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by mastax 3y ago
I'm starting to think the US has little free trade idealism left.
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by mastax 3y ago
The Ethyl Acetate (aka sugarcane) method is also good, as long as the resulting beans are complemented by the slight fruity flavor added by the process. There's a new plant in Colombia which makes some excellent coffees (provided they
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by mastax 3y ago
Wait, seriously? That’s the cause? Why don’t they just get a new certificate?
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by mastax 3y ago
Another part of it is that AMD's Zen core is a much more area-efficient design than Intel's Raptor Cove (et. al.) core. Raptor Cove is 7.43mm^2 (Intel 7, Excluding L2/3 Cache) while Zen4 is 3.84 mm^2 (TSMC N5, Excluding L3 Ca
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by mastax 3y ago
> That's not an exaggeration by the way: the only service running at the time was a New Relic trial account that only allowed monitoring of one, maybe two servers out of the (I think) total of 15-20 servers we had at the time. I don
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by mastax 3y ago
If I understand your point, I don’t think it makes as much of a difference as it may seem. Display panels are typically made from large “mother glass” panels out of which smaller display panels are cut. So you can make many different sized
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by mastax 3y ago
Also textiles. The solo knit band is a technical marvel. A single 3D knit with embedded mechanical parts and hidden cables to adjust tension. It’s not my wheelhouse but I’d love to read a textiles expert’s take on it.
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by mastax 3y ago
They mostly work now and they are decent options at the low-end (what used to be the mid-range: $200) where there is shockingly little competition nowadays. However, they underperform greatly compared to competitors' cards with similar
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by mastax 3y ago
Commoditize your complement. I guess Meta sees AI more as something they use than something they offer.
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by mastax 3y ago
Hmm I didn’t expect the CPM rates to be so relatively competitive and trading places so often.
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by mastax 3y ago
The last line in the article argues against this: > The US is still a major purchaser of machine tools (2nd in the world behind China), but unlike for most of the 20th century, today its factories are full of machines made elsewhere.
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by mastax 3y ago
In /r/Aviation they were talking like it gets installed from the outside.
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by mastax 3y ago
A manufacturing mistake which makes it into service is a failure of QA and testing systems design. (At least above a certain threshold which varies depending on the industry etc. etc.)
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by mastax 3y ago
In many ways Rust was an attempt to turn OCaml into C (deliberately stopping partway).
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by mastax 3y ago
I agree that often the less cutting edge chips are important but doesn’t the EU already have that handled with ST Microelectronics, NXP, Infineon? What’s lacking is very high end CPU, GPU, high end memory, high end FPGA.
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by mastax 3y ago
Maybe they're only given a limited supply of basically overstock chips from AWS. When AWS is building out data centers they need all the chips. Just speculating. (Annapurna is the CPU company Amazon bought)
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by mastax 3y ago
The medium is the message. It affects how the content is consumed, interpreted, and created.
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by mastax 3y ago
The 500W is an estimate for the next generation CPUs so we have to speculate, but yes the performance per watt should make sense unless those products are awful. Thus far every EPYC generation has been substantially better performance/
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by mastax 3y ago
My only smart home devices are old "Philips" Wiz Wi-Fi bulbs. They were cheap and I could set them up to change color temperature and brightness to help me fall asleep and wake up on time - it really seems to help. But they were h
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by mastax 3y ago
https://godbolt.org/z/szMvnTT63 Looking at the naive code from Analysis 1 and comparing GCC 4.1.2 to GCC 13.2 there's a huge difference. Even when forcing both to generate code for the same old architecture (k8) s
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by mastax 3y ago
I have two identical Debian 11 on ZFS servers with ZFS encryption enabled. On one pool on one machine it will start reporting errors after about 1 week of uptime. The errors are caused by failure to decrypt within the Kernel Cryptography Fr
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by mastax 3y ago
So why not implement the fix suggested in the article: improve the existing interface to the extent possible, and introduce a new interface which is easier to use correctly.
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by mastax 3y ago
Apple has finely tuned their pricing ladder to push people to spend more, and storage and memory are a big part of that. For example (pricing is from memory and probably incorrect, but illustrates the point) The base iPad is a pretty capabl
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by mastax 3y ago
I'm surprised the HEVC Support figure is so low: 15%! I suppose HEVC is practically only supported by relatively modern devices which have hardware support for it. None of the OS or browser makers want to ship software support because
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by mastax 3y ago
I'm sure the usual suspects (Synopsys, Broadcom, ARM, Xilinx, etc.) would be happy to license something. But from what I can see all the big players make their own. I guess they're easy enough to implement yourself (as a big playe
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by mastax 3y ago
The deduplication tables can be put in a special vdev now, I think.
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by mastax 3y ago
RaspberryPi's documentation about the CPU has this to say: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/processo... - 4Kp60 HEVC hardware decode - Other CODECs run in software - H264 1080p24 decode ~10
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by mastax 3y ago
> Are you saying the hardware actually has encode on die but was "fused" off? I don't think that is what they are saying, and I haven't seen any evidence of that. It makes the most sense to me that either (as GP said)
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by mastax 3y ago
About as well as id notice if the software were signed by - Benjamin Olafsson - Imagemagick Solutions Gmbh - Imagemaqick LLC - FutureSoft Inc It's very common for software to be developed by a company whose name bears no resemblance to
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by mastax 3y ago
Has Apple ever released a product using HBM (outside of some FirePro GPUs in some Mac Pros)? M1/2 Pro/Max use LPDDR5. Though apparently Apple applied for a patent for a hybrid DDR/HBM system, so maybe in M3/4/5? ht

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