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by kimixa 2y ago
Increasing clocks tends to have a greater-than-linear cost on power, as you need transistors to switch quicker so often need a higher voltage, which causes more leakage and other losses on top of the switching cost itself (that all turn int
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by kimixa 2y ago
It's all still available, arguably more accessible from a cost and documentation point of view - I'd argue that the bar to getting something is so much higher. You can today start banging registers on GPUs, or write your own s
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by kimixa 2y ago
I live in San Jose and Comcast shouldn't charge me for my own router, but every couple of months the "equipment hire" charge appears on my bill again and I have to go through the song and dance of calling them again and get
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by kimixa 2y ago
Many Nvidia "gaming" SKUs are already at the point where memory is often the biggest likely limitation on their gaming use case, and they'll be noticeably better products for the consumer with a small cost increase by adding
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by kimixa 2y ago
The #1 thing for driving safely is being predictable. Too many people seem to think "driving safely" is mechanically being able to control your car on the road, but that's the easy part. The difficulty is there are other pe
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by kimixa 2y ago
That's why I'm surprised - that flag doesn't mean we don't spawn worker threads for the driver, just that user API calls only come from a single thread. I suspect this is someone assuming the flag actually mean "t
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by kimixa 2y ago
> There's plenty of blame to go around, really. My current project has a workaround for a user-mode graphics driver that sets the thread name without checking if D3D11_CREATE_DEVICE_SINGLETHREADED is set -- so there's code to d
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by kimixa 2y ago
Reading the bug report https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=973138 feels reasonable. It must be hard to be in a position to be blamed for someone else's bad code - or even malware - one comment said it was 1&#x
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by kimixa 2y ago
The issue with voxels is sparseness - to have any hope of storing a world in the ram we have available it pretty much needs to have some variable length encoding, which makes it extremely difficult to use in a parallel manner as required
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by kimixa 2y ago
Despite the name, there's not really much here that has much to do with "voxels" - it's a heightmap and raycasting. It's kinda similar to Parallax mapping in a way. I'd also be interested in what a "voxel-
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by kimixa 2y ago
It doesn't need to be a lot - just replaced in the same cadence as the latency from initial broadcast to key revocation. Even if it's all in-house in Netflix and the watermark sufficient to identify the specific device key not a
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by kimixa 2y ago
A trained image recognition model could probably recognize a dishwasher from an image. But that won't be the same model that writes bad poetry or tries to autocomplete your next line of code. Or control the legs of a robot to move towa
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by kimixa 2y ago
B580 being a "success" is purely a business decision as a loss leader to get their name into the market. A larger die on a newer node than either Nvidia or AMD means their per-unit costs are higher, and are selling it at a lower
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by kimixa 2y ago
Generally the current crop of LLMs seem pretty good analogues of the "scan reading" immediate instinctual response to stimulus, but seems to completely lack the higher level that can then go "Wait, that doesn't seem righ
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by kimixa 2y ago
And in turn don't also run into to incompatibility between different versions of MS office? I've had at least as many issues moving complex documents between MS word versions than moving from MS to Libreoffice.
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by kimixa 2y ago
You can check out the clang-tidy "modernize-" set of checks [0]. I think some IDEs like clion or visual studio (both the "full fat" and VS code with a plugin) have options to integrate this. Or even just as a build pass
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by kimixa 2y ago
The only way you can get close to x86 being "less than 50% of the consumer market" is by including phones, but I'd argue that's a new market on top of the "consumer computing" market. And even then, in &quo
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by kimixa 2y ago
Yeah, but the different APIs and system integration (shared memory) means many of the specific tunings and optimizations don't carry over very well.
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by kimixa 2y ago
While "standardized" many implementations were so buggy to be unusable - we needed >4gb pcie mappings for a development board, and finding motherboards that actually worked was a PITA well into 2012 (when I left that project)
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by kimixa 2y ago
I think you're massively underestimating the development cost, of the number of people who would actually purchase a higher vram card at a higher price. You'd need hundreds of thousands of units to really make much of a difference
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by kimixa 2y ago
> The game devs are going to spend all their time & effort targetting amd/nvidia. Custom code paths etc. From my experience they target NVidia and Consoles. AMD might get a look at the code just before release if they notice a
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by kimixa 2y ago
One of the reasons GPUs can have multiples of CPU bandwidth is they avoid the difficulties of pluggable dimms - direct soldered can have much higher frequencies at lower power. It's one of the reasons why ARM Macbooks get great perfo
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by kimixa 2y ago
Yes, everyone knows the best way of making a product not suck is to give up and never try again. /s
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by kimixa 2y ago
I got hit by this too - a "toll evasion" from a similar looking plate (and E vs an F), but a completely different style of car (Truck vs Hatchback) let alone different make/model. And I guess as they drive through 3 cameras
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by kimixa 2y ago
At some point the reduction of what is to "blame" becomes ridiculous. Getting stabbed wasn't dangerous. The blood loss was. The blood loss wasn't dangerous, cerebral hypoxia was.
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by kimixa 2y ago
But an on-package memory bus has some of the advantages of HBM, just to a lesser extent, so it's arguably comparable as an "intermediate stage" between RAM chips and HBM. Distances are shorter (so voltage drop and capacitance
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by kimixa 2y ago
Improving capabilities of AI isn't at odds with expecting an "AI Winter" - just the current drive is more hype than sustainable, provable progress. We've been through multiple AI Winters, as a new technique is developed,
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by kimixa 2y ago
Sure, robotics help many jobs, and some level of the current deep learning boom seems to have crossover in improving that - but how many of them are running LLMs that affect Nvidia's bottom line right now? There's some interesting
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by kimixa 2y ago
And will they perfectly emulate the dynamic situation that is the brain? You've mapped every neuron perfectly, you've even captured every ongoing signal and the whole thing is recreated perfectly. But that's not the entire st
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by kimixa 2y ago
I think there'll be a "financial" winter - or another way a bubble burst - the investment right now is simply unsustainable, how are these products going to be monetized? Nvidia had a revenue of $27billion in 2023 - that&#x27

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