TomVDB

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by TomVDB 6y ago
The Internet craves a good dumpster fire every once in a while, with truly evil company actions, tone deaf non-apology apology CEOs, and a certain future collapse. Thanks for the entertainment!
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by TomVDB 6y ago
With a static undersampled ray tracing image, the only thing you're doing is hallucinating extra pixels out of nothing but the surrounding pixels that you already have of the same frame. With DLSS, it's more a matter of creatively
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by TomVDB 6y ago
DLSS is for anti-aliasing and sharpening, not for denoising. And the technique is different than fixed frame ray tracing denoising because DLSS makes use of multiple frames and motion vectors.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Why don’t you have a quick look at the map that they show, and observe that it’s not Manhattan VS Queens or Brooklyn. It’s some specific regions of Manhattan that are know to have some of the priciest residential real estate. The title is n
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> But I hate fanboyism. "The only excuse I can see to this attitude is greed" sounds pretty fanboyish to me. :-) I've never understood why Microsoft, or Adobe, or Autodesk, or Synopsys, or Cadence or any other pure softwar
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by TomVDB 6y ago
ATI came out with CTM, which was just an assembler. CUDA was released a month or so after that. It was a full C compiler and already had a pretty large set of examples and library functions. I downloaded CUDA about the day it was released,
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by TomVDB 6y ago
I have everything you list above, and I'm not swayed. I still looking forward to going back to normal. I've never been the social butterfly who sees tons of friends on a regular basis out of work, and yet I enjoy talking to others
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by TomVDB 6y ago
For me, an expat is somebody who temporarily works abroad for, say, 2 or 3 years, with company housing allowance, expat COLA allowance etc. In the US, this is often reflected by their L1 visa. An immigrant is somebody who moves to a differe
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by TomVDB 6y ago
The only thing that comes close to a left wing part of the Republican Party is Sue Collins, who is always very sorry and disappointed but eventually toes the party line.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> but ended up compromising with Republicans for some absurd reason as he held both the house and senate My memory is a bit fuzzy on this, but didn't he also have to compromise with the (relatively) right-leaning wing of the Democra
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by TomVDB 6y ago
As far as I can see, the article has no links at all to the actual product? Adding some might help with goal nr 5. :-)
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Right. Because they happen to use the same chip. But if you’re using the current consumer product line, it’s hit or miss.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
ROCm is only officially supported on AMD Instinct GPUs. For others, it’s a best effort thing only: “ AMD ROCm is validated for GPU compute hardware such as AMD Radeon Instinct GPUs. Other AMD cards may work, however, they are not officially
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The only difference in power consumption is in the reduced toggling of the IO pins and the reduced effort of the CPU (but that's assuming the CPU will downclock or downvolt automatically, which is unlikely for a microcontroller.) In an
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Like the story about the SR-71 Blackbird asking for a speed check, I will never not read the FOOF article again when somebody posts the link. ( https://tribunist.com/technology/sr-71-blackbird-pilot-troll... )
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by TomVDB 7y ago
When you're driving: it can't possibly be more dangerous than the Audi system. When you're not driving: irrelevant Conclusion: CarPlay is better than the Audi system.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Audi may be doing some things right (I love the location of the audio volume knob), it doesn't compensate for that ridiculous touch pad which you're supposed to use to enter street names by writing the characters one by one with y
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by TomVDB 7y ago
One of the key points of the paper is about how OpenCL makes it easier to implement things for an FPGA. Using Verilog/VHDL is about an order of magnitude more work, which would probably completely disqualify using the FPGA for a projec
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by TomVDB 7y ago
They are comparing a lower end $200 GPU from early 2014 against a higher end $5000 FPGA board from 2016. That doesn’t make everything irrelevant, but it’s definitely a weird to publish a paper about this in 2019.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I know that Intel has major issues with 10nm, but I don’t know exactly what went wrong. Can you educate me? I’m particularly interested in how management sabotaged the ability to get 10nm to work.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
the option price was 20% of the stock price. 20% off the stock price?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
They do this through elimination if the application lacked the usual extracurricular items on an application due to being poor...
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Good point. I didn’t consider the getting injured aspect of it.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I was wondering about the exercising part: do I need to feel guilty about going out for a run or a bike ride (by myself, of course) ?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
To the best of my recollection that was the first major fanboi war in computers, ... Definitely not the first major one! I fondly remember endless back and forth discussions between proponents of the magnificent Commodore 64 and adherents
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by TomVDB 7y ago
A good friend of mine was (and still is) a civil/construction engineer. Other than some introduction courses in college, he had never done any programming before. But after losing his job in 1998, he was hired by a major European consu
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I switched to DDG for my desktop, laptop and phone a few weeks ago. I'm on the fence about switching back: I find myself using g! all the time to get (better) Google results. I want anything related to soccer (national competitions sta
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by TomVDB 7y ago
> RISC-V should ... eat every licensing dollar currently being spent on Xylinx Microblaze or Intel/Altera NIOS-II. So, in the grand scheme of things, about $0? Small Microblaze and Nios-II cores come for free. Their larger versions
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by TomVDB 7y ago
> If true, that’s insane - why does the government only take cares of $1700 and not something like $3000?) Because a government that does healthcare is socialism that that's considered inherently evil by many. And you're right:
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Speaking about ATM: the 48 byte payload was a standardization compromise between Europe and the US. US companies had prototypes using 64 bytes, while European companies used 32 bytes. To avoid anyone giving a competitive advantage, they dec

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