cma's comments

On: Nvidia greenboost: transparently extend GPU VRAM using system RAM/NVMe

[cma]

> it decided to "solve the problem in software"

This isn't made by nvidia

[shmeeed → cma]

Still kinda true, though. As other commenters have pointed out, their Windows drivers do similar stuff.

On: It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]

[cma]

https://evermorestud.io/retroreflective-chromakey-experiment...

On: Unlocking Python's Cores:Energy Implications of Removing the GIL

[cma]

Every python object will trigger copy on write of a full memory page on any read, due to reference counting, though some will share pages.

On: Switch to Claude without starting over

[cma]

Why not just symlink

[Sammi → cma]

Why not just use a lightning to usb-c adapter? Because proprietary interfaces are for building monopolies and standards are for breaking them.

On: Pentagon chief blocks officers from Ivy League schools and top universities

[cma]

Religious schools have long had the strongest cancel culture out there.

On: Every privacy concession in history has been permanent

[cma]

How about the Quartering Act of 1774, American Revolution and Third Ammendment?

On: Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

[cma]

> it's limited within the law to 150 days and then has to be extended by Congress.

Isn't that one also limited to targetted tariffs? He's applied it worldwide...

On: Fast KV Compaction via Attention Matching

[cma]

The inventor's grace period under first to file changes still gives them/their university a year to file if they publish openly.

On: The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)

[cma]

When you predict with the small model, the big model can verify as more of a batch and be more similar in speed to processing input tokens, if the predictions are good and it doesn't have to be redone.

On: Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants

[cma]

> One should maintain a healthy skepticism about this sort of claim.

Which claim are you referring to that they made? I looked through all the parts where they were quoted and most seemed to have couched language.