TomVDB

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by TomVDB 6y ago
The argument against this reason is that Apple used Nvidia GPUs in their MacBooks from 2012 to 2014(?). This was years after the broken GPU time.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
This 1.7 mile walk starts at Intel's HQ, goes past AMD's HQ and stops at Nvidia's HQ: https://goo.gl/maps/DkbETh1V1ucSqtPb7
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> Apple had no reason to part ways with Nvidia for technical reasons (especially considering they went to AMD instead), but did so because of the terrible relationship they built. I'm typing this on a MacBook with an Nvida GPU that
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Apple had a long patent and design mark infringement fight with Samsung all while using Samsung fabs for their SOCs, flash, and LCD panels. Nothing personal, just business.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
AMD bet on APUs more than a decade ago, hoping to grab the market with better GPUs than Intel, and have been offering a better product about as long. But the reality is that vast majority of business desktops and laptop don't need anyt
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> Well, at least for reasonably big integers, it is. Big integer calculations are the bread and butter of GPUs now?
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> 90%+ of the core logic area (stuff that is not i/o, power, memory, or clock distribution) on the GPU are very basic matrix multipliers. >All best possible arithmetic circuits, multipliers, dividers, etc. are public knowledge. C
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by TomVDB 6y ago
RISC-V instructions are either 32 or 16 bits, and the size of the instruction is determined by 2 bits in a fixed place (the LSBs of the instruction word IIRC.) Much easier than x86-64.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
They are probably using A[19] as chip select for one device, A[18] for a different one, etc. So if you read from 0x000c0000, you get a conflict. I wouldn't call it a bug if it's done deliberately to save some gates. :-)
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Last quarter, Nvidia’s datacenter segment exceeded $1B in revenue for the first time, and it’s close to overtaking the gaming segment as largest business segment. Marketing fad or not, it’s not a bad business to be in.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
It may convert your own code, but it can’t convert the CUDA libraries. It also doesn’t help that AMD has stopped supporting ROCm for the current consumer GPUs.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
$25B in cash goes a long way in bridging the gap between now and being back.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> Successful reorgs are done in response to growth, changing markets, and new lines of business. > This is either a desperation or punitive reorg. One could very well characterize the reorganization of IBM in the mid nineties as a des
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> Even a fingerless man could hold up the correct number of digits needed to express the number of times a reorg has solved a problem. I couldn't disagree more. As companies grow/change, existing structures that used to work at
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by TomVDB 6y ago
No, it was in-house custom made for the purpose. Huge PCBs, ~2ft by 2ft.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Many years ago, we had a custom made board with 8 huge Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs (the largest available at the time) to emulate a large SOC. Those FPGAs were something like $20K a piece. We had 10 such boards, good for millions of dollars in ha
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by TomVDB 6y ago
I don’t work for a FAANG, but a SV tech company that’s still pretty big: I find myself surrounded by productive, driven, competent engineers who are all working a breakneck speed when it’s necessary, and taking it a bit easier when it’s not
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by TomVDB 6y ago
How many people are trading Hertz securities for large sums compared to Tesla?
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle You keep on repeating that OPs comment was political or ideological, yet OP didn't mention politics nor religion nor ideology. They simply stated that Banglades
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Yes. But increased immunity is only useful if it reduces transmission rates substantially, measurably. And that requires a very high immunity rate. It’s pointless to pursue an increase in immunity when the transmission rate only reduces by
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by TomVDB 6y ago
You’re saying that maybe CA should have done some middle ground closure since that might have help a little more with increasing immunity. My point is that the goal of increasing immunity is pointless unless it can be raised to a very high
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> ... but any amount of immunity in a population makes transmission of the virus more difficult. That may be true from a pure logical/mathematical point of view, but that doesn't mean it makes a practical difference. Herd immun
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by TomVDB 6y ago
In reality, you’d be very wrong. My wife is not the only one who’s holding on to hers “until Apple releases another one with the same form factor”. (Not that this will happen anytime soon, if ever...)
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by TomVDB 6y ago
That sounds very reasonable. It’s what my kid pays to roommate with other students in Menlo Park.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
I wish I could find back the article that I read, years ago, that demolished the $75k claim of that paper, simply by having a different look at the same numbers.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
I’ve been having mild anxiety about this mission ever since it was announced. Working on manned space flight is not for me. The stakes are just too high.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23284667
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by TomVDB 6y ago
The fact that you had to tell him that punching somebody in the face is bad, is sufficient reason for me to never wanting to deal with that person again.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Check out the original HN topic. It would be one thing if he apologized immediately after people pointed out the flaws in their plan. But he didn’t. He ignored all the objections, and defended his decision over and over again. He clearly
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by TomVDB 6y ago
I've not only heard it, I've been told. "If you relocate from our San Jose office to our Austin office, there will be a compensation adjustment due to COL and prevailing market rate." I don't think that's unrea

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