Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — dapperdrake

dapperdrake

HN member
Joined
Thu, Aug 24, 2023, 4:43 AM UTC
HN karma
396
Public activity
416 items

About dapperdrake

Blog: https://dapperdrake.neocities.org

Probably busy doing data processing at any given moment.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
  2. comment
    Comment #49019668

    Then where are the HDMI ports on Nvidia's current data center GPU product lines?

  3. comment
    Comment #49019654

    And the change in failure rate and technical advances are a de-facto change in actual depreciation vs. accounting depreciation.

  4. comment
    Comment #49019635

    Electricity gets converted to heat which has to be removed through the cooling system. Performance per Watt is the key metric for data centers full of GPUs.

  5. comment
    Comment #48951130

    Kernel option nohz_full in grub config. Also disable hardware SMT as a kernel option in grub config. Then the cores can clock down way more often and L1 data cache size doubles. XF…

  6. comment
    Comment #48858073

    The joke is awesome. Sadly, monospaced fonts kill sarcasm.

  7. comment
    Comment #48845621

    "Everybody has a production system. The lucky ones also have a test system."

  8. comment
    Comment #48845578

    Wow. GitHub gaining the same reputation as DNS ("it's always DNS"), printers, OSI layer 8, and PEBKAC is actually a bit of an achievement. Hat tip to Microsoft.

  9. comment
    Comment #48829022

    zpool-replace(8) https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/man/master/8/zpool-re... ZFS got this right. MDADM on ext4 somehow did not. EDIT: ext4 on MDADM. How ZFS gets this right: zf…

  10. comment
    Comment #48828976

    ATA (SATA), SCSI (SAS), and NVM (NVMe).

  11. comment
    Comment #48815203

    Underrated

  12. comment
    Comment #48796079

    Look at flag --standalone. At least for html output pandoc seems to be able to handle something that feels like partial pandoc input in practice and produce html output that behave…

  13. comment
    Comment #48749711

    I saw a presentation about this in 2022. Someone found a way to get "something like" a tri-diagonal matrix that was equivalent to the LLM they were studying in 2022. Apologies for …

  14. comment
    Comment #48743139

    Not even cross-domain. (Nor cross-co-domain.) Trigonometric polynomials are also polynomials. And linear spaces are all "the same". That is what the definition is for . Even the tr…

  15. comment
    Comment #48697349

    First half didn’t sound so bad.

  16. comment
    Comment #48644817

    Most of the whimsy vitamins are between the skin and the banana.

  17. comment
    Comment #48618136

    And the Internet routes around a problem, yet again. Good example of the 2020s on why there is practically truly only one Internet instead of many.

  18. comment
    Comment #48618130

    Do intermediate values always turn into double floats?

  19. comment
    Comment #48616194

    Maybe that feedback loop finally got fast enough to die out.

  20. comment
    Comment #48615817

    Am also interested in this. Manufacturing for the win.

  21. comment
    Comment #48593585

    Float32Array Math.fround()

  22. comment
    Comment #48590024

    Mostly good. A bit wordy.

  23. comment
    Comment #48480934

    Computers are very good at repeating a known "recipe". They can add numbers billions of time per second. Yes, billions with a bee. The hard part is coming up with a recipe that sol…

  24. comment
    Comment #48433953

    Writing memory safe code in C with (most) compilers slapping UB in your face without so much as a warning is about the same as vibecoding.

  25. comment