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by mastax 3y ago
Which is an interesting aside, but unless I'm missing something the amount of wastage due to the prefetcher isn't at all proportional to the number of available memory channels so it's non sequitur.
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by mastax 3y ago
I think the Ars article is a better link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/10/qualcomm-snapdragon-...
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by mastax 3y ago
Yes, iPhones support recording to H.265 directly and have defaulted to it for a while.
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by mastax 3y ago
They've been releasing videos which talk about various aspects of the Pi 5 design in some detail, and I've found them really interesting: https://www.youtube.com/@raspberrypi/videos I was surprised by just ho
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by mastax 3y ago
I wouldn't hold your breath. As long as there's an insatiable demand for EPYC server CPUs, the workstation parts need to have similar margins because they use the same dies.
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by mastax 3y ago
According to the Anandtech coverage[0], both WRX90 and TRX50 have some sort of off-cpu chipset, unlike the EPYC platform. However there's basically no information about what's on the chipset. I suppose it must not be very exciting
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by mastax 3y ago
> They've been meticulously avoiding escalation with any NATO country. Except for the constant threats of nuclear Armageddon, the sabotage of the Bulgarian munitions factory, ramming into a US drone over the Black Sea, shooting a mi
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by mastax 3y ago
> Why does this cable have all 24 pins when only half of them are connected? The extra pins could help the plug sit more securely in its socket. Another guess: the same factory makes Thunderbolt cables, and it’s cheaper to maintain just
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by mastax 3y ago
- Panic in the gas market causing rising prices - Causes accusations between NATO members - An attempt to claim force majeure to get out of their gas contract with Germany so that Germany can't seize their frozen Russian funds for non
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by mastax 3y ago
In addition to what everyone has already said, memory controllers are relatively big and expensive. System integrators often ship systems <~$1000 with only a single channel of memory. It’d probably be like pulling teeth to get them to ac
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by mastax 3y ago
ZFS snapshots
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by mastax 3y ago
Strange, I didn't expect Rambus to be involved in cryptography, nor that they would give away the spec and implementation. I guess it was designed to be a smaller die-area solution for some of their silicon IP products, and opening it
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by mastax 3y ago
Persistent memory doesn't need to be refreshed though so that's irrelevant.
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by mastax 3y ago
That doesn't match my experience at all. Every car me or my parents have owned since the 2008 Honda Odyssey has had satellite radio and no HD Radio. Even relatively low end cars (what passes for low end in the United States for the pa
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by mastax 3y ago
I have a theory that SiriusXM paid carmakers to install satellite radio receivers (obviously) and also to not install HD Radio receivers.
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by mastax 3y ago
Two years' notice is more of an Apple-like deprecation timeline.
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by mastax 3y ago
In addition to the ability to adapt M.2 slots into PCIe via an inexpensive adapter, there is a growing ecosystem of M.2 cards for most of the things you'd use a PCIe card for. USB controllers, SATA controllers, Ethernet controllers, FP
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by mastax 3y ago
I expected it to be shown more prominently on the Steam store home page. It's just the 8th item on the carousel. (I checked in incognito, too).
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by mastax 3y ago
You don't course correct Xeon Phi into a competitive GPGPU without starting over from scratch. The two are not similar.
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by mastax 3y ago
I think Intel is doing relatively well on the software side, given how short a time frame we're talking about. OneAPI is in the same ballpark as AMD and on a better trajectory, I think. They're competing for second place, remember
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by mastax 3y ago
I think Intel's strategy, in a broad sense, makes sense. Xeon Phi succeeded in a few tiny niches, but they need a real GPGPU in order to compete in the broader market this decade. They tried to make their microarchitecture broadly simi
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by mastax 3y ago
This is what folding phones are great for. The extra space is great for multitasking, reading spreadsheets, viewing calendars, reading documents, etc. They don't really help with writing or editing text, unless you have big hands and n
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by mastax 3y ago
Silicone absorbs odors from foods and detergents. I guess plastics do too, but not as badly usually.
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by mastax 3y ago
Here is a link to the presentation, it starts at 4:12:04. https://www.youtube.com/live/L98v4epQmrg?si=T-snMWdtnDLpN_TJ... And here are the slides: https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/osseu2023&#x
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by mastax 3y ago
This is exactly how AppX/MSIX packages work, with C:\Program Files\WindowsApps (by default) being pretty substantially locked down. They even use filesystem/registry virtualization by default to isolate packages even further from
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by mastax 3y ago
`compression=on` exists. You don't need to know about SLOGs and L2ARCs. They're not super useful generally but people geek out a out them. I know those were just examples and I don't disagree with the general point.
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by mastax 3y ago
I've run into a ZFS problem I don't understand. I have a zpool where zpool status prints out a list of detected errors, never in files or `<metadata>` but in snapshots (and hex numbers that I assume are deleted snapshots).
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by mastax 3y ago
GDDR is a wholly different technology from DDR.
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by mastax 3y ago
Assuming the compiler doesn't optimize them out.
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by mastax 3y ago
Interfacing with external systems which require first/last, I suppose.

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