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by paulmd 3y ago
This is another very good release that is also being somewhat bizarrely panned too. Yeah, it's essentially a 7600 16GB/4060 16GB, and that's what people wanted a few months ago, more VRAM. It also opens up a bunch of possib
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by paulmd 3y ago
with both you and GP, I would imagine the answer is that people tend to build models to the hardware that is available. If 12GB and 24GB are the hardware thresholds that people have, you'll get "open-source action" in the 12
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by paulmd 3y ago
Litecoin and Doge and Ethereum were mined on GPUs throughout that period. And in fact all the other coins are tied to bitcoin in the first place, bitcoin price runs also trigger huge mining booms in everything else, so yeah, it's kind
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by paulmd 3y ago
The problem USG is dancing around is that this policy is probably not legal if you laid it out in the plain text, regardless of whether it's strategically desirable. If tomorrow the USG came out and said "the goal is to deny
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by paulmd 3y ago
you're not wrong about google groups being a major vector for spam, but it is funny to watch people approve of gatekeeping interoperability when it's the one THEY care about. the imessage thing is the same as google groups, or if
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by paulmd 3y ago
in general, a lot of people get pretty worked up about anything having to do with the fruit company so I find it often helps to just substitute in "discord" and see if the argument sounds hyperbolic. "discord is intentionally
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by paulmd 3y ago
> People were quite upset to have lost their ports in 2016 too. 5 years later Apple added some back. it's always funny when usb-c (vs lightning, usb-a, etc) discussions come up, because there's very much people in favor of doin
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by paulmd 3y ago
in fairness, the EU (for example) has not really lived up to its principled position on migrant rights in practice. The northern states have pushed policies that stick the burden for migrants on the first state in which the refugee enters,
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by paulmd 3y ago
This limitation doesn’t really apply anymore with the open kernel driver. They can’t stop you from using a GPL-licensed driver in a datacenter or any other way you want.
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by paulmd 3y ago
Ah, another commentator rediscovers Keynesianism from first principles ;) It turns out the broken window fallacy is not really a fallacy, under many economic conditions!
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by paulmd 3y ago
that's hilarious, thanks but yeah, it's true, the paradox of intel is that they can get it so wrong in the big picture and execution and integration but sometimes the little details are so right. I225V is a mess. Sapphire Rapids
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by paulmd 3y ago
fujitsu has always been underappreciated in the mainstream tbh. there has always been a thinkpad-style cult following (although much smaller) but japanese companies often do a pretty terrible job at marketing in the west (fujifilm being an
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by paulmd 3y ago
yup. the problem is really with the SMR drives where they can (seemingly) hang for minutes at a time as they flush out the buffer track. ordinary spin-down isn't really a problem, as long as the drives spin up within a reasonable a
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by paulmd 3y ago
Further, it’s the same infowar that’s run against the Aussie and US populations every election cycle. Conservative media in general and Murdoch media in particular has been knowingly, openly collaborating with Russians for years now. We are
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by paulmd 3y ago
pre-release scalping/placeholder prices have been wrong almost 100% of the time they're brought up. they're absolute staples of the twitter leaker crowd who has absolutely nothing better to do, but they have been wrong almost
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by paulmd 3y ago
> One interesting observation I made is that usually mainstream midrange cards seem to hover just over 200mm². That includes for example cards like the HD 7850, but extends all the way to the likes of the RX 580, RX 5700 XT, but also the
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by paulmd 3y ago
> It also has some form of separation anxiety, seeing its need for ReBAR. I also recall very early in Alchemist's life (pre-release) some driver optimization that had a huge benefit, which was just the wrong memory region being used
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by paulmd 3y ago
idk about miners being primarily the ones who complain about prices, but honestly they might be a large number of the people who complain about memory bus reductions . RDNA2 was a relatively poor miner (worse than RDNA1) precisely because
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by paulmd 3y ago
With the way wafer costs keep increasing, physically smaller dies are inevitable. 50% higher density at 30% higher cost or whatever implies that if you keep the same die size, then cost goes up 30%, and in market terms that die has moved u
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by paulmd 3y ago
I agree, 128b is too small for the 4060 Ti's price point. Both AD106 and AD103 really needed another 2 memory controllers per die, that would have given you 4060 Ti 12GB/24GB and 4080 16GB/4080 super 20gb (with quadros using
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by paulmd 3y ago
Yup. 4060/4060 Ti is a great example. Apples to apples, the 4060 is under $300 street price vs the 3060 Ti usually riding at $450 absolute minimum, almost as fast , far more efficient, supports newer DLSS features and AV1 encoding, et
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by paulmd 3y ago
I don't even know what people are really asking for anymore. 4070, 7800XT, 4060, and 7600 were all incredibly high-value launches, and in January we're incredibly likely to get price drops on 12GB cards as well as 16GB cards at t
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by paulmd 3y ago
Paracetamol is one of the most dangerous OTC drugs on the market, with one of the narrowest theraputic ranges and almost certainly would not be approved today. However, as the article mentions the FDA tends to lean strongly towards grandfa
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by paulmd 3y ago
I was looking at this recently and still couldn’t make it work smoothly. The server itself is fine but I couldn’t get Firefox to pick up the new sync server url from about:config. Possibly my fault and I need to poke at it a little more but
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by paulmd 3y ago
Blue bubbles bad syndrome. Gotta bring it up when ever humanly possible. Nvidia has a very similar green man bad syndrome going on too. As the amount of time a HN discussion on Nvidia increases, the probability of mentioning that Linus said
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by paulmd 3y ago
Godspeed
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by paulmd 3y ago
Ground level judges don’t matter all that much if they fuck around. > (2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains— or (C) information from any protected computer; (4) know
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by paulmd 3y ago
we still are exceptionally bad at managing large in-groups (or ostensible in-groups). discord is a perfect example, you can fairly easily maintain relationships with 10 groups of 50 people, but 500 people is a chore
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by paulmd 3y ago
LTT recently did a video on the last model of the XServe and one of the interesting points is that it's got a self-hosted XMPP/jabber chat server (and mail/exchange, VPN, time machine backup hosting, etc), and he pointed out
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by paulmd 3y ago
It’s an obvious play policy violation. Can’t have apps that are deliberately and obviously intended solely to violate the terms of service of another service, or conduct illegal activity (CFAA unauthorized access). You won’t find Reddit is

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