u/Delwin

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  1. 46points

    If price was not considered, what's the best gaming laptop? (self.GamingLaptops) [Request]

    70 comments

  2. 13points

    Virtual Play? (self.sw5e)

    2 comments

Delwin

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.

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

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

Delwin

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.

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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 :(

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

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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.

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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.

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Discord link is expired

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Talisman emperor.

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What does Dark Matter do?

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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).

Delwin

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.

Delwin

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 )

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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.

Delwin

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.

Delwin

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?

Delwin

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.

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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.

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

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Is that legal? Aren't there federal limits on 401K matching?

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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.