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by williamDafoe 1y ago
Open source is a relative thing. Compared to iOS, Android is "incredibly open source!"
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
Is wells fargo not a bank? It doesnt even use 2FA and you can log via a browser in a ship money all over the planet!
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
I did mips per watt calculations in 2017 and Apple (A10 i think) was 2-3x better than intel. See "how to build a computer" by donald gillies (slideshare slides). I was shocked, i didnt expect this at all!
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
X Elite is not better than Ryzen5. Not better at all! Its why i own a hx365 AMD laptop...
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
The 2019 Macs were vertically integrated and Apple could do NOTHING good with the Intel PowerPig i9 CPUs. My i9 once once ran down from 100% charge to 0% in 90 mins PLUGGED IN ON 95W CHARGER! I was hosting a meeting. The M1-M4 CPUs forsa
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
This will come in handy when DARPA builds the Phaser Cannon used to blast the Talosian fortress under the direction of Number One in the 23rd Century ...
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
I always considered stack overflow to be a Band-Aid placed on top of a mistake! The mistake was always poor documentation by the original system designes, and a policy of not allowing edits to the system design doc! And the more mistakes
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
Two thirds of the wikipedia article i wrote in 2003 have been deleted by rabid editors. It was a biography of my father, written based on interviews with my mother. I have found that restoring any of the rabid editor deletions results in
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
USA has three advantages that no place else in the world has. First we have the biggest oil deposit in the history of mankind with the Permian basin. Second we have more inland waterways in the Mississippi River system than the whole rest
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
The next time I want to program in YAML (which is NEVER) I'll use GitHub Actions......
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Does anyone use GHA - full stop? Their stuff seems "me too" in most cases, they are definitely a follower, like microsoft Bing search ... google AI ...
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Does anyone use GoogleAI? For an AI Company with an AI Ceo using AI language translation, I think their actual GPT products are all terrible and have a terrible rep. And who wants their private conversation shipped back to google for spyi
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
The most popular internet protocols are 100% text. This fact is indisputable. I doubt that the guys at google even know this, or know why ....
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
I have no idea how to use your app. It just shows 4 pictures and asks me to choose one. No. I refuse to play a challenge that is not explained wtf am i doing.
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Once you screw up there is a temptation to screw up more and more in the same way ....
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Influencers are the ones doing Q/A for NVidia, what an embarassment! I guess the cards shortages are so severe they didnt have any spares for internal Q/A!
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Actually the wires don't scale down like the transistors do. I remember in graduate school taking VLSI circuit complexity theory and the conclusion was for two dimensional circuits the wires will end Moore's Law. However I'
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
I get this impression that the Rust people think they are a stage where Rust is a viral phenom but it's really not. Nevertheless, they are behaving like its viral and trying to force it down everybody's throats, even though I nev
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
Given that Jensen completely omitted ANY MENTION of rasterization performance, I think we can safely assume it's probably WORSE in the 5000 series than the 4000 series, given the large price cuts applied to every card below then 5090 (
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
1. Because you shoot at puddles? 2. Because you play at night after a rainstorm? Really, these are the only 2 situations where ray tracing makes much of a difference. We already have simulated shadowing in many games and it works pretty
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
The 3090 + 5900x is a mistake. The 5900x is 2 x 5600x CPUs. So therefore, when the games asks for 8 cores, it will get 6 good cores and 2 very slow cores across the infinity switching fabric. What's more, NVidia GPUs take MUCH MORE
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
This is just absolutely false, Steam says that 4.21% of users play at 4K. The number of users that play at higher than 1440p is only 10.61%. So you are wrong, simply wrong.
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
AMD is an excellent choice. NVidia UI has been horrible and AMD adrenaline has been better than NVidia for several years now. With NVidia, you are paying A LOT of extra money for trickery and fake pixels, fake frames, fake (ai) rendeering
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
The 4080 was designed as a strawman card expressly to drive sales towards the 4090. So this is by design.
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
It looks like the new cards are NO FASTER than the old cards. So they are hyping the fake frames, fake pixels, fake AI rendering. Anything fake = good, anything real = bad. Jensen thinks that "Moore's Law is Dead" and it&#x27
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
It looks like the new cards are NO FASTER than the old cards. So they are hyping the fake frames, fake pixels, fake AI rendering. Anything fake = good, anything real = bad. This is the same thing they did with the RTX 4000 series. More f
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
This lawsuit will cast a cloud of darkness on any startup company that wants to build a new arm chip design! What a terribly stupid thing for ARM to do - they have basically pointed a gun at their own head and pulled the trigger!
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
A lot of companies with great IPR have very terrible management, now ARM has joined that club! Pay their license fees religiously for almost 30 years and they turn around and sue you, GEEZ!
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
As I said on another forum yesterday, Qualcomm almost always wins its legal battles - when they lose its not because they are wrong but usually only because their lawyers screwed up (Broadcom lawsuit of ~2012). It's kind of a Boy Scou
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by williamDafoe 2y ago
You COMPLETELY missed the elephant in the room : 8K TVs have really, really massive CPUs that waste a TON of power (150-200w for the CPU, 300-400w for the TV, often!) Think 8 cores of the fastest arm 64-bit processors available plus extra h

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