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- Comment on well? 3 days ago:
Xaturday Korning Creakfast Dereal
- Comment on The good old days 1 week ago:
wtf i’m 22
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
There are a number of enterprise storage systems optimized specifically for SMR drives. This is targeting actual data centers, not us humble homelabbers masquerading as enterprises.
- Comment on The Amount of Electricity Generated From Solar Is Suddenly Unbelievable 1 week ago:
Where are these negative prices? I’m in Switzerland and my electricity price just keeps going up.
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 2 weeks ago:
Thinking of a modern GPU as a “graphics processor” is a bit misleading. GPUs haven’t been purely graphics processors for 15 years or so, they’ve morphed into general-purpose parallel compute processors with a few graphics-specific things implemented in hardware as separate components (e.g. rasterization, fragment blending).
Those hardware stages generally take so little time compared to the rest of the graphics pipeline that it normally makes the most sense to have far more silicon dedicated to general-purpose shader cores than the fixed-function graphics hardware. A single rasterizer unit might be able to produce up to 16 shader threads worth of fragments per cycle, so even if your fragment shader is very simple and only takes 8 cycles per pixel, you can keep 8x16 cores busy with only one rasterizer in this example.
The result is that GPUs are basically just a chip packed full of a staggering number of fully programmable floating-point and integer ALUs, with only a little bit of fixed hardware dedicated to graphics squeezed in between. Any application which doesn’t need the graphics stuff and just wants to run a program on thousands of threads in parallel can simply ignore the graphics hardware and stick to the programmable shader cores, and still be able to leverage nearly all of the chip’s computational power. Heck, a growing number of games are bypassing the fixed-function hardware for some parts of rendering (e.g. compositing with compute shaders instead of drawing screen-sized rectangles, etc.) because it’s faster to simply start a bunch of threads and read+write a bunch of pixels in software.
- Comment on You know You want to 2 weeks ago:
The “B” in “Boot” looks really off, the inside of the big “O” is lighter than the rest of the sign, and the kerning on the bottom text is all over the place.
- Comment on You know You want to 2 weeks ago:
AI slop
- Comment on That's the truth 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Casual wear 4 weeks ago:
what a horrible day to have eyes
- Comment on Realities of hosting a tor relay node at home 4 weeks ago:
I have tried hosting a Tor relay on a VPS in the past and it was bottlenecked by the CPU at barely 20MB/s, although to be fair this was without hardware AES. More importantly for you, the server’s IP started getting DDoSed constantly and a whole bunch of big internet services just immediately blocked the address (the list of relay IPs is public and many things just block every address on that list instead of only exit nodes). So any of your machines are probably at least somewhat up to the task (ideally if they have hardware AES support), but this is definitely not something I’d do on my home network.
- Comment on Is it weird I sleep with an old blanket I've had since I was a young girl? 5 weeks ago:
I have a blanket I’ve slept with every day since I was barely a month old (am 23 now), wouldn’t trade it for anything. I can definitely relate :)
- Comment on The Legends is among us 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s called Omegle.
- Comment on Mammal 1 month ago:
Additionally, it is known that cows are mammals. Therefore, by transitivity, we can show that coconuts are mammals. QED.
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 1 month ago:
Switzerland, which probably makes this even funnier
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 1 month ago:
i was using one of these to connect my laptop to my “speakers” (an old stereo set) as recently as 2019, lmao
- Comment on Turbulence 1 month ago:
- Comment on If you didn't know the context, 'villager breeder tutorial 1 18' would be a very sketchy thing to search on school computers 1 month ago:
1 7 10
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 1 month ago:
What would be the point of streaming a game at 4K onto an 800p display?
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 1 month ago:
That is fair, I’m only a few years out of my teens. I guess it’ll require more intent in the future once puberty completely wraps up?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’d like my BMI to be higher as well though, I have to pay higher life insurance rates because mine is so low they’ve decided I am “at risk” despite being perfectly healthy :|
- Comment on Rule 34 rule 1 month ago:
Okay, I can’t speak for this extremely fucked up example, but in general it’s very simple:
- see shape which sufficiently resembles (partially) naked woman, maybe in suggestive pose
- neuron activation
- you are now horny
There is no need to imagine any fucking, seeing the image is enough to get you into the mood, looking at it long enough (or at different images for long enough) will get you most of the way there, and the hand can take care of the rest
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 2 months ago:
Trading has nothing to do with cryptocurrency mining. Also, any high-frequency trading firm worth their salt is using FPGAs for the things where performance really counts.
- Comment on Better than last time 2 months ago:
i think you mean Turkey?
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 months ago:
I can’t believe they removed the photo of a dead pigeon captioned “An example of packet loss.”
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 3 months ago:
it’s the mispeling vyrus
- Comment on We are so cooked 3 months ago:
and don’t get me started on tumbleweed
- Comment on What host names do you use? 4 months ago:
Y’all are too creative for me… I have:
- poweredge-r520-0
- poweredge-t620-0
- poweredge-t620-1
- pi4-0
- pi3b-0
- pi3b-1
- pi3b-2
- pi3b-3
- vostro-3525-0
- ideapad-c340-0
- Comment on Crypto exchange Bybit says a hacker took control of one of its cold Ethereum wallets, resulting in what analysts estimate was the loss of ~$1.5B worth of tokens 4 months ago:
Making more wallets would cost nothing more than a few hundred bytes of storage each for the keys. I have no idea why they wouldn’t have split their funds into evenly sized wallets of, say, $1M each.
- Comment on Ukraine: Zelenskyy offers to quit in return for NATO entry 4 months ago:
I assume the US’ plan would involve blowing a bunch of shit up, making the situation significantly worse while achieving none of the objectives they originally intended to, and transferring a fuckton of cash to Lockheed Martin in the process.
- Comment on HAIL SATAN 7 months ago:
needs more jpeg