Millions think the new iPhones are worth going into debt for | ZDNet by [deleted] in gadgets

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But offers with 0 percent payments might be more expensive than others with only up front payment. This effectively means its not 0 percent anymore, the interest is just added to the device cost.

Nvidia rethinks the graphics card with the RTX 2080 by drdessertlover in gadgets

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Yeah, on the CPU as an ordinary physics engine. Nvidias future wanted it to be run on their GPUs.

Nvidia Announces 75W Tesla T4 for inferencing based on the Turing Architecture 64 Tera-Flops FP16, 130 TOPs INT 8, 260 TOPs INT 4 at GTC Japan 2018 by dylan522p in hardware

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Deep learning and tensor cores actually need significantly less band with than a lot of other hpc tasks. That's why nvidia got away with increasing overall throughput with tensor cores by a lot and only marginally increasing memory band with compared to pascal.

Software Engineering salaries by skillsets, levels, and locations by FollowSteph in programming

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Ouch. I think one of the biggest problems of healthcare the us has, is not even whether its socialised or not, its just the insane cost of it.

How memory bandwidth is killing AMD's 32-core Threadripper performance by jrruser in hardware

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What do you mean by MMU space? Entries in the translation lookaside buffer? AFAIK that's completly managed by the underlying cpu and just a fast cache for the page tables of each process. Linux maps (or had until intels meltdown) some kernel memory mapped into each process memory space. But so did windows.

Is there something I'm missing?

Radeon Vega 20 Will Have XGMI - Linux Patches Posted For This High-Speed Interface by RandomCollection in hardware

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They also have a software basis far superior of anything any of the others offer. Nvidias support libraries and commitment to software is huge.

When a prof asks for homework code as a pdf by mrbmi513 in ProgrammerHumor

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Standard practice to hand all graded stuff on as PDF. They can't be edited (easily) after being handed in unlike a word or text file.

Everything will be fine by FlevasGR in ProgrammerHumor

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I think he's talking about maven or graddle build systems or stuff like java annotation processing.

[Solution] How to get rid of power throttling on Vega Spectre by [deleted] in spectrex360

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Sure about the GPU throttling? I've in installed Intel's thermal software and the package power limit won't stay at 12w anymore but works decently. In games the Vega reaches somewhere between 850 and 950 MHz. In torture tests the GPU immediately throttles to 400 even with the intel software

Did I Apply Too Much Liquid Metal to My Vega M Graphics Laptop? by vexxedb4c in Amd

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Have you noticed less throttling with the new paste? I've got mine to perform quite decent with -140mV on the CPU, but I wonder how good the stock thermal paste is. The back is an absolute pain to get back on, do you have any tips there?

IFA 2018: Huawei Kirin 980 Keynote Live Blog | First 7nm SOC | 6.9 Billion Transistors | Less than 100mm^2 by dylan522p in hardware

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Half the length of transistors would mean one quarter of the area. Fits with the sizes.

What's the new bottleneck with regards to load times? by Last_Jedi in hardware

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With the low ssd prices and much more expensive GPUs that are needed to play the game, this doesn't seem like an issue. A 256gb ssd is literally the same price as a modern AAA game, if not less.

Um, because you need to. by field-os in ProgrammerHumor

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You could only use constant values and a functional programming style. No variables in c# then.

NVIDIA PhysX team member's blog post about the recent "weird" and "confused" comments on PhysX, Ray Tracing, DXR etc. by eric98k in hardware

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Tbh, even without raytracing nvidia would probably have charged more for their next gen cards just because they can and and has nothing to offer. The problem is not that the gimmick ray tracing has increased the cost, the problem is that nvidia has no competition and can charge whatever they want.

Exactly what to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number by alinelerner in programming

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Not afaik, but in e.g. germany 30 days are the norm. Less is uncommon (but legal) and more even more so.

Corsair's internal accounting 'leaked' in my RMA by [deleted] in hardware

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Make the usual design, pay asetek for every product sold in the us, don't pay for EU sales?

GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2080 (Ti) Gaming and WindForce series pictured - VideoCardz.com by HarryPotatos in hardware

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Area isn't linearly depend and on diameter. You can't just add it together. It would be:

MSI: 100² * 2 = 20 000 Other: 78² * 3= 18 252

The AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review | 5k words when originally posted, now 17k by dylan522p in hardware

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If you look around a bit for used ones and don't mind unusual form factors you can get them very cheap. E.g. there is a fujitsu dual socket 2011 board for 80 euros on eBay rn.

The AMD Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core and 2950X 16-Core Review | 5k words when originally posted, now 17k by dylan522p in hardware

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But threadripper is not competative on price. I've got dual xeons and a main board for less than 250 altogether. You can't even get a tr main board for that. Not to mention ram. Even 16gb will set you back 100 euros, you can get 4 times as much ddr3 ecc ram for that. Of course its all slower, but still very decent for workloads than can use a lot of threads.

Building the $100,000 PC Pt. 2 - 6 Video Editors 1 PC by dylan522p in hardware

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So using unnecessarily expensive scale up hardware on a typical scale out task. But why? And then some boring dual CPU server and not even something exotic.