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by wtallis 9mo ago
The what and why of the nightclub memberships are explained pretty well on the patreon's about page: https://www.patreon.com/dnalounge/about The person in question is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by wtallis 9mo ago
Refresh rate directly affects one of the components of total input lag, and increasing refresh rate is one of the most straightforward ways for an end user to chip away at that input lag problem.
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by wtallis 9mo ago
> I read somewhere that TearFree is triple buffering, so -if true- it's my (perhaps mistaken) understanding that this adds a frame of latency. True triple buffering doesn't add one frame of latency, but since it enforces only w
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by wtallis 9mo ago
The matrix/tensor math units added to GPUs do see widespread use, both for running LLMs and for the ML-based upscaling used by most video games these days (eg. NVIDIA DLSS). The NPUs that are separate from the GPU and designed more w
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by wtallis 9mo ago
> I have no reason to believe it is a lie, and it sounds plausible Except for all of the responses from people saying it doesn't sound plausible for the project in question, and for the acute lack of real evidence or even details
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by wtallis 9mo ago
What you linked to is not really evidence , just an unsubstantiated allegation. Over the top public shaming is something that should be pretty easy to provide direct evidence of. When Linus Torvalds does it, it gets repeatedly brought up i
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by wtallis 9mo ago
That doesn't seem to actually provide a usable OS to run on any remotely recent Apple hardware. The most recent test build available for download is a virtual machine image of a version that aligns with macOS from eight years ago.
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by wtallis 9mo ago
"The internet no longer exists" is a particularly extreme subset of off-grid scenarios. For the more plausible off-grid scenarios—the ones that have actually happened —the unavailability of the internet has been varying degrees o
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by wtallis 9mo ago
You should look at pictures of Apple's Pro Display XDR. The Kuycon monitor is an obvious rip-off of that in terms of styling, especially the ventilation on the back.
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by wtallis 9mo ago
At the end of the month, laptops with Intel's latest processors will start shipping. These use Intel's 18A process for the CPU chiplet. That makes Intel the first fab to ship a process using backside power delivery. There's n
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by wtallis 9mo ago
Which acquisition are you referring to? Apple bought PA Semi in 2008 and Intrinsity in 2010.
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by wtallis 9mo ago
> The 4080 is a 4090 die with some SMs disabled. The desktop 4090 uses the AD102 die, the laptop 4090 and desktop 4080 use the AD103 die, and the laptop 4080 uses the AD104 die. I'm not at all denying that binning is a thing, but yo
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by wtallis 9mo ago
> yes, if a chip doesn't make M4 Max, it can make M4 Pro. If not, M4. If not, A18 Pro. If not that, A18. No, that's entirely wrong. All of those are different dies. The larger chips wouldn't even fit in phones, or most i
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by wtallis 9mo ago
> For Apple, they have binning flexibility, with Pro/Max/Ultra, all the way down to iPads The Pro and Max chips are different dies , and the Ultra currently isn't even the same generation as the Max. And the iPads have ne
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by wtallis 9mo ago
> evidence that critical open source infrastructure doesn't bother to run static analysis before merging code from randos is actually useful information that the public deserves to have. It's totally possible to obtain evidence
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by wtallis 9mo ago
Markdown should work reasonably well for the use case of Confluence pages that have been moved into Word docs.
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by wtallis 9mo ago
> I don't think it's unethical to send someone an email that has bad code in it. It's unethical because of the bits you left out: sending code you know is bad, and doing so under false pretenses. Whether or not you think
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by wtallis 10mo ago
The RAM is not part of the SoC. It's a bunch of separate commodity RAM dies packaged alongside the SoC.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
The very simple solution that would work in practice is: don't give your TV your WiFi password.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
If you know your application will only ever run against enterprise SSDs with power loss protection, then sending flush commands to the drive itself would indeed be pointless no-ops. But it if it's a flush command that has effects somew
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by wtallis 10mo ago
The machine in question was not a Microsoft product, so they would not have been making decisions about component selection.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
That's still assigning too much significance to the "i9" naming. Sometimes, the only difference between the i9 part and the top i7 part was something like 200MHz of single-core boost frequency, with the core counts and cache
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by wtallis 10mo ago
It's 96 GB max when using LPDDR5, or 128 GB when using DDR5. These are consumer chips with the same 128-bit memory bus width that x86 consumer chips have been using for many years, and this is a laptop-specific product line so they&#x2
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by wtallis 10mo ago
And even prior to EUV, Intel didn't make their own lithography tools.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
> On package memory is claimed to be a 40% reduction in power consumption. 40% reduction in what power consumption? I don't think memory is usually responsible for even 40% of the total SoC + memory power, and bringing memory on-p
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by wtallis 10mo ago
> Every modern chip needs some percentage dedicated to dark silicon. There is no cheating the thermal reality. You could add more compute units in the GPU, but you then have to make up for it somewhere else. It’s a balancing act. I think
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by wtallis 10mo ago
AMD Strix Halo does not have on-package RAM. What makes it stand out from other x86 SoCs is that it has more memory channels, for a total of a 256-bit wide bus compared to 128-bit wide for all other recent consumer x86 processors. Qualcom
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by wtallis 10mo ago
If you ask NVIDIA, inference should always run on the GPU. If you ask anybody else designing chips for consumer devices, they say there's a benefit to having a low-power NPU that's separate from the GPU.
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by wtallis 10mo ago
"iBook" referred to a laptop from 1999 to 2006. "iBooks" referred to the eBook reader app and store from 2010 to 2019. I'll grant that there is some possibility for confusion, but only if the context of the conver
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by wtallis 10mo ago
> accessing memory mapped device memory instead of using DMA like in the good old days That's not actually an option for NVMe devices, is it? The actual NAND storage isn't available for direct memory mapping, and the only way

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