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541.
by sliken 3y ago
Sort of. Random writes are fine as long as they are as large as the physical write block size (not the virtual 512b or 4k) and there's a queue depth high enough to keep the drive busy. Unless you are lucky enough to have Intel's
542.
by sliken 3y ago
In my experience, after handling many dozens of systems (out of 3000) with ECC errors, it's quite rare for the problem to be reproducible in memtest86. Running in production often triggers many errors per day. Our alarm threshold is
543.
by sliken 3y ago
Not sure what it is about memtest86, but in my experience it doesn't find most memory errors. I've had serious memory issues, that trigger memlogd, dmesg, or similar about EDAC/ECC errors. I try memtest86 over night, no err
544.
by sliken 3y ago
Heh, I had some Cisco gear, from a company Cisco bought. It would crash under certain conditions. They gave me the "we need a support contract" line. I said I didn't need support and don't need new features. I just w
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by sliken 3y ago
Sure kick the can down the road ... just like the dinosaurs did. Mitigating risk of an extinction level event from an asteroid seems much like a supervolcano. Sure the risk in any given year is low, but losing a 1-8 billion is a big loss,
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by sliken 4y ago
> What Apple is doing is inflexible and expensive. High bandwidth, High capacity, and cheap ... pick 2. If you need memory bandwidth for more then 64GB Apple is unmatched at anywhere close to the price. Apple has a unique combination of
547.
by sliken 4y ago
There have been numerous attempts at GPU friendly memory systems for CPUs. Iris Pro had an off chip, but inside package help. I forget if it was cache, ram, or edram. The current apple solution looks like the best I've seen (100,200
548.
by sliken 4y ago
Grace + Hopper is very similar to a 4090 + CPU. They are each on their own die/chiplet, but share a package. The CPU will of course be ARM not x86-64, but otherwise very similar to what you describe.
549.
by sliken 4y ago
More like 2x. Apple for instance uses lpddr5 for 100, 200, 400, or 800GB/sec. It's mostly bus width, not the memory technology that makes a big difference.
550.
by sliken 4y ago
Keep in mind that PC sockets have very little memory bandwidth. Even the fancy new AM5 socket with DDR5 and the "recommended" overclocking to DDR5-6000 leaves you with 96GB/sec. Even the lowly RX 6400 has a dedicated 128GB&
551.
by sliken 4y ago
Mine crashed, lost none of my found items, but lost all the efficiency, tank size, and thrust improvements. To make it worse they were still missing from the world so I couldn't find them again.
552.
by sliken 4y ago
Agreed, fortunately b skips to the boss.
553.
by sliken 4y ago
My dad used to say the perfect race car would explode into a million pieces just after it crossed the finish line. Anything more robust is wasted weight.
554.
by sliken 4y ago
Normal cars are designed from wide temperature ranges (something like -30F to 130F), -100 to 14k feet altitude, with a wide range of sand, dirt, snow, ice, hail and a wide variety of roads surfaces and steepness. Generally they seem design
555.
by sliken 4y ago
It's pretty bad, especially with the trend for darker movies and every light has a blocky grey halo. Definitely hurts the immersion.
556.
by sliken 4y ago
Sad. Bluray sounds and looks better than any video streaming I've seen. Never look for compression artifacts, you'll never be able to enjoy highly compressed streaming again. I got a LG C1 tv, upgraded netflix to 4k streaming ..
557.
by sliken 4y ago
> You need the grid either way. True, although potentially a cheaper grid. > Why would you ever want to pay your neighbor $10/kWh plus the $100/month for the connection? $100 seems like a high connection fee, I think it&#x27
558.
by sliken 4y ago
"their strong preference would be to buy from a generator 500 miles away for 5-10% the cost." Agreed, they want to maximize profit in an environment where they don't pay for externalizes like carbon emissions, pollution, glob
559.
by sliken 4y ago
Say a power plant is 50 miles away. There's substantial cost running the grid 50 miles, buying the contiguous land, building high voltage towers, the copper, the maintenance, the substations, etc. Thus the delivery cost is huge and t
560.
by sliken 4y ago
> retail = wholesale No. > Is transmission and distribution fully covered by the connection fee? No. Retail cost pays for long distance transmission and distribution. Thus PGE paying some power plant 100 miles away, running high vol
561.
by sliken 4y ago
Because generators aren't paying their fair share of the grid, a chunk of their power is wasted on transmission losses, etc. If I make 10kw with solar on my roof and someone else in my neighborhood uses it it makes the world a better p
562.
by sliken 4y ago
It's really simple. Every grid user should pay retail price for power at the spot retail price when they buy it from the grid Every grid user should be paid retail price for power at the spot retail price when they send it to the grid.
563.
by sliken 4y ago
Well at least for now, any non-trivial code is going to be written by a human+AI, likely one function at a time. It's pretty rare for the AI to give me exactly what I want, often I have to tweak my prompts multiple times, and even jus
564.
by sliken 4y ago
Sure, that's 3%, but what about shipping 2x, 4x, and 8x as wide memory systems, largely enabled by not using industry standard dimms.
565.
by sliken 4y ago
Stupid wide? Pins, memory controllers, and traces (and layers) on motherboards aren't cheap. Apple just decided that the paying memory bandwidth was worth it. Is there some reason why you think the extra memory bandwidth was stupid?
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by sliken 4y ago
Up until recently I'd have agreed on Apple's. Increasingly Apple seem to be blocking tracking, noteably from facebook, to make the most profit of that tracking. I've read claims that apple made between $5B and $20B on advert
567.
by sliken 4y ago
But should fit easily on a Apple MBP or Studio with 96GB or 128GB of unified memory.
568.
by sliken 4y ago
How many line of codes are in the kernel, drivers, and apps on your laptop/desktop? How sure are you that all that code has been reviewed by a 3rd party? How many CVEs a year impact your laptop/desktop? Do you have any reason to
569.
by sliken 4y ago
Sort of, a traditional SSD is a combination of flash storage and a flash controller. Apple puts the flash controller inside their apple silicon.
570.
by sliken 4y ago
3%? M2 = 100GB/sec M2 pro = 200GB/sec M2 max = 400GB/sec M1 Extreme = 800GB/sec. Most x86-64 laptops and desktops are in the 60-80GB/sec range. Some desktop or server only chip (threadripper, epyc, Xeons, a few int

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