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  1. brandonjclark

    News Russia develops its first lithography tool — outdated by 30 years from day one

    I wonder how many of you are impressed by this "publicly-funded" effort to create it's first tooling as much as I am? There were PRACTICAL lessons learned around the processes of building tooling like this that needed to be DISCOVERED and DEVELOPED for the first time. Could they have shot for...
  2. brandonjclark

    News 90s instant messaging service shuts down after 28 years — ICQ will stop working from June 26

    Count me as someone who never used this service.
  3. brandonjclark

    News Snapdragon X Elite shows 2X higher multi-threaded performance than Apple M2 in new benchmarks — Apple M2 is faster in single-threaded performance,...

    I gave your comment a "like" because I can appreciate that point of view, because I tend to agree. Although, I'm becoming less confident in this belief. To test this, what are the workloads that satisfy the "majority of use cases"? I asked CheatGPT and here are the TOP-LEVEL workloads: Sure...
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    News Be prepared for extreme productivity and Judgement Day with the Gatling Battlestation – Preorder yours for just $4,199

    This looks like something from Boston Dynamics. You know, their secret product lineup.
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    News Intel's newest E-core-only "Twin Lake" CPUs are on the way, starting with Intel N250

    I'm going to buy it and test it out. I have an n100 stood up to run a few containers and I'm interested now.
  6. brandonjclark

    News Fujitsu uses Fugaku supercomputer to train LLM: 13 billion parameters

    Let's make that more clear... ;) Megatron (an NVidia-developed framework that excels at multi-GPU AI Acceleration), coupled with DeepSpeed, a Microsoft-written library were used. The framework ensures many GPU's can be used at once to train the model. The library itself helps by accelerating...
  7. brandonjclark

    Question Ear Buds, (IEM) for Gaming

    If you can find a better set of buds than these for the price (currently 39.99), let me know. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09C36GCFW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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    News 19 years later, X-Fi is still kicking — Creative announces Super X-Fi Gen4 audio profile, leverages AI for head and ear mapping

    Lately I hooked up an old Logitech z5500 system, in which I've replaced all the speakers (except the integrated and required 10" sub) with Pioneer Andrew Jones Edition Surround Sound speaker system (Gen1). I'm happy with my sound quality, but I DO miss the idea of Creative's XFi...
  9. brandonjclark

    News Alleged Apple M4 Geekbench scores show incremental improvement in machine learning over last gen

    For those of us who would like to know more... https://www.mathworks.com/company/technical-articles/what-is-int8-quantization-and-why-is-it-popular-for-deep-neural-networks.html
  10. brandonjclark

    T-Mobile Home Internet: Revisiting 5G connectivity for the home after two years

    I'd probably use one of these services (cellular) as a fail-over ISP, but I can't shake the brain freeze around cellular coverage issues. Again, it's probably just a trust issue, as your article essentially says the the tech might be ready.
  11. brandonjclark

    News Get rid of Microsoft's Start Menu ads with this new software tool — the "Oh F*ck Go Back" program cleans up Windows 11

    "OFGB comes from Maddy (@xM4ddy), a programmer who drives Arch Linux daily rather than Windows" A legend in his own time... TY, Maddy
  12. brandonjclark

    News Nintendo obliterates 8,535 Yuzu repos — Nintendo's most effective DMCA takedown campaign in years

    So, Nintendo should NOT protect it's IP? Is that the sentiment of Tom's readers?
  13. brandonjclark

    News Microsoft's new RAM limiter for Edge browser makes its way into latest beta version

    I'm pretty sure Microsoft has baked in a claim on memory that is needed to retain session state regardless of how much you limit it to.
  14. brandonjclark

    News User claims RTX 4090 16-pin power connector melted on both GPU and PSU side, despite running at 75% power

    the smell of burned plastic - I thought for a moment we were talking about the Canadian wildfires!
  15. brandonjclark

    News Microsoft confirms recent Windows security update breaks VPNs, no fix yet

    Zero-Trust security means no device is automatically trusted. There are many enterprises which require VPN even when internal to an office.
  16. brandonjclark

