tamlin

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by tamlin 1y ago
Yes, I used VSS as a solo developer in the 90s. It was a revelation at the time. I met other VCS systems at grad school (RCS, CVS). I started a job at MSFT in 2004 and I recall someone explaining that VSS was unsafe and prone to corruption.
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by tamlin 1y ago
Source Depot was based on Perforce. Microsoft bought a license for the Perforce source code and made changes to work at Microsoft scale (Windows, Office). TFS was developed in the Studio team. It was designed to work on Microsoft scale and
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by tamlin 1y ago
Samsung and SK-Hynix have had specs and papers for a few years already for HBM and GDDR. e.g. * https://www.servethehome.com/sk-hynix-ai-memory-at-hot-chips... * https://www.servethehome.com/samsung-processi
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by tamlin 2y ago
Yes, agree. Probably the main thing is the NPU is just a dedicated unit without the generality / complexity of a CPU and so able to crunch matmuls more efficiently.
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by tamlin 2y ago
No worries, and no humble pie required. Peace, good happiness.
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by tamlin 2y ago
Agree on NPU vs CPU memory bandwidth, but not sure about characterizing the GPU that way. GDDR is usually faster than DDR of the same generation, and on higher end graphics cards has a width bus width. A few GPUs have HBM and pretty much al
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by tamlin 2y ago
Rotor had it's own license: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Source_Common_Language_... I have various snapshots of the Rotor 1 and 2 sources around and they have the SSCLI license. There is a file that contai
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by tamlin 2y ago
Microsoft had a research version of the CLR called Rotor (2002) that predated Mono (2004). Rotor built for Windows, FreeBSD, and macOs, albeit with a not-very-open license. When Mono came along, the internal position at Microsoft was surpri
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by tamlin 2y ago
A decent chunk of AI computation is the ability to do matrix multiplication fast. Part of that is reducing the amount of data transferred to and from the matrix multiplication hardware on the NPU and GPU; memory bandwidth is a significant b
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by tamlin 4y ago
Perhaps someone ex-Intel can comment, but there was a story within Microsoft that Intel proposed a different x86 derived 64-bit architecture after AMD64, but Microsoft didn't want to support two x86-64 ISAs and that put pay to Intel&#x
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by tamlin 5y ago
BirdNet is pure joy. Thanks to everyone who works on it. We've used the app relentlessly for a couple of years in the UK and when you show it to people they are amazed. People thank us for it and all we did was share it with them. Grea
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by tamlin 5y ago
How many "independent" voices you see depends on your bubble. How many users are there of these platforms? What fraction wrote a rant? Not saying those opinions are wrong, but it's not particularly insightful.
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by tamlin 5y ago
Disappointing article. The title suggested it might have some data rather than being just a non-technical rant.
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by tamlin 5y ago
My manager once presented to Cutler. They said it went remarkably well as Cutler "only interrupted the presentation twice to cuss"...
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by tamlin 5y ago
Typically when building a device like this you get a version of Linux / embedded-OS from the SoC vendor and you are stuck with it because SoC vendor doesn't provide docs that would allow drivers to be maintained. This makes ongoin
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by tamlin 5y ago
Yes. All apps in Android are spawned from the Zygote, but once started an app is free to call as much native code as it likes. https://medium.com/@voodoomio/what-the-zygote-76f852d887d9
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by tamlin 5y ago
There was a Linux subsystem for NT around early 2000s in Microsoft Research. There is amazing depth inside parts of Microsoft. For example, a team built Xbox360-on-PC sometime around 2007-08. That was emulating the PowerPC and GPU on Intel
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by tamlin 5y ago
Very cool, that's a decent performance bump. It'd be nice to have some simple benchmarks that directly compare ignition, sparkplug and turbofan (and full-codegen too). And also time spent compiling. It looks somewhat similar to co
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by tamlin 6y ago
MBA and business students are taught the rule of three: "The Rule of Three applies wherever competitive market forces are allowed to determine market structure with only minor regulatory and technological impediments." https:&#x2