Readit Newsluyu_wu commented on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source blogs.windows.com/windows... · Posted by u/pentagrama
> I would do it the other way round: use Windows in a virtual machine from Linux.
Every Windows thread on HN is a reminder of the stark divide between people who need to use Windows for productivity apps and those who don’t.
The apps I need a Windows machine for are not the kind that virtualize nicely. Anything GPU related means Windows has to become the base OS for me.
If you’re running an occasional light tool you can get away with Windows in a VM, but it’s a no-go for things like CAD or games.
If you can GPU passthrough (it's quite simple to set up), this is not a large issue. You're right that Linux is sorely lacking in native creative software though!
This confuses me, many phones have 4k screens, the Apple Watch has a 330ppi which is much higher than the 5k 27” display Mac display. So basically you can almost certainly source a high enough pixel density to support 2k on AR lenses.
These displays in the glasses are significantly smaller than even your Apple Watch though (0.58" or so I believe). Essentially the displays they're using are the same ones found in DSLR viewfinders. There should be higher resolution options, but I suspect the resolution limiter is the optics not the pixel size (just a suspicion).
This review is an object lesson about why there is so much more to shipping a decent processor than making a CPU core with reasonable performance (and decent is being polite given that we are talking about Bulldozer-class single-threaded perf, which most folks were beyond thrilled to abandon when Zen arrived eight years ago.)
The behavior of the memory controller is wild to see in this day and age. You really don't want to see latency that high in general, but especially not for a client processor. I'd really like to see how it behaves with a reasonably powerful GPU in a CPU-bound gaming workload relative to the competition (to simulate what one of these might see in an internet café setting, for instance).
Power efficiency also seems truly dismal according to PCWatch: https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/hothot/1626253.ht... . In Cinebench MT, it's consuming about the same power as a Ryzen 5 5600G while delivering about 1/3 the performance, and the idle power is much higher than the Core i3-8100/R5 5600G to boot. That's not a huge issue for desktops, but it would not make a good foundation for a mobile system.
Overall an improvement versus past Zhaoxin efforts but people shouldn't kid themselves about the quality of the overall package here. There is a long way to go.
Absolutely a lomg way to go.
Interestingly, the chip is rated to run at DDR4-3200 or DDR5, so it's strange C&C got half that.
The power issues are likely from by modern standards pre-historical clocking behavior (single P-state to my understanding)!
luyu_wu commented on Fundamental flaws of SIMD ISAs (2021) bitsnbites.eu/three-funda... · Posted by u/fanf2
AFAIK about every modern CPU uses out of order von Neumann architecture. The only people who don't are the handful of researchers and people who work with the government research into non van Neumann designed systems.
Low power RISC cores (both ARM and RISC-V) are typically in-order actually!
But any core I can think of as 'high-performance' is OOO.
luyu_wu commented on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses tomsguide.com/computing/i... · Posted by u/T-A
There was a recent announcement of a mini PC that was itself built into a folding keyboard - no screen. That would be the ideal device for this lifestyle.
I saw a video recently advocating for this exact use case of said PC. That would make it truly pocketable.
It is in Chinese however!
Know little about this case, but given what happened with China Initiative in Trump I, I’m genuinely surprised there are still Chinese professors not leaving or preparing to leave US.
200+ lost jobs, at least one suicide, if that still not ring alarm for these Chinese-born professionals, their IQ may not match up the tenure I assume.
It's not easy to leave a tenured position you worked half your life to get to I suppose...
luyu_wu commented on 63 Chinese Cuisines: The Complete Guide (2024) chinesecookingdemystified... · Posted by u/mastax
Really in-depth and great article!
As with some other commentors, I was surprised to not see a lot of dishes that I thought were staples, and quite a few were under different names.
Nonetheless, really amazing---and made me quite hungry at well-past midnight!
RIP https://www.google.com/maps/@43.6495767,-79.3925583,3a,77.4y...