TomVDB

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by TomVDB 6y ago
Maybe the whole system of basing pay on supply and demand needs some serious adjustments based on the societal impact of a job? It’s not that I’m unhappy with my cushy tech job and the life style that comes with it, but making literally 5x
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Every once in a while, I Google the names of my classmates back in elementary, middle, highschool, and college. There are no crumbs to be found of them for the vast, vast majority. If these people are older than their mid fourties, as they
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by TomVDB 6y ago
I have had a lot of very good managers over the years! And when I didn’t, I fixed it one way or the other.
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My manager got the message after I copied my personal growth and goals 3 years in a row from the previous self-review. In my late forties, I know what I can do and I’m very good at it. I know what I can’t do well, and I avoid it and tell th
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Weird. I gave up on Eagle before I was able to get PCB ready for manufacturing, but I found KiCad to be very intuitive. (Except when importing external libraries, that’s one horror show.)
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>This is apparently more than the performance of two years old Nvidia GeForce GT 1030. Almost 4 years old... https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-1030.c2954 "The GeForce GT 1030 is an entry-level gr
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Indeed. Not a new driver at all. What this tells me is that they just didn’t care enough to lock this down hard.
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When GPUs are know to use signed firmware, when open source coders need to ask for signed firmware to make even a minimal feature open source GPU driver work, and when there’s no evidence at all that high performance custom made mining-only
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It was only 2 or 3 years ago that AMD and Nvidia had to deal with a massive glut of silicon due to the collapse in mining. Securing even more years in advance is a recipe for repeating that.
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Building more fabs is the general solution to the demand in silicon. And that's happening. But in the context of "I'd rather they have scaled up the demand", where "they' is Nvidia (or almost any other fabless
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> (2) Big Mining operations actually write their own drivers Strong claims require strong evidence.
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> Product segmentation for software is also a different issue, because all the scarcity is artificial to begin with, with no natural underlying supply curves because there's no marginal cost to making another copy. What you're
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> I'd rather they have scaled up the demand. There are car factories shutting down due to lack of chips. The silicon for the systems that I work on has its lead times increased from the customary <30 to 50 weeks. The supply issue
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Microsoft designed Office with professional features, but they artificially neuter the Home version with a compile switch. This is no different. As long as you know what you're paying for, segmentation is fine. It allows consumers to p
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Why shouldn't companies be allowed to do product segmentation? Limiting mining performance on a consumer GPU is no different than limiting certain professional or machine learning specific performance features.
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I remember that argument being made 2 years ago during the last mining craze. Given the existing investment in Ethereum HW, it almost seems like it’s just a carrot to deflect criticism about power consumption, but not something that will ac
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Indeed. We can only hope that AMD implements a similar slowdown.
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The lead plaintiff of the lawsuit sold $200K in call options with a $100 strike, and got cleaned out by a margin call when the stock hit $400. There is no cure for stupid.
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There are industries with less social utility than Bitcoin?
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I think the memory just provides additional storage bits to detect the issue, but doesn't contain the logic. This is in line with all technical parameters of DRAM: everything must be as cheap as possible, and all the difficult parts ar
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by TomVDB 6y ago
If you honestly need details and specifics when Confluence has always been a slow mess to the point of being unusable, then maybe Atlassian needs a PM in charge of performance metrics first and foremost?
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Even if they were aware that they are a US citizen, it is highly unlikely that they are aware of the tax consequences unless somebody explicitly told them. In almost all countries in the world, there is no good reason to renounce your acci
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As much as I prefer CarPlay over the default UI of most cars, I had to disable it on my 2019 i3 because it was an unusable disaster.
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Even better: in Germany, the cameras black out the passenger's side of the car automatically for privacy reasons, so that only the driver is identified. This was a problem in 2008 when a car with steering wheel on the right systematica
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2900ft houses is a good way to skew the argument in your favor, but it's a bit of a strawman: the vast majority of houses in the Bay Area aren't 2900ft to begin with, yet 2000ft house are plenty, with 4 bedroom, on, say, a 6000ft
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That $5M is hyperbole, right? Nobody will deny that Bay Area housing is expensive, but even today, $1.5M will get you a decent single family house with a garden in Santa Clara. That’s a ridiculous amount of money for most, but it’s not in
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Don’t you find it mind blowing that after such a short time on the market, it already has 1/5th of the share of a 5700 XT? Of course it won’t come close yet to the 2000 series. But what it shows without a doubt is that there was plenty
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by TomVDB 6y ago
All rumors about low supply 3000 series are debunked by looking at their quarterly revenue results and the Steam ranking that was released yesterday. (See my other reply.)
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Check out the November Steam results. The RTX 3080 is already at 0.23%. After just 1 month. If you don’t think that’s impressive, compare it against some AMD GPUs like the 5700 or the 5600 XT, which has the same share. There’s a reason Nvid
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One of my friends moved back from the Bay Area to Switzerland with his family. While he's happy that he's close to his family again, there's no question that he went from a place where engineers are at the top of the food cha

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