@dnystedt
Dumb question: Why is Nvidia even trying to work around these controls? GPU demand is basically infinite, so why not just sell H100s to everybody but China and not worry about it?
Intel: We spent huge area on AVX-512 but only in the P cores and the OS got confused so we had to disable it across the board and this won't be fixed in future generations either so instead we're backtracking to AVX10 blah blah
AMD: Everybody gets AVX-512! Mega FPUs!
@liron
I was a fan of your crypto coverage, but I'm having trouble understanding what value you're bringing to AI discourse. People are aware of Yud and his work by now. Are you convincing anyone by aggressively defending him?
@dylan522p
@AMD
I don't know if your summary matches the slide. AMD has less carbon and higher perf than Xeon Gold.
Embodied carbon is mostly a scam to create jobs for accountants anyway.
I've seen several people approvingly point to Jack Dorsey's criticism of Web3 but they don't realize he's high on something much worse: Bitcoin maximalism. He's a crackpot crypto billionaire who has some minor disagreements with crypto VCs. Reality doesn't enter the picture.
@DaveLeeFT
@Austen
This is really important. Many predictions about crypto (especially pre-2013) were right for the wrong reason or wrong for the right reason.
"Your honor, I plead not guilty to all 7,000 counts of copyright infringement, but just in case I'd like the jury of my peers to be comprised entirely of Ars Technica commenters."
Nice diagram from Intel showing how a fairly "simple" processor refresh takes 2.5 years to develop. Nothing new for industry insiders but may be enlightening for others.
@IanCutress
The Industry: PCIe 5.0 SSDs are almost ready but PCIe 5.0 GPUs are years away and would be pointless anyway.
Intel: OK, we'll make the x16 slot 5.0 and the M.2 slot 4.0.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@tomhadfield
@Austen
But in this case we're talking about Google hypothetically blocking emails that you *want* to receive without any way for you to change it.
@danluu
This tracks Tufte's criticism of Windows Metro that "The WP7S screens look as if they were designed for a slide presentation or for a video demo (to be read from a distance) and not for a handheld interface (read from 20 inches)."
@patio11
I wonder if anyone has researched how and why "the customer is always right" mutated into an outright license to steal over the last 20 years.
@jonst0kes
Twitter is a utility. I'm willing to accept a completely uncensored Twitter if they also re-open the APIs for third party clients so they can implement the moderation that Twitter refuses to provide.
Much younger coworker: Why isn't this master branch protected?
Me: Because I'm doing, uh... trunk-based development.
Him: (shakes head) I know it takes time for older people to learn things.
Me: Hey, in MY day we didn't even HAVE branches!
#GitOffMyLawn
@patio11
Related horror from
@doctorow
: "each batch of new corporate overlords would attempt to crapify the contracting terms the magazine imposed on its writers"
@realpauleverton
With all deniers:
1. It didn't happen
2. If it did happen it wasn't my fault
3. OK it happened and it's my fault but it's actually good
People keep saying I'm dumb but I think there will be demand for certified non-generative image processing in the future. The legal system is the obvious first customer. Stingrays were thrown out of court because nobody knows how they work, so why not smartphone photos?
The iPhone camera uses computational photography, applying software to every snap.
This wild photo is an eery example: the subject tries on a wedding dress and each mirror shows her in a different pose.
Why? Apple insider says it’s a “mistake” in the computational photography
Here's my quick analysis of Zen 2 die photos published by
@FritzchensFritz
including thoughts about Rome NUMA and some speculation about Threadripper 3000.
New video: RISC-V is alive. Despite plenty of hype, RISC-V has been languishing with very low performance and little that you could buy. SiFive's announcement of the U84 core has put RISC-V back on track to deliver something usable.
@QuinnyPig
@Dixie3Flatline
You're the only massive troll I've seen who unleashes joy everywhere you go. If you could bottle that it would be worth more than a Managed NAT Gateway.
@jessamyn
@anildash
This is a feature™. Soon prisons will have to buy special dumb DVD players from the prison-industrial complex that are 10x more expensive.