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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Why does HN take this guy seriously? OK, he got pacman running on a PS3. Great. Remember the time he stood up on a stage discussing the path to Level 5 autonomous driving? Comma.ai actually produces a barely-adequate lane keeping system for
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
On the few times that I have looked at clang traces to try to speed up the build (which has never succeeded) the template instantiation mess largely arose from Abseil or libc++, which I can't do much about.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Yeah this is the very first time I am hearing that templates are "extremely cheap". Template instantiation is pretty much where my project spends all of its compilation time.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
This is like saying anyone can open a lemonade stand in Mogadishu.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
A younger person who only knows the comparative merits of Windows, macOS, and Linux in this decade probably cannot imagine the relief felt by people when they were finally able to move their technical applications off unix boxes onto Window
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Yeah it was a real piece of junk, but I guess there's no accounting for nostalgia. People also like to restore the SGI Indy, easily the worst machine that SGI ever shipped. At one point decades ago there were a lot of these IPXs and th
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Regarding your conclusion, I always figured that the reason WAITPKG seems kinda lame is the only reason they ported it to Core architectures was to make the heterogenous CPUs possible. It works better on Atom. On Core it does almost nothing
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
I was psyched about UMWAIT and TPAUSE when Alder Lake arrived but unfortunately Intel has never shipped a model where these features actually work right. There have been errata all over the topic of the monitors failing to fire. TPAUSE also
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Obligatory dense field numbers seems like a massive downside, the problems of which would become evident after a busy repo has been open for a few days.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
The only conclusion you can draw from this is nobody wants to use Oracle and they are trying to buy customers.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Right, this is a car-priced CPU and the only rational reason to have one is that you can exploit it for profit. One pretty great reason would be giving it to your expensive software developers so they don't sit there waiting on compile
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
I think you misread what I said.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
A person who only has real industry experience can very easily have never needed git at all. I know this shocks people who only have hobby or startup experience but git works very poorly at large scale and there are many big organizations w
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
"Ablation studies" are a real thing in LLM development, but in this context it serves as a shibboleth by which members of the group of people who believe that models are "woke" can identify each other. In their discourse
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
I would have started with Firefox, too. It is every bit as complex at Chromium, but as a project it has far fewer resources.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Getting seed funding from Fluke is a very PNW detail. RIP to a founder from a different age.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
And why not? It was sufficient to publish real magazines as long as they weren't too long, and it costs a fraction of the cost of Quark. If you have a copy and it runs, keep using it.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
This wasn't really that long ago. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6735255,-122.389804,3a,31.2y...
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
I'm a decade older so maybe I missed the memo but I think you'll have a hard time naming tech companies that actually refused to work with the military, which were large enough and important enough to be in danger of selling somet
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
ECC are "slower" because they are bought by smart people who expect their memory to load the stored value, rather than children who demand racing stripes on the DIMMs.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
I wonder why no enterprise where I've worked is aware of this fact, including technically sophisticated ones from Dropbox to Goldman Sachs. When I asked my favorite LLM whether Jamf Pro—which I should stress does not come in the box wi
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
There are large solar power stations on the grid in California owned by tech firms so you may indeed already be paying, indirectly, Apple for energy.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
This is an incredible sequence of assertions, every single one of which is very incorrect. "A lot of energy used for cooling": hyperscale data centers use the least cooling per unit of compute capacity, 2-3x less than small data c
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
I am a cloud capacity planner and you're just another dog on the internet, "but do go off" as they say online.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
It isn't all new capacity. The popular discourse hardly ever mentions it but AI is a small fraction of why we need new datacenters and the bulk of the demand is driven by general IT needs, particularly consolidation of small, grossly w
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
You have set up a false conflict. The data centers are "huge" and they also consume about the same power as 1 airplane. These things are both true. It is also not really true that they are huge, it is a misconception driven by bia
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Bugs Georg, who is an outlier and should be excluded from the analysis.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
That's great if they intend to, but it would be more convincing if there was any sign of them working on the software at all.
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
Just think about the overall platform. How does MacOS update? It interrupts the user with demands, requires an administrator's password under some circumstances, and takes 20-30 minutes. Now consider how ChromeOS updates: silently and
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by jeffbee 8mo ago
You misunderstand the market. Chromebooks are bought by bureaucrats. They want provisioning, deployment, management. They want a kid to be able to throw a broken Chromebook into a big garbage bin and grab another one off the shelf and be up

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