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by paulmd 2y ago
SMM is merely a macguffin in this situation, it’s a tool to get the system into a privileged mode whereupon you buffer overflow it with a mailbox message or something. I’d really think that based on your username you have to already be awar
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by paulmd 2y ago
that’s silly. Everyone in this industry fuses off features, AMD included. Ryzen Pro APUs have disabled ecc support for example. Consumer RX 7000 gpus have crippled DisplayPort feature support/bandwidth. Consumer Hawaii had gimped FP64
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by paulmd 2y ago
even for consumers, the existence of a PSP implies that you don’t want that PSP to become compromised. It has the complete ability to fuck with your container instance in any way it wants with no mitigations possible. You immediately fall i
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by paulmd 2y ago
well, like it or not that's a real use-case - and not just DRM/anti-cheat but also things like homomorphic encryption. there's lots of interest in being able to do useful things when the owner of the machine might be an atta
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by paulmd 2y ago
no, that is the whole point of the Secure Encrypted Virtualization hypervisor (and remember, bare-metal is just another guest). Guests should not be able to jump to hypervisor control just because they type sudo, or just because they have
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by paulmd 2y ago
No, actually it will make it worse since obesity generally lowers lifetime healthcare spending. This is counterintuitive but we barely spend anything on anyone who’s not a senior, so anything that helps people live longer generally results
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by paulmd 2y ago
> Moreover, that bad review has not tested the domains where Zen 5 has up to double performance when compared to any previous desktop CPU, like floating-point computations, cryptography or ML/AI. These use cases alone are a good eno
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by paulmd 2y ago
use the open kernel driver, which is MIT/GPL and thus cannot impose usage restrictions. it's worth noting that "NVIDIA software stack" is an imprecise term. the driver is the part that has the datacenter usage term, and
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by paulmd 2y ago
For an even spicier take: GPL has accelerated/worsened this trend, imo. Not out of anything they really did wrong, but actually just by well-intentioned success. It’s about “code revenue” vs “services revenue”. If I can’t sell you a c
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by paulmd 2y ago
I think that’s part of the problem - android doesn’t work as a product model, for literally anyone involved. Google would not be doing it if it wasn’t for the advertising business. It’s pretty much the definition of a loss-leader to get peo
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by paulmd 2y ago
ELK stack is unrelated, this is the analytical/OLAP use-case not the logging stack stuff. Although you can say that logging is a specific use-case of the analytical/OLAP. Search for the discussion around "facets". Basic
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by paulmd 2y ago
I trust them not to make provably false statements, yeah. Walking the line of "well, we didn't say..." is one thing but if they say the oxidation issue was ended in may 2023 then I don't see a reason to doubt that.
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by paulmd 2y ago
I mean, the licensing thing exists as a separate anti-consumer behavior that is frankly unconscionable both artistically and in consumer rights in itself. Companies shouldn’t be allowed to delete stuff out of my library because they don’t w
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by paulmd 2y ago
Well, you’re not going to find centuries of easily-accessible fuel by raiding gas stations. Good luck drilling natural gas two miles under the gulf with your renaissance era mineshafts.
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by paulmd 2y ago
Narrator: the market grew massively going forward. Again, that’s why you see these periodic mining bubbles, AI bubbles, etc, as various fields discover their killer app for gpgpus. You should stop calling them mining bubbles or whatever and
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by paulmd 2y ago
Apple, and I think the other dark horse is Sony. The problem has always been ecosystem and these are the only 3 platforms that anyone is in organically because they actually want to be there. Being a compiler target for someone else’s ecosy
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by paulmd 2y ago
the bigger problem is that if society collapses again there are few easily-accessible resources anymore, particularly fuel/energy. Consider the coincidence of factors that led to the industrial age in Britain… some of those can’t be re
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yeah. The product isn’t AI, the product is Jensen - and he’s a legitimate business savant. He has an uncanny ability to see where the market could be going in 5-10 years and execute iteratively to get there. Right now you are seeing the RT
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by paulmd 2y ago
I would assume that’s packagd power and I mean total system power, using the “stats” cask with the average system power sensor. I will play with it and see if I can get package power. But the overall point is that even looking at total syst
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by paulmd 2y ago
As an owner of an ice lake macbook I can tell you definitively that it’s still utter shit compared to the apple silicon ones. Best case scenario it idles at 14w system power, while my 2020 m1 mba idled at <5w and sometimes <3w at very
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by paulmd 2y ago
they have been cooking on it for decades too - larrabee was 2009 after all. Xeon phi survived that collapse and continued for another decade. Honestly the problem is the same then as it was today - having good hardware isn’t enough. You nee
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by paulmd 2y ago
MT is one thing but in ST it’s still simply not even close. Even the Qualcomm SDXE pulls fully 15w less than AMD, and apple pulls 10w less than Qualcomm. 60w peak power consumption for a literal single thread. 35w average. https:/&#x2
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by paulmd 2y ago
AI is more than these new language models.
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yes, but it is. It’s a well-known problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect Again, you’ve gotta remember that originally, playing chess was considered an unfathomable expression of machine thinking. Now it’s a
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by paulmd 2y ago
maybe apple, but intel would never fall for such a simplistic ploy. their lawyer are a million billion miles ahead of you, kiddo. https://i.imgur.com/fop769Z.jpeg (too bad they didn't pay such close attention to the p
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by paulmd 2y ago
It'd be ironic for that photographer to turn the tables and come after them for violating exhibition rights - just because you purchased a copy of a work does not mean you can just show it in a public location to whoever you want. F
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by paulmd 2y ago
I honestly don’t know that level of nuts-and-bolts detail on it, what is bad about it? /curious (I know the encryption annex that google has tacked on would basically kill the promise of interop, but other than that, still bad?)
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by paulmd 2y ago
contemporary discussion (as they say: "thanks, macro-expanded:") https://old.reddit.com/r/nvidia/comments/9ge8t0/rtx_2080_vol... https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/com
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by paulmd 2y ago
If we’re throwing out suggestions to improve society, the FTC should ban the practice of injecting latency into connections. I don’t care about being throttled to 3G speeds. I do care about being throttled to 3G latency and beyond. Sure, my
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by paulmd 2y ago
a system that can be scaled 333x or pushed into radically different allocation patterns by changing one or two constants seems like an odd choice for arguing that YAGNI and you shouldn't plan for anything beyond 10x/should plan fo

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