Teknoman117

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by Teknoman117 5d ago
I didn’t realize how many people cheated in college until I got an email from my computer graphics professor a year after I graduated asking me to remove the projects I did for the class from GitHub because a substantial amount of his stude
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by Teknoman117 20d ago
> Are their hands tied by legal Yes. Even if you're the owner of the game, the contracts for the voice actors, motion capture, models, etc. frequently define very narrow terms of usage. Defining the exact release platforms is common
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by Teknoman117 21d ago
Sadly space has now been corrupted by capitalism
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by Teknoman117 1mo ago
The problem with screening for HSV is that the HSV IgG tests are pretty terrible (the blood antibody tests). They have a false positive rate around 20% and re-running the tests several times won't yield different results. This would re
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by Teknoman117 1mo ago
Most of the stigmatization of HSV in the US is mostly the result of pharmaceutical companies trying to create a market for HSV antiviral drugs. In the 1980s they ran ads that equated HSV with leprosy. Since that was also the time of the AID
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by Teknoman117 1mo ago
Herpes screening is discouraged in the US unless symptoms are present as the widely available IgG tests have terrible specificity. While the false negative rate is practically 0, they have a false positive rate of around 20%. The only high-
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by Teknoman117 3mo ago
SDIO is still a fairly common interface that wifi and bluetooth adapters are connected with in embedded systems. Much lower idle power and protocol complexity than either USB or PCIe. You just don't find those wireless chipsets in an S
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by Teknoman117 3mo ago
The problem is that this feature is generally restricted to enterprise customers because VDI systems are such a profitable market. NVIDIA and AMD both only offer this on enterprise cards, and Intel has been very wishy-washy on support in th
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by Teknoman117 3mo ago
The trouble is that the RAM chip on the Pi is a high density module that's going to have come under pressure from the datacenter buildouts. An 8 GiB DIMM for a desktop or server is using 8x 1 GiB chips or 16x 512 MiB chips (9/18 f
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by Teknoman117 3mo ago
It’s been like that for at least a decade.
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by Teknoman117 4mo ago
Almost everything we hate about ARM based systems is the result of everyone in the SoC ecosystem, not just ARM. It's just unfortunate for them from an optics perspective that they've been basically the only CPU core on the block
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by Teknoman117 4mo ago
Gen 4.0 x16 is 32 GB/s in each direction, but the way this is implemented is not the way you'd go about this if you wanted high performance. Edit: Their benchmarks are also run using ZRAM, which compresses pages before writing to
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by Teknoman117 4mo ago
Memory on an expansion card isn't gated on PCIe 5, it's gated on CXL support. CXL and PCIe use the same electrical/physical layer but the protocol is very different. The problem with putting (system) RAM on a PCIe card is tha
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by Teknoman117 4mo ago
KiCad schematic and board files are all text based with a fairly strict grammar, so you would be able to feed it directly into an LLM. Not that that means the LLM could actually make sense of it. Never tried though XD
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by Teknoman117 4mo ago
> AI-users thus become less effective engineers over time, as their technical skills atrophy Based on my experience, I think this will prove more true than not in the long run, unfortunately. Professionally, I see people largely falling
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by Teknoman117 5mo ago
A few things come to mind, but I wasn't even alive then so what do I know XD. On one hand, it seems rather strange, because back in the early days of C (and later C++) there were far more CPU architectures in play. Every big Unix hardw
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by Teknoman117 5mo ago
I went there last time I was sent on a business trip to Japan! It’s a fun little shop. Wasn’t so crowded at the end of October :)
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by Teknoman117 5mo ago
As someone who has also spent two decades wrangling C/C++ codebases, I wholeheartedly agree with every statement here. I have an even stronger sentiment regarding cross compilation though - In any build system, I think the distinction
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
As someone who works on systems at this level, believe me, it’s a learnable skill. And at least an intellectually valuable one I think too. Even if you never really need the knowledge for the things you do, there’s a nice feeling that comes
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
Yeah, the 18 months it took me to lose that first 100 pounds was about the most miserable I've ever been in my entire life. Constantly hungry, constantly thinking about food, exercising 3 hours a day, having to sit out of social events
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
When I was on Ozempic in the US (Bay Area), it was a dial-a-dose Ozempic branded pen. Came with 4-6 single use needles you’d screw onto the end before use, and discard into a sharps bin after.
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
Yeah I might just have to go get it out of plan. Kaiser covers Ozempic, but none of the Tirzepatide based medications. (Edit: looks like that might have changed) I am a big guy (6’4, 330 lbs), but I was amazed that Ozempic just seemed to do
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
I’ve always been more of a savory kind of person myself. I’d take biscuits and gravy or a steak over sweets any day! But I feel you on sugar. Took me a long time to cut sugar cravings. A decade ago I cut regular soda out of my diet, which
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
I’m always kind of envious of the people who were able to lose weight on GLP-1 drugs. I lost a bunch of weight a few years ago, and still need to lose a lot more (430 lb -> 330, goal 240), but I fell out of the good habits for, well, no
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
To add to what you said, it’s also nice to be able to keep it within one API that’s platform agnostic when possible. Sure we’ve had the ability to keep the pipeline on GPU for awhile, but it usually required platform specific API bindings t
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
Comparing JACK and PulseAudio is like comparing apples and oranges. And honestly, JACK by itself is unsuitable as an audio server for general desktop usage . JACK doesn’t support device hotplug (ya know, connecting and disconnecting a head
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
I strongly disagree with the premise. Regardless of how you feel about Wayland, its creation set off _massive_ improvements across the entire Linux graphics stack. For those of us who were using Linux on the desktop in decades past, remembe
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
The unfortunate reality of building these home-brew CPUs is that almost all of the "medium integration" ICs are long out of production - things like the 74181 ALU slice, carry lookahead adders, 16-way register files, etc. Makes do
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
Yep, it's a sad time for the gaming world.
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by Teknoman117 6mo ago
Nested page tables / nested virtualization made it to consumer CPUs about a decade ago, so yes :)

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