goosehonk

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by goosehonk 7y ago
Lots of motorcyclists replace their lead-acid batteries with lithium-ion batteries that are much lighter. They’re very unreliable but some people will deal with that to save a few pounds. I imagine you mean ice cars with much more demanding
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by goosehonk 7y ago
It's a good thing you measured it :-) Programs that do a little bit of 512x512 FMA mixed in with other stuff will not benefit from AVX-512 but can suffer from the heat it generates, or from the hiccup when the CPU turns the FMA unit o
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by goosehonk 7y ago
"Just the board" NUC kits also include the CPU, case, fan, power supply, wifi, bt, etc everything except RAM and storage.
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by goosehonk 7y ago
It is a major problem to figure out what instructions to use but it's a lot more nuanced than you seem to imply. In the first place you seem to assume that "not running at the max turbo speed that's printed in the marketing l
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by goosehonk 7y ago
Basically all that stuff you said about IoT has been said verbatim for decades and yet here we are. Remember the "SmartMote"? Neither does anyone else. By the way that was _also_ an Intel-funded project.
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by goosehonk 7y ago
Have there been any published benchmarks of relevant datacenter workloads on this CPU? I certainly haven’t seen any. The previous generation EPYC was really slow on branchy code, despite looking ok on ffmpeg benchmarks and the like.
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by goosehonk 7y ago
ARM has never enjoyed a Op/J advantage over x86. They have low-power designs, yes, but they don’t do more work for a given amount of energy. x86 won fair and square. The risc people failed to foresee that instruction density would be e
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by goosehonk 7y ago
This comment seems kinda slanted. AVX-512 debuted on Xeon because datacenter operators asked for it. It does not “downclock a whole chip”, it gates the core where it is active and there’s not even that penalty on the current generation part
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by goosehonk 7y ago
The senior project is the one I mentioned that can be fulfilled by CS210, working at “our industry partners” in lieu of actual university coursework. The “tech & society” catalog is a joke. Look at the courses. Archeology? Fine as an el
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by goosehonk 7y ago
I'll never have personal first-hand experience with another kind of degree program, but my engineering program taught thermodynamics, accounting, technical writing, and ethics. I am looking right now at the Stanford CS undergraduate ca
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by goosehonk 7y ago
Huh. Thanks! I really missed the memo there. I wonder why 1035 doesn’t mention that it is updated-by 1123.
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by goosehonk 7y ago
I don’t think I’m assuming that. They’ll just be a more rounded person.
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by goosehonk 7y ago
I'm just giving you the straight dope on a few aspects of the organizational disaster that is google. The fact that you think it's incredible etc just shows what a basket case this company is.
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by goosehonk 7y ago
As a person without a CS education but with 30 years of industry experience, including several of The Bigs, I urge young people to get an education in anything but CS. The number of CS degree holders, even the masters and doctors, who strug
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by goosehonk 7y ago
Perhaps the app can manage to remember your address and phone number, instead of making you type it in every time even when you are logged in to your account? I dunno just guessing at some improvements they can make.
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by goosehonk 7y ago
I find that Nextdoor gets me more responses on for-sale items and none of them are scams. On Craigslist I get fewer and the majority are scams. I only bother with Craigslist these days when I’m looking to buy, or if I’m selling an item expe
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by goosehonk 7y ago
After I switched from SRE-SWE to just SWE, my team (of six SWEs) used IRC and it wasn't because of my influence, either.
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by goosehonk 7y ago
Googlers also use it for the daily chat, not just incident response.
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by goosehonk 7y ago
Decimal floats are a lot older than COBOL. Many early relay computers (to the extent there were many such machines) used floating-point numbers with bi-quinary digits in the mantissa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-
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by goosehonk 7y ago
When did RFC1035 get thrown under the bus? According to it, with respect to domain name labels, "They must start with a letter" (2.3.1).
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by goosehonk 7y ago
We've already spent the money on the transportation and forgot the upzoning that should have accompanied it. For example we poured billions into BART to serve dispersed areas full of detached single-family homes. All areas within hal
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by goosehonk 7y ago
Micro apartments are a straw man. The zoning codes all over California prohibit duplexes and triplexes, including over 85% of the area of the supposedly dense city of San Francisco. We don’t need weird innovative forms. We need the old form
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by goosehonk 7y ago
I believe the point was that GaN semiconductors make these chargers more compact, cooler, and lighter than their silicon competitors.