TomVDB

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by TomVDB 8y ago
There is nothing that prevents you from putting after-tax money in a regular Vanguard fund? The tax advantages option are just gravy.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I lived with roommates until 30. It was fun, it was cheap, and I was able to save a ton in a very short time which allowed me to have a sizable down payment on a house. Nothing like a garment factory worker.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The name clash is less problematic than the alleged history of plagiarism.
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I remember running the Doom demo for the first time and being absolutely blown away by it. And then we discovered multi-player mode. I’d haul my 486 box on a train to the next city just to play it, for hours into the night. Descent never di
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by TomVDB 8y ago
I wonder if I'm the only one who's extremely reluctant to change default key bindings? I find it very off putting that suddenly all existing tutorials and manuals might become bogus. Pretty much the only tool where I have custom b
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by TomVDB 8y ago
> It’s not funny I think you just have a different sense of humor than many others. This project has clever engineering, excellent presentation, tackles a problem that many of us have to deal with during the holidays, and ... it’s funny.
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> ... while people want drivers And Nvidia has decided that it's not in their best interest to give away that IP for free. If they believe that their driver has secret sauce that gives then an competitive advantage, then that's
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Even if they didn't provide signed firmware, they wouldn't be actively resisting anything. Actively resisting would require them to take actions to block developers from creating an open source driver. But as you admit: not only
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Nvidia, the worst company to the open source, has 127 open source repositories on GitHub.
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How does it actively resist? Did it send out C&D orders? How can it actively resist when it has released at least some useful pieces of information?
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by TomVDB 8y ago
“The worst company to the open source” is a bold claim when there are thousands (millions?) of companies that don’t open source anything at all. Last time I checked, Nvidia has quite a bit of open source software on GitHub. Open sourcing so
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by TomVDB 8y ago
Less time spent waiting: yes. Like reading from disk: no. The max amount of out-of-order instructions is typically around 300 these days? Reading from disk takes millions of cycles. It’s about avoid waits when reading from L1 and L2 cache a
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If the driver became highly unstable after 2004, you can’t claim that the driver has been stable since 2002. That is all.
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You’re confusing performance with stability. See my other reply about OpenGL drivers. I’ll take the word of a well respected former ATI employee.
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https://twitter.com/_humus_/status/1018846492273119233?lang=... ATI started rewriting their OpenGL driver in 2004-2007. Long after 9700 Pro’s prime. As told by the author, it was a long lasting disaster.
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A large market share in the aerospace doesn’t translate into a large market share. I think most people know that there are more than 2 FPGA suppliers, but all the other ones are essentially niche or low-end market players. The moment you’re
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by TomVDB 8y ago
The conditional moves convert into a NOP when the condition is false. The idea here is that a branch results in a pipeline flush which takes a couple of cycles to refill. In practice, most CPUs have very good branch predictors these days an
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Does that mean that it uses some side boosters to ensure that the movement from vertical to horizontal is controlled?
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As a Silicon Valley resident, it doesn't come close to what I've ever experienced in my day to day life: one of your typical suburban grunt worker at a big corporation how goes to work in the morning and goes home in the evening f
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The sentence that you quote is one in which she professes her ignorance about the subject. That should be sufficient to lower ones expectations about this being an academic paper. > This article is poor journalism at best. Not all artic
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"Is the current situation better for the customer than the one yesterday?" is the way I like to think about these things.
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Ultimately, I don't think the percentage of cases really matter: we have a tendency to have an irrational fear of things that have a very low probability. (Like child abduction etc.) I don't think this is any different. The chance
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How many false and true accusations have you seen? I'm close to 50, and I've personally never seen either.
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> What's the point of open sourcing this library when you can't even use their cards on the open source operating system. The point is that these two are completely orthogonal. It's like saying: what's the point of w
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Starting to happen here as well. My South Bay neighborhood: 8 months ago, a 1300 sqft 3 bed/2 bath sold for a staggering $2.4M. It’s still being renovated. They almost tore the whole place down with only outer walls and roof standing.
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This was last year in December. It was some kind of promotion though.
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My daughter wanted a subscription to the New Yorker for her birthday. There were some promotions on their website (not some shady magazine broker). After going through all the motions, they happily tell you that you can expect the first iss
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> ... indeed they would be liable for anything bad that happens if they don't ... Legally liable? I highly doubt that.
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In practical terms: what kind of performance difference would one see between optimized C(++) and optimized Fortran when running exactly the same algorithm?
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This is not true at all. You need to live there for 2 of the past 5 years to claim your $500k capital gains exclusion . Otherwise the normal short-term/long-term capital gains rules apply. https://www.thebalance.com/sa

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