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by nzentzis 2y ago
While I can’t speak for GP, I had a similar reaction - though admittedly I wouldn’t describe it as “relieved,” more of an “okay, good to know this isn’t anywhere near the top of the priority list” feeling. Essentially, in comparison to the
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by nzentzis 2y ago
I'm using a janky CUDA miner that's getting around 6GH/s on a 3090. My code is kind of bad though since I hacked it together in a couple of hours last night, so I wouldn't be surprised if a proper/competent implemen
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by nzentzis 2y ago
Getting into the top ten is still not too hard at this point, if you wanted to. I hacked together a super basic parallel CPU miner quickly before diving into CUDA, and the CPU one still gets a value that beats #7 within a few minutes.
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by nzentzis 2y ago
Assuming hashes are random (which is a reasonable assumption, considering it's sha256), every extra leading zero cuts the probability of success in half, meaning double the candidates searched to find a matching value. So each addition
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by nzentzis 3y ago
There’s not really any viable options other than Nvidia for GPU compute, despite AMD’s efforts on ROCm. If you want to do compute tasks, you need an Nvidia card with Nvidia drivers, and Wayland won’t support your usage.
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by nzentzis 3y ago
The problem is that there aren’t enough digits of precision to represent the answer. The exact answer would be 999999.0000001, but let’s say you only have space to store six significant digits. The exact answer is way more precise, so you n
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by nzentzis 3y ago
The “oh, just don’t buy a GPU from NVidia” point is one I see made a lot when discussing Wayland’s failures, but it completely misses the fact that CUDA is currently the only viable option for GPU compute in many situations. If any signific
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by nzentzis 4y ago
I want to be able to justify using Google Cloud for projects, but the fact that it’s a Google product is the main obstacle to that. If history is anything to go by, relying on Google products and services seems like a great way to set your
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by nzentzis 4y ago
Thank you for this recommendation - I'm planning to switch platforms in a few weeks, and blocking YT ads was one of the big open questions I still had.
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by nzentzis 4y ago
On the contrary, there's no reason to believe the exorbitant initial cost would change at all. If anything, this would make it worse. The reason textbooks can cost as much as they do is that demand is very inelastic - students don&#x27
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by nzentzis 4y ago
Can you recommend a good reference/source for translating legalese? I'm not sure I've ever found a good source for determining which words should be interpreted normally and which are landmines. The ambiguity about what words
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by nzentzis 5y ago
Should be F3, I think (works on my system and I don't think I changed the defaults).
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by nzentzis 5y ago
If that's true, and consensus is only starting to come together now, how is the Wayland ecosystem considered ready for mainstream usage? From the perspective of someone happily using X11 at the moment, Wayland (or whatever your preferr
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by nzentzis 6y ago
First off, I hadn't run into Hammerspoon before, so thanks for that - it looks like it might help with some things. Most things I've tried and failed to do involve silent/background interaction with apps. For example, my comp
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by nzentzis 6y ago
Seconded. I use both on a regular basis - a Mac laptop for work since I have to interact with the MS Office ecosystem there, and a Linux desktop/workstation for gaming and personal projects. Between the two, I prefer the Linux machine
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by nzentzis 6y ago
I'll second the "Valve's been amazing" comment. The majority of games I play are native, and all but a few of the rest work fine under Proton. Compared to when I started using Linux on the desktop a decade ago, the gamin
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by nzentzis 6y ago
I think C and C++ have enough problems with accidental undefined behavior already without making aliased pointers into UB.
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by nzentzis 6y ago
> Look at the lengths involved in getting A* to run on Curiosity Can you link to something that goes into detail? Googling it doesn't turn up anything relevant, but it sounds like it'd be interesting to read about.
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by nzentzis 6y ago
Both Windows and Linux (via PulseAudio) provide this. I'm not as familiar with the Windows side of things, but on Linux I can also redirect each application's sound to different audio devices.
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by nzentzis 6y ago
I just tested this on my Linux workstation. 2000 threads does nothing - everything's still responsive, and the process is shown as using 0% of the CPU. 16,000 threads uses ~30% of a core, with a ~136MB RSS. The system still handles it
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by nzentzis 6y ago
At least for the purposes of comparing to web apps, the criteria would be: responsive/low-latency (responds to input quickly), fast (completes tasks quickly), uses resources proportional to the functionality it provides, and doesn&#x27
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by nzentzis 6y ago
I keep hearing the "web technologies are fine, you're just using them wrong" refrain over and over again, but it's ultimately not very convincing. If it's true, then where are all the good web applications? I'v
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by nzentzis 6y ago
My main problem with it is limited software support. Xmonad isn't available and as far as I can tell what support exists for screen recording and screenshots is half-baked at best. I haven't seen anywhere near enough problems with
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by nzentzis 6y ago
This doesn't apply if you want to run CUDA-dependent software. I've generally gone for Nvidia for my personal machine since Torch has behaved oddly on AMD cards in the past. It's true that Nvidia doesn't support Wayland
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by nzentzis 7y ago
I think I partially agree, but that it mainly depends on the audience. I've found that parsing and recursion appear in more areas than just compilers, to the point where it'd be relatively difficult to avoid them. Machine code gen
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by nzentzis 7y ago
Currently I'm using a modified version of the after-dark[0] theme for Zola. [0] https://www.getzola.org/themes/after-dark/
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by nzentzis 7y ago
Generating 64-bit code would be simpler in many ways, but I decided not to go into it until the basic language features are put in place. The extent of the changes involved in switching to amd64 will help directly show why having an interme