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jdboyd

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http://blog.jdboyd.net/

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jdboyd··on Moore Threads Introduces MTT S4000 48GB AI GPU with MTLink and CUDA Support
Have any of their prior products ever made it to the US or Europe in volume?
jdboyd··on My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter
UL isn't actually mandatory in the US. The only thing mandatory that I am aware of is FCC certification for devices with signals over a certain number of Hz, and they wouldn't care about a USB port being abused.
jdboyd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)
SEEKING WORK | USA | REMOTE

I am a 20+ year experienced developer.

Most of my work has involved embedded development (Linux, RTOS, baremetal, C/C++/uPython), including various forms of networking and distributed systems, audio/video, as well as backend services (usually using Python, Django, and Go), deployments (AWS, DO, Ansible, Docker, etc). I also do iOS and Android development. I do some frontend work, but that isn't my specialty.

I love helping people develop new products to meet their goals and needs, especially with a focus for getting it in use and making money as soon as possible to demonstrate utility and make money. I also have extensive experience taking over existing legacy code bases.

I am available for part-time or full-time contract work, long-term or short-term. I would love for every project to turn into a lasting business relationship.

Github: https://github.com/jd-boyd website: https://boydtechnicalsolutions.com/ https://blog.jdboyd.net/ Email: jdboyd@boydtechnicalsolutions.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdboyd/

jdboyd··on Modern automotive electronics will lead to a mechanical revolution [video]
The other parts don't need replaced though, they were just showing as failures because the taillights were jamming the bus. That isn't ideal, but Tony made it sound like parts had to be replaced all over, not that it was just difficult to diagnose failure in the taillights along with the taillights being ludicrously expensive.
jdboyd··on Mycroft
I was expecting this to be about Mycroft the AI assistant ( https://mycroft.ai/ ). Instead it is a collection of browser search plugins.
jdboyd··on Review: A Dive into Mikrotik's Weird SmartNIC (2022)
Lack of SR-IOV is mentioned in the article.
jdboyd··on Lessons learned by a software guy venturing into hardware
Would you mind providing a reference to the Korean quick term service do you use?
jdboyd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023)
SEEKING WORK | USA | REMOTE

I am a 20+ year experienced developer.

Most of my work has involved embedded development (Linux, RTOS, baremetal, C/C++/uPython), including various forms of networking and distributed systems, audio/video, as well as backend services (usually using Python, Django, and Go), deployments (AWS, DO, Ansible, Docker, etc). I also do iOS and Android development. I do some frontend work, but that isn't my specialty.

I love helping people develop new products to meet their goals and needs, especially with a focus for getting it in use and making money as soon as possible to demonstrate utility and make money. I also have extensive experience taking over existing legacy code bases.

I am available for part-time or full-time contract work, long-term or short-term. I would love for every project to turn into a lasting business relationship.

Github: https://github.com/jd-boyd website: https://boydtechnicalsolutions.com/ https://blog.jdboyd.net/ Email: jdboyd@boydtechnicalsolutions.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdboyd/

jdboyd··on Windows Longhorn and the Worst Code I've Ever Seen: Dave Cutler [video]
I'm not certain, but I want to say it is a mock-PDP-8 control panel.
jdboyd··on Ben Fry resigns from the Processing Foundation
That same document said their policy is to convert crypto to USD, so presumably they didn't suffer from later crashes.
jdboyd··on Richard Stallman Talks Red Hat, AI and Ethical Software Licenses at GNU Birthday
I'm not going to justify what happened to Richard Stallman because I don't want to dig through that history. Maybe what happened to RMS was wrong, perhaps RMS was wrong. I want to challenge the idea that past positive contribution might justify bad behavior.

Past positive contribution should not be enough to warrant continued involvement if their current contribution is toxic. This isn't just about the future of the projects but also about honoring their past contribution. Toxic leadership is the fastest way to undo previous good works.

jdboyd··on FreeRDP: A remote desktop protocol implementation
For Windows Server 2019 and newer, as well as Windows 10 and 11, Microsoft now provides their own OpenSSH server for Windows, which I found to be pretty easy to set up, personally.
jdboyd··on Willingham sends Fables into the public domain
They still have to honor their contract with him, and if there's an exit clause, that means he gets to exit it as well, which I believe he would like.
jdboyd··on Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell
If I'm not mistaken, Amazon Drive is not part of AWS's services. Certainly Amazon's consumer cloud services have had some big changes over time.
jdboyd··on LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6
I mostly use it to view files so that I don't have to re-upload them to Google Drive just to open them in Google Docs or Sheets. If LibreOffice could work directly from NextCloud, I might be inclined to intentionally use it more often.
jdboyd··on Google co-founder Sergey Brin on leaving retirement to work on AI
That seems to lead to an endless CAPTCHA loop.
jdboyd··on US Workers Now Expect Almost $79,000 Salary to Start a New Job
Plus, a few CEOs making 8-9 figures will throw off the average for everyone.
jdboyd··on AMD Ryzen APU turned into a 16GB VRAM GPU and it can run Stable Diffusion
I didn't see where in there he showed how to get more than 4gb or 8gb of RAM in the configuration.
jdboyd··on A per Interpreter GIL
The supplied link is subscriber only.
jdboyd··on Sandy Bridge: Setting Intel’s modern foundation
I had an i5-750 with Maxwell GPU behind the TV for games with kids. It worked fine for a lot of things, but it ran out of CPU with Subnautica, which isn't exactly a AAA title, and I wasn't playing it when it first came out, but rather after updates presumably settled down, around 2018+. Overclocking may have given it a longer life, but I generally don't mess with that. If USB3 had been the problem, a USB3 card would be cheap. At about the same time I added a USB3 card to my main desktop for better SD card read/write speeds. I spend more on a good USB3 SD reader than I did on the USB3 card. Now the gaming PC is up to an i5-6500 with GTX1060. It is hanging in there fine for now. I'm only itching to upgrade it for Windows 11 support, but I don't really need Windows 11 on that machine.
jdboyd··on Intel Arc A580 could be the next great affordable GPU
The Arc A770 came out in the time of the 30x0 series, so it would be more fair to say that it is slower than a higher end card one generation older than it. That isn't an uncommon occurrence. For instance, the 2070s are often faster than the 3060s, and the A770 was supposed to be roughly aiming for 3060 performance.

Overall, I'd call it close enough in performance that I'd be interested in giving it a try. On the work side, I worry more about being bitten by lack of CUDA (although I like the look of SYCL that Intel/Kronos push as an alternative), and on the gaming side, I worry more about how if DX10/DX11 titles will ever really get sorted out. Still, when I get a desktop that supports Resizable BAR, I will likely put an Intel GPU in that machine to give it a try.

jdboyd··on Filezilla blocks download for EU users
It may be rich coming from them, but it doesn't mean they are wrong in this case.
jdboyd··on There's a new online marketplace for open-hardware creators
I mean, if they included drawings sufficient to recreate it, maybe a cad model for the plastic injection molds? But as it stands, I wouldn't call it especially open source.
jdboyd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2023)
SEEKING WORK | USA | REMOTE

I am a 20+ year experienced developer.

Most of my work has involved embedded development (Linux, RTOS, baremetal, C/C++/uPython), including various forms of networking and distributed systems, audio/video, as well as backend services (usually using Python, Django, and Go), deployments (AWS, DO, Ansible, Docker, etc). I also do iOS and Android development. I do some frontend work, but that isn't my specialty.

I love helping people develop new products to meet their goals and needs, especially with a focus for getting it in use and making money as soon as possible to demonstrate utility and make money. I also have extensive experience taking over existing legacy code bases.

I am available for part-time or full-time contract work, long-term or short-term. I would love for every project to turn into a lasting business relationship.

Github: https://github.com/jd-boyd website: https://blog.jdboyd.net/ Email: jdboyd@boydtechnicalsolutions.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdboyd/

jdboyd··on Canada’s new tech talent strategy
And of course, as long as you have insurance or piles of cash.
jdboyd··on Octopuses, crabs and lobsters recognised as sentient beings under UK law (2021)
Actually, if you took "sentience" seriously, you would also need to ban any captivity or killing.
jdboyd··on Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
Thunderbolt falls short at 4k resolutions. It is OK for 4k24 through 4k30, but for 4k60 or higher (HDR, high frame rates and not to mention 8k) you would probably want an internal PCIe card. 40gbit thunderbolt sounds like it should be fast enough, but it turns out that for PCIe traffic it tops out at 32gbit, which just isn't quite enough.
jdboyd··on Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro
Plus for audio tasks that USB isn't good enough for, there is Thunderbolt (Avid will do 256 channels via TB3) and Ethernet (256+ channels via AVB possible).
jdboyd··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2023)
SEEKING WORK | East Coast, USA | REMOTE

I am a 20+ year experienced developer.

Most of my work has involved embedded development (Linux, RTOS, baremetal, C/C++/uPython), including various forms of networking and distributed systems, audio/video, as well as backend services (usually using Python, Django, and Go), deployments (AWS, DO, Ansible, Docker, etc). I also do iOS and Android development. I do some frontend work, but that isn't my specialty.

I love helping people develop new products to meet their goals and needs, especially with a focus for getting it in use and making money as soon as possible to demonstrate utility and make money. I also have extensive experience taking over existing legacy codebases

I am available for part-time or full-time contract work, long-term or short-term. I would love for every project to turn into a lasting business relationship.

Github: https://github.com/jd-boyd

website: https://blog.jdboyd.net/

Email: jdboyd@boydtechnicalsolutions.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdboyd/

jdboyd··on Ask HN: Windows 10-based devs, are you upgrading to Windows 11?
The start bar now has an option to move it back to the left.
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