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811.
by dom0 10y ago
That really rather sounds like from within the atmosphere - heat shimmer alone should make this sort of resolution very difficult indeed from space.
812.
by dom0 10y ago
> They effectively KabyLake'd it. They released a slightly better (5% quoted from Anandtech article) for the sake of a seasonal/yearly release cycle. No, it's the same chip, just different clocks. This is nothing new or ou
813.
by dom0 10y ago
Anything after the 7000 series should work just fine OOB.
814.
by dom0 10y ago
> Why even bother with such "update"? This is a pretty usual practice for GPUs; one generation has a new architecture and new chips in the mainstream/performance segment, the next generation uses the same chips with some m
815.
by dom0 10y ago
Fabs are spread out over pretty much all the world. Americas, Europe, Asia, Russia etc. all have a bunch of them. Africa perhaps not so much. And while it may be true that the investment in a fab locks that fab in place, the next fab can
816.
by dom0 10y ago
> instead of just a library I can link and use Because that does not work for most newer languages which usually include an invasive runtime. Rust is an exception there.
817.
by dom0 10y ago
True, IBM and Fujitsu/Sun are still competitive in some niches, but not on power efficiency and not for general purpose application. Last time I looked IBM was 3-5 times worse perf/Watt in SAP benchmarks. Of course IBM is still an
818.
by dom0 10y ago
Actually there is plenty of precedent for that conclusion. Scaling CPU cores up (=efficient but high performance cores) is super-hard -- making low-power cores is pretty simple in comparison --; almost everyone fails or failed at it. Curren
819.
by dom0 10y ago
> - get LibreOffice to 100% parity and compatibility with office > - get CrossOffice/WINE to near-100% compatibility > - near-perfect android app use. > relative pittance: > investment of $100 mil. Wait, what?
820.
by dom0 10y ago
On a purely technical level they don't per se, however platform features like power management, graphics, ISA extensions etc. needs OS support. The latter part is pretty much just used as leverage by Microsoft and Intel (which also sto
821.
by dom0 10y ago
> I thought that a partition was always superior to a file (aside of the usability issues). Pretty sure you've answered your own question there.
822.
by dom0 10y ago
Interesting that a MAC was moved on-chip, but it's only Gigabit and only one channel. Sounds to me more like a BOM reduction aimed at workstations and low-end servers that don't need much network bandwidth rather than being intede
823.
by dom0 10y ago
Backend services like databases aside most stuff that runs on servers today and requires most of the CPU and bandwidth is embarrasingly parallel = web application servers. Similarly a lot of stuff which workstations are used for are (compar
824.
by dom0 10y ago
> Are people really saying that? Nope, especially not on servers. Of course Intel will have to scale up the core interconnects at some point and might also need to scale I/O and memory busses up in a similar vein as AMD does in Napl
825.
by dom0 10y ago
> Perl to Python is essentially meaningless as the languages have feature parity. Well there is some greater context here, namely that they want to put all their tools on one platform. That's not at all meaningless, though I too do
826.
by dom0 10y ago
C and C++ ABI is implementation defined . All major platforms have a standard ABI for both, although sometimes it's broken intentionally. E.g. MinGW uses a GCC/Linux-like C++ ABI and not the MSVC C++ ABI. Note that "platform
827.
by dom0 10y ago
> Copyright, trademark and patent laws I think I get Probably not :) Even copyright law that's "simple" on paper gets sooo hairy so fast in practice - just look at all the FOSS licenses :)
828.
by dom0 10y ago
In the IoT age: On the internet, nobody knows you're a fridge.
829.
by dom0 10y ago
> Long before computers existed, businesses used electromechanical accounting machines for data processing. The term "computer" -- referring to either an organism carrying out computations or a machine doing the same -- predate
830.
by dom0 10y ago
> but there is a lot of porn Rule 44 - When the URL says "roulette", there's lots of porn abound.
831.
by dom0 10y ago
I ran an E-350 (20 W TDP) based board for many years and without the idling drives (each about 0.5 W; only system SSD connected) it consumed about 7 W idle. That's well within your 10 W figure - and boards with lower TDPs are available
832.
by dom0 10y ago
This stuff would be absolutely hilarious, if it wasn't about health care.
833.
by dom0 10y ago
I believe that there should be no obligation (in Maximum America mode that'd imply SWAT kicking in doors, restraining and injecting people), but society and state always manages to provide incentives to do things. Be it making things
834.
by dom0 10y ago
> Classic DIY NAS builds consume outrageous amounts of power (35W to >100W) compared to commercial NAS (~10W) ?? Commercial NAS (like non-RM Synology & friends) are not magic. They save a bit of power due to higher system integra
835.
by dom0 10y ago
This does not work, because the latency of accessing memory is inherent to it. It's simply the time required to open a DRAM row (or charge bit lines), which stays more or less the same independent of process scaling. Moving the pointer
836.
by dom0 10y ago
> Intel, AMD, ARM, etc could learn from supercomputers from 1970s/1980s era. They had to deal with heat problems and found solutions, look at e.g. Cray 2 You have to be more specific here to support such a claim.
837.
by dom0 10y ago
Advantage of big, fat CPU cores: They have tons of performance counters :)
838.
by dom0 10y ago
The memory wall is not a bandwidth issue, but a problem of (concurrent - many more strands of execution than memory channels) latency and there are as far as I know pretty much no ideas how to fundamentally address that (DRAM alternatives m
839.
by dom0 10y ago
Learn to read, understand and map back into C is something different than programming in it.
840.
by dom0 10y ago
Why is this bubbling up again?

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