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by wtallis 11mo ago
No, OWL only appears to have specific driver requirements, namely that they expose to userspace functionality that any remotely modern WiFi chip should already have.
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by wtallis 11mo ago
You're mangling Qualcomm's branding to the point that it's impossible to be sure what you're trying to say. Qualcomm's current laptop SoCs are called "Snapdragon X Elite" or "Snapdragon X Plus" o
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by wtallis 11mo ago
That has nothing to do with DRAM; that would be completely obvious if you stopped to think about the cache sizes implied by writing at 5-6GB/s for tens of seconds before speeds drop. Nobody's putting 100+ GB of DRAM on a single SS
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by wtallis 11mo ago
PCIe switches with current-generation link speeds and high lane counts are prohibitively expensive and have been absent from consumer motherboards since PCIe gen3 showed up. The chipsets on consumer motherboards are pretty much PCIe switc
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by wtallis 11mo ago
You're pretty far off the mark about SSD caching. A majority of consumer SSDs are now DRAMless, and still can exceed PCIe 4.0 x4 bandwidth for sequential transfers. Only a seriously outdated SSD would still be using DDR3; good ones sho
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by wtallis 11mo ago
Whether or not SLI remained viable for gaming, Broadcom was going to jack up the prices on PCIe switches to the enterprise-only range. That's the real reason why consumer motherboards don't have more GPU slots. Mainstream consum
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by wtallis 11mo ago
Don't play along by calling it "toast". It's a pop-up that's been re-branded to avoid the stigma of the old name, exactly like what companies do to themselves after causing a disaster like an oil spill.
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by wtallis 11mo ago
I've heard it alleged that Tesla simply does not have a QA check for headlight alignment at the factory. Based on my experience on the road, that's entirely believable.
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by wtallis 1y ago
$2k phones has been a thing for a while now, with the folding phones. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold currently starts at $1700 and Google Pixel Pro Fold starts at $1800, and both are over $2100 for the 1TB models.
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by wtallis 1y ago
Tab characters can also be found in source code.
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by wtallis 1y ago
And that's for one SSD. If you're running on a server rather than a laptop, aggregate storage bandwidth will almost certainly be higher than any single network link.
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by wtallis 1y ago
The big picture is probably that GB10 is destined to show up in laptops, but NVIDIA couldn't be bothered to do all the boring work of building the rest of the SoC and Mediatek was the cheapest and easiest partner available. It'll
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by wtallis 1y ago
"not gating information behind said sign-ups" was in the context of regulations like GDPR. You twisted that into "People should do work for free" which is not at all the meaning of what you replied to.
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by wtallis 1y ago
Mediatek is in the picture because NVIDIA outsourced everything in GB10 but the GPU to Mediatek. GB10 is two chiplets, and the larger one is from Mediatek. Yes, Mediatek uses off the shelf ARM CPU core IP, but they still had to make a lot o
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by wtallis 1y ago
I don't think there's anything in GDPR or similar laws about disallowing paying for a subscription with money. It's merely about killing the practice of paying with your privacy for something otherwise labeled as "free&q
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by wtallis 1y ago
The DGX Spark, Ascent GX10, and related machines have no relation to NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200. The chip they are based on is called GB10, and is architecturally very different from NVIDIA's datacenter solutions, in addition to bein
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by wtallis 1y ago
"a+b+c" doesn't describe a unique evaluation order. You need some parentheses to disambiguate which changes are due to associativity vs commutativity. a+(b+c)=(c+b)+a should be true of floating point numbers, due to commutati
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by wtallis 1y ago
HDMI is first and foremost (and at times, almost exclusively) designed to serve the needs of TVs and related devices. Its presence on PCs and other devices outside the home theater space is largely a consequence of the fact that HDMI until
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by wtallis 1y ago
I don't think the "menagerie of possible hardware environments" excuse holds much water these days. Even web apps still need to accommodate various screen sizes and resolutions and touch vs mouse input. Native apps need to de
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by wtallis 1y ago
> It is either fast-enough, or impossibly-slow. It's very binary, and the bar graph at the top never told me a damned thing about what I should expect. A few months ago, I was in a remote area at anchor on a sailboat, about 6.5 mil
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by wtallis 1y ago
No, that's a separate issue. You can upgrade a M4 or earlier machine from 15.6 to 15.7 even today, despite 26.0 being out for a while, so Apple's still signing a 15.x release at the same time as they're offering 26.x releases
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by wtallis 1y ago
> We have a 2015 MPB that can no longer receive OS updates, because apple reasons That CPU was dropped from Windows 10 support with 22H2, pretty much the same time that Apple stopped supporting it in macOS. The last build of Windows 10 s
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by wtallis 1y ago
We're still waiting to see any CAMM-style memory module show up in a mass market product at any speed , instead of merely getting press coverage where the number of articles written seems to outnumber the number of laptops actually bu
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by wtallis 1y ago
> and these being mini-LED displays, contrast is already infinite. I think you may have mixed up mini-LED backlighting with OLED and microLED displays. mini-LED backlights merely allow for better local dimming of the backlight behind an
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by wtallis 1y ago
Even at ~100 dpi, the grainy character of matte coatings from that era was noticeable; my 2006 iMac and a Dell Ultrasharp from a few years later were both unmistakably grainy in a way that glossy displays are not. At the time, the matte coa
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by wtallis 1y ago
Server didn't really have anything to do with it. They were fine shipping AVX 512 in consumer silicon for Cannon Lake (nominally), Ice Lake, Tiger Lake, and most damningly Rocket Lake (backporting an AVX 512-capable core to their 14nm
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by wtallis 1y ago
DRAM is linear memory. Caches, less so. Register files really aren't. CPUs spend rather a lot of transistors and power to reconcile the reality of how they manipulate data within the core against the external model of RAM in a flat l
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by wtallis 1y ago
The hard part was getting Intel and Intel to agree on which subset to keep supporting.
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by wtallis 1y ago
uv is pretty self-contained; there aren't a lot of ways a weird linux distro could break it it or its installer, aside from not providing any of the three user-owned paths it tries to install uv into (it doesn't try to do anythi
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by wtallis 1y ago
It's not the best installer they can come up with. It's just the most OS/distro-agnostic one-step installer they can come up with.

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