jsolson

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by jsolson 2mo ago
macOS largely _does_ bake this into the OS, and it is annoying. They also provide a way to turn it off for specific applications (including, for example, Terminal.app).
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by jsolson 2mo ago
It had me looking up the specs for the Atari Lynx II that I had as a kid in lieu of a more popular handheld.
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by jsolson 3mo ago
Then, if you want to know about using optical switches to connect Clos segments without a fixed spine, check out Google's "Mission Apollo" paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2208.10041
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by jsolson 4mo ago
Huh, now I feel like I should scan my dog. Thank you.
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by jsolson 4mo ago
For most of my time here I used exclusively Chrome OS, and switched to it for personal use as well. My daily driver for years was a bright red Samsung Chromebook Galaxy (the first gen with the actual metal case). Literally none of my work i
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by jsolson 5mo ago
I would not argue with this, but I regret to confess that I am merely an engineer. I no longer aspire to artistry.
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by jsolson 5mo ago
This is largely where I'm ending up, but I started at the other end. There is value in prose that carries your literal voice when the audience is _people who know you_. There is negative value in writing prose that requires the audienc
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by jsolson 6mo ago
I'm trying to put together what you could possibly mean by this -- rolling coal is fundamentally about spite. In isolation, nobody _wants_ their vehicle to spew black smoke. It only comes close to making sense in the context of another
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by jsolson 7mo ago
You're not wrong, but PnP including the configuration basis for PCI which still sits at the config space layer of the latest and greatest PCIe. That's the piece I find so significant. I work with GPUs that mostly communicate over
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by jsolson 7mo ago
I don't remember if Plug-n-Play shipped with the original Windows 95 (it's certainly there in the final OSR), but that was a pretty big shift from the manual IRQ and port mapping days of DOS/Windows 3.1.
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by jsolson 8mo ago
Columbo is anything but a failure, though, and the audience knows that. His genius is leveraging humility to convince killers that he's a bumbling idiot, while in reality he's onto them from the first encounter. _Slow Horses_ came
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by jsolson 8mo ago
It's so far from comedy that I couldn't make it through the series. When it comes up in conversation, I tend to describe it as "grief porn."
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by jsolson 8mo ago
Yes, highly recommend Reynolds, generally, although the third Rev Space book takes some fortitude to get through.
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by jsolson 9mo ago
I realize this isn't the meat of your post, but you ate a lobster sandwich at Walmart? I cannot help but think of https://youtu.be/Pj-D0jc17D0?si=BiEGWr9aacGdAkGW
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by jsolson 10mo ago
You might have even better precision if you stay away from CPU0 and also set idle=poll in your kernel command line. Lots of things (including other interrupts) often land on CPU0. It would not be my first choice for something where I wanted
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by jsolson 10mo ago
This comment is incorrect: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Ge...
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by jsolson 10mo ago
TPUs: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/Model-Cards/Ge...
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by jsolson 11mo ago
I'd say certain countries in Europe give us a run for our money: https://caw.ceu.edu/other-activities/academic-blog/politics/...
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by jsolson 11mo ago
I agree with nearly everything except your point (1). Periodic polling is awkward on both sides: you add arbitrary latency _and_ increase database load proportional to the number of interested clients. Events, and ideally coalesced events,
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by jsolson 11mo ago
That would make sense. My first thought was "Arc'teryx will probably adopt this immediately." They (and similar brands) are already pushing as hard as they can on seamlessness or very very tight seams.
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by jsolson 1y ago
This actually makes sense from a spec perspective if you want to give enough to allow hardware to catch up with the specs and to support true interop. Contrast this with the wild west that is "Ethernet" where it's extremely c
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by jsolson 1y ago
Datacenter Blackwell is Gen6, which is critical when pairing it with CX8 (2x400G) as otherwise you'd be stranding NIC BW.
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by jsolson 1y ago
In my world, we won't let a system boot with production credentials unless the IOMMU is enabled. This is enforced by a greatly enriched TPM (and it's willingness to unwrap credentials). We have trust several layers of firmware and
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by jsolson 1y ago
> Those are already unstoppable because they now use Direct Memory Access over the PCI-E bus, so the cheats don't even run on the same computer anymore. Working on mostly server platforms, I had forgotten that IOMMU enablement (and,
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by jsolson 1y ago
I was surprised to see a mention of the Carnegie Science Center's Omnimax and the year 1978 -- my recollection was that this theater didn't open until I was both alive and cognizant enough of the world around me to remember it. T
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by jsolson 1y ago
It can dance if it wants to... It can leave LLMs behind... 'Cause LLMs don't dance, and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine.
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by jsolson 2y ago
Love it, but it needs an icon so I can install it as a PWA. Oh, and can I get the icon in corn-flower blue?
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by jsolson 2y ago
The bus bar itself is an SPoF, but it's also just dumb copper. That doesn't mean that nothing can go wrong, but it's pretty far into the tail of the failure distribution. The power shelf that keeps the busbar fed will have mu
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by jsolson 2y ago
Note that "device tree" can include things like "PCIe root port" This device tree is describing fixed (per BOM/schematic) hardware. Things below that hardware are still enumerated. I really wish this had won out ove
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by jsolson 2y ago
Why do you want to avoid virtualization?

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