TomVDB

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by TomVDB 6y ago
Why not?
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by TomVDB 6y ago
What's the lowest level of granularity? Byte level? Because I'd love templating feature like that works at the bit level. IOW: you can specify some a bunch of fields to be, say, 3 bits each, and that when all the bits of a byte ar
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by TomVDB 6y ago
It doesn't provide tactile feedback.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> If you're really just after high payouts and nothing else, was going into IT even the best choice to begin with? I don't know many other professions where high salaries are pretty much a given, without cutthroat competition a
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Somebody who makes $450k can easily buy a home in the Bay Area that’s close to any FAANG campus, and bike to work, and in many cases, not work like a dog. (A $1.5M mortgage is around $6k per month today.) And at the end of the year, even if
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by TomVDB 6y ago
In the early nineties, when we were coding on Sun Sparcstations, the only real options were vi and emacs. I'd tell new college grads to use vi. After a few weeks I'd tell them about the existence of emacs. Some would switch, most
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by TomVDB 6y ago
CNN had to revert to a bare bones HTML page because their servers and Internent connection couldn’t handle the load of everybody reloading as things unfolded.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
“Anywhere” as in “the western world”? Because contact tracing seems to work very well at scale in Asia.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
The RTL-SDR is only an RF front-end that brings down the desired RF signal to a baseband frequency, followed by an quadrature AD converter, followed by a USB interface. All the DSP operations are already done by the Raspberry Pi. http:&#x2
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by TomVDB 6y ago
I fondly remember xpilot(1) combats at my university. Must have been around 1992? We'd go to dinner together at 7pm and then descend into the basement of the electronics department to room full of HP Apollo 9000 workstations with gigan
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by TomVDB 6y ago
You’d be wrong. It’s pretty easy to find prime plots of land in the Tahoe area for less than $250k. The problem is building: there is a shortage of construction labor (they can’t afford to live in the area anymore), and the building season
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by TomVDB 6y ago
I remember being rolled back to my room super excited. It was awesome. And then the drugs wore off and the pain started...
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Insurance... For one house that we were interested in, in an area that's not super risky (which is very relative), it's about $2500 per year through CalFAIR. That's only for fire, and doesn't include any other aspect of
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by TomVDB 6y ago
I ask for very light sedation. I still remember what was happening, but didn't feel any discomfort. I asked for local anesthesia for a major knee surgery. (They normally do full anesthesia for that because an epidural injection is cons
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by TomVDB 6y ago
My wife and I never considered moving out, but we're now actively shopping for a house in the Tahoe area. Not as an investment or short term rental property, but to live ~50% of the time. We're clearly not the only ones. The price
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Anecdotal, but polyp removal for me and some of the people I know didn’t result in any additional post-surgery recovery time. It was simply: go home, and don’t drive or operate any machinery today, just like any other procedure with light s
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by TomVDB 6y ago
“Scalping”? What are you talking about?
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by TomVDB 6y ago
They are in a lot of current Western Digital SSDs. Nvidia is known to have them in their GPUs in some form. I know of other consumer products where they are similarly used as embedded CPU, which is where RISC-V will be most prevalent in the
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> GPUs are 20x faster than FPGAs The original comment by brandmeyer said "ASIC", not "GPU". Take the same RTL. Synthesize it for ASIC and for FPGA. Observe a 20x difference after normalizing for power, area, and clock
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by TomVDB 6y ago
In my experience, the 20x performance number is after taking the DSPs into account.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
In other engineering disciplines such as electrical engineering/digital design, nobody would ever have state machines that force the reset of a major functional block if said state machine has concluded that the system is hanging. Is t
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Thanks! That makes sense.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Here's what I just noticed in a paper that's was linked at the bottom of this article. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.02620.pdf : "Although OSPRay already supported textures, it only supported image textures,
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by TomVDB 6y ago
If I understand this correctly, he renders the whole scene in batches to reduce the memory requirements. Since this is path tracing, how does this work in terms of instances from one batch influencing the lighting of a different batch?
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by TomVDB 6y ago
It's a free website to keep scoreboards. Not a mission critical nuclear missile launcher. (But if your mission critical system relies on that scoreboard website, that's on you...)
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by TomVDB 6y ago
You work for the wrong company.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
Even after the edit, it's a bit confusing in that, without looking at the table, you get the impression that FP16 is slower than FP32.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
That’s true in most countries, but pharmacists are trained to understand the side defects of medication better, able to detect mistakes made by doctors (dosage etc) and provide alternatives.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
> pharmacist Only 3 years for a pharmacist? I think Germany is the exception here, not the US.
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by TomVDB 6y ago
One should hope that the non-CUDA GPU compute library ecosystem has already advanced beyond being able to calculate FFTs!

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