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verall

2,368 karma · joined February 15, 2017

CompEng working in camera systems and SoC :)

verilog & c++ <3

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verall··on Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest
I see everyone saying this but I've been using 6-astra lately and afaict it's not much better
verall··on Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal
> You think you must have something wrong with you because you think nobody finds life and work boring?

> Struggling in life isn't an illness

Do you think it's possible that some people struggle 100x more? Should they not get help?

verall··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
> Troi oi. Read what you wrote again.

I can get info from and even enjoy reading a biased take. It's not so hard to see where they are coming from. In the "semicon trash talk and rumors blogosphere", you take everything with a grain of salt, etc.

> Dylan is a grifting fraud. I wrote a too long document explaining a ton of examples and you're handwaving it away.

I've taken this to mean that it's your post so I went through it again. Some of the points are interesting but I don't think it's a very good case that he's a grifting fraud.

I enjoy the AI images done in their style though, it's pretty funny.

> AMD / NVidia put their best engineers on tuning, just for the benchmarks. It isn't about serving up inference fast.

NV has enough "best engineers" to have a couple people tuning for one of the most popular public tok/$ benchmarks without sweating. IDK about amd.

verall··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
I dunno, it's a blog, so I'm not so worried about the motivation behind it besides how it biases their takes. I think being close to people that feed you information might be prerequisite to the kind of information he sends out.

I've seen the paid subscriber sections and it's nothing groundbreaking. I wouldn't/don't pay for it.

SBF used his altruism to cover up fraud. If the SA benchmarks were fraudulent, that would be a big deal. If he's just "in bed with the AI companies", like, that's a big part of the reason it's such a popular blog?

Also, I don't really have to think that Dylan is a good guy, and I certainly wasn't the only one that did not think SBF was a good guy. I get that it's really easy to call his implosion unsurprising after the fact, but it was truly unsurprising.

verall··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
I really really disagree. Most of the prose is devoid of information. I find it hard to believe the author even read the whole thing one time.
verall··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
I've been reading them since before all of the AI hype, and I've always thought they're pretty good. You a few spicy takes with the overview/opinions/benchmarks. Better than semiaccurate.

The article you link says not a lot of criticisms with very many words, and the AI prose gets much worse towards the end, seemingly when the author also gave up on reading it. I am disappointing in the plagiarism though, especially of Ryan Smith.

I am much more interested in what you think of the site though vs your own experiences running a GPU cloud. I've seen your comments on it for a long time, it's super interesting. So if you think their takes are mostly bunk I'd consider it way more than this hot aisle guy.

verall··on Maiao: Gerrit-style code review workflow for GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, others
On large teams I think the "cherry pick" workflow (Gerrit style) beats the "pull request" workflow (GitHub/gitlab style). On smaller teams it's the other way around. I think it's somewhere around 10-20 people actively committing that the cherry pick workflow comes out ahead.
verall··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
semianalysis is pretty good
verall··on Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store
Their parents?

Once upon a time the only thing I wanted for my birthday was 4 tf2 keys at $2.50 a piece.

It's not unreasonable.

verall··on Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store
Valve let's you sell your game on your own website and users can add the key to their steam for 0% skim. 30% rake for what is sold through their ridiculously popular store.

Apple should just charge devs for the services like fee per download if the app is free. I believe currently the minimum paid app is $0.99, so it seems reasonable to allow $.33 apps where the dev gets none and $0 if the dev wants to front the $0.33 per user.

I guess you could argue that even $0.99 apps are subsidized but I doubt it'd be accurate. They already charge to join the dev program and it's not that expensive to run an app store.

verall··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
It's worse, this is mostly just to be a shoe-in for a good state school, with a "maybe I'll get lucky and an ivy will accept anyways", unless you're really exception in at least one of these areas.

> Using one’s time to do something unique and/or exceptional would be time much better spent.

The fact is that most high schoolers are just not unique or exceptional but still want a shot to break out of currently very poor job prospects or hourly labor. I think many of these kids are capable of much more once they have some time to grow up, but the system is such that they need to show their color by roughly 17 to be "exceptional" along the traditional route.

I was in high school not that long ago, I understood the point you make then, but it didn't make me unique or exceptional. Most kids just want to be good enough, to do okay.

verall··on The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)
Like balancing whose interests?

I'm thinking you're meaning like "politics is about trying to understand/impact what could plausibly occur", whereas the "truth" you mention is inherantly unconcerned with that, but I think there's also value in finding and debating it.

