TomVDB

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by TomVDB 7y ago
What about software that comes with a license key dongle? Now you're buying hardware as well. :-) > Also, as you seem to acknowledge, when you purchase software, you are technically acquiring a license. That's really just seman
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Let’s take this way of thinking to the field of software, where every additional license sold has essentially zero cost. Are software companies allowed to charge a price for their free-to-produce products at all? If they are, how would you
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by TomVDB 7y ago
FYI: the age of consent in California is 18.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I’ve been using mine for sleep tracking for years? My routine is to charge my Apple Watch when I come back from work and put it back on before I go to sleep. Or is there some other sleep related feature that requires a sensor other than HR
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by TomVDB 7y ago
How many AMD CPU configurations exist? Does a minimal effort require regression testing all of them? On how many benchmarks? How do you know that there aren’t untested potholes in AMD CPUs that you may not be aware of? In the end, the resul
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by TomVDB 7y ago
And then, after said minimal amount of effort, it turns out that the patch actually hurts performance on some AMD CPUs, and people bring out pitchforks for Intel intentionally slowing down AMD? It seems to me that the current approach is th
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The RISC-V compressed instructions are more a shorthand for some commonly used 32-bit instructions than a 16-bit ISA that stands on its own: the compressed instructions lack a number of essential operations that make it impractical to only
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Number of transistors/$ is about to reach a plateau soon (if it hasn’t already.) More powerful GPUs will happen as Moore’s Law continues for a few more years, but the free for all will soon be over. This is true for the whole semicondu
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Yes, as a replacement for their internal proprietary logic controllers which operate in the periphery. That has nothing to do with the RISC-V ISA being the right choice for core functionality like shader cores.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I don’t know the healthcare situation in all European countries, and it’s inevitable that some countries will have less coverage than others. But when one uses a country with a population of a bit more than 1 million as an example of how it
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I don’t think there is any significant money in VR today in terms of revenue. As for crypto and AI: I don’t think anyone saw that coming, but it was a safe bet that, one day, a technology would emerge that could use this kind of calculation
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by TomVDB 7y ago
> Very conservative corporate customers could wait a short time for good BIOS corrections ... That sentence above is a contradiction in terms. A conservative corporate customers spends many months to do evaluations. There is no such thin
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by TomVDB 7y ago
As other have already noted: those hundreds or thousands per CPU are often just a blip on the radar compared to other costs. Your comments in this discussion are very small scale, retail oriented.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
What if Google did not include that very old legacy code during their evaluation process? And exactly what kind of risk are you taking about? If switching is as easy as you claim it is, you can still do so next year or the year after.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
> That shouldn't be a problem. They are both fundamentally the same architecture (amd64) and any CPU-specific features are already opportunistically handled by the vast majority of software because otherwise you wouldn't be abl
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by TomVDB 7y ago
They could modify and fork it, but they would also have to release the source code of their full project. That makes it a no-go for regular commercial projects. At least, that's my interpretation: it's always a struggle to apply s
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by TomVDB 7y ago
For the South Bay, the top 5% household income is apparently $523k. But this dumb website doesn’t even allow entering a household income that’s higher than $400k. So if you think 1% or 5% is the threshold for being rich, then nobody who fil
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I had forgotten about my Spanish course at the local community college. During finals of Spanish 103, we had to make some small conversation. Some students couldn’t string 4 words together. At the end of the test, the teacher says “you all
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by TomVDB 7y ago
My daughter decided to defer going to ‘real’ college for a year to figure out what she wanted to do: why spend all the money when you haven’t figured out things anyway? She enrolled at a highly rated local community college and signed up fo
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Check out K40 laser cutters on eBay. There are bottom of the barrel, pretty terrible, and often outright dangerous. But typically go for less than $400.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
The INRIA paper was indeed my reference. It seems like a huge mistake if they missed key optimizations, but I'm happy to take your word for it. Are there write-ups that go in detail about these mistakes? It's the kind of somebody-
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by TomVDB 7y ago
For the same number of bits, posits are quite a bit more expensive to implement in terms of area than traditional floats.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
It’s simply cheaper to buy equipment yourself. A 40W laser cutter costs $300. AD 3D printer costs $300. An oscilloscope cost $500. A crappy CNC is not much more. Hot air rework station is $60. PCBs can be ordered in China for $10. I buy the
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Resurrecting a Corrosion Damaged Dead MacBook Pro(ripitapart.com)
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by TomVDB 7y ago
I’ve been thinking of getting us one of those for the past 15 years! Maybe tomorrow will be the day...
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by TomVDB 7y ago
No, it's not. The first incarnation of the MagSafe connector was a bit harder to pull off and just right.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
There were 2 versions of the Magsafe connector. The bulky one on my 2007 MacBook had a much stronger magnet that the thinner one on my 2012 MacBook Pro. People were annoyed when the thinner one got introduced because, indeed, they come off
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by TomVDB 7y ago
On what kind of hardware do you have these kind of projects? Any links?
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by TomVDB 7y ago
It's great for some specific cases, but it's not great if you have fixed costs to pay.
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by TomVDB 7y ago
Let's not go overboard about the 1Mb claim: it's an incredibly inefficient protocol. At best, you'll be able to push 200Kbps through it, and that's for writes. Reads are much slower.

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