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by ryao 1y ago
If you find it annoying, why not configure a custom blocking rule in an adblocker to remove it?
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by ryao 1y ago
JPEG XL support will probably resemble JPEG 2000 support after enough time has passed: https://caniuse.com/jpeg2000
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by ryao 1y ago
It occurs to me that writing by those in STEM fields and those in the humanities is entirely different and each group dislikes the other’s writing. When I was in college, my professors in technical classes had no problems with my writing. A
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by ryao 1y ago
The “whole word” approach had been used to successfully teach children in the past without phonetics and it worked. This avoids the downsides of phonetics. In any case, my earliest memories of learning English involved the “whole word” appr
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by ryao 1y ago
I found this article painful to read, not because reading it was difficult, but because of how deeply flawed it is. It correctly identifies one system of teaching reading as flawed (to put it mildly), but then is an advertisement for anothe
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by ryao 1y ago
Have the known security issues in CDE been fixed?
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by ryao 1y ago
> Microsoft Chairman and General Counsel Brad Smith dismissed such worries Every time I read this guy’s name, I remember how he made false statements to the US Congress about the Golden SAML vulnerability by claiming that Microsoft had n
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by ryao 1y ago
pahole is an awesome tool.
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by ryao 1y ago
If you are using an intrusive data structure, keeping the key on the same cache line as the pointers can make traversals faster. Reducing padding can make this easier to do. In general, keeping commonly accessed together things on the same
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by ryao 1y ago
I remember many Linux fans saying that monocultures were bad until Linux became so popular that Linux was the one benefiting from a monoculture. Despite that, the rationale against monocultures still applies. That said, Illumos is influenti
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by ryao 1y ago
Congratulations everyone at Oxide!
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by ryao 1y ago
> inference is CPU bound This was a typo. It should have been “inference is memory bandwidth bound”.
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by ryao 1y ago
I thought the process used to grow them in a lab was somewhat different than the process used in nature. Labs use Chemical Vapor Deposition while nature uses high pressure and high temperature. The lab grows the diamond crystal while nature
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by ryao 1y ago
AMD CPUs tend to have more memory bandwidth than Intel CPUs and inference is CPU bound, so their claim seems accurate to me. Whether the core does a 512-bit write in 1 cycle or 2 because it is two 256-bit writes is immaterial. Memory bandwi
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by ryao 1y ago
I have done this to videos on my iPhone using extensions called baking soda and vinegar. I then put the video into Picture in Picture mode, turn off the phone, turn it on, press the play button and turn it off again, with the audio still pl
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by ryao 1y ago
It is unlikely that Intel will secure an external customer for any process node given concerns about handing IP to a competitor combined with Intel’s past IP theft incidents (e.g. they stole from DEC to build the pentium processor). Thus we
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by ryao 1y ago
They licensed IBM’s 2nm process and are commercializing it. IBM, despite having sold its fabrication plants, still develops new processes. They just don’t take the risk of trying to implement them in production, and let others who license t
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by ryao 1y ago
There were lawsuits against Intel for IP theft in the news 25+ years ago. It is hard to find articles on them these days as web searches are biased toward recent events, but I was able to find this: https://www.nytimes.com/1
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by ryao 1y ago
Intel’s chances of being a foundry for others are close to 0. It does not matter how good their process technology is. The problem is that Intel was an IP thief in the 80s and 90s; being a foundry requires trusting Intel with the exact IP I
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by ryao 1y ago
I am a fan of Gentoo Prefix. Others like pkgsrc.
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by ryao 1y ago
The stock lost 2/3 of its value under his tenure. After nearly 4 years and a minor recovery in the stock’s value that was reversed into a new 10+ year low for reasons that were almost entirely the CEO’s fault, I expect most boards of d
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by ryao 1y ago
The water cycle involves a natural distillation. Distillation removes pollutants, so the water can be reused.
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by ryao 1y ago
The professional versions should be very profitable. That said, I am hesitant to think that they can sell very many of the professional ones if they don’t sell consumer ones so that software support is there. Maybe they will get the softwar
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by ryao 1y ago
You just need to look at Intel’s stock performance under Gelsinger to see why Gelsinger was let go. His loss of a 40% discount on 3nm from TSMC for upsetting them also did major damage to profits.
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by ryao 1y ago
If you measure memory access time in CPU cycles, you would see that 150 cycles is the ballpark. 16 cycles would be closer to L2 cache.
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by ryao 1y ago
> Community has since found a way to fix this issue - it is possible to use WineD3D, a Direct3D to OpenGL wrapper for Windows, and then everything looks fine. However, it comes at a price – performance can be lowered by as much as 75%! T
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by ryao 1y ago
> Where memory latency hurts for us is ISRs and context switches. The hit rate is temporarily very low, and as you mentioned the IPC suffers greatly. While that is true, that is infrequent and having those memory accesses take 151 cycles
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by ryao 1y ago
I am still considering it.
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by ryao 1y ago
I paid $0.65 each last week at Aldi in NY.
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by ryao 1y ago
I had recently looked up “wrong” to check out of curiosity, and DuckDuckGo only said it was an adjective, so I had stopped using it as an adverb. It turns out that the dictionary states it is an adverb, but you need to click to go to an act

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