"ASIC resistance" isn't a thing. Ethereum's algorithm is simply bottlenecked by memory and memory bandwidth.
The cheapest way to get both of those is on a gaming GPU since AMD and nVidia have done all the R&D and manufacturing, and secured deep discounts on memory prices because of the volume they deal in.
None of this means the network is going to be distributed. Miners are hoarding GPUs to build giant mining farms.
No, it just makes them prefer to continue making ASICs for Bitcoin while mining other shit on GPUs since they come with loads of memory and memory bandwidth already. It's not that it's unfeasible, it's that there are better options. As someone making ASICs, it's far better to target the big boy - Bitcoin. As someone mining, it's far better to buy a hundred GPUs from a distributor at sub MSRP prices than it is to buy an ASIC, even if it's 10 times faster, because that ASIC will be useless in a few months while the GPUs can be sold off to thirsty gamers.
I personally am betting on ASIC-resistant, mineable coins.
There is no such thing as an "ASIC-resistant" coin or algorithm. Coins like Ethereum are not mined on ASICs only because all mining ASIC development goes to Bitcoin, since it is by far the largest and most stable (yeah, let that sink in) coin. Ethereum's algorithm just requires a lot more memory / memory bandwidth because of the giant DAG.
Some chicken shit outfit could easily shit out an ASIC with a ton of memory and memory bandwidth, but they'd never recoup their investment in time for it to make sense. AMD and nVidia already make nearly perfect hardware for mining Ethereum since they put gobs of memory (8/16 GB) on board with tons of bandwidth (HBM2, 8 fucking channels of GDDR5X, etc.). AMD and nVidia do this in such volume (with big discounts on memory prices) and release new products so frequently that any computational advantage an ASIC would have would be leapfrogged quickly, while people are still crying out for their ASIC orders to ship.
All the outfits who went through this bullshit years ago with Bitcoin are content to keep pumping out Bitcoin ASICs. Back then, only a couple of companies out of the dozen+ that promised ASICs actually delivered. Most delayed, lied about specs, delayed more, and delivered only a handful of actual units (if they delivered any at all). The same chaos would repeat itself with Ethereum unless an established player - someone creating Bitcoin ASICs - got involved. There's no need for them to take that risk when they can keep pumping out Bitcoin ASICs.
Further, long-term Ethereum is a dead coin. I firmly believe the switch to "Proof of Stake" instead of "Proof of Work" will kill mining, and thus the coin itself.
Most modern (ULEV / PZEV / whatever) gasoline vehicles already do run more cleanly than electric cars when you take generation into account. So this is a pointless claim.
If instead he's claiming that their gasoline car will run more cleanly than an electric car does, ignoring generation, then nah, that's bullshit.
Let me restate that, you got caught responding to a headline after parsing it incorrectly and failing to read TFS or understand WTF you were talking about. Then you replied to yourself trying to sweep your failure under the rug.
This is why I buy nothing but Apple products for my home and family. Only Apple takes the time to vet every single app submitted for sale in the App Store. Only Apple has a plain privacy statement online. Only Apple is in constant heat with the Feds wanting your data (Google and Samsung hand it over like Skittles!)
If you value your security and privacy, there is only one choice: Apple Inc.
I hate Apple, iOS, iPhones, etc. You are absolutely correct. If you care about security, Apple is the only choice. No, they're not perfect (especially lately), but Android is a joooooooooooke with regards to security. As far as privacy goes, I wouldn't trust Apple not to spy on me, but it's clear that if they do they're not doing it to anywhere near the extent that Google is.
And that's ignoring the fact that most of the malware on the Play Store (spyware, adware, etc.) isn't considered malware in the Android world. It's par for the course to exploit your users and shit on their devices!
Nope, this is Trump doing as much damage as he can before he is impeached.
Aww, look at the little Democrat. It's cute the way it's so dumb and blind. Make sure you keep him in his SafeSpace during the State of the Union address tonight! And don't let him hear about the memo until Maddow and Blitzer have spun it into a cozy web of lies for him.
Because of the opportunity the headline provided. I don't think BeauHD's posts are any worse than the msmash's or whoever else's. They're all shit. Slashdot is a zombie.
Old time TV sets were fully analogue. There is no 'tolarance' for frequencies, everything that goes through the capacitors ends up on the screen. As long as all the signals are coherent in relation to each other (the electron beam jumps to the next line at the end of the line and not in between) a TV will render a screen or a sequence of screens just fine in a HUGE soectrum of frequencies.
I had a NEC myltisynch 3D and an Arcon Archimedes, we run that combo in any thinkable weird screen set up the NEC could handle.
