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by dragontamer 1y ago
Monotheism elevates godhood in many regards. In Polytheistic culture, gods fight and gods die. Zeus eats his (and thus kills) his father Chronos. Thor dies in Ragnarok. In Monotheistic culture, the one true God is above all else. As it turn
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by dragontamer 1y ago
> except maybe power supply. Modern Power MOSFETs are cheaper and more efficient. 10 Years ago 80Gold efficiency was a bit expensive and 80Bronze was common. Today, 80Gold is cheap and common and only 80Platinum reaches into the exotic l
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by dragontamer 1y ago
> Thinking of it as adversarial implies thinking in terms of algorithms that dynamically produce the worst-case rather than trying to just identify a static worst-case that is specific to one solution. I think your statement makes sense
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Really?? Quicksort, mergesort and heapsort are commonly analyzed with worst case / adversaries based decisions. I know that binary trees (especially red-black trees, AVL trees and other self balancing trees) have huge studies into adve
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by dragontamer 1y ago
> said Guy Blelloch Oh jeez now I have to read the rest. More people need to read Blellochs PH.D Thesis. Vector models for data-parallel computing. It's a mind blowing way to think of parallel computation. This is perhaps one of the
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Who told ya that?? CDNA is 64 wide per work item. And CDNA1 I believe was even 16 lanes executed over 4 clock ticks repeatedly (ie: minimum latency of all operations, even add or xor, was 4 clock ticks). It looks like CDNA3 might not do tha
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by dragontamer 1y ago
UDNA isn't a name but instead a big shift in strategy. CDNA was for HPC / Supercomputers and Data center. GCN always was a better architecture than RDNA for that. RDNA itself was trying to be more NVidia like. Fewer FLOPs but bett
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by dragontamer 1y ago
With the onset of cheap 16-bit, 18-bit or even 24-bit sigma delta ADCs, it isn't a very hard circuit to shove a 1 Ohm sense resistor, 2.048V reference and have sensing down to 31uA (16-bit), 8uA (18-bit) or less for 24-bit ADC. SigmaDe
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by dragontamer 1y ago
30, 20, 10 years ago. Or never. Linux continues to use RB Trees for a huge number of its processing. Because its faster to keep a tree sorted than to sort arrays. You talk as if linked data-structures are inferior or something. Rather than
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Straw, camel, back. 2024 Trump is using the power of the executive in ways even more grotesquely than 2016 Trump.
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Weapons grade Uranium is over 90% purity. 60% is just a stepping stone towards 90%.
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by dragontamer 1y ago
I mean are we talking about like optimized C here? Or are we talking about a fast-ish language with more like the flexibility of JavaScript but a bit better performance? I'm pretty sure Lisp is more the latter, about flexibility and el
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by dragontamer 1y ago
I mean, in Lisp your go-to structure will likely be unbalanced trees Which like Quicksort (nearly the same analysis btw), has exceptional average case performance (even faster than RB trees on the average !!!!) but the downside of horrific
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Arrays are much worse at insertions, especially at the middle or beginning. There's a reason why the Linux Kernel continues to use Red-Black trees today for a huge number of its data-structures. When you need reliable performance on al
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Wait, what's the problem with Cons? This seems to just complain that cons is hard to understand or something, without actually saying what makes it hard or unintuitive. -------- Cons is fundamentally a linked list. The "pair"
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Purchasing new GPUs is capex but depreciation of GPUs is opex. There's still a cost, it's just thrown into the future.
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by dragontamer 1y ago
This is cellulose, which is for many practical purposes just paper. This sounds like something that'd be very cheap and flexible. I've drunk out of plenty of paper cups before. So maybe this is a transparent paper cup. Which is po
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Powerful for iGPU. I think Strix Halo is up to 44 CUs? Which is more than a 7600xt but less than a 7700xt. So a bit on the low-end in the scheme of dGPUs. But Strix Halo might be the most powerful iGPU ever made.
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Chipset doesn't attach to any RAM. Today's northbridge (aka: Memory controller) is on CPUs. GPUs need a powerful memory controller. And the most powerful memory controller between CPU and Southbridge/Chipset is the memory con
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by dragontamer 1y ago
A big worry from the YouTubers is the long stretches of straightaways. Mario Kart, like any racing game, has the bulk of its strategy in figuring out corners. Do you aim for the shortest path but lowest exit velocity? Do you prefer the long
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by dragontamer 1y ago
From the electronics side, the path towards control theory is a lot of math (signals and systems, Fourier transforms, transfer functions, feedback and oscillations, compensation circuits) ultimately leading up to the student solving the inv
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Sure. But the embedded PowerQUICC chips were in use between the years 199x and 201x, and are still manufactured today in 2025. My overall point is that Power ISA has a long history as both high performance compute AND embedded (be it indust
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Freescale PowerQUICC fans say whaaaaaat? Power ISA absolutely was used in embedded contexts for years. Decades even. --------- Instruction sets aren't very important actually. Like yeah, compiler infrastructure helps but a lot of embed
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by dragontamer 1y ago
I think the Starseige Tribes community is still active. They have DOZENS of people, dozens!! Not to hate on those who love old games but yeah, it's a much smaller community. It's not all bad, smaller communities mean people know e
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by dragontamer 1y ago
Historically, the most convenient are numbers with large numbers of factors. 60 can be split into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 evenly for example The other number that accomplishes this is 12: 2, 3, 4, 6 are all factors. That's wh
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by dragontamer 1y ago
> 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor[i] and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to ris
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by dragontamer 1y ago
How is the Supreme Court's 9-0 decision in favor of returning Garcia working out? The courts have been beaten months ago. We are well into crazy train territory.
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by dragontamer 1y ago
> We’d be much better off with a president Vance. Vance literally defended the eating cats and dogs lie during the debate. The entire fucking point of this platform is to fuck the immigrants, legal or otherwise. Or is this actually a sur
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Terrible application but exciting tech. It's a new form of information storage using very cheap substances. It's only a few dozen bytes for now but it's still cool to see fundamental research like this take place.
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The article is about a new proof wherein P == PSPACE. Something we all intuitively expected but someone finally figured out an obscure way to prove it. -------- This is a really roundabout article that takes a meandering path to a total bom

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