TomVDB

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I wouldn't discount the possibility that this was a case of mistaken causation instead of correlation, and some kind of hail Mary pass. "Yahoo isn't doing great work, a lot of people work from home, it must be because they ar
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> Would the landlord prefer a smaller amount to none at all? As was explained a week or so ago by somebody in that business on Reddit: for commercial real estate, many landlords would prefer none at all over a smaller amount, because the
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I’m in the same situation. I find the learning curve for FreeCad to be steep. And once you get the hang of it a little bit, you start running into bugs.
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You say that this is different than a software product, but you don’t explain why. You didn’t buy a GPU, you bought a consumer class GPU promised you the advertised consumer class features. Why do you expect it to give you professional cl
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Why would you be upset by that? By lowering the price for an entry version, customers who otherwise couldn’t afford the full version still get the option to use a feature reduced version. (See how I framed that?)
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So all I need to do is buy a green cloth, and move it around when I take Zoom calls in the bedroom, living room, or the office. Lovely!
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> Nvidia has always been notorious for making people use the "good stuff" (expensive) even though it's not really required. Do you think that these Quadro features materialized out of thin air, or did they require engineer
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> One "CUDA core" is indeed one GPU thread. This is not true, just like a shader core with AMD was not a GPU thread. For example, the 2900 XT had 320 shader cores, but since it used VILW-5 ISA, that corresponds to 64 GPU thread
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Is that it? According to that definition, the first FP32 unit is not a core either... But, again, if you want to blame someone for this terrible, terrible marketing travesty, start with AMD. They started it all... My point was simply been t
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Yes. If you're a computer science fundamentalist like pixelpoet who wants to stick to definition of core as what's AMD and Nvidia call "CU" and "SM", using "threads and warps" instead of "strands
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> The term "core" had a concrete meaning before Nvidia defined it to mean number of FMA units It was AMD/ATI who started doing it. Nvidia followed, and they didn't really have a choice if they wanted to avoid an &quot
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> What's next, calling each bit in a SIMT lane a "core"? No, because that would break the convention they've used since the introduction of the term CUDA core: it's the number of FP32 multiply-accumulate instance
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Cambridge used to be very easy to access from mainland Europe with direct flights by Suckling Airways! Flying low over waves of the North Sea, you were guaranteed to not be bothered by passengers sitting next to you because the noise of tho
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I haven’t seen any of those in 8 years, but I’ll take you at your word... That said: AMD GPUs have also had their share of issues on MacBooks.
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It only makes sense to demand them to give this away for free if you consider them a hardware company and a hardware company only. Look at them as a solutions company and the first question to answer is: why is it fine for companies like Or
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> ... to the point where Apple flat out refuses to source Nvidia parts. I've seen this argument made before. It would be a valid point if Apple stopped using Nvidia GPUs in 2008 (they did), and then never used them again. And yet, 4
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Softbank acquired 4.9% of Nvidia for $4B in May 2017. They sold it in February 2019 for $3.6B (according to this https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/06/softbank-vision-fund-sells-n... ). Another hilarious example of
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Mortgage rates in the US are much higher (though still low by historical standards) than in Europe. You can get a pretty decent house in the Bay Area for $1M in areas like East and South San Jose.
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Under these exact circumstances, it took my now-wife about 4.5 years when she was still single.
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I count the yearly issued grants. Whether that's the right way to do it is a matter of perspective but at least it's a number that doesn't constantly change. And with tech stock prices doing what they do, it's been very
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With 20% downpayment, a $30 year 800K mortgage at 3.75% is $3700/month. That's $44K per year. Not impossible on $150k yearly compensation. And even easier if the family is dual-income on top of that.
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Denouncing is there to prevent multiple detection where there is only one. In general, you can make a denouncer with zero latency: the receiver still triggers on the first logic change for idle to active, but then gates any further changes
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13 years after Apple introduced their groundbreaking trackpads, I still haven't seen a worthy alternative. It's the single most important reason for me to stay with a MacBook.
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Neither AMD nor Nvidia are using deferred rendering.
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Past Wednesday, while Skyping with my parents in Europe, I told them that this year's Bay Area summer had been unusually mild so far. 2 days later and we had the start of a record breaking heat wave.
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All the remaining advantages that are mentioned in the article: cost, weight reduction -> increased autonomy, better handling and driving comfort.
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Partying in college is totally a new phenomenon!
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There’s a steady ~2 year cadence at which new GPU families are introduced. The 10 series was nothing out of the ordinary. Kepler - Maxwell: 28 months Maxwell - Pascal: 20 months Pascal - Turing: 25 months Turing - Ampere: ?, but rumors have
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I don’t understand your point that Nvidia (or ATI) would have gone under if it weren’t for deep learning or crypto. Crypto on GPU was only a relatively short lived flash in the pan, and deep learning has only been a meaningful revenue gener
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Whatever the reason may be, the fact that Apple used Nvidia GPUs until 2015 at least debunks the endlessly repeated theory that it was because of the broken GPUs of 2008.

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