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by paulmd 3y ago
I think we're well past the "dlss is just FSR2 with lookup tables, you can ALWAYS replicate the outcomes of neural algorithms with deterministic ones" phase, imo. if that's the case you have billion-dollar opportunities
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by paulmd 3y ago
if you don't think 3060 ti and 3080 and 970/980 ti were cheap products in the overall sense of the cost-trend of the market... you might be a fanboy. I've said it before and it's true today: a lot of people don't th
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by paulmd 3y ago
> However, Microsoft has definitely been drinking the IBM koolaid a little to long and has lost the mandate of heaven. I think in the next 7-10 years we will reach a point where there is nothing Windows can do that linux cannot do better
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by paulmd 3y ago
Not without breaking the support contract? If you change PTX format then CUDA 1.0 machines can no longer it and it's no longer PTX. Again, you are missing the point. Java is both a language (java source) and a machine (the JVM). The
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by paulmd 3y ago
PTX is just an ISA too. Programming languages annd ISA representations are effectively fungible, that’s the lesson of Microsoft CLR/Intermediate Language and Java too. A “machine” is a hardware and a language.
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by paulmd 3y ago
All versions of CUDA support PTX, which is an intermediate bytecode/compiler representation that can be finally-compiled by even CUDA 1.0. So the contract is: as long as your future program does not touch any intrinsics etc that do not
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by paulmd 3y ago
I think that's a very tech-centric (and specifically FAANG-centric) mindset, most people are not getting RSOs or options and aren't under any impression their fate is entwined with the stock price. on the other hand you are right
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by paulmd 3y ago
wow I never knew pass(1) cost money, how does that work? isn’t it GPL and all???? (keepass2/keepass xc are more user-friendly and free, strongbox is another good front-end for keepass files as well.)
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by paulmd 3y ago
Your mental password-generation scheme is equally susceptible to the “master password” being lost or forgotten. Why do you assume you can remember a bunch of rules plus a password, if you can’t remember the password itself? Synchronizing is
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by paulmd 3y ago
source on the chips already being sold pre-binned to partners since 20-series: (forum link but it collates a bunch of sources from different media) https://linustechtips.com/topic/972937-nvidia-is-selling-dif... And a
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by paulmd 3y ago
those are high-value products/gens where nvidia did indeed “pass along the savings”. Turing and ampere as a whole were already below the price increase curve due to the trailing node. Ampere certainly was a massive attempt at passing t
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by paulmd 3y ago
> The hard part is getting a culture that gives a damn about developing software that works and designing the hardware to support the features that the software needs. NVIDIA isn't missing the mark on the programming model and toolk
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by paulmd 3y ago
it wouldn't be uncommon for the fab not to be announced or not announced up front. it's not really a consumer-facing spec, and it's not NVIDIA's announcement to make. samsung and intel foundry services are both serious
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by paulmd 3y ago
3080, 3060 ti, maxwell...
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by paulmd 3y ago
frankly this was also my experience with chatgpt. every single request was initially "no, I can't do that" and having to wheedle and cajole it into working. and I wasn't asking it to build me a bomb, it was basic stuff.
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by paulmd 3y ago
it isn't just california either, deficient and neglected infrastructure is basically a national-scale problem. around my area we blew up two substations during a heatwave last summer. we constantly get brownouts at 4-6pm during the
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by paulmd 3y ago
RCA? You mean like the speaker plug? /s I wonder if there are other eponymous products which have similarly outlived the company that created them?
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by paulmd 3y ago
ah yes surely epic's entirely legitimate, bona-fide crusade against the indignity and injustice of walled-gardens will be enhanced by (checks notes) selling to the mouse?
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by paulmd 3y ago
show me a “dream job” and I’ll show you an industry that is notorious for chewing up dreams and spitting them out game developer, musician, mangaka, streamer, etc
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by paulmd 3y ago
there's also the possibility there is some correlation between autism spectrum and weed anxiety, and that HN naturally attracts nerds who tend to be (mildly) on the spectrum. there's no particularly major evidence that it's h
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by paulmd 3y ago
11bn on 19bn is only because of AI sales - when you are selling $40k enterprise chips for $100k it's going to push margins up. The 2022 numbers are before AI kicked in, and those numbers are roughly comparable to what Radeon Group make
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by paulmd 3y ago
> 50% profit margins are obscene and a product of rent-seeky behaviour on their monopolisation of the gfx compute market. For a sense of perspective, Nvidia’s operating margins as a company (including enterprise) are normally about the
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by paulmd 3y ago
Type certification is a thing that exists, and the whole reason the 737 max is designed in this particular wonky way is so that it can grandfather into the type certification from the existing 737 family. https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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by paulmd 3y ago
Unfortunately there was a very good reason for making this change: https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/more-than-1000-android-apps... There is (of course) always a bunch of hardware that never gets updated when some
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by paulmd 3y ago
Step 1: use appletv 4k as much as it pains a certain set of nerds, using a dedicated stream device is still the best way to bypass the arbitrary hurdles that streamers throw at you. To build a general pc that gets Dolby vision and atmos wor
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by paulmd 3y ago
Phalanx: “is it for me???” https://www.reddit.com/r/NonCredibleDefense/comments/13kd6m0...
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by paulmd 3y ago
Very healthy except for 6-8th graders, you mean
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by paulmd 3y ago
(apologies but it's a goodie) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
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by paulmd 3y ago
I’ve had police cruisers (Escalade/SUV) high-beam me from the oncoming lane and blind me for the last 50 feet because they didn’t like my (factory stock) low beams. It’s that normalized of a thing / that little of an issue here.
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by paulmd 3y ago
keyword: “hero image”

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