tverbeure

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   by tverbeure 8mo ago

   And then when something big happens, everybody and their dog starts screaming “how could this happen?!?” You can’t have it both ways… (not specifically directed at you.)
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   by tverbeure 8mo ago

   The FAQ is super informative! https://milk.com/faq/
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   by tverbeure 8mo ago

   > No ..., no ..., no .... Just ... Am I the only one who can't stand this AI slop pattern?
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   by tverbeure 8mo ago

   All of that may be true but it’s irrelevant. If you’re dividing perf by perf/W, it makes no sense to yell “it’s not equal to 100!” You simply failed at dimension analysis taught in high school.
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   by tverbeure 8mo ago

   At the time, desktop power consumption was never a true limiter. Even for the notorious GTX 480, TDP was only 250 W. That aside, it still didn't make sense to compare apples to apples per apple cart...
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   by tverbeure 8mo ago

   > GPGPU can provide about 100 times more speed than CPUs Ok. You're talking about performance. > their performance per watt has oscillated during most of the time around 3 times and sometimes up to 4 times greater in comparison w
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   by tverbeure 8mo ago

   Nobody questions that Anthropic makes revenue from a $20 subscription. The opposite would be very strange.
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   by tverbeure 8mo ago

   I added the following at the top of the blog post that I wrote yesterday: "All words in this blog post were written by a human being." I don't particularly care if people question that, but the source repo is on GitHub: they
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   by tverbeure 8mo ago

   My experience with Tcl is 30 years of using EDA tools, all of them equipped with this language from hell. Luckily, I've been to restrict the scripting part to the minimum. I'm sure that if you know the language well, you can see t
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    by tverbeure 8mo ago

    The worst thing about tcl is that it exists... and it's still the language of choice for EDA tools.
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    by tverbeure 8mo ago

    The real reality is that with direct fuel injection and everything under computer control, warming up the engine isn’t a thing anymore.
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    by tverbeure 8mo ago

    I used to think that getting admitted to YC was a major accomplishment. Maybe it was at some point, but at the college graduation parties of my daughter it seemed like pretty much everyone who tried had gotten in. Most collapsed after a few
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    by tverbeure 8mo ago

    And lawnmowers.
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    by tverbeure 8mo ago

    AV1 has the CfL (chroma from luma) prediction tool. h.266 has CCLM (cross component linear model) and AV2 has improved CfL. When you see the AV2 version, it’s very similar to h.266, which is more advanced than AV1 CfL: they are using filter
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    Maybe after I retire. :-)
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    I'm just surprised that my blog post from almost 6 years ago suddenly made it to the HN front page... That said: only when I need it the same day and it's not too complicated will I use protoboard. Otherwise it's JLCPCB every
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    > rather than research new product areas and field Google “Gsync Pulsar”.
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    Yup! I don't know what the exact mechanism is, but google "monitor flashes when I sit on my chair" and you'll find tons of hits.
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    Similarly, if you have one of those office chairs with a pneumatic shock, dropping down hard on the chair may induce an electromagnetic or ESD pulse that shocks the monitor. There’s a video on YouTube about this somewhere and we were able t
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    No, that would be "in the hat."
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    I remember the backdated document signing parties at my previous company, the day before an ISO audit. So much fun!
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    Thanks for that link. This part made me laugh though: > These detectors, as I understand them, often work by measuring two key things: ‘Perplexity’ and ‘burstiness’. Perplexity gauges how predictable a text is. If I start a sentence, &qu
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    Here's the data from the Berkeley snow lab, located along I80 at the Sugar Bowl exit: https://cssl.berkeley.edu/ Snowfall is currently 75% of normal.
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    Thanks for delving into this key insight!
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    https://tomverbeure.github.io/ Electronics stuff. Used to be about FPGAs, recently mostly about old test equipment. Being doing for 8 years now and still going strong. I try to write at least one blog post every 2 months, b
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    The premise of your question is wrong. I would still write Python for most of my tasks even if I were just as fast at writing C or ASM. Because the conciseness and readability of the code that I use is way more important than execution spee
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    Is the world a better place before or after Bose decided to change course?
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    Not at all relevant in those instance because the blog post was not LLM generated slop.
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    by tverbeure 9mo ago

    FWIW: GDDR is not higher latency than DDR. It just seems that way because the GDDR interface clock is much higher, so the number of clocks are higher too. But in terms of wall clock time, the latency is very similar. Which makes sense: the
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    by tverbeure 10mo ago

    Want does “really” mean? If there are enough opportunities to offload stock on the secondary market (which seems to be the case of them), then it’s not fiction.