roadbuster

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by roadbuster 19d ago
"Processor-in-Memory", is an age-old idea which was even explored in a doctoral thesis from 1998: "Computational RAM: A Memory-SIMD Hybrid"*. At the time, the motivation was, "Between a DRAM chip and a microprocesso
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by roadbuster 20d ago
The only way to achieve this is to either put a runtime software check on a variable whenever it's assigned/used, or to literally add hardware support in processors themselves which literally throws an interrupt when a "never
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by roadbuster 1mo ago
Indeed, this is a problem for an energetic student who has free access to every tool in the Cadence, Synopsys, and Mentor portfolios: take the GDS-II layout, run it through extraction, generate a netlist, convert to higher-level blocks (&qu
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by roadbuster 2mo ago
Great project & article. Beyond the use of verilog, I couldn't find a description of the EDA stack. What tooling is used for the physical stages of design: place & route, LVS, DRC, and electrical circuit simulation (SPICE)?
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by roadbuster 2mo ago
> I don't get how this is unique to GPU clusters It isn't, and you're right. This is just a long-winded article by someone who thinks they've come across a deep, crucial insight. I witnessed a bank foreclosure stemmin
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by roadbuster 2mo ago
There is no substance. It's navel-gazing dribble. The "about" section of the website is equally vacuous: SmolNero is a philosophical startup rooted in first-principles thinking. We explore how humans relate to
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by roadbuster 2mo ago
If there weren't "clear owners," who was approving code changes for merge? Every other major arm of Microsoft has been tasked with burdensome controls over tracking any and all production changes to source code, but Github wa
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by roadbuster 2mo ago
3000 words which can be distilled down to 10: "Cream and egg yolk are expensive; industry tightens its belt."
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by roadbuster 2mo ago
> It really wasn't a bad operating system It was a wonderful operating system. It provided consumer desktop essentials (Plug & Play, DirectX 7, ACPI power management, Windows Driver Model (WDM), and support for consumer I/O
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by roadbuster 2mo ago
Looking at the categories should tell you what happened (lifestyle & fashion, finance, travel, parenting, food & recipes): They moved to Youtube/Instagram/TikTok for better reach, a larger, total audience, and improved mon
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by roadbuster 5mo ago
I think you are taking an excessive interpretation of what was suggested. Let's level-set on the issue: Of late, GH has suffered a continuous stream of noteworthy outages. It is hypothesized the underlying cause of the instability has
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by roadbuster 5mo ago
> would break the entire model The "model" - GH effectively allowing an overload of their infra - is already broken > How would a random kid in a 3rd world country ever get noticed enough to enter a trust circle By submittin
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by roadbuster 5mo ago
I think Clearmotion has a very interesting technology and product (ride stabilization), but let's paint a full picture here: the company was founded in 2009, took on $370 million in funding, and only recently landed large contracts (a
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by roadbuster 6mo ago
Yes. But, looking at BRCM/AVGO's stock chart, I may have made a mistake.
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by roadbuster 6mo ago
Yes, that's the issue: the (thick) solid grey "major axis" lines on the background seemed to be a wire. If I could make a recommendation, get rid of the grid lines entirely and only have 'dots' at regular spacing. H
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by roadbuster 6mo ago
I worked on deep sub-micron, full custom mixed-signal integrated circuits for more than a decade, and I can't pass the first level. > Wire an NMOS transistor so that when In is 1, the output is pulled to ground (0). When In is 0, th
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by roadbuster 6mo ago
They certainly have, but the general idea is to first use stealth jets to bomb defensive systems (including radar observability) to conquer the skies, and then you can fly around somewhat freely. While SAM technology has improved, so have A
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by roadbuster 6mo ago
During the entire gulf war (Iraq, 1990-91), only two F-15s were shot down via surface-to-air engagement. At the time, Baghdad was known to have the highest density of SAM protection out of any city in the world. An F-15 being shot down in I
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by roadbuster 7mo ago
> The Claude C Compiler illustrates the other side: it optimizes for > passing tests, not for correctness. It hard-codes values to satisfy > the test suite. It will not generalize. This is one of the pain points I am suffering at w
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by roadbuster 7mo ago
> All it really shows is that the “poor” are getting milked for everything they earn and own How are you concluding that? The only way I can see that could be true is if the bottom 50% has shifted their meagre savings to spending in an e
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
> Whenever a new layer of abstraction is added LLMs aren't a "layer of abstraction." 99% of people writing in assembly don't have to drop down into manual cobbling of machine code. People who write in C rarely drop in
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
> [Synology] comes with dedicated Time Machine support Your umbrance is with Synology, not Apple. Apple raised security default configurations in Tahoe. That led to a config breakage with NAS devices which rely on relaxed security config
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
Acknowledged. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
It's a hand-waved estimate, but let's recognize that Apple actively plans on killing support for NAS targets for Time Machine: > Time Machine backup to NAS devices over Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) is not recommended and won&#x2
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
> For someone using consumer technology on a consumer laptop Mounting an SMB share on a Synology NAS to use as a Time Machine backup target is not what most users would consider "consumer technology."
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
Article title is a bit dramatic. The summary seems to be: for the 5% of users who back-up to a network share (rather than direct-attached storage like a USB hard drive enclosure), Apple's default SMB configs on Tahoe are strict and won
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
> Forget to provide paper in toilets The world's greatest spy agency at work.
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
- Power fail-over (battery + generator backup) in every house? - Could get expensive flying a technician to every household to upgrade hardware in the racks - Probably don't want everyone at home having physical access to storage devic
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
It has less to do with "oligarchs" and more to do with protectionism over domestic industry: retain jobs in America, preserve worker income taxes revenue, capture taxation of corporate profits, tilt the scales in favour of an Amer
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by roadbuster 8mo ago
This is a well-written, well-researched piece, but some of the narratives are off the mark. For example: > Phase 1 (Courtship, 2010-2014): TSMC needed Apple for legitimacy TSMC was already the world's largest pure-play foundry long

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