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by wtallis 4mo ago
The data bus was only 16 bits wide, but that doesn't really have much impact on OS compatibility; it just means that transferring a 32-bit value to or from memory takes two bus clock cycles instead of one. The address bus is only 2
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by wtallis 4mo ago
On non-Apple platforms, you generally have at least 2+(number of supported silicon vendors) different AI frameworks to worry about. I guess Apple's there now too, between Core ML, MLX, Core AI. I haven't seen any sign that the fra
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by wtallis 4mo ago
Even if you set aside the stupid charging situation, it's still a bad mouse. The multitouch capabilities are not well used by the software, and it's the only mouse I've ever used that routinely sends scroll events while I&#x2
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by wtallis 4mo ago
That's the way to phrase it if you want to ignore or downplay the leverage that big tech companies have over their users to get them to consent to shady business practices using dark patterns. But this wouldn't be an issue to begi
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by wtallis 4mo ago
> The M5 Max with the 32-core GPU is ~7200MT/s, Ok, so the problem is you doing the math wrong. Note that the MacBook Pro configuration you're talking about has a DRAM capacity of 36GB, compared to 48+ GB for the ones with al
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by wtallis 4mo ago
> Framework already sells LPCAMM2 at 8533MT/s with full validation: From your link: > Framework Laptop 13 Pro (Intel® Core™ Ultra Series 3) supports one slot of LPCAMM2 memory up to 96GB at the native 7467 MT/s speed. It is
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by wtallis 4mo ago
Upgradable memory and unified memory aren't entirely mutually exclusive. You can design a chip that uses DDR5 and has a decently-powerful iGPU that can use that whole memory pool. But you'll be starving that GPU of bandwidth rel
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by wtallis 4mo ago
> Regardless of how thin you make it the thing will still be a massive rectangle that you can't flex or press on. There's very wide variation between laptops in how noticeably they'll flex or yield or creak when pressed.
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by wtallis 4mo ago
I've used several Supermicro boards across several generations, and never needed the extra license key for remote power on capability. Every server BMC I've ever used from any vendor had that capability standard without requiring
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by wtallis 4mo ago
> LPCAMM2 supports up to 9600MT/s, which appears to be the same speed Apple is using. The difference here is in what the standard defines on paper vs what is actually shipping in products and readily available off the shelf. Who&#x2
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by wtallis 5mo ago
> I mean is it possible to make unified memory systems with good performance or is it not really feasible due to memory timing/trace length issues? LPCAMM and similar solutions exist, but have never been demonstrated running at spee
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by wtallis 5mo ago
Don't your servers already have BMCs supporting IPMI to provide full remote management? Often features like full KVM will require extra licensing, but remote power on is one of the most basic features and I've never encountered a
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by wtallis 5mo ago
DRAM chips aren't always manufactured in power of two sizes. It's been common for years to have non power of two capacities for LPDDR used in phones, and has started to show up in other DRAM types with the current generation stand
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by wtallis 5mo ago
To clarify: the host can issue a command to the SSD to securely wipe the whole drive including spare area that is not directly accessible to the host. The SSD controller in the drive issues erase commands to the NAND to erase individual era
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by wtallis 5mo ago
The filesystem may choose to store new data at different logical block addresses than older versions. The SSD will definitely choose to store those newly written blocks at different physical addresses, both for the sake of wear leveling a
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by wtallis 5mo ago
I think DGX Spark has poor memory bandwidth because these laptops were the plan all along. NVIDIA didn't want to commit to the extra costs of a 512-bit memory bus for their first laptop SoC, so they went with the more modest 256-bit
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by wtallis 5mo ago
There are two new things being announced here: the GB10 chip being put into laptops, and GB10 running Windows. GB10 running Linux is not news, it's a product that's been shipping since last fall.
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by wtallis 5mo ago
GB300 is nominally "available" in desktop form factor workstations priced around $100k. That's a few orders of magnitude away from the ordinary desktop PC market that consumers participate in.
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by wtallis 5mo ago
NVIDIA hasn't done custom CPU cores for anything they've yet branded "Grace". The original Grace data center CPU (paired with the Hopper data center GPU) used ARM Neoverse V2 cores. The "GB10" chip shipped in D
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by wtallis 5mo ago
It's my computer, not yours. The browser is my user agent , not your server agent . If you don't want me viewing your page according to my preferences, then the world wide web is not the right medium for you to be working in.
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by wtallis 5mo ago
> One day you'll be happy with your pam config, then bam, package updates and you're forced into passwdqc and faillock. Are you saying you've had your PAM config broken by a package update when you didn't update anyt
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by wtallis 5mo ago
Raw training data is raw . A really big model trained on it has already done a first-pass of finding patterns and squeezing out redundancy. Re-ingesting the full training set to train a smaller model is probably more expensive, for margina
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by wtallis 5mo ago
The request was for "a proper, working emergency meshing standard". Ham radio absolutely is not that . Yes, ham radios are used in emergency situations, but usually not as a mesh and certainly not as a standard.
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by wtallis 5mo ago
For a very long time now, it has been the case that in the short term most processors will boost high enough for the die to reach around 100°C. When you see a reading substantially lower than that like your example of 75°C, either the sys
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by wtallis 5mo ago
Asus has been doing it since before that article was written. It's amazing that a "put rootkit here" Windows feature has been around for so long.
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by wtallis 5mo ago
> every computer, even the tiny embedded CPU in your microwave oven, might just need to ask your age before it allows you to do anything. Why do I keep seeing this bullshit exaggeration? It doesn't help anything to make such ridicu
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by wtallis 5mo ago
It's a dumb question, because it's in reply to a comment that already implies the answer, and it's trivial to find an answer online in less time than it takes to post that question and wait for someone to supply an answer. Th
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by wtallis 5mo ago
> You should always write your own code whenever possible, that's how we get better things. No, that's how you end up with a mountain of bad half-assed implementations. You should only roll your own when truly necessary, and on
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by wtallis 5mo ago
Files and folders can be read-only, a concept that has been around for about as long as the folders abstraction itself.
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by wtallis 5mo ago
The car wash in this video is a box with a solid floor and doors that close at the ends before the wash cycle starts. There's no reason for the car to be put in neutral for this car wash; it's not doing anything to move the car ar

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