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"hey siri, what are pin speeds?"

I love bringing up Pokemon as a humbling example of how AI progress is counterintuitive. Naively we might see games like Go, Chess, StarCraft, and Dota as more "complex," yet curre…

related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8utpbbdj0LQ

AMD has been doing this with Zen/EPYC since 2017, and I'm not sure they were the first

Was it a salvage title car? A year ago a clean title FRS with 100k miles would still easily pull $10k at auction, so you got a heck of a deal if it didn't come with major defects.

I'm not sure how to reconcile the purported gains with the fact that matrix multiplies are empirically the most heavily accelerated primitive [1] on current-gen hardware and that t…

What is a bit concerning is the speculation that the flight continued to the intended destination in an effort to avoid having the incident captured by cockpit voice recorder (whic…

It gets exhausting seeing the same NIMBY talking points trotted around every once in a while. I guess the "new developments are just luxury housing" talking points have started to …

"now ain't that some shit"

https://www.lenovo.com/us/outletus/en/laptops/?visibleDatas=... My particular deal seems to be gone now, but they come and go periodically. I also didn't bother with the (bait?) mo…

I was recently in a similar boat, as the combination of discord + twitch was really making my 11 year old i5-2520M-based T420 really show its age (WHY IS A DESKTOP CHAT CLIENT AN E…

A truly invaluable resource. Many years ago I was searching for the music used in this ancient Tom's Hardware video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1hg1zf7rrY after finding out t…

I'm genuinely curious of the details of how the 1.5v vCore measurement was obtained. CPU-Z and software measurements in general don't have the greatest reputation of being accurate…

If you can turn whitepaper diagrams and throughput claims into accurate performance estimates in your head, I suggest you embark on a lucrative career path as a world-leading compu…

The most striking thing about the architecture is that it appears so heterogeneous and complex. Considering the vast amount of software/machine learning engineering behind model/da…

Wow, every time I am even remotely tempted to upgrade from my T420 (from 2011!) Lenovo manages to completely fumble something. ARM Thinkpad X13s? Crickets on Linux support front, n…

Pointless until you veer even the slightest bit from what Spotify is able (cares?) to license. City pop listeners in the states will back me up on this one (it's not even an esoter…

Ugh, every time I see a device like this (and even the larger Reform) I'm so tempted. But I learned my lesson form-factor wise with the GPD Win Max: even as a travel laptop it's pa…

As someone with a rapidly (exponentially?) decaying background in engineering, all the article did was create an insufferable itch of mathematical fuzziness about why these were ca…

Way out of my wheelhouse here but maybe something like emitter-coupled logic that was used in the Cray-1 of similar vintage? Power hungry but allowed the Cray-1 to hit 80 MHz in 19…

"Unlike a CPU, when a GPU is waiting for data, it can't just switch to work on something else." https://twitter.com/VadimYuryev/status/1514295693581586434 Is this meant to be quali…

A T420 was my daily driver through undergrad, and then collected dust during grad school when I was issued a Macbook. When I returned my Macbook I dusted it off and was surprised b…

If you cranked up the maximum swap size, would you theoretically be able to build the kernel? (Is it truly a viable Linux machine if it can't build its own kernel?) What would be t…