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    Comment #48985119

    Matrix multiplication is one of the few operations that isn't regularly limited by memory bandwidth. BLAS implementations come with several heavily optimized, architecture-specific…

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    Comment #48436205

    Isn't the delta fed to an arithmetic coder?

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    Comment #48431864

    Not as many as the ones that the US snatched in operation paperclip

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    Comment #48430126

    I'd bet on the inverse: China scaling DRAM production until the price crashes, and the whole US stock market that is propped on top of that scarcity going down with it.

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    Comment #48253254

    Prefill (GEMM) is compute bound, decode (GEMV) is memory bound.

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    Comment #48250412

    EPYC 9965: 614GBps of 12-channel DDR5-6400 A100: 1935GBps of HBM2e Most of those FLOPS are constrained by memory bandwidth.

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    Comment #48171258

    A social safety net

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    Comment #48141449

    And definitely not more evil than the workers at current Meta.

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    Comment #48069785

    Is it? Spack has only one package that depends on chapel.

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    Comment #48043213

    And state actor LLMs probably don't need convincing

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    Comment #48043168

    Copy Fail was found using AI and made our last week miserable (thanks RedHat). Anyone with access to a SOTA model can point it at any package in your stack and go fish. You're unde…

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    Comment #47784087

    > GabeN also had the wrong take in that it's a "supply problem" or whatever nonsense he said. It is a supply problem. Steam regional pricing and game passes have demolished piracy …

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    Comment #47773471

    If the image contains information required to bring up the device, why isn't that data shipped in firmware?

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    Comment #47771922

    At some point SBCs that require a custom linux image will become unacceptable, right? Right?

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    Comment #47740543

    It's predatory pricing.

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    Comment #47699398

    If any of those addresses sold a single sat the price would crash hard .

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    Comment #47569573

    That's a genius idea, keep adding broken stuff into the standard until there's no choice but to break compatibility to fix it.

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    Comment #47559429

    Imagine considering some bird poop staining the paint dangerous instead of the air pollution that's slowly killing you.

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    Comment #47508291

    I can't even play the decent free games I got because I can't find them in the UI. It doesn't have sort by rating (or any other popularity metric) so you have to wade through the j…

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    Comment #47508217

    They did try to pull a Valve and use their successful game to fund a game store that prints money.

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    Comment #47408049

    The 9800X3D has wider everything . Decoder, execution ports, vectors, cache, memory bandwidth...

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    Comment #46816159

    If you get the "You're absolutely right!" response from an LLM that screwed up on a field you're familiar with and still let them play with your health, you're...courageous to say …

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    Comment #46708971

    You'd have to be quite tall to average an ~80cm step. 193cm (6'4") according to a quick search.

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    Comment #46402424

    Because most ARM SBCs are still limited to whatever linux distro they added support to. Intel SBCs might underperform but you can be sure it will run anything built for x86-64.

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    Comment #46377650

    Apple's A4 was launched 4 years before RISC-V.