torginus

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by torginus 5d ago
I mean when you get your bloodwork done to check for an illness, the test you get will give the right result 90% of the time - and depending on the result, you doc might order more tests, which could be more expensive but no mrpe reliable t
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by torginus 5d ago
these people: write a small novel of recursive loops upon loops of elaborate prompts IRL: OpenAI tells Astra 'plz solv navier stoks kthx bye'
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by torginus 5d ago
Afaik steam deck is quad channel, despite it being a pretty low end chip (with a decent GPU though)
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by torginus 5d ago
Mainly bus width. Afaik HBM is like 1024 bits vs DDRs 64 so you need lots of transfers in parallel to saturate the bus, and CPUs kinda want 64 bytes of data as that's the size of a cache line ASAP. So you need a ton of in flight transf
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by torginus 6d ago
As a layperson myself - how can we tell that a distant celestial object is not made from antimatter? Afaik, it doesn't behave differently from matter, other than it annihilates on contact. Also even if we could, that would only describ
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by torginus 6d ago
Personally while I'm somewhat pragmatic about Rust, I do have to admit it fills a niche that no other language does currently: that of a high-performance, zero runtime memory-safe language. By memory-safety I mean the basic 'no cr
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by torginus 6d ago
Dunno, if US labs would embrace this silly logic, then Anthropic would be compelled to release Fable/Opus 6 instead of a .1 release
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by torginus 6d ago
Generally speaking, as a user of a language, stuff should just work while providing identical results to the target arch. Which means that when cross compiling from x86 to ARM, if lets say, transcendentals provide different results then alw
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by torginus 8d ago
Morally speaking, one of the issues of modern society is the idea that knowledge should be free which was partially started by the file sharing movement, which didn't really move society in the right direction imo. Free means the sam
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by torginus 9d ago
How often does an AZ go down while the other 2 still work?
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by torginus 9d ago
Isn't that the textbook definition of buying votes?
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by torginus 9d ago
I probably underestimated the complexity and I didn't mean to knock on CDNs - I just wanted to say that not all distributed systems have equal complexity, and some require essentially almost serializable transactions, while others are
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by torginus 10d ago
> That’s why these systems are built the way they are. Built how? Because I can state with confidence that I have cleaned up a ton of failed upgrades/zombie terraform deploys of these serverless kubernetes wonders that followed ever
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by torginus 10d ago
Well ackchually.. I get that large scale systems pose their own challenges on their own, but it also matters what's the smallest isolable unit. What I mean by this is a CDN consists of nodes that are horizontally replicable and don&#x2
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by torginus 10d ago
Yup I live in an area built around the time 'roundabout fever' has gripped urban planners, so there's quite a few around. To add a few of my personal complaints: - When there's a low traffic lane merging with a high traf
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by torginus 10d ago
I knew a manager that tried the exact same but in the GPT4 era :D He also got fired/left but as satisfying it would be to say that this was the cause of his demise I can't prove that.
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by torginus 10d ago
Sorry I didn't see your post. But I guess that shows another weakness of Ubuntu's model of versioning. You can't fix a bug if they don't merge. They have their own bugtracker (and so does every distro?) so you, Mr Dev ha
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by torginus 10d ago
I think we are saying the same thing. By disk, i meant disk I/O which is the main practical purpose of the tool. Of course, Linux being Unix, a raw disk is a file, so is /dev/null. Of course a file can be everything, which is
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by torginus 10d ago
> Investors want these units to be as fungible as possible so they can better compare local market dynamics. Commodity trading has a lot of advantages for the investor after all. I think you hit the nail on the head. Lot of the finance m
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by torginus 10d ago
I was thinking about something similar (maybe) - generally speaking, embeddings for LLMs tend to learn real world concepts - things like 'fruit' or 'France' or 'city' as directions in embeddings. But in thing
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by torginus 11d ago
I think most developers have a captive market. They don't really compete, they build whatever they want, and still sell, because somebody somewhere will still buy, since they know they can sell for more.
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by torginus 11d ago
I don't think this computes. Modern 'efficient' industrial design can absolutely fail at efficiency. I have lived in spartan, utilitarian apartments that you could tell were built without any regards for efficient use of livi
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by torginus 11d ago
Yes, these proclamations of Rust devs that 'the future belongs to us', aren't getting any new fans for the language. Here's my rebuttal: YOU have proclaimed the language to be as fast as C while being safe. YOU need to
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by torginus 11d ago
Why does 'Ubuntu defaultism' still exist in the Linux world? Them replacing packages with shitty unworkable broken snap substitutes that can break the system when updating, and have a habit of reinstalling themselves...
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by torginus 11d ago
How can a command which was explicitly designed to do nothing but read and write disk become CPU bound?
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by torginus 11d ago
Why do filesystem indices get stale? The OS can track what files get accessed, isn't inotify watertight? I know that Windows has some equivalent stuff, that the antivirus uses to disallow opening files before they got scanned, so I&#x2
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by torginus 11d ago
On my incredibly midrange PC that has a midrange SSD in it, the Linux `find` and `grep` commands usually can find stuff much quicker than any 'accelerated' and 'cached' desktop search, even though the only caching they u
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by torginus 12d ago
We have been using NVENC with 444 and h264 in production going back years and HW as old as Turing. But it turns out you are right, 444 decoding with H264 doesn't seem to be supported up until recently: https://developer.nvid
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by torginus 12d ago
I'm not super familiar with AV1/AVIF but I do have extensive experience using h264 for desktop streaming, and all major implementations support 444 in hardware and software, and I doubt more advanced codecs/image formats have
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by torginus 12d ago
The funny thing is it used to be that people warned you not to go to dodgy sites as they were full of ads that were trying to steal your money or online identity. It was mostly just scaremongering, but it never hurt to be careful. Nowadays,

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