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RantyDave

1,098 karmajoined 19 years ago
Wellington, NZ. Currently hacking on yacht performance - Python, Dart, Javascript.

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RantyDave
·6 days ago·discuss
Don't we have Nuitka for this?
RantyDave
·26 days ago·discuss
Moving my crap onto an old laptop and some kind of tunnel thing ... tomorrow.

Those are some huge increases.
RantyDave
·last month·discuss
Right. But ... this would limit you to either extremely small models or extremely large FPGA's, yes? If there's a simple machine learning task that requires a sub microsecond latency I can see the point but otherwise??
RantyDave
·2 months ago·discuss
Were you not into SDI for broadcast stuff?
RantyDave
·3 months ago·discuss
The Nvidia NV1 mattered even if it was a misstep.

I'd say Voodoo 3 mattered because it killed 3dfx.

And the Matrox Parhelia mattered for much the same reason.
RantyDave
·4 months ago·discuss
Ahhh, so is this a chip "more optimised" for connecting GPU's to reality ... or are they skipping the GPU step entirely? Are GPU's only for training now?
RantyDave
·5 months ago·discuss
Damn, that's really impressive.
RantyDave
·6 months ago·discuss
Likewise. It took me a while to "get" flutter but now I'm here, I 'aint leaving.
RantyDave
·7 months ago·discuss
Couldn't you "just" use a honking fast SSD and set it as a swap drive?
RantyDave
·7 months ago·discuss
"a thousand-day uptime shouldn’t be folklore"

I reboot a lot. Mostly I want to know that should the system need to reboot for whatever reason, that it will all come back up again. I run a very lightly loaded site and I highly doubt anybody notices the minute (or so) loss of service caused by rebooting.

Pretty sure I don't feel bad about this.
RantyDave
·8 months ago·discuss
This is one of the things that changed when we moved from SATA to NVME. SATA has only a few "in flight" instructions and NVME does 64k.

Begs a question though: are there any NVME "spinny rust" disks?
RantyDave
·8 months ago·discuss
There was a brief fascination with user mode TCP over DPDK (or similar). What happened with that? Can you get similar performance with QUIC? Does io_uring make it all a moot point?
RantyDave
·8 months ago·discuss
Quite. I don't see why we need this in a world that already has Kevlar, Dyneema and Carbon.
RantyDave
·10 months ago·discuss
Thing is, I have stopped expecting Xcode to be any good.

Actual native macOS/iOS development got beaten senseless when the App Store made it clear that "unsustainably low" was the expected price point for third party developers; and that Apple were treating the store more or less as a market research exercise and good ideas absolutely would be stolen.

So it's an internal tool, really. And we're I-guess-lucky that they document it and release it for the proles.
RantyDave
·10 months ago·discuss
A built in task framework? Good BYE celery, you will not be missed.
RantyDave
·10 months ago·discuss
Zephyr is not an OS in the conventional sense, it's more a library you link to so the application can "go".
RantyDave
·5 years ago·discuss
I'm having enough difficulty separating "hypervisor" from "operating system".