TomVDB

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by TomVDB 4y ago
I think it is well established that repeat COVID infections have an increasingly severe impact on your body. It is also true that COVID can weaken your general immune system. But that doesn’t mean that getting COVID won’t increase your imm
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I have a million miles on United alone, and many more on others as well: I’ve never once heard such a message either.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Same here. OpenAI commented on the verboseness of answers as something they need to work on.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
A subscription model where you know the exact terms is less exploitative than a fixed cost where it’s not even clear if the upgrade is sticky or not (as is currently the case for Tesla.) I don’t get the “it’s not a service” argument. It’s n
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by TomVDB 4y ago
It’s exploitative if it is not sticky and isn’t clearly communicated. But it’s not relevant for the Mercedes case where it’s very clear that it’s a subscription. For my personal case, it still doesn’t matter, of course.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
My Model Y has a $2000 in-app purchase option to increase acceleration by something like 0.5s. It’s not a subscription, but the idea is the same. It doesn’t bother me one bit: I bought the car knowing full well that it wasn’t included, I do
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by TomVDB 4y ago
If it works for a celebrity, it also works in case of a calamity.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Reminds me of the "Can I move? ... I'm better when I move" scene... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoCK5r2TWg
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Being an owner and being an investor are orthogonal concepts.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
It would make zero difference, except, maybe, for the PCIe bandwidth test. Because all other tests were stressed interfaces that reside within the GPU silicon itself or between the GPU and the DRAM. Even the numbers of PCIe bandwidth test m
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I’d go dither than that and claim that almost everything of importance has checksums: Google Docs, Google Sheets, Git submissions, all my important web accounts, the traffic with my bank website and so forth. When I look at my daily home co
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Why pay for something I don’t need when there’s the option to not pay for it? - me Just yesterday, I bought an extra 64GB for my home Linux PC. I absolutely couldn’t care less about it crashing or calculating the wrong result every blue moo
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by TomVDB 4y ago
That seems like a stretch? Isn’t the more obvious explanation that laptops with a real GPU are much more expensive and that the weaker, integrated GPUs are more than good enough for the vast majority of business use? Today’s iGPUs are fast
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I was wondering about that. According to Nvidia RTX 4090 product page, it still used PCIe 4.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Moving around data is indeed a major issue for any throughout oriented device. But for a gaming GPU, PCIe BW has never been an issue in any of the benchmarks that I’ve seen. (Those benchmarks artificially reduce the number of PCIe lanes.) I
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by TomVDB 4y ago
But why would game programmers care about shader core latency??? I seriously don't understand. We're not talking here about the latency that gamers care about, the one that's measured in milliseconds. I've never seen any
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by TomVDB 4y ago
GP100 and GP GeForce has a different shared memory structure as well, so much so that GP100 was listed as having 30 SMs instead of 60 in some Nvidia presentations. But the base architecture (ISA, instruction delays, …) were the same. It’s t
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Thanks for that. The weird part is that this latency difference has to be due to a terrible MC design by AMD, because there's not a huge difference in latency between any of the current DRAM technologies: the interface between HBM and
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I don't agree. Turing is an evolution of Volta. In fact, in the CUDA slides of Turing, they mention explicitly that Turing shaders are binary compatible with Volta, and that's very clear from the whitepapers as well. Ampere A100 a
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Density, I can accept. But what kind of latency are we talking about here? CDNA has 16-wide SIMD units that retires 1 64-wide warp instruction every 4 clock cycles. RDNA has a 32-wide SIMD unit that retires 1 32-wide warp every clock cycle.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Holy false equivalence, batman!
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by TomVDB 4y ago
They're defending taking advantage of a miner's forced fire sale. Less waste, lower price for a good GPU. What's not to like?
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by TomVDB 4y ago
AMD's decision to have different architectures for gaming and datacenter is still a major mystery. It's clear from Nvidia's product line that there's no reason to do so. (And, yes, Hopper and Ada are different names, but
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by TomVDB 4y ago
I'd be more than happy to by a 3080 (or similar) for a bargain price, knowing that it has been run at lower voltages and power levels. As for waste: I very much hope it will not become waste. Why would you be advocating for that?
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by TomVDB 4y ago
How many giraffes is that?
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by TomVDB 4y ago
With no virtual memory, no caches, and interface processors instead of direct access to external DRAM, this thing must be a programming nightmare? Having tons of small CPUs with fast local SRAM is of course not a new idea. Back in 1998, I t
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by TomVDB 4y ago
If you don’t want a computer on wheels, you don’t want a German car, you want a second hand Toyota Corolla. We had an Audi Q5 first and a Tesla second. My wife and I fight over who gets to drive the Tesla. With a modern German car, you stil
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by TomVDB 4y ago
As a counterpoint, my company has outsourced major parts of its internal IT support to the Philippines, yet my experience is always as good as how it was before they did so. If they can do that for internal support, it should be possible fo
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by TomVDB 4y ago
Putting a check in the mail (or pressing some button on a web form to make it so) is one of the things that comes to mind.
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by TomVDB 4y ago
A friend on mine quit his FAANG job, took a one year sabbatical, and went back on the job market. He found a remote-only job at a boutique bank in NYC, negotiated his compensation, and then told them he'd only accept the offer if it wa

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