jfindley

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by jfindley 19d ago
Except that the software part of the "significantly ahead" is in the device firmware, not the slicer. And it's only the slicer that's at issue in this debate. If it were the slicer that provided all this advantage over t
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by jfindley 20d ago
Unfortunately this comment entirely misses the mark. The reason this is such a big deal is precisely because it's not a sketchy product. For people who are using their FDM printers for more than just minifigs from thingiverse there&#
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by jfindley 4mo ago
The problem is not that GIMP has a different UI to photoshop. That's not a problem. Premier and Final Cut Pro have different UIs, and while there's some friendly banter about which is better most people agree that either work. The
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by jfindley 5mo ago
I tend to look at the grinder and also the choice of the beans (roast level, consistency, chips). As another commenter pointed out you do occasionally get places that will buy a super fancy machine but have no idea what to do with it. It&#x
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by jfindley 7mo ago
There are a couple of notable examples of projects[0] and companies[1] that have got tired of it, and no longer use it. There's considerable difficulty these days extrapolating "real" vulnerabilities from kernel CVEs, as the
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by jfindley 7mo ago
io_uring is in a curious place. Yes it does offer significant performance advantages, but it continues to be such a consistent source of bugs - many with serious security implications - that it's questionable if it's really worth
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by jfindley 7mo ago
Is there any way to have something like a distance blur? e.g. as rays travel further you reduce the number, subsample then apply a gaussian(or algo of choice) blur across those that return, increasing in intensity as the rays angle gets coa
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by jfindley 7mo ago
Do note though that AIUI these are all E-cores, have poor single-threaded performance and won't support things like AVX512. That is going to skew your performance testing a lot. Some workloads will be fine, but for many users that are
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by jfindley 8mo ago
All the good commercial parametric CAD apps have an API that allow you to define models programatically to avoid repitition, or do more complicated things like ensure gear ratios are exactly correct. I'm not sure I entirely understand
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by jfindley 8mo ago
Unfortunately the index is the easy part. Transforming user input into a series of tokens which get used to rank possible matches and return the top N, based on likely relevence, is the hard part and I'm afraid this doesn't appear
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by jfindley 8mo ago
It's not quite as simple as that though - in most places, especially California, water shortages are not a simple natural imbalance between the amount of rain that falls and how much flows out in rivers and streams. If demand is far hi
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by jfindley 1y ago
If you want people to take your benchmark seriously, you'd need to provide a very great deal more information on how those numbers are generated. "It's complicated, just trust me" isn't a good enough explanation. If
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by jfindley 1y ago
The standard is... well, it IS indeed a standard, I guess you can't really argue that, but it's a very great deal more permissive than many people might hope or expect. https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601&#x2F
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by jfindley 1y ago
I don't seem to be able to select "hard" AI - is this just not implemented yet? It'd be nice to have a stronger AI, but I do realise that this is a lot easier said than done.
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by jfindley 1y ago
It's a shame the article chose to compare solely against AMD CPUs, because AMD and Intel have very different L3 architectures. AMD CPUs have their cores oranised into groups, called a CCX, each of which have their own small L3 cache. F
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by jfindley 1y ago
Plus one on the floating thing, on desktop it'd be great to be able to move it out of my way but still have it present. Also, while I assume/hope there are shortcut keys on desktop, I have no idea what there are and if they'r
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by jfindley 1y ago
There's a lot of rumours flying around that HL3 might be coming soonish, and when it arrives it'll almost certainly support RTX. It's also possible that it'll be built on an evolution of the HL2 engine. If so, it might h
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by jfindley 2y ago
This is from 2017, errors.Join did not exist at the time. But yes, today you'd do it differently.
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by jfindley 2y ago
> Infra/Ops and programming are two different mindsets [...] HARD disagree on this. I've done both. Most of the really excellent programmers I've worked with have, at least a little. You can't write highly reliable ne
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by jfindley 2y ago
As long as that very description is spelled out clearly near the top of the job ad, it doesn't matter terribly much (within reason) what you call it - job searchers will try various different strings to find it. Personally, I'd ca
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by jfindley 2y ago
The months of R&D to create a workaround could simply be because the subset of motherboards which trigger this issue are doing something borderline/unexpected with their voltage management, and finding a workaround for that behavio
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by jfindley 2y ago
It's definitely not working. Several of the channels I'm currently in (which are not private channels for the record) aren't listed at all, and it's not sorted by user counts at all. There are channels with hundreds of u
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by jfindley 2y ago
Memory de-dup is computationally expensive, and KSM hitrate is generally much worse than people tend to expect - not to mention that it comes with its own security issues. I agree that the security tradeoffs need to be taken seriously but t
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by jfindley 3y ago
Generics in go, as they're implemented today, sadly have a fair bit of performance overhead. I haven't tried but my assumption would be that go generics are not fast enough to make an effective arena allocator. I'd be thrille
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by jfindley 3y ago
High barriers to entry on the interview process don't mean as much as you may think. Even with the best interview process in the world, you're only going to have a small number of hours to try to evaluate a lot of complex factors
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by jfindley 3y ago
Not only is this complete and utter rubbish, it should have been obvious from context that we're not talking about desktop CPUs. 96-core desktop CPUs are not a thing, and neither of the product families I mentioned are desktop CPUs eit
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by jfindley 3y ago
Clock speed isn't a particularly meaningful measurement anymore, and hasn't been for years. For example, an AMD Genoa chip, depending on SKU, may have fairly comparable base/boost clock speeds compared to an Intel Sapphire Ra
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by jfindley 3y ago
Putting an "AI" camera on a road in Cornwall, UK has no ability to affect how many people are killed on China's roads, and so it's deeply silly to use those numbers to try to justify doing so. There's far less invas
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by jfindley 3y ago
In the UK, where this is happening, that's simply not true. There were 1695 road fatalities in 2022 total. That's very different from "thousands a day". I do not believe it is desirable (or practically possible) to elimi
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by jfindley 3y ago
I think there are some other areas where qc is likely to deliver better results than classical computers beyond these two. Modelling turblent flows is one such example. They certainly aren't common, but I think this overstates the case

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