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by wtallis 2y ago
> I'm no network expert but I thought it was relatively solved and problems are due to underprovisioning. Protocols like TCP will ramp up to use all available bandwidth, ensuring there's congestion somewhere along the path. S
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by wtallis 2y ago
The web didn't go from streaming 480p straight to 4k. There were a couple of intermediate jumps in pixel count that were enabled in large part by better compression. Notably, there was a time period where it was important to ensure you
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by wtallis 2y ago
53 byte frames is what results in the exact compromise of 48 bytes for the payload size.
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by wtallis 2y ago
1000x performance loss is what you'd get from turning off the CPU's entire cache hierarchy, not what you'd get from disabling out of order execution. Executing instructions in-order wouldn't make every instruction a cach
965.
by wtallis 2y ago
The whole 48/49/50 series covering 1990–2015 has that equation writer functionality, or in other words: every RPN graphing calculator.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Your processor has two P cores, and ten cores total, not twelve. The HyperThreading (SMT) does not make the two P cores into four cores. Your experiment with 4 threads will most likely result in using both P cores and two E cores, as no san
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by wtallis 2y ago
The fake engine sounds played through the cabin speakers don't help with that.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Doesn't that make it even less interesting? If all those products are moving to this new division, then it cannot really be specifically about AI. It's just a routine corporate reorganization shuffle that happens to be using the
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by wtallis 2y ago
Ok, the headline is a bit misleading: Microsoft isn't announcing a technological platform and toolset called CoreAI. They're announcing a business unit called "CoreAI – Platform and Tools". That's way less interes
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by wtallis 2y ago
The SSD may not know which logical blocks are no longer in use, but it's quite easy to simply have lots more logical blocks that never get used in the first place. Not having TRIM is only an issue if your OS actually touches the whol
971.
by wtallis 2y ago
Ah, interesting. Intel likes to do weird things with the smallest mobile chips.
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by wtallis 2y ago
At the end of 2023, Intel shipped Meteor Lake, where all but one chiplet were made by TSMC. Arrow Lake updates that chiplet (the one with the CPU cores) to also be made at TSMC, though on the older N3B process rather than the better N3E pro
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by wtallis 2y ago
Are any of those oscillators running off mains power rather than off a lower, separately-regulated supply?
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by wtallis 2y ago
There's a real difference between a lossy approximation as done by video compression, and the "just a guess" done by DLSS frame generation. Video encoders have the real frame to use as a target; when trying to minimize the
975.
by wtallis 2y ago
4k 24" monitors used to exist, but they've disappeared from the market and now the choices are either 27+" or laptop panels.
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by wtallis 2y ago
Intel's E cores are literally derived from the Atom product line. But the practice of including a heterogeneous mix of CPU core types was developed and proven and made mainstream within the ARM ecosystem before being hastily adopted by
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by wtallis 2y ago
These should be re-using the same CPU chiplets from the desktop and server products, so it'll be the full-sized Zen 5 cores.
978.
by wtallis 2y ago
I think maybe you're just ignoring half of what I'm saying. I think today's ISPs are offering telecommunications services (by virtue of owning the last-mile physical infrastructure), usually with some information services on
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by wtallis 2y ago
It doesn't change the legislature's power; they were and still are free to write detailed regulations into law. It just shifted the power in cases of less-specific regulations away from the executive and to the courts. The courts
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by wtallis 2y ago
Loper Bright is only relevant here as the case that opened the door for the appeals court to more easily overturn the FCC. The case itself was not related to the FCC and isn't the source of any of the absurdity in this appeals court
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by wtallis 2y ago
Helpful analysis that provides additional context can exist, eg. SCOTUSBlog that provides useful summaries while reliably linking to the rulings themselves. It's not all sensationalist trash.
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by wtallis 2y ago
> ISPs are information services because in the context of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that's what the Internet was, an information service built on top of telecommunication services. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 did not
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by wtallis 2y ago
> Yes: I do think that Loper means that courts aren't going to do this kind of freelancing anymore. And yet, the court seems to have rendered a decision. They don't seem to have declared that the question is not theirs to answe
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by wtallis 2y ago
> that fetching a web page is, by the logic of the Act, fundamentally the same thing as making a request of Prodigy or AOL. That's not actually in dispute. I fully agree with you on this point. You're just being silly by preten
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by wtallis 2y ago
As opposed to broadband ISPs in 1996? Do you not think a Senator from 1996 would readily lump today's Google Fiber in the same category as an ISDN provider in 1996? Do you somehow think that the overturning of Chevron means that cour
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by wtallis 2y ago
You're using the term "the Internet" to refer to a combination of ISPs and endpoint services operated by other companies. That is very analogous to the combination of AOL and the Bell system connecting your modem to AOL&#x2
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by wtallis 2y ago
> the Internet is firmly something you would build on top of a telecommunications service; the entire Internet is an information service. I think the key assumption you're making here is that anything layered on top of a telecommuni
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by wtallis 2y ago
> If the Telecommunications Act of 1996 sees Internet service as something built on top of raw telecom circuits --- which I think it kind of clearly does? Does it? We have definitions for "information service" that clearly fit
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by wtallis 2y ago
> the Telecommunication Act appears to refer to the Internet primarily as something that runs on top of telecommunication links. It most certainly does; the statutory definition is that there can be no information service without an unde
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by wtallis 2y ago
Can we all agree that if this boils down to a packet-switched vs. circuit-switched distinction as the crux of whether it can be effectively regulated under current law, that is a profoundly stupid outcome and bad public policy? Surely Con

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