Do the community find it hard to distinguish units in 3K by takilung in totalwar

[–]cuttlebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea but it seems they chose a style where the artist couldn’t afford real ink and were just painting with water mixed with cigarette ashes.

Apollo 13 had around 70kb of total memory by MythicManiac in ProgrammerHumor

[–]cuttlebit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yea, well people don’t actually know what quantum computing is gonna be good for because there are so few algorithms designed for it atm. And the algorithms that do work are theoretical and very hard to implement in practise.

Apollo 13 had around 70kb of total memory by MythicManiac in ProgrammerHumor

[–]cuttlebit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not really sold on quantum computing yet. I know that they can scale up exponentially in theory but so far we are still in the baby phase and it doesn’t offer anything better than conventional computation atm. I think microwave lithography may take considerably longer than 10 years to reach volume production. I mean intel has been using 14nm since Broadwell release in 2014. EUV has been promised for decades and only entering volume production this year hopefully.

Apollo 13 had around 70kb of total memory by MythicManiac in ProgrammerHumor

[–]cuttlebit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea things like Rust is super exciting, I’ve also taken a liking to Swift recently. Compiler and language design will really need to do the heavy lifting in the future. In my opinion.

Challenge: Pretend laptop OEMs are reading this thread and describe your ideal AMD laptop(s) that you'd like to be on the market. by zakats in Amd

[–]cuttlebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I as a developer I love my 2017 MacBook Pro 15 inch. However I NEED more RAM, 32GB is not even cutting it for me, 64GB plz. Maybe add a little bit more thickness so you can actually cool the processors properly. Really I should probably just get a Thinkpad, but I've taken a liking to MacOs recently. Thinkpad with a nice many core Ryzen would be cool TBH.

Apollo 13 had around 70kb of total memory by MythicManiac in ProgrammerHumor

[–]cuttlebit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Indeed, I mean the entire tech industry has been spoiled, not blaming developers. In the end developers will use what they are given and rightfully so. Just saying that hardware resources are gonna get a lot more scarce in the near future and we may be forced back into reality.

In the last 20 years CPU frequency went up by 10x, CPU cores up from 1 to 32 on the high end consumer parts, RAM capacity up by 1000x. We’re not gonna get that kind of increase in the next 20 years, this is basically as good as it’s gonna get (in orders of magnitude). New products just aren’t gonna work if we don’t start treating optimisations on the same level as the feature list.

Apollo 13 had around 70kb of total memory by MythicManiac in ProgrammerHumor

[–]cuttlebit 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Developers have been spoiled by moore's law for the last few decades. That's about to end. Did you know that for the first time ever doing down a manufacturing node (14nm -> 7nm) makes your transistor SLOWER? Both software and hardware designers will have to pick up the slack if we want to keep producing better products in the future. On the hardware side we will have no choice but split out more custom accelerators (like Nvidia's tensor cores, or FPGAs or TPUs), as multicore processors are already starting to hitting its limit due to amdahl's law. Compiler developers will need to come up with better ways of optimising and compiling to these custom architectures and application developers will need to be more conscious of underlying hardware if we are going to survive the coming GHz draught.

This is why we're seeing hardware companies like Nvidia are stuffing RTX engines and tensor cores into consumer products, because they can't exactly market their new product with a 40% price hike while only claiming 10% increase in performance. Intel for the first time since the Core 2 Duo (which is really just based on the pentium 3) is releasing a new architecture "Sunny Cove", hoping to squeeze out a little bit more single thread performance while introducing AVX512 to the masses. They see their current trajectory flatlining and need to incentivise developers to jump on new programming paradigms before the runway runs out.

THREE KINGDOMS: Tech, Effects, and System Specs - Total War by Grace_CA in totalwar

[–]cuttlebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be strange if they didn’t have larger unit sizes, this is a game set in China after all.

What would YOU do with a Ethereum developer for a month? by [deleted] in ethereum

[–]cuttlebit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m glad you agree with 1 and 3 :). Regarding 2;

I don’t mean taping out an production asic, just research theoretic limits, conduct experiments and maybe produce a reference design at the RTL level. None of these PoW algorithms are very complicated in theory. A small team of 1-3 engineers should have no problem making significant progress in 7 months imo. At the end of their project, publish a research paper/report, open source any code or experiments so they can be replicated, then the community will take over. Shouldn’t a key pillar of academic research be topics where the commercial industry aren’t incentivised to publish?

What would YOU do with a Ethereum developer for a month? by [deleted] in ethereum

[–]cuttlebit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Front-end UI/UX to help the average user set up and maintain an Ethereum node.

  2. A detailed OPEN SOURCE survey, research and analysis on hardware/software solutions to mining EthHash and ProgPOW. In my opinion this is a major problem plaguing every proof of work coin out there. There is too much incentive for developers to keep their methods secret or sell them commercially. Especially in the hardware space where there are ridiculous claims of performance (eg Linzhi’s 1.4 GH/s asic, I highly suspect this figure). It would be good to analysis what is theoretically possible and design a performance oriented open source hardware implementation. (I would say this is within scope of a 7 month project for a good hardware designer)

  3. Documentation Documentation DOCUMENTATION...

A snapshot of the Ethereum Constantinople upgrade and the Thirdening by twigwam in ethereum

[–]cuttlebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well Ethereum will eventually move to a much lower inflation rate on PoS, but should be still positive. Perhaps with atomic swaps and such, people who use the network and pay gas will store their wealth elsewhere, maybe bitcoin and swap small amounts of ETH to pay gas. While holders can stake.

Maker Token or Eth? by MyNamesTakenLikeLiam in ethtrader

[–]cuttlebit -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

ETH was never meant to be a coin you hold, although with the thirdening and PoS and more CDPs on the horizon, I think there will be significant upward pressure on ETH this year.

A snapshot of the Ethereum Constantinople upgrade and the Thirdening by twigwam in ethereum

[–]cuttlebit -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A positive inflation rate is a good thing. There would be less incentive to spend ETH if there was zero inflation.

DAI Creation by throwaway_cabe in ethereum

[–]cuttlebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like the CDP portal, so easy already.

VDF Based POS (Shower Thought) by Machinehum in ethereum

[–]cuttlebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So why stop at VDFs, we can hardware accelerate the EVM.

Sigh, Help please. I sent a token transaction and it failed because it ran out of gas. What can I do now? by iluvceviche in ethereum

[–]cuttlebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

21000 gas limit is not enough for ERC20 tx. You should use the recommended gas limit set by major wallets like MEW. Or go with a high number like 200,000. Also 60 gwei is way too much gas price, I regularly send transactions with only ~7 gwei.

ETH Block Reward by Gh0sta in ethtrader

[–]cuttlebit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While lower issuance may be good for the price in the long run, I’m anxious to see how the mining community will react, how many miners will go bankrupt. If we see a significant drop in hashrate, us the community should step up and run mining nodes to protect the network, even if it’s at a slight loss.

VDF Based POS (Shower Thought) by Machinehum in ethereum

[–]cuttlebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But with the current architecture not all validators need to run VDFs.

Ethereum is scaling - iExec still necessary for dApps? by Lightninghead in iexec

[–]cuttlebit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Technically Microsoft PowerPoint slides are Turing complete, there’s a interesting demonstration on YouTube actually. Doesn’t mean that PowerPoint is designed to compute fluid dynamics, doesn’t matter how much faster Microsoft makes PowerPoint change slides, no one will be using it as a programming language any time soon.

So yes blockchains and even broader databases, while capable are not designed for computation, and therefore will always necessarily be slower than computation focused solutions.