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by adrian_b 4mo ago
While ACE inherits a part of AMX, it adds features that are intended to simplify the writing of programs that mix AMX instructions with AVX10 a.k.a. AVX-512 instructions, for operating on the same data.
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
No, this is not Capitalism working as intended, because there is an entity, the US government, whose purpose is to sabotage those who are willing to increase production to satisfy the extra demand and decrease the prices. So the market is n
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
US is stopping China to increase their DRAM and flash production as they would, by forbidding everybody to sell modern semiconductor manufacturing equipment and consumables to China. China is increasing their production of DDR5 and SSDs, bu
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Thanks. I use a rather complicated zsh prompt, complicated enough so that I could never convince bash to execute an equivalent prompt correctly, despite the fact that the features used by the prompt are supposed to be supported in bash too.
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
On my 6-year old PC, an interactive zsh starts more than 4 times faster, but this is a rather minor detail. Which are in your opinion the advantages of fish over zsh? The fish tutorial from its Web site highlights some very important advant
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
AVX-512 is available in most new CPUs. It has been available for several years in all the Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs and it will be available in the Zen 6 CPUs that should be launched early next year (the launches of both the new Intel and AMD
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
The fraction of the installed base of x86 CPUs that support AMX is very small (i.e. only a part of the recent Intel server CPUs support AMX, while the other Intel server CPUs, all Intel consumer CPUs and all AMD CPUs do not support AMX). CP
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
This is not a vector extension (like Intel AVX/AVX-512 or Arm SVE), but a matrix extension (like Intel AMX or Arm SME or the "tensor" operations of NVIDIA GPUs). Some of the latest generations of Intel server CPUs with P-core
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Even the final starting time for zsh from TFA is quite bad. On a 6-year old desktop PC with a Ryzen CPU, an interactive zsh starts in 20 ms and a login zsh starts in 60 ms. The configuration file for the interactive zsh, i.e. "~/.
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
That's right, but there are other recent open weights and relatively big LLMs that are multimodal, e.g. MiniMax-M3. With open weights LLMs, it is affordable to use many different models, each for whatever it is better. Moreover, for an
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Infineon representatives have declared that a goal of this fab is to satisfy the greatly increased demand for power supplies and converters in AI datacenters. Of course, we cannot know how much truth is in this claim, because nowadays it is
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
They might be behind by at most a decade in packaging dies like those used for desktop/server CPUs or for GPUs, which are no longer produced currently in Europe. On the other hand, in other application domains, like the packaging of po
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Any GPU card also includes a few step-down power converters, which could be made with Infineon controllers and power transistors. The same is true for any PC motherboard. Obviously, any PC or server computer also needs a PSU. So the number
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
This new fab is called "Smart Power Fab", which hints to its purpose, but Infineon has not stated clearly what they want to produce here. It seems that it is a factory for silicon wafers, which together with "Smart Power&quot
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
It is also an important producer of microcontrollers based on ARM Cortex-M cores (and of some with proprietary ISAs), though not as important as ST and NXP. While many microcontrollers are still made on older CMOS processes, to reduce costs
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
That is why I said "standard gamma curves", and not "standard gamma curve", as each standard specifies a slightly different curve, for various reasons. Such differences in standards already existed in analog television,
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
"Mein Kampf" is actually a very interesting lecture for any critical mind, like also The Holy Bible is a very interesting lecture for any atheist. "Mein Kampf" is a good example of well written propaganda. Like any good
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
As you, say the original purpose of gamma was strictly to compensate the non-linearity of CRTs. The reason why gamma has been preserved in digital television even after CRTs have become obsolete is that it happens to perform a dynamic range
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
USA has a weird concept about the future as it were something already known, so they may declare now what will happen, even if the actual future depends on other agents. From TFA: > U.S. officials have said Iran agreed to reopen the St
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
It should be noted that the list of clades enumerated in TFA is just a summary. In zoology, there are many other named clades intermediate between those listed in TFA. Also, in recent years it has become very doubtful that one of the clades
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
An accidental crack can be resealed, but if the crack had appeared because inappropriate materials were used, e.g. an unsuitable metal-glass pair, resealing is pointless, because cracks will appear again after the device is turned on and of
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
As you say, incandescent bulbs are less demanding because they do not use high vacuum, but they have the additional requirement that the pins that support the tungsten filament must resist to very high temperatures, because some heat is con
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Nope, as also mentioned in TFA, copper has a too great thermal expansion coefficient in comparison with glass. If vacuum tubes had pins of copper, the glass-metal joining would have cracked very soon during normal usage cycles, and there wo
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
As mentioned in TFA, the most important factor for successfully joining a metal and a glass is to match their thermal expansion coefficients. Most pure metals have a much greater thermal expansion than any glass, which will cause cracks. In
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
For that, you must know that there is such a thing like "Windows S mode". As I have mentioned, in another comment, some years ago I had the same problem when replacing an old corporate laptop with a new one, but at that time nobod
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
When I worked at a very big US company some years ago, I received for work a new Dell laptop with Windows also in "S mode", to replace an older Dell laptop. However, at that time I had no idea about the existence of the "S mo
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
How do you determine whether a drawing is "underage"?
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
I do not see anyone lying. The model card says: > Post-trained from Qwen 3.5 397B The model card also says that they use an inference framework based on "SwiReasoning: Switch-Thinking in Latent and Explicit for Pareto-Superior Reaso
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
> Post-trained from Qwen 3.5 397B Model Card: https://huggingface.co/prefeitura-rio/Rio-3.5-Open-397B
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by adrian_b 4mo ago
Standard Pascal had some very serious design mistakes, which are less obvious for those who have used only extended variants, like Turbo Pascal or Extended Pascal, where some of the mistakes had been corrected. Probably the greatest mistake

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