    News BenQ set to release 24.1-inch 540 Hz Full HD gaming monitor in May

    At what point does this become a joke? The flicker fusion threshold for a typical human is around 24 fps. I understand that responsiveness, or the CHANCE to respond quicker might sell some monitors to a professional gamer, but at some point the public is going to realize that this is...
  17. brandonjclark

    News TSMC unveils 1.6nm process technology with backside power delivery, rivals Intel's competing design

    I remember the guy at microcenter trying to tell me I'm wasting my 3090 pushing too few pixels at 1440p (32inches). My guy, I care about REFRESH RATE.
  18. brandonjclark

    This Asus TUF 28-inch 4K IPS gaming monitor is now only $229 at Walmart

    The HP G5 docking station is a workhorse of an appliance on my desk and IMO is a great buy for PD concerns...
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    News TSMC to charge premium for making chips outside of Taiwan, including its new US fabs, CEO says

    We unofficially have at least 50 people stationed there. We also just passed a multi-nation aid package that includes BILLIONS for Taiwan. It's also our normal operating procedure to patrol those waters "in defense" of Taiwan multiple times a month. You can review more information about our...
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    News TSMC to charge premium for making chips outside of Taiwan, including its new US fabs, CEO says

    Sure is a nice island you have there Taiwan. *Wink *Wink Sure would be a shame if we pulled our defenses and let China take over, RIGHT?!?!??!?! RIGHT TAIWAN?
  21. brandonjclark

    Review Dell XPS 16 (9640) and XPS 14 (9440) review: New looks and great performance combined with a few quirks

    I'd rather work on a MBP or a MBA. My wife would rather take the Dell because it has a touchscreen, or least her model XPS does. I find no use for touch.
  22. brandonjclark

    Review Asus ROG Swift PG49WCD 49-inch gaming monitor review: The most colorful OLED yet

    How would you compare this monitor on "versus" comparison, buy this or that, to the Dell Alienware AW3225QF, readers?
  23. brandonjclark

    News Micro Center low-balls RTX 4090 owner — Store's GPU trade-in program offers just $700 for Nvidia's flagship GPU

    You should've seen what my local car dealer offered me for my Mustang after I was ready to sell it.
  24. brandonjclark

    Review Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Gen 12) Review: Light in Weight, Heavy in AI

    Wait, WHAT??!?!?! The battery life from this gen is nearly FOUR HOURS LESS than previous gen? Am I reading this right?
  25. brandonjclark

    News AI may eventually consume a quarter of America's power by 2030, warns Arm CEO

    "An IEA Electricity 2024 report warns that ChatGPT requests costs nearly 10 times more than a Google search in power" And ten times more useful than a trashy, ad-steered Google search.
  26. brandonjclark

    News Best Buy Geek Squad agents raise specter of mass layoffs in unofficial community forums — some may have been displaced by AI

    "Dodge v. Ford is one corporate law’s iconic decisions, regularly taught in law school and regularly cited as one of corporate law’s core shareholder primacy decisions. Ford Motor slashed its dividend in 1916 and minority stockholders—the Dodge brothers—successfully sued Ford Motor Company for a...
  27. brandonjclark

    News HP ends ties with Russia, shutting down its Russian website — website redirects to Kazakhstan with no support

    I hear you. I just want (like most sane people) for this whole thing to be over. One of my last acts at a previous company was doing what I could to secure up some IP being developed "over there", as if the people I was working with daily were now bad people.
  28. brandonjclark

    News OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly planning $100 billion datacenter project for an AI supercomputer

    Nothing says sustainability like a $100 billion dollar datacenter. Gotta love it..
  29. brandonjclark

    News Horizon Forbidden West PC port analysis: Another game that can exceed 8GB VRAM use

    Thanks for the work! I didn't see a 3090 in there, though. I'll extrapolate, nvm!
  30. brandonjclark

    News Formula 1 management shocked team used Excel for 20,000-part inventory, now replacing 'impossible to navigate' sheet

    I think the entire F1 league (and obviously others) could benefit from a structured configuration management program/product ran by an expert who knows how to ETL this stuff into a datalake.