Wrong again, angel'o'sphere. Why is it you always show up to spout off on bullshit you know nothing about?
There's plenty of tolerance. There has to be. Blymie covered it very well. If you need a good overview of how analog TVs work and handled the addition of color, check out Technology Connections on YouTube.
Activision said it was 5.54 back in the day, and initially rejected the 5.51 claim. They later accepted the 5.51 claim. 5.57 is based on some other competitor's analysis of the code.
When the company in Florida does business with people/companies in New York or commits a crime in New York (such as stealing the identity of people who live in New York.
Except New York doesn't get to regulate interstate trade. New York is going to have to demonstrate that specific New York citizens were harmed (e.g., their identities were stolen), and then the worst they can do is ask the feds to tell the Florida company not to sell its services to people in New York.
You don't have to physically set foot in a state to commit a crime in that state.
You pretty much have to if you want the state to have jurisdiction to do something about it.
And since when does New York get to dictate what a company in Florida can do?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The vast majority of Twitter's "users" are bots. There are probably less than 10 million daily active users at this point. Everyone and their dog has dumped Twitter and Snapchat for Instagram. And I mean they literally have accounts for their dogs that have huge followings. Having an Instagram-famous dog is a career now.
I've never understand why people even believe in "consciousness".
The reason people "believe" in it is because people are themselves conscious. At least, I am. I think, therefore I am. In fact, the only thing I can know for sure is that I, a conscious being, exist. I can know this because I am the one knowing it.
Similarly we imagine we are conscious and have free will.
This is balderdash. And it's a frequent argument (often from shitty internet capital-A Atheists) now. If consciousness is imaginary, or an illusion, then who the fuck is imaging it or being deceived by that illusion? Who is experiencing it? The very concept of such a thing requires a conscious entity to experience it.
If you think you're just a state machine, that's great. It may even be true. But you're essentially arguing that you, a conscious entity, do not exist. From my point of view that could certainly be the case for you. As I am not you, I cannot experience being you and cannot claim you are conscious. Even if I met you and interacted with you, you could be an empty meat bag with no thought, simply reacting to physical laws. I, however, know that I exist, and I choose to believe that other conscious beings exist. This is despite the fact I have no evidence for that (and logically cannot ever have evidence for that).
Can you explain how? I'm familiar with youtube-dl, but not mpv. Do you really see a youtube link, then slap it into youtube-dl, wait for the download, then watch the video?
Do you browse/search youtube at all? I find that finding shit is worse than the page with the video on it, so I can't imagine how your method makes things better. Once you've got the link to the video you want to watch you're past most of the bullshit.
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"ASIC resistance" isn't a thing. Ethereum's algorithm is simply bottlenecked by memory and memory bandwidth.
The cheapest way to get both of those is on a gaming GPU since AMD and nVidia have done all the R&D and manufacturing, and secured deep discounts on memory prices because of the volume they deal in.
None of this means the network is going to be distributed. Miners are hoarding GPUs to build giant mining farms.
No, it just makes them prefer to continue making ASICs for Bitcoin while mining other shit on GPUs since they come with loads of memory and memory bandwidth already. It's not that it's unfeasible, it's that there are better options. As someone making ASICs, it's far better to target the big boy - Bitcoin. As someone mining, it's far better to buy a hundred GPUs from a distributor at sub MSRP prices than it is to buy an ASIC, even if it's 10 times faster, because that ASIC will be useless in a few months while the GPUs can be sold off to thirsty gamers.
I personally am betting on ASIC-resistant, mineable coins.
There is no such thing as an "ASIC-resistant" coin or algorithm.
Coins like Ethereum are not mined on ASICs only because all mining ASIC development goes to Bitcoin, since it is by far the largest and most stable (yeah, let that sink in) coin. Ethereum's algorithm just requires a lot more memory / memory bandwidth because of the giant DAG.
Some chicken shit outfit could easily shit out an ASIC with a ton of memory and memory bandwidth, but they'd never recoup their investment in time for it to make sense. AMD and nVidia already make nearly perfect hardware for mining Ethereum since they put gobs of memory (8/16 GB) on board with tons of bandwidth (HBM2, 8 fucking channels of GDDR5X, etc.). AMD and nVidia do this in such volume (with big discounts on memory prices) and release new products so frequently that any computational advantage an ASIC would have would be leapfrogged quickly, while people are still crying out for their ASIC orders to ship.
All the outfits who went through this bullshit years ago with Bitcoin are content to keep pumping out Bitcoin ASICs. Back then, only a couple of companies out of the dozen+ that promised ASICs actually delivered. Most delayed, lied about specