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Numerlor··on Ask HN: Who's building on Python NoGIL?
Yeah it'd be better if the name was understood as python 3 instead of just python to avoid mixing in semver
Numerlor··on Intel built best budget GPU for 1440p gaming
Their review of the card was perfectly fine
Numerlor··on The Honeywell Kitchen Computer
While many orders of magnitude more performant it is funny when my GPU pulls the same amount of power as that huge computer
Numerlor··on TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court
Dance video app that had Romanian election results annuled because of foreign interference
Numerlor··on Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
Where would you route the connection to the additional 4 groups of chips around the die? The PCIe connection needs to be there too, and they also may not like power delivery going through them
Numerlor··on Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
I believe that would need some software work from Intel where they're lacking a bit now with their delayed start. Not sure how the frameworks themselves split up the inference work to avoid crossing GPUs as the bandwidth is horrible there.

If we're being reasonable and say that you're not using a modern HEDT CPU that costs a couple thousand, the best a consumer botherboard can get right now would be 2x 8x PCIe gen 5 at 32GB/s and one chipset x8 PCIe gen 4 at 16GB/s. I'm not sure if a motherboard like that actually exists but Intel's chipset should allow it; AMD only does x4 to chipset so the third slot is limited by that

Numerlor··on Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
Going off of how the 4090 and 7900 xtx is arranged I think you could maybe fit on or two chips more around the die over their 12, but that's still a far cry from 128. That would probably just need a shared bus like normal DDR as you're not fitting that much with 16 gbit density
Numerlor··on Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support
48 GB is at the tail end of what's reasonale for normal GPUs. The IO requires a lot of die space. And intel's architecture is not very space efficient right now compared to nvidia's
Numerlor··on What happens if we remove 50 percent of Llama?
Completely different chips; the VRAM differences are from how GDDR can be used, with either 1 or 2 chips on a single 32bit bus, the configuration with 2 chips is called clamshell. The 7800 XT and 7600 XT have same VRAM but the 7800 XT has a 256 bit memory bus while the 7600 XT has a 128 bit memory bus. Meanwhile the 7700 XT with 12 GB is on a 192 bit memory bus.

The workstation edition of GPUs usually do the clamshell configuration so they can easily double the VRAM and ramp up the price by a couple thousand

Numerlor··on Police bust pirate streaming service making €250M per month
Over here it's a fair bit less expensive because it just has everything. On normal streaming platforms dubbed shows aren't always there and because the market is small a lot of things are just not available anywhere legally
Numerlor··on Making Your Connection Bad
I unintentionally did this recently on the hardware side by messing up crimping my internet cable and not pushing it all the way. Some things like Teams were surprisingly resilient even with 8% packet loss, probably due to its realtime nature
Numerlor··on Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter
Gotta ask, am I missing something with how bluesky is supposed to be used? Every time I open something from there it takes over 30 seconds to load on my phone
Numerlor··on Is Python That Slow?
Do you mean cython? Or did you switch from something else to Python?
Numerlor··on Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
Because their prosecution means going to war. I don't know about you but as someone living less than 30 minutes from Ukraine I don't want my country to go to war.
Numerlor··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
Part of the OS is basically free and the same situation as Chrome, and you can't do paid because basic necessities are done through the browser
Numerlor··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
> Users of the browser should pay a small amount of "money" for the product they use all day every day

How do you do this for something that's a basic necessity at this point? There must be a free browser because so many services depend on their user having access to them through one, and browsers aren't in the category of product where you can provide users a basic browser without features and then selling them a better version. If it's not Chrome that's free, any other free issue would inevitably run into the same issue. If not bankrolled by a company, browsers would need to be government funded

Numerlor··on Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs
While it does proper transpiling nuitka is still also a zip containing python and python files because there are things it can't deal with
Numerlor··on Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs
Using the spec files for persistent readable configuration also goes a long way, if you treat pyinstaller as a python module you can automate it whole with just python, including the spec files as it executes them as python scripts

I've had automated builds running mostly untouched for years here https://github.com/Numerlor/Auto_Neutron/blob/master/pyinsta..., though it doesn't have any particularly troublesome packages other than PySide6

Numerlor··on Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs
Eh I wouldn't call PEX proper executables that'd replace the languages above as they still need python, but I still prefer python for things like simple Qt apps even if it means using e.g. PyInstaller
Numerlor··on Micron launches 60TB PCIe gen5 SSD with 12GB/s read speeds
Have nand ssds caught up with optane on random? Last I've heard they were still handily beating them but it has been a while
Numerlor··on This morning for no obvious reason, I remembered the Fuel Rats
Shameless plug for my Python app that automates pasting routes with neutron stars, that boost your jump range, from https://spansh.co.uk/ into the game, which is used for some of those records to my knowledge. It was one of my first "real" project and it shows, at least I now know that Qt is pretty great in Python for cobbling something together.

https://github.com/Numerlor/Auto_Neutron

Numerlor··on Virtual Windows 3.11 Computer
The new windows GUI framework used for the windows on the screen seems to be worse in this regard, as normal windows get their titles greyed out which is quite obvious and is a more natural place to look at than the control buttons
Numerlor··on Virtual Windows 3.11 Computer
Looks like the terminal but can't zoom in on mobile, I guess UsabilityNightmares for threads too
Numerlor··on Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now
Yeah mpv is great on win; I switched from VLC because VLC had trouble with playback combined with large subtitle offsets. mpv just works and the couple things I need for UI were easily configured as hotkeys
Numerlor··on New better alterative to XML, JSON and YAML
Bit easier to read not but the code text is still smaller and doesn't fill the phone screen; https://u.numerlor.me/Qzsq fwiw
Numerlor··on WinRAR 7.10 Beta 1 released
I still have to use 7zip because of how buggy the support in explorer is. And even if it was perfect it still can't handle encrypted archives
Numerlor··on AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache
The efficiency is only worse because the CPU can use the power without burning itself up unlike the last generation's X3D. And efficiency is always better at lower clocks. You can get this generation's efficiency uplift by limiting its power to the levels where last generation's CPU started throttling to keep its 89C Tjmax, but that will inevitably also limit the frequency that's the main performance uplift for the CPU

For comparison on how limited last gen's X3D was wrt power, tom's hardware has it on 71W with all core AVX, while my 7600X with 2 fewer cores consumes up to 130W

Numerlor··on New better alterative to XML, JSON and YAML
The codeblocks don't seem to scale up for me on mobile and are a bit too small to read
Numerlor··on Cargo Airships Are Happening
Ships are pretty good emissions wise because if the sheer amount of cargo they carry, even with burning the absolutely worst crap they can
Numerlor··on PEP 762 – REPL-acing the default REPL
I think I remember seeing something about MB=Mo in french, the casing is probably safe to ignore in the gp as ipython is definitely not 15gb
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