What's implementation without a target? Is politics concerned with improving conditions for people, or is it just balancing enough interests that we don't start killing eachother?

It's shades of both I think, and there's fierce disagreement about both the global optimum and how to or if it's worth getting there

verall··on Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent
> has very low contrast and saturation and looks washed out

When shown under naive linearization and compression rather than good tone mapping

I totally get what you're saying and that is how film people talk about it but as a camera engineer it's annoying that people think washed out low sat is some intrinsic property of log.

verall··on Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc
Optical media capped out at 4 layer blu-ray (~128gb) which I'm not even sure that consoles can reliably read.

So my theory is that GTA 6 is somewhat larger and they really didn't want to invest into engineering a solution for multiple-disc or something when ~everyone downloads their games nowadays anyways. So in some sense, the true physical release "can't" exist.

This doesn't apply to most anything but GTA 6 is the one example I think could very realistically be unable to be stored on a disc at all, or unable to be stored on a 3-layer and the supply chain just isn't there for 4-layers in 2026.

verall··on Anti-fraud tools can't keep pace with robocall scammers
A lot of scams unfortunately operate right on the line of legality like the car warranty morons
verall··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
kutx and koop on the same frequency are great
verall··on Who's afraid of Chinese models?
DC has wider margins than the 5090. by someone elses rough numbers (https://www.spheron.network/blog/gb300-nvl72-vs-gb200-nvl72-...) for GB300 rack:

> 132kW

> ~$3.7-4M

So about 300x the 5090's power but 1000x the price. Roughly 9 years for electricity to exceed price at $0.38 and datacenters will show up in areas with cheaper power than CA.

verall··on EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements
Most phones quietly lose their ip68 when battery or screen is replaced
verall··on Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out
Yes, I think that is the idea - AI is scary to most normal people, so the ad goes, "yes it's scary, but we're, uh, smart? It will be okay..."
verall··on Anthropic's newest ad is creeping people out
It was a good ad, because it was scary but hopeful, and I think that's how they want people to view their company?

Trying to make claude come off as human and friendly is never going to work in an ad, it would be huge uncanny valley.

So may as well try to scare people, might help juice the ipo a tiny bit from clueless people

verall··on DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
It was the post-DOGE DOI that rescinded the rule, after the "fat and waste" had been cut.
verall··on USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025
My experience with USAA is still that it's better than all of the other insurers, but I haven't had to make any homeowners claims. They have done very well every time my family had to make an auto claim - still only a couple of times, but it was very clean and no-BS.
verall··on What Do We Know About the Microplastics Inside Us?
Just chiming in because you might be interested -

> That's just true. Plastic spoons for cooking suck, wood and (where it makes sense and won't damage other things) metal are way better.

If you have ever used nice commercial high-temp silicone spatula, it's an incredibly versatile and easy to clean spoon for cooking. A bit expensive at like $20 though. Pair with nice nonstick pan and polycarbonate cutting board (dishwashable) for the easiest and most out of fashion cooking and cleaning experience.

> One thing that's surprised me is the cost and/or total lack of availability of glass blender jars

My cheapest in the store oyster blender is glass, I think they mostly still are.

verall··on We're extending access to Fable 5 on all paid plans through July 12
I think it's for the insane amount of data they get to collect. Most people probably don't turn off the "help improve other models" while corporations paying by the token have blanket no-train policies applied to everyone.
verall··on Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29
If it was not very affordable, it would not be interesting as a light meter, because it would make no sense to spend any more money on a very basic light meter. Light meters on amazon start at about $15-30 (and go to ~$700), so at it's current price point, it's not much more expensive then a basic light meter without the camera.
verall··on Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402
I can't wait for the deluge of AI generated agent-optimized webpages competing to trick your agent into giving them micropennies.
verall··on How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)
There's so many other bbq restaurants competitive with Franklin and better than heb.

For the price though, the heb bbq is extremely competitive. But if someone is coming to town looking for great bbq (even without any Franklin line), there are a bunch of places id recommend first.

verall··on HPV vaccine cuts risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30
Don't brits use the same way, i.e. "Take a jab at it"?

- not a brit so idk

verall··on Rent collections are down in New York
How many high income individuals want to share a house with 5 strangers?
verall··on Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access
Do people get pwned by anything besides spearphishing or ads nowadays? I think ad->phish or targeted phish emails is the only shady thing I've been exposed to in like 10 years
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