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While I can’t speak for GP, I had a similar reaction - though admittedly I wouldn’t describe it as “relieved,” more of an “okay, good to know this isn’t anywhere near the top of th…

I'm using a janky CUDA miner that's getting around 6GH/s on a 3090. My code is kind of bad though since I hacked it together in a couple of hours last night, so I wouldn't be surpr…

Getting into the top ten is still not too hard at this point, if you wanted to. I hacked together a super basic parallel CPU miner quickly before diving into CUDA, and the CPU one …

Assuming hashes are random (which is a reasonable assumption, considering it's sha256), every extra leading zero cuts the probability of success in half, meaning double the candida…

There’s not really any viable options other than Nvidia for GPU compute, despite AMD’s efforts on ROCm. If you want to do compute tasks, you need an Nvidia card with Nvidia drivers…

The problem is that there aren’t enough digits of precision to represent the answer. The exact answer would be 999999.0000001, but let’s say you only have space to store six signif…

The “oh, just don’t buy a GPU from NVidia” point is one I see made a lot when discussing Wayland’s failures, but it completely misses the fact that CUDA is currently the only viabl…

I want to be able to justify using Google Cloud for projects, but the fact that it’s a Google product is the main obstacle to that. If history is anything to go by, relying on Goog…

Thank you for this recommendation - I'm planning to switch platforms in a few weeks, and blocking YT ads was one of the big open questions I still had.

On the contrary, there's no reason to believe the exorbitant initial cost would change at all. If anything, this would make it worse. The reason textbooks can cost as much as they …

Can you recommend a good reference/source for translating legalese? I'm not sure I've ever found a good source for determining which words should be interpreted normally and which …

Should be F3, I think (works on my system and I don't think I changed the defaults).

If that's true, and consensus is only starting to come together now, how is the Wayland ecosystem considered ready for mainstream usage? From the perspective of someone happily usi…

First off, I hadn't run into Hammerspoon before, so thanks for that - it looks like it might help with some things. Most things I've tried and failed to do involve silent/backgroun…

Seconded. I use both on a regular basis - a Mac laptop for work since I have to interact with the MS Office ecosystem there, and a Linux desktop/workstation for gaming and personal…

I'll second the "Valve's been amazing" comment. The majority of games I play are native, and all but a few of the rest work fine under Proton. Compared to when I started using Linu…

I think C and C++ have enough problems with accidental undefined behavior already without making aliased pointers into UB.

> Look at the lengths involved in getting A* to run on Curiosity Can you link to something that goes into detail? Googling it doesn't turn up anything relevant, but it sounds like …

Both Windows and Linux (via PulseAudio) provide this. I'm not as familiar with the Windows side of things, but on Linux I can also redirect each application's sound to different au…

I just tested this on my Linux workstation. 2000 threads does nothing - everything's still responsive, and the process is shown as using 0% of the CPU. 16,000 threads uses ~30% of …

At least for the purposes of comparing to web apps, the criteria would be: responsive/low-latency (responds to input quickly), fast (completes tasks quickly), uses resources propor…

I keep hearing the "web technologies are fine, you're just using them wrong" refrain over and over again, but it's ultimately not very convincing. If it's true, then where are all …

My main problem with it is limited software support. Xmonad isn't available and as far as I can tell what support exists for screen recording and screenshots is half-baked at best.…

This doesn't apply if you want to run CUDA-dependent software. I've generally gone for Nvidia for my personal machine since Torch has behaved oddly on AMD cards in the past. It's t…

I think I partially agree, but that it mainly depends on the audience. I've found that parsing and recursion appear in more areas than just compilers, to the point where it'd be re…