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by tgma 1y ago
Oh, fair enough -- you are correct compared to 5950x. I was mentally comparing my personal experience with 7950x. Yes 1.7-1.9x seems fair for a bump from 5950x to 9950x (albeit at a higher power draw).
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by tgma 1y ago
The OP was talking beyond just compute hardware. Stuff like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/womenintech/comments/1jusbj2/amazon...
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by tgma 1y ago
Not even. Probably closer to 30%, and that's if you are doing actual many-core compile workloads on your critical path.
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by tgma 1y ago
FANG is not monolithic. Amazon is famously cheap. So is Apple in my opinion based on what I have heard (you get random refurbished hardware that is available not some standardized thing, sometimes with 8GB RAM sometimes something nicer) App
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by tgma 1y ago
Of course there has been also PGP since the dawn of time. They all fall under unless the sender actively does so that I explicitly mentioned. I can send you PGP encrypted email you could have used Gmail or Proton or whatever. It is about
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by tgma 1y ago
I don't understand the logic. I mean if you hate Google, or you specifically want to avoid Google having your data sure, but whichever email provider you choose will have at some point access to your plaintext email and they may choose
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by tgma 1y ago
I'm not following the drama, but even an older M1 Pro Mac beats almost every other PC laptop for Linux unless you specifically need x86 (or in love with OLED panels). In fullness of time, Macs are popular enough that I am confident Lin
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by tgma 1y ago
Linux performs quite well on M1/M2 Macs (I'd even argue they are the best laptops to run Linux), almost counter-intuitively to some people's expectations. The worst Macs to run Linux on are actually the last Intel models with
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by tgma 1y ago
What good is optimizing for the open web when the Pixels lack a sufficiently fast processor for bloated web pages. Haven't tried the 10 yet, but Pixel 9 is sufficiently slow that you can see tearing artifacts when you scroll. This is a
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by tgma 1y ago
If they can't explain what the product is, it is because they are effectively selling custom high margin consulting services anchored on a data pipeline product. This is not too dissimilar from Oracle, et al, that sell "solutions,
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by tgma 1y ago
Because we already have some government funded open source run by academics, so that is a grounded approximation of how well or poorly it could look like. I don't know where you live, but I hope OpenSSL is not developed like the road
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by tgma 1y ago
A capitalist institution, in this case Amazon, charges some basic tax for providing basic services, e.g. package delivery, that have overlap with traditionally public infrastructure, but executes at a higher quality. One could imagine somet
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by tgma 1y ago
Isn't it already? You deduct the salary expense from your corporate profits.
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by tgma 1y ago
I would be much more excited in finding ways to fund public infrastructure like Amazon does Prime rather than going the other way around. If anything, academic open source which is the closest alternative has not really produced much and t
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by tgma 1y ago
Is there really a valid use case these days if you are not a hobbyist/fanboy or have existing Solaris workload compared to FreeBSD (or Linux if licensing isn't an issue)? ZFS seems quite well-supported on those.
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by tgma 1y ago
Yes, AM5 DDR5 support has been similarly painful to me on four systems (7950X and 9950X). Try forcing the memory speed down to 3600MHz (ouch) when you want to install lots of memory and stay on modules specified on the motherboard's Q
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by tgma 1y ago
If you can't, your performance will likely be abysmal though, so there's almost no middle ground for the LLM workload.
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by tgma 1y ago
Even on regular AMD 7000 and 9000 series the DDR5 memory controller is very sensitive and hard to get a stable system with fast RAM on many motherboards when all 4 modules are present. At today's RAM speeds, I definitely think a stabl
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by tgma 1y ago
That's just called a PCIe x4 [1]. Each PCIe lane is an independent channel. The wider slot will simply have disconnected pins. You can actually do this with regular motherboard PCIe x4 slots by cutting the plastic at the end of the sl
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by tgma 1y ago
If you don’t close the box of the system at some point to isolate the input, efficiency would be meaningless. I think in the context of the original post, suggesting running a server in winter would be a zero-waste endeavor if you need the
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by tgma 1y ago
Sure. That has nothing to do with the efficiency of your system though. As far as you are concerned this is about your electricity consumption for the home server vs gas consumption. In that sense resistive heat inside the home is 100% effi
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by tgma 1y ago
> Intel was (and arguably still is) too large relative to its current technical capabilities. Yet even in this current “bad chips” era, Intel is only, at worst, about 10% behind in gaming performance (largely due to cache disparity) and
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by tgma 1y ago
This administration (and the previous one) have been paying billions of dollars to chip companies to make fabs in the United States. Trump in particular is essentially trying to make sure Intel lives despite market forces. It is effectively
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by tgma 1y ago
Heat pump sure, but how is gas furnace more efficient than resistive load inside the house? Do you mean more economical rather than more efficient (due to gas being much cheaper/unit of energy)?
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by tgma 1y ago
Sure, that's why I had computers italicized to indicate the specific modern definition, not everything that computes .
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by tgma 1y ago
Well, to be fair, you are questioning terminology bastardization in "computer science," a field that is named after "computers" and "science" but has little to do with either. One should temper their expectatio
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by tgma 1y ago
I actually think overly focusing on the memoized recursion undermines the core conception of dynamic programming. Remember, as noted in the post, the term programming refers to a tabular method of planning, i.e. specifically, the bottom
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by tgma 1y ago
There was a universe before digital computers were popular or a thing at all. Computing predates computers .
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Programming terminology is in the same vein as " Linear Programming ..." As per Wikipedia, that origin story is somewhat disputed: "According to Russell and Norvig, the above story "cannot be strictly true, because his f
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by tgma 1y ago
What did the poster make up? There's one line where they speculated about future and a commentary about beef existing to this day which is subjective but the rest of it was 100% factual: Apple relied on Google for training their LLM fo

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