TomVDB

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by TomVDB 8y ago
Before I accept that as truth, I want to see how things work in countries without sex offender list in term of recidivism. The kind of sexual of behaviors that should end up on the list (because there is no possible way that it could be fix
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by TomVDB 8y ago
My X220, bought for $110 on eBay, came with a horrible TN LCD panel. Cost me around $70(?) to replace it with an IPS panel.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Having to go back 15 years for an example is usually a good predictor of the strength (or better: weakness) of an argument. The numbering has been very logical for more than a decade: you have a product generation, and increasing numbers me
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by TomVDB 8y ago
By naming it 1660 instead of 2050, there is a lot more distance between the RTX/tensor core enabled products and those that are not. So a win?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The Nvidia numbering scheme is still higher is better?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
You could make the same argument for almost any regulation. And we'd all be worse for it.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
You initially explicitly mentioning capitalism as a system where work as a way of providing meaning is a false premise. Do you have any systems in mind where work exists to provide meaning? I have the impression that you are arguing as work
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by TomVDB 8y ago
And yet, when I look around me I see a bunch of older colleagues, some of them older than 65, who rode the same wave from smallish to a pretty big company. Like me, they could afford to not work anymore, but they keep on working anyway. The
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by TomVDB 8y ago
It makes me smile that the janitorial staff at some large hospital can be so satisfied with their job.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
My standard way to think about stuff like that is to extrapolate to infinity: even if your tail wind were infinite and you’d arrive in 0 time, your way back would have infinite headwind and you’d never make it back. Conclusion: increased wi
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Have you by any chance done this? Care to share the results?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I played a couple of hours of some Lego 3D game with game streaming and latency wasn't an issue at all. There are many games out there that don't require twitch reactions. Many years ago, when the Netflix CEO said that they'd
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by TomVDB 8y ago
First of all: I'm not taking sides any way or the other. I was simply annoyed by your straw man ways of making an argument. The one where you claim that OP is being fine with having 1000x more money than this guy, but not 100x less tha
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by TomVDB 8y ago
You're combining numbers that should be used in isolation. In a hypothetical world where the richest are only 10x richer than the other across the world , your $712 vs $62k data comparison simply doesn't exist. Ultimately, my bee
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> ... but it's OK for me to be 1000 times as wealthy as some other people. Can you point me to the place where we write that? Because I certainly don't see it. I'm speculating, but the world he imagines is one where the we
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The cost of compression is very small for low performance designs (single instruction in-order issue). It's very straightforward to implement. It gets harder for more complex designs though. But for cases where you want to replace a Co
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by TomVDB 8y ago
This was discussed just a couple of days ago here as well, so I'll just link to one of my comments there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19119398 So the answer is: it really depends. I think RISC-V will quickly i
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by TomVDB 8y ago
"Change". Good point. I'll keep that in mind the next time!
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by TomVDB 8y ago
This used to work in the past in the US. But last 5 years or so, every single time I've asked this with major carriers in the US, I've been quoted similarly high change fees as well.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Feel free to point out where the Wikipedia says that it helps with triangulation. (Hint: it does not.) The parent commenter explicitly write "A-GPS which uses triangulation". That is simply not true.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> Isn't this exactly what aGPS is? One or more data points outside of satellite data? I don’t think that’s what it is: with aGPS, the phone downloads data of where the satellites are. That allows the phone to accelerate its ability
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> With A-GPS, it can be accomplished with two satellites and cell tower data and/or WiFi info. I think you might be confusing 2 separate things: * aGPS uses the cell tower to download data that helps with locking on to GPS satellite
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by TomVDB 8y ago
At least ARM smartened up on that one with the Cortex M0 and M3 DesignStart license, which requires no up front fee and you can just download the code for evaluation. Probably still a good idea to have a lawyer read things over...
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by TomVDB 8y ago
aGPS has nothing to do with cell tower triangulation. With aGPS, the cell phones can download up to date GPS almanac from the tower instead of having to lock to GPS satellites to get it.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Something new to add to my repertoire!
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by TomVDB 8y ago
As much as I believe that RISC-V will work its up in the embedded space, I don't think many people care about the "chips you can truly trust" argument. The moment you're talking ASIC (or even FPGA, with an opaque bitstre
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Without context, quotes from obscure movies from 1995 are a bit of a gamble!
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by TomVDB 8y ago
$0.25 is very, very high. I don't know who was supposed to pay the $0.25, but gizmos like external hard drives is a commodity market with razor thin gross margins. Whoever decided that $0.25 was reasonable for that kind of market (Appl
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Out in the real world, I know of cases where proprietary CPU or DSP IP was rejected in favor of RISC-V alternatives. RISC-V may not change everything, but I do believe that it will change on thing in a major way: the financials of CPU IP su
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I wonder if those companies use the lack of tips as an indicator for not providing excellent service... and then use that as an argument to not use those drivers.

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