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by paulmd 2y ago
Imagine doing this in 2008 or whatever. Google voice was the future. Pff, checking my voicemail? My voicemails get transcribed and texted to me! Then they didn’t update it for 10 years, rolled back a bunch of features, and still have not e
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by paulmd 2y ago
because people don’t disclose when they’re acting nefariously, and there are no automated systems monitoring that, so you’ve got an uphill battle to prove that it even exists as a problem let alone that someone did it intentionally, etc. in
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by paulmd 2y ago
https://i.imgur.com/yiR1L1d.png https://i.imgur.com/dnJACSd.png (these had a $25 rebate) these were $115 barebones iirc (add SSD and memory). https://www.servethehome.com/zotac-zbox-bi320-u
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by paulmd 2y ago
Jevon’s paradox in action - improvements in the efficiency have caused our usage of these resources to soar. If you think AI uses a lot of energy now, just wait until there’s commercially successful use-cases. On the other hand it’s also no
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by paulmd 2y ago
> As another comment pointed out, Apple don't provide the same level of access for app developers for iPhones, yet don't have the same scrutiny. I'd wager this is partially because antivirus vendors for iPhone never existe
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yes, that's always been the marketing gimmick. $35, for something with no case, no storage, no power adapter (and off-the-shelf adapters were not suitable at the time), that had a critical flaw with its system bus/all USB devices
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by paulmd 2y ago
Was Germany following a policy of stockpiling Greek drachmas to an internationally-significant extent before Greece joined the euro? You left off the prior in your rush to attack the conclusion, but no, if you separate the necessary conditi
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by paulmd 2y ago
this doesn't seem to reflect the reality of the way hardware is actually being added to the cores, where Zen5 features a fourth ALU which is only useful to a single thread in the low-single-digits. https://old.reddit.com&#x2
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by paulmd 2y ago
Those things are insane value for the money. First breakout product intel has had in a long time, honestly. The downsides are that it's single-channel memory, which I'm not overly thrilled about, personally. Although I understan
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by paulmd 2y ago
no, the booksize pcs of the time were pretty comparable to what you see today in terms of power. rpi was a bit cheaper and lower-power... but also vastly slower. Like a factor of 4x if not more (10x?). Remember: single-core, ARMv6Z 32b, 7
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by paulmd 2y ago
> And remember, the point of the Raspberry Pi was not to bring a cheap, high performance computer to prototypers. It was created to aid schools in teaching kids about computers. They've changed their tune ever since just about every
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by paulmd 2y ago
The ECS Liva X is 10+ years old, it’s a product I bought in 2014. You’re seeing elevated prices from scalpers who are selling stock of a product that was discontinued 8 years ago, buying a new-in-box GTX 760 is going to run you a premium as
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by paulmd 2y ago
i've done the rant many times before [1] but frankly rpi has almost never made sense. there were always things like the ECS Liva/Liva X for $100-125 that were fully-featured, for roughly the same price as a rpi once you consider
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by paulmd 2y ago
Server boards don’t mean it’s being run in-spec. The workstation boards will let you configure many parameters out-of-spec and in fact some vendors will configure them out-of-spec by default. For example W680 is definitely capable of config
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by paulmd 2y ago
Based on the reports of corruption and data loss from actual users, I don’t think this claim is true at all.
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by paulmd 2y ago
Pretty sure intel literally is deploying a fix in august, right?
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by paulmd 2y ago
Regardless though why would it potentially being higher in newer architectures be viewed as a good thing?
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by paulmd 2y ago
High SMT speedups aren’t a good thing, because those are pipeline bubbles - resources that can’t be saturated by the first thread. The ideal speedup from SMT is 0% because you’d be getting full output for a single thread. Like if you got a
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by paulmd 2y ago
Sure, as long as it’s not observable in any way, it’s not observable. But the problem is that speculation has been repeatedly been found to be observable in unexpected ways from both brands. Amd, for example, has observability issues in all
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by paulmd 2y ago
Yes, certainly. Can you quote the line where they say “there is no fix for crashing 13th/14th-gen CPUs” for example?
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by paulmd 2y ago
Which things in this article are actually specific statements from intel as opposed to assertions from some rando at the verge? like the assertion that intel won’t warranty the processors isn’t actually anything intel has said, as far as I
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by paulmd 2y ago
this is funny because it’s going to be the opposite. tray processors and even retail units both get reduced warranty in the datacenter and the people who are going to get screwed are those with a chip failing at 18 months or whatever, since
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by paulmd 2y ago
this is exactly the kind of scenario where you’d expect to find a high-value zero-day deployed (state-level actor against a known, high-value target) so I see no reason to disregard the actual claim in favor of a lesser one. yes, this class
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by paulmd 2y ago
Same as the hospital systems. It simply is not going to be sustainable in the long term to allow religious control of massive portions of our social safety net, given the overt politicization of religion over the past decades, and the massi
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by paulmd 2y ago
> So shipping people across the country, forcing them to move... Hasn't this country done that before? I mean yes, a lot of those people were literally shipped there from the rust belt or southern states. Famously Texas and company
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by paulmd 2y ago
not if they meet spec/are fit for sale, no. obviously that’s not the case here, but as a rule yeah, your cpu could have been reworked or something and it’s not normal for any brand to tell you that.
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by paulmd 2y ago
I mean this seems like the same thing that happened to the rest of the market already… the consolidation is just happening within the chrome ecosystem rather than it happening to the alternatives. Almost as if it was a bad idea to kick away
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by paulmd 2y ago
That was the defacto state of things up until windows 10 moved to a forced update model. In that world we regularly had massive malware waves and resultant massive botnets constantly disrupting critical infrastructure. We moved away from th
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by paulmd 2y ago
No tech company is going to announce every single wafer that’s ever been etched and reworked or has some random process problem that causes a discard or a batch failure. It happens constantly, 10-20% of chips being rejects or salvages is a
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by paulmd 2y ago
Not really? Which of these generations do you feel is a 1-3% uplift? https://openbenchmarking.org/vs/Processor/Intel+Core+i7-2600...

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