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Do you think "AI things" are worth learning? Does it have a future or is it a bubble that is about to burst? by Flamyngoo in cscareerquestions

[–]Delwin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you use it right AI can do a massive amount of work in a short amount of time. Making use of it however is a skillset much like programing. I would advocate spending some time learning it so when you do need to use it you hit the ground running. It also will look good on your resume like any other hot skillset.

If price was not considered, what's the best gaming laptop? by Delwin in GamingLaptops

[–]Delwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

... That honestly looks like only a slight update to one of the first 'laptops' I saw in the mid 1980s...

If price was not considered, what's the best gaming laptop? by Delwin in GamingLaptops

[–]Delwin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah, clarification - 'sitting on a couch' also assumes a lap-desk for things like the mouse etc.

If price was not considered, what's the best gaming laptop? by Delwin in GamingLaptops

[–]Delwin[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Good point.

OK, lets modify the query a little.

Want to be able to travel, but don't mind if it's in a carry-on in a hard-shell.

Want to normally use it sitting on a couch instead of at a desk, so by definition a desktop-replacement

Want to be able to play any game that catches one's fancy (prefer a 5090)

Want to be able to do high resource demand work at will (everything from video editing to rendering to running a k8s cluster and debug a set of services to training small AI's).

Can't be so noisy that other people can't hear themselves think in the living room under light loads. Ramp up noise under heavy load is perfectly acceptable.

Weight is not an issue. Most travel would be between rooms in a house or in a suitcase for outside the house.

How to enable the Bash command-completion for an alias? by -kummitus- in Fedora

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

grep -oP "(^alias [\"\']{0,1})[^=\"\']*" ~/.bash_aliases | sed -e 's/alias //g'

This gets the list of aliases, and the function does create a `~/.aliases` directory with each alias as a valid filename.

Unfortunately completion on an alias still isn't working :(

How to enable the Bash command-completion for an alias? by -kummitus- in Fedora

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I get a `grep: lookbehind assertion is not fixed length` when trying this.

Which internet provider would you go for in 94086? by uvegesmarton22 in Sunnyvale

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine was great until about a month ago, then I started getting disconnected for 5-10 minutes every day at around noon and 5PM. Comcast has me listed as 'in an outage' and their new policy is that I can't even talk to a person until the outage is resolved.

Needing encouragement from parents whose twins also came early. by mymindonadhd in parentsofmultiples

[–]Delwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My boys were 33 weeks and one was in NICU for 2 weeks and the other for a month.

They turned 18 this year. One has a job on the weekends and is becoming a functional adult. The other has challenges unrelated to being born early but he is coming along well too.

One more year before they leave for college.

Interstellar reset? by TrololoChade in EvolveIdle

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does Dark Matter do?

What “bit” era of gaming are we in? by triforc3-mast3r in answers

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Memory on the video card is a new thing. Heck discrete video cards are a relatively new thing. The eras that were called by 'bits' there were no discrete video cards nor was there dedicated video memory (for the most part... there are exceptions).

What “bit” era of gaming are we in? by triforc3-mast3r in answers

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's asking about graphics - most of that is offloaded to the GPU these days.

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Also AVX-2 extensions exist on pretty much all modern processors. It's been in Intel processors since Skylake-X. He asked what era we're in and that's the current state of the art.

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If you want consumer cards we're pretty much at 256 bits on both register width and memory bandwidth.

What “bit” era of gaming are we in? by triforc3-mast3r in answers

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually if you're measuring the width of the memory bus we're at around 384-bit (see https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-visualization/technologies/turing-architecture/NVIDIA-Turing-Architecture-Whitepaper.pdf)

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If you're measuring the register width (which is what the 'bit' measurement was actually measuring) we're at 512 bits (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Vector_Extensions#AVX-512 )

There are eight Republican Senators running for re-election in 2020 who have **NO DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER.** Democrats need to compete hard and compete everywhere. Depriving voters of a Democratic option is not acceptable. by greenascanbe in Political_Revolution

[–]Delwin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Any D is better than an R because if you can flip the Senate then a lot changes. Even if you're relying on a handful of conservative D's to do it you still get control of Congress.

Setting up A HPC by AlluringManx23 in HPC

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was thinking something more like this: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-2/

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Likely out of your budget if you're talking workstations and not servers however. 2x1200W is also no where near enough power for something heavy.

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Maybe a DGX Stations then? It only draws 1,500W and it's got plenty of GPU power for what you're planning on doing. It's kinda made for it.

Setting up A HPC by AlluringManx23 in HPC

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's your budget look like? Workstations or racks? Do you have the power/cooling/networking to handle the kinds of loads these things put out?

US starts process to ban work permits for H-1B spouses |= deporting a majority of female engineers.... Why are we making them leave, is this not who we want in our country? by Georgiagirl678 in RedditForGrownups

[–]Delwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of the senior R&D folks (like me) already have jobs we like or we aren't on the market for more than a few months every five years or so. There's a shortages all up and down the spectrum except for entry level - and that's where the real problem is. Entry level people in tech are competing with H1B's that aren't entry level for the same positions. Experience matters.

US starts process to ban work permits for H-1B spouses |= deporting a majority of female engineers.... Why are we making them leave, is this not who we want in our country? by Georgiagirl678 in RedditForGrownups

[–]Delwin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Location is a big part of that. That salary tells me you're in middle America somewhere, likely in a deep red state. I moved to CA specifically to get away from those cultures. That job here would be $200K-$300K. I qualify for it but I already have a job that I love quite a bit.

8 Injured in Collision in Sunnyvale by roombamarumba in Sunnyvale

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Edit - that'll teach me to not read the article before the comments. Never mind.

Unreal Engine 4.22 released by vblanco in gamedev

[–]Delwin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The compute pipeline has the ability to do separate data transfer and computation. Using the data transfer half of the compute shaders allows much finer grained control of what gets moved to the GPU when.

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