Ummm or the authors are concerned about retribution because stallman and the FSF are very powerful in the FOSS community, and I think it’s reasonably likely that they would be sued (seemingly with poor grounds) or harassed online for publishing it.

Good point. Though, the vast majority of ML training and use is tensor math on floating points, so largely dot and cross products, among other matrix operations.

I think you’re thinking of the famous fast inverse square root algorithm from Quake.

With respect to the top comment, the only reason 3d graphics are possible (even at 850W of power consumption) is due to taking a bunch of shortcuts and approximations like culling of polygons. If its a reasonable shortcut it either has or will be taken.

It definitely is, but I guess domestic demand could outstrip production.

Yeah if that’s not on-brand for Intel, I don’t know what is! I wonder what the max power draw for the 14900H is, it’s gotta be close 😂

Huh I did not realize that. Is that an NTFS vs. EXT4 thing?

Ive noticed that for some reason it launches in 1-2 seconds on Linux Mint as opposed to like 10 on Windows for some reason. Seems weird, since based on the status messages it seems like the rate limiting step is opening a bunch of Python modules, which shouldn’t be drastically different between OSes??

The most confusing thing is that “200V” isnt a CPU, it’s the equivalent of “15th gen”.

The numbers before the V are un-parseable, but at least for the actual parts it’s a “Ultra 7 236.1425926V” or something

The original article [https://www.phoronix.com/review/core-ultra-7-lunar-lake-linux]

Technically changed two letters. Thats what makes them innovator auteur geniuses.

Yeah definitely the latter, but phrasing it as generation is very very wierd. Literally physically impossible.

Oh my god if you are a new user please do not go straight to Arch or Manjaro. By far the two distros most likely to breaky irreparably.

Helium is tiny, and will diffuse though pretty much anything other than continuous welded metal pipe very very quickly. The elastomer seals on a phone would slow it down slightly, but the article’s from 2018, before so many phones were watertight. I remember my old iPhone had a little piezo cooling fan in one of the grates on the bottom, so helium would have no trouble at all.

Can’t speak for MEMS specifically, but it absolutely can make chips shut down whole instruments by changing their properties. It intercalates slower, but has much the same effect once it’s in there.

Yup. Most of the mems devices will essentially shut down the device if they go out of tolerance. This is a pretty common-knowledge fact among folks who work with large magnets, or with helium or hydrogen gas.

Funnily enough, it also happens with equipment microcontrollers which are unlikely to have a MEMS unit in them – for instance, any benchtop centrifuge made after the mid-90s will shut down, and I’m pretty sure those are still on quartz clocks. It also effects things like on-chip thermometers.

I’m guessing that’s a mini-ITX? Yeah I can forgive a case which is highly optimized for small form factor, but this case is if anything the opposite.

For a $240 case, no review is going to make me want to buy it, but god is it funny to watch Steve’s frustration with it.

Does anyone know why the only public transport option is “subway”? I don’t get why they would only index subways.

Yeah…Eternity 0.2.1 doesn’t work, Voyager can’t even find beehaw.org in to log into it, and so I’ve been using Jerboa as a backup. Turns out downgrading to 0.1.2 does work, but meh.

Yeah! I only discovered them a couple of weeks ago through this community and they’re fantastic.