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New comment by legitronics in "Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X"

legitronics — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:52:24 +0000

Intel ai gpu division is so aggressively anti “small” consumer. I think it has something to do with low volume and a small sales/distribution network. The data center cards I have from amd and nvidia are grey market at best. I don’t think intel moved enough units to establish alternate channels.

New comment by legitronics in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

legitronics — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:57:19 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. It brought together things I had suspected but not from his perspective. Also pleasant to read something that used rhetorical devices in a cohesive way instead of just as sprinkled on flavor packets.

New comment by legitronics in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

legitronics — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:19:03 +0000

How is this person alive? That’s a terrifying amount of relatively high frequency energy. And pressurized gasses of some sort.

New comment by legitronics in "I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC"

legitronics — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:31:55 +0000

I have no idea what you are trying to say.

V100 came as sxm2 and sxm3. And it was 16 and 32gb.

HGX is DGX with extra toppings.

New comment by legitronics in "Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)"

legitronics — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:19:02 +0000

Yes, I have some of these cards and AFAICT the HBM2e chips just always run at full speed. I have different variants of the pcie cards and while I can get the gpu itself into a lower power state the memory just runs full tilt. Though I see 40w on my “normal” cards and 60w on the Frankenstein card that thinks it’s an sxm4.

New comment by legitronics in "Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store"

legitronics — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:46:33 +0000

What does vibe coding add here? How is this any different than just arbitrary code execution on device, which is exactly what this gatekeeper rule covers?

(Not commenting on the rule, just want to see what’s new here)

New comment by legitronics in "Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet"

legitronics — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:16:37 +0000

https://archive.ph/Hp69I

New comment by legitronics in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

legitronics — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:32:05 +0000

Well the USA is a net exporter of all oil products since 2019, this will probably make some people very rich and has the potential to be good for parts of the us energy sector.

The west coast is the only part that relies on middle eastern oil. And a spike in prices will just get them in line and connected to the rest of the shale powered system.

I don’t like any of this, but I think the doom and gloom lies elsewhere.

New comment by legitronics in "YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they'll be unskippable"

legitronics — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:37:09 +0000

I also pay for yt premium.

Most people do not seem to like pay to play, pay to “win”, etc and this falls either very close or in that category.

The long term economics seem questionable to me. Google can always turn up the heat a bit more with ads, charge more for the ads, play more of them, etc when they need to be more profitable. The only way they make more from premium subscribers is charging more and they will lose people each time they do. I guess technically they could make more if premium watchers viewed less content but there’s a pretty hard floor and I suspect the economics of it are much like soda fountains.

I’m afraid ultimately if premium becomes too large of a user base Google would need to turn it into an “ad-lite” experience to increase profits. Then we’re in an even worse place.

New comment by legitronics in "Amazon, Meta, Alphabet report plunging tax bills thanks to AI and tax changes"

legitronics — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 19:11:11 +0000

In general, no they aren’t. But there is the social security tax, which is individually tracked and collectively allocated for that office. And the Medicare tax which goes off directly to that program. These two constitute a major component of money going into the system.

New comment by legitronics in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

legitronics — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:42:41 +0000

Not free. If you look at an itemized statement for air travel you’ll see that you’re paying the TSA for this treatment directly.

Not really relevant, just makes the whole thing worse imho. There are new carryon bag scanners which are basically CT scans I think. Again not really relevant just makes it all worse. We could afford better medical care but we spending it on security theater and power tripping.

New comment by legitronics in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

legitronics — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 02:43:49 +0000

> And that's in a country with a much larger population and much higher passenger count per year.

These are actually points making the Japanese system easier to maintain. Because of smaller surface area it’s much denser.

New comment by legitronics in "OLED, Not for Me"

legitronics — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 07:29:40 +0000

probably something to do the with RGB sub-pixel order/layout being different. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering

When the OS assumes correctly what the monitor actually looks like, you get even better text rendering. When it guesses wrong you get a horrible mess.

New comment by legitronics in "Show HN: Open-Source 8-Ch BCI Board (ESP32 and ADS1299 and OpenBCI GUI)"

legitronics — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:11:09 +0000

This is very interesting. I was looking into the viability of something like this a few months ago and started seeing eye watering prices and closed off ecosystems. And many gotchas when looking into diy, more than I could justify learning about.

New comment by legitronics in "Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit"

legitronics — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:44:24 +0000

it has a few issues, I think jeffgeerling sums it up fairly well.

https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/82

"Like the Pi 4, I think this system is the first RISC-V desktop environment that isn't painful to use, just inconvenient. Actions still have delays, but the delays are more reasonable, and don't make me constantly question if the computer's frozen."

also some really odd choices by Eswin for the eic7702x, which is essentially 2 p550 chips glued together.

New comment by legitronics in "Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit"

legitronics — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:03:46 +0000

There’s also this RISC V thing, I ordered one in July and got mine in November.

I could transplant the desktop model I got into my original framework, but I haven’t attempted it.

https://store.deepcomputing.io/products/dc-roma-ai-pc-risc-v...

New comment by legitronics in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

legitronics — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:57:21 +0000

It’ll just make their auditors and legal team desperate for money, which is kinda horrifying to consider.