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mldbk commented on I am giving up on Intel and have bought an AMD Ryzen 9950X3D   michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure
williamDafoe · 4 months ago
The 7000 series of CPUs is NOT known for running cool, unlike the AMD 5000 series (which are basically server CPUs repurposed for desktop usage). In the 7000 series, AMD decided to just increase the power of each CPU and that's where most of the performance gains are coming from - but power consumption is 40-50% higher than with similar 5000-series CPUs.
mldbk · 4 months ago
> You know, I'm something of a CPU engineer myself :D

Actually almost everything what you wrote is not true, and commenter above already sent you some links.

7800X3D is the GOAT, very power efficient and cool.

mldbk commented on Why was Apache Kafka created?   bigdata.2minutestreaming.... · Posted by u/enether
slipperydippery · 4 months ago
Whatever efficiency may hypothetically be possible with Java, you can in-fact spot a real world Java program in the wild by looking for the thing taking up 10x the memory it seems like it should need… when idle.

Yes yes I’m sure there are exceptions somewhere but I’ve been reading Java fans using benchmarks to try to convince me that I can’t tell which programs on my computer are Java just by looking for the weirdly slow ones, when I in fact very much could, for 25ish years.

Java programs have a feel and it’s “stuttery resource hog”. Whatever may be possible with the platform, that’s the real-world experience.

mldbk · 4 months ago
I held the same view as you when I was 22, more than 15 years ago.

With over 15 years of professional experience since then, my perspective has shifted: Java demonstrates its strength when stability, performance, and scalability are required (e.g. bloody enterprise)

A common misconception comes from superficial benchmarking. Many focus solely on memory consumption, which often provides a distorted picture of actual system efficiency.

I can point to EU-scale platforms that have reliably served over 100 million users for more than a decade without significant issues. The bottleneck is rarely the language itself, it is the depth of the team’s experience.

mldbk commented on PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming   deprogrammaticaipsum.com/... · Posted by u/secstate
catigula · 5 months ago
This is very ignorant of a modern Corolla in a lot of ways.

As an example, since 2023, the standard base level Corolla has an automated suite of driving assistance technologies that blow away anything Mazda offers even at their highest level of expense.

There is only one car that passed testing for automatic emergency braking from 62mph to a dead-stop (future standard) - the Toyota Corolla.

mldbk · 5 months ago
You definitely tried Mazda long ago :)

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mldbk commented on I'm Done with Ubuntu   ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/02/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
mldbk · a year ago
I have installed Fedora back in 2017, since that time I just upgrade it: sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=NN && sudo dnf system-upgrade reboot.

Haven't reinstalled it in 8 years. Everything runs smoothly.

mldbk commented on I'm Done with Ubuntu   ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/02/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
germandiago · a year ago
But I think package management with yum was quite inferior. That used to be a problem at least before, for me.
mldbk · a year ago
It was a fair point decade ago, today Fedora's pkg mgmt is miles ahead of what it used to be.
mldbk commented on What does it mean that MP3 is free?   idiallo.com/blog/listen-m... · Posted by u/foxfired
reddog · a year ago
I’m going to buy a WinRar license with all the money I save.
mldbk · a year ago
Underrated '00s comment :D
mldbk commented on Nvidia announces next-gen RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs   theverge.com/2025/1/6/243... · Posted by u/somebee
orphea · a year ago
AMD driver quality is crap. I upgraded from GTX 1080 to RX 6950 XT because I found a good deal and I didn't want to support nvidia's scammy bullshit of launching inferior GPUs under the same names. Decided to go with AMD this time, and I had everything: black screens, resolution drops to 1024x768, total freezes, severe lags in some games (BG3) unless I downgrade the driver to a very specific version.
mldbk · a year ago
It is an outdated claim.

I have both 4090 (workstation) and 7900XT (to play some games) and I would say that 7900XT was rock solid for me for the last year (I purchased it in Dec 2023).

mldbk commented on Kagi Search API   help.kagi.com/kagi/api/se... · Posted by u/edweis
aniviacat · a year ago
By running an open source OS for which I can confirm the contents of all outgoing connections.
mldbk · a year ago
What is that? Even your custom android build will have some binary blobs for your SoC.

We are just doomed.

mldbk commented on QwQ: Alibaba's O1-like reasoning LLM   qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq... · Posted by u/amrrs
torginus · a year ago
Sorry for the random question, I wonder if you know, what's the status of running LLMs non-NVIDIA GPUs nowadays? Are they viable?
mldbk · a year ago
I run llama on 7900XT 20GB, works just fine.

u/mldbk

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