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by rarecoil 7y ago
ROCm doesn't completely suck with the Radeon VII, which is a Radeon Instinct MI50. Deep learning is not my day job and I'd like to avoid supporting NVidia's insane prices for DL-capable cards, so I've been dealing with
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by rarecoil 7y ago
If you go to the bottom of the page, you'll notice that https://12factor.net/ is written by Adam Wiggins, a Heroku cofounder.
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by rarecoil 7y ago
I think we might simply be wrong as to what we got out of the iPhone SE and what Apple's intent with it was. The SE was a substantially cheaper iPhone. Perhaps at the time, Apple had a bunch of old 5/5S-style hardware that they ne
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by rarecoil 7y ago
So the author is wrong in his conclusion? I am happy to know the correct answer.
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by rarecoil 7y ago
> It is very likely that the reason the transistor failed was because of poor cooling, as it is a low cost, high-resistance transistor that is running near its design limits. To prevent the problem from re-occuring, a soft / deforma
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by rarecoil 7y ago
I just learned about Crystal a couple of weeks ago and it's completely subsumed every new personal project I have into its domain. I have long missed Ruby's syntax and human-friendly feel, but began to prefer the speed I could fin
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by rarecoil 7y ago
The Let's Note series is underrated. I wish they sold them in America.
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by rarecoil 7y ago
I assume you mean implementing in secure code hard.
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by rarecoil 7y ago
> The way to reach people is not with scolding I think it's an unfair assumption to say that I'm scolding the teams I work with by trying to educate them on security issues - the fact that that is your takeaway from my last pos
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by rarecoil 7y ago
I'm a product security engineer. I reference these all of the time during my own work to make sure I didn't miss something stupid, but I also hand links out to them to engineers when we do find bugs in their code. Most of the time
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by rarecoil 7y ago
This calculation makes me curious, as I know very little about computer engineering/hardware but want to learn: what is the current-most energy-efficient general CPU architecture/core in performance-per-watt? Some high-speed ARM
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by rarecoil 7y ago
> Is there no value in having a nice S-curve, ending up as one of the most profitable companies in history, and then just staying insanely profitable for a long time in a sustainable way? Not to investors that want a quick ROI quarter-ov
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by rarecoil 7y ago
Inmarsat offers relatively slow, very expensive satellite Internet uplink services if you really need some connectivity: https://www.inmarsat.com/service/isathub/
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by rarecoil 7y ago
Arch Linux and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC. While it may be slower to use Windows, the difference hasn't been immediately obvious. I use Windows for gaming and browsing only and stay in Arch most of the time.
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by rarecoil 7y ago
SATA SSDs also come in M.2 format.
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by rarecoil 7y ago
> I'm not sure if you dropped a part in there that maxed out at 512MB/s that I could even notice. I've done exactly this. I tried to run an NVMe drive and a SATA drive back-to-back in the same laptop to see if I could noti
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by rarecoil 7y ago
It should. You'll need to run a script such as this: https://egpu.io/forums/mac-setup/script-enable-egpu-on-tb1-2...
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by rarecoil 7y ago
Not brought up here, but the Apple Thunderbolt 2 -> Thunderbolt 3 adapter is one of the only ones that actually works in reverse , too. With some hacks from eGPU.io, I ran an Nvidia GTX 1060 on a Mac Mini for a while over TB2 for hashca
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by rarecoil 7y ago
I have a PicoCluster 3S [1] kit I bought to make a clean Kubernetes cluster. I just ordered 3 4GB RPi 4s for it. I'm very excited. I use an ODROID-C2 as a home server for most tasks, and while the ARM cores are sufficiently fast, with
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by rarecoil 7y ago
> Granted I'm still scared to run Linux on a laptop as I don't believe I will get the same battery life out of it as I do with Windows. Using tlp, setting all settings in Powertop and undervolting with intel-undervolt will get
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by rarecoil 7y ago
In the first example, this guy goes and pops a (web)shell on Datatables.net. There's no security policy, no bounty program, etc. for this site or its owner[2]. Generally I don't believe it's a good idea to go pwning businesse
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by rarecoil 7y ago
Power consumption is somewhat irrelevant if you live in a place where there is hydro or solar power - eWaste recycling is a huge environmental problem [1], and manufacturing has its own environmental footprint [2]. Buying used hardware is g
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by rarecoil 7y ago
Aside from the questionable industrial design, I think this is very close to what Apple really needed to do. Pro users don't just want modularity/expandability, they actively need it. While CPU performance has kind of stagnated, G
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by rarecoil 7y ago
> I will try and switch to a simpler phone Cat B35 to see if I can cut out smart phone addiction. The Cat B35 uses KaiOS which is a Firefox OS clone. I will also carry a pocket camera like a Sony Rx100 for taking good quality photos. I&#
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by rarecoil 7y ago
> Or you could petition, harass, bribe and cajole your way into enacting change, and have it all overturned with a change in administration. This is the reason why technological solutions are popular among the Silicon Valley crowd. No ma
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by rarecoil 7y ago
> 100% ARGB / SRGB. The T490 does 100% Adobe RGB? I'm impressed. Seems like Lenovo has been really listening to people complain about the horrendous gamut ThinkPads have been afflicted with for some time.
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by rarecoil 7y ago
> At this point a lot of them would look at me like I was insane, and reply with some variant of "I can't do it" or "we were never taught how to do that" and want to reach for the computer, whereupon I would stop
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by rarecoil 7y ago
Wasn't that kind of the point of the "Pro" line? I mean, if you just wanted a kinda cool laptop, you'd buy a MacBook or MacBook Air. It's now the MacBook Prosumer, and there is no pro option. Hacker News has been wh
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by rarecoil 7y ago
After having wrecked many MicroSD cards with ARM SBCs, I have found that the Samsung High Endurance MicroSD cards[1] have held up to consistent use so far, including being used as backing scratch stores / swap space for calculations on
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by rarecoil 7y ago
The Ryzen explosion on HN as of late is because the AMD chips have not fallen victim to MDS, and I think people have been looking for alternatives to the Intel monopoly.

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