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by kimixa 5y ago
One of the advantages of soldering RAM is better signal integrity - shorter paths and easier routing, plus connectors tend to be awful for high frequency stuff. So I fear this isn't a "Better soldered RAM", as it may lack it&
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by kimixa 5y ago
> Even on today's high performance CPUs, which are far more sophisticated than the primitive 5-stage scalar in-order R4300 (not sure it even had any branch prediction actually). I believe it didn't, with a short scaler pipeline
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by kimixa 5y ago
Also the treadmill of computer progress means that keeping devices for multiple years has significant costs in performance compared to replacing it regularly. A good watch can be passed down through generations. A computer passed on from my
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by kimixa 5y ago
Though reading too much into wargames is also a mistake - they put significant limits on the sonar power as otherwise it would devastate the local ocean ecology, which naturally benefits those who want to remain hidden like submarines in ex
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by kimixa 5y ago
But the same limits are true on any GPU that does virtual memory - it's nothing special about that and doesn't interact really with the TBDR vs Immediate rendering the thread seems to suggest. If anything, a TBDR implementation ma
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by kimixa 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that's false, as translation lookaside buffers simply cannot be of that size while hitting the performance requirements. I suspect they've seen someone refer to a TLB (Translation Lookaside Buffer) and TLB (Ti
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by kimixa 5y ago
I think it's a confusion of similar terms - there's the TLB (translation lookaside buffer) of the MMU, which is an extremely small fast buffer of recent MMU translations - there's no chance that is anywhere near 32mb. This is
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by kimixa 5y ago
At this point I suspect that the "group projects" often done in CS degrees are actually intended to give the student experience in a failed project and learning from their mistakes, and understanding that not every project is a su
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by kimixa 5y ago
IF only individuals could make the best decisions about their health. The idea of some ideal perfect "logical" consciousness separate from the real world is a myth. I drink too much, I eat too much. I know this, and understand i
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by kimixa 5y ago
Or simply you misplace your wallet. Then you have to make the decision of how much you're willing to risk in taking out of your "totally safe" under-the-mattress stash each day, and that runs into inconvenience of if too high
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by kimixa 5y ago
Arguably with SemVer as html 1.0 pages still work with no compatibility issues, it will still be 1.x if that is the gate for "breaking" changes. The other way, if you rely on experimental features, it's likely you'll be
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by kimixa 5y ago
Currently the performance and power benefits of having tightly packaged RAM are taken full advantage of by the M1 family. A less tightly coupled memory system will likely have significant performance implications. There's a reason why
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by kimixa 5y ago
Two of the three major GPU vendors have fully-supported open source drivers, arguably it's nvidia being the odd one out rather than anything else.
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by kimixa 5y ago
I thought everyone did the experiment of leaving a saucer of water out and seeing it evaporates over time, despite being significantly lower than 100c. And "Steam" is wooly term for high enough density of water vapor that you see
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by kimixa 5y ago
I'm not sure how much seeding is needed - I've heard it used for years, and seems to have become a bit of a term for the Xbox previous generation game compatibility stuff.
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by kimixa 5y ago
One of the advantages of a language is that you can get someone with experience in that language and they'll be able to understand it (with some work for code style and libraries used etc). This seems to be different enough you may as
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by kimixa 5y ago
According to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ $250k in 1995 is $460k now. I think the sort of person that just has that amount of available cash stretches most definitions of "Middle Class".
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by kimixa 5y ago
I would be wary about assuming too much on "Salary estimation" websites or what people may say on HN. There's a perception that they must be highly paid, and so only the highest paid shout about it. I know a lot of people who
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by kimixa 5y ago
My experience with apple (never worked there, but worked very closely with them for years) is there's a HUGE difference between teams. If you're in the fancy new hotness that has VP political support, great. If you're in a
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by kimixa 5y ago
That's certainly true about hardware companies - the cycle of product inception to release is often large enough that if you followed the "advice" here you would never actually experience the full cycle. I work on software at
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by kimixa 5y ago
I, too, like the separation of the office - a pretty easy commute (less than 15 minutes) and not having to worry about managing the space myself is useful for me to get into "Work Mode" - and I very much appreciate leaving and not
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by kimixa 5y ago
Stuff like locating stuff for beamforming or MIMO has a non-zero cost, and newer standards are getting even more complex trying to drag signal out of noise and error correction and stuff. The first is exactly the sort of thing where a cheap
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by kimixa 5y ago
Depends on how well integrated and power gated those "Unnecessary" features are - it may be of functionally zero cost when running the "same" use case, while allowing significant improvements in newly-accelerated use cas
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by kimixa 5y ago
Indeed - it's not like linux. It's an ISA spec, not an implemention. It's more like POSIX or something from that comparison.
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by kimixa 5y ago
I can also tell you in a 'gamer'-adjacent field a very large proportion of users have a very loose definition of stability when overclocking. It survived a single short run of a single use case that only runs one load pattern? Mus
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by kimixa 5y ago
This is where local swap or friend groups come in - there's certainly value being "The Guy With A Truck" if you're regularly lending it to people you know who need to do their one monthly thing. e.g. I have a small fiest
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by kimixa 5y ago
> Gamers don't really care that ECC prevents one crash in years because they are used to frequent crashes already. I work on GPU drivers for one of those companies. We regularly get reports and backtraces that cannot be reproduced,
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by kimixa 5y ago
It's entirely possible that on-die ECC is still a good thing for the end user - to really judge you need to compare the error rate (and proportion the ecc corrected) of dies that would have previously failed validation. It may be that
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by kimixa 5y ago
Yup, upx is just a loading stub that decompresses the whole thing then gets out the way. If anything it'll use more memory from the remains of the decompression stub and not being able to be clever about only reading from the backing f
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by kimixa 5y ago
That's what google did for my nexus 5x when it broke - and that was over 2 years after I purchased it and out of warranty. I did get it from the play store though, and so may change depending on where you purchased it from. Still annoy

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