TomVDB

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by TomVDB 4y ago
Researchers have a strong need for cross-platform compatibility? Why waste time porting something to a different platform when the platform of choice already has a ready made script? I’ll admit right away that I know nothing about the subje
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Was surprised to see “Singapore”, expected “Bay Area.” When I left my last rental after buying a house, my elderly white landlord asked me to help him put the property on Craigslist. When I did so and mentioned the Cupertino school district
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by TomVDB 4y ago
One of the big attractions of CUDA is not just the core (programming, API, compiler, development tool) but also the libraries (cuDNN, FFT, cuSignal, … It’s a very long list). These libraries are usually not open source, and can thus not be
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I used to live in NYC in my late twenties/early thirties. I was single, I made very good money, I loved it. For a man, it’s a great place for dating too, with a significant surplus of women. But I also don’t regret moving to the Bay Ar
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I wouldn’t trust FSD at all and there’s no way I’d ever pay for it, but I love autopilot. What are Tesla falsely claiming about autopilot?
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by TomVDB 4y ago
The first challenge is to find those normies. Somebody who directly invested in MBS is by definition not a normie.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Starting with Volta, Nvidia GPUs have forward progress guarantee, preventing lockups when there’s thread divergence. That doesn’t improve the performance of a well behaved and well written compute shader. But avoiding hard hangs IMO deserve
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Nvidia GPUs were 32 threads per warps eight from the start of CUDA with the 8800 GTX. > which I think is a terrible feature <> those are _really_ helpful but expensive Guaranteed forward progress is a direct consequence of having a
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I honestly have no idea what message you’re trying to convey here…
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I don’t know which features you’re talking about, but over the years, CUDA has received quite a bit of features where Nvidia was quite explicit that they were not for performance, but for ease of use. “If you want code to work with 90% perf
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by TomVDB 4y ago
How did you get to the conclusion that anyone thinks they’re entitled to that information? Of course nobody is. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s this information is useful for outsiders, not a disservice. As for wanting leakers to
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Why a disservice? It’s the contrary. Thanks to those kinds of leaks, I had already decided I’d never want to work for that place. When a good friend started working there, he confirmed pretty much everything.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
That’s de facto my situation. After copy-and-pasting the same answers year after year in the self evaluation form, my manager got the message. That was, what, 10 years ago? Now, once per year, we have a 20min meeting, he tells me “good job”
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Performance Summary Cycle. It's a thing where you get performance reviews every 6 months, and where every minute contribution gets scored. Or so I've been told by a former mid-level Facebook manager who quit after a bit more than
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by TomVDB 4y ago
F1, cycling, soccer, NASCAR, cricket, … They all have their fans and their critics who think it’s a boring sport. I don’t follow F1, but based on a bunch of people in my Twitter feed, they finished one of the most exciting seasons in years.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I have clones and I have the real one. The clones are a copy of the Saleae units from 10 years ago. They’re not at all comparable to the current high-end ones. One of the killer features of the current ones is the ability to also record an
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by TomVDB 4y ago
LinkedIn, but as a passive agent, many many years ago. My colleague interviewed and got hired. The hiring manager contacted through all his relevant LinkedIn relations.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
They exist!
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by TomVDB 4y ago
$1.8M is not bad, but the article also brings up a similar case in 2010 where a vase found when cleaning up a house was estimated to be worth $2M but was eventually sold for $83M?!? https://www.spokesman.com/stories/201
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Absolutely not. You’re thinking that Broadcom acts as a company with a technological vision. This is a totally not the case and the CEO is very open about that. Today’s Broadcom is a company that optimizes the financial performance of techn
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by TomVDB 4y ago
After being acquired by Avago, Broadcom ceased to be a single company. It’s a conglomerate of entities/BUs that are explicitly asked to NOT work cooperatively, so that each entity can be sold at moment’s notice if it doesn’t deliver th
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I wish my company were in the same desperate situation as Nvidia. One where we’d be faster than the competition with similar perf/W while using a much inferior silicon process…
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Turing is not the most recent generation of cards. But that aside, Turing is their first generation that a GPU System Processor (GSP) that runs the heavy binary blob that comes with the open source driver.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Yes, it would be very helpful. My instructor encouraged me to buy MS FS, pedals and a yoke.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Frankly, I’m not super surprised? I had a few hours of flight instruction before I dropped out (it just didn’t fascinate me), and what struck me was that you’re doing a landing during the first lesson. As long as the landing strip is long e
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Who knows? I’ve seen cases where a functional block of an SOC got used one generation to the next without even seeing an issue. And then suddenly, due to changing boundary conditions, a bug got triggered. I’ve similarly seen cases where HW
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by TomVDB 4y ago
They are complaining about it… That’s why it’s here on the front page of HN.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
As a HW designer who over the years has deal with many HW bugs, it’s amusing to see how almost everybody is agreeing that it’s a software issue “because it goes away when I restart or when I close this or that application…” As if SW applica
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by TomVDB 4y ago
One thing I love about my company is that most information is not siloed. There are product lines that I have no business known about, but I have access anyway. It’s not only exciting to know what’s cooking in ankthwr group’s kitchen, it’s
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by TomVDB 4y ago
For me, the killer feature of Strava is… veloviewer.com.

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