gnMgmlKi_o
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by TomV1971 9y ago
That was a very long time ago. Microcode can be loaded by the BIOS.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
There are only so many ways to accelerate a CPU by speculating. I’ve written RTL that speculatively fetches data from memory in order to avoid bubbles in a pipeline. Not a CPU, but the concept is exactly the same. If somebody had assigned m
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by TomV1971 9y ago
I have no stake in this particular race, but I try to see things from both points of views. And I know from experience that what looks ridiculous and petty for an outsider is suddenly much less so when it impacts you personally.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
Exactly. :-) And it’s great progress if people at least realize that they are, or would be in the same situation as that Berkeley neighborhood.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
In the context of a belittleing “Oh, the horror”, it’s perfectly acceptable to argue that he has he right to not be happy about it.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
Yes, I think about it this way as well. In general. Until it happens to impact me personally. I’m not proud of it, but I haven’t seen anyone who doesn’t react the same way. Nobody like to give up good things that they already have (especial
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by TomV1971 9y ago
That’s exactly what we did in our neighborhood: change the zoning to disallow structures with more than one story.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
And then you spend $1M+ on a nice house in a nice quiet neighborhood, and suddenly you start to care. It happened to me, and just like it happens to virtually everybody in the same situation.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
As an outsider, it’s easy to dismiss this. But now think if you happen to live on just that one plot of land in the street, right next to the development, that will now be in the shadow of the new building. Would you be happy about it? I wo
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by TomV1971 9y ago
AMD positions the $1000 Vega FE against the $1200 Titan Xp. The $700 1080 Ti has almost the same performance as the Titan Xp, so why not compare those? It changes conclusions considerably...
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by TomV1971 9y ago
You start by talking about Nvidia’s behavior but nowhere in the article is there any mention of that, so you’re leaving us to guess what you’re talking about.
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by TomV1971 9y ago
Very common. Two times, I accepted the counteroffer and stayed (for a while.) It didn’t have any adverse impact. I’m still at the company of the second counteroffer. My experience is that big companies are typically quite rational about the
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by TomV1971 9y ago
No, they are not. OoO is much more expensive to implement than simply scheduling a different warp to hide latency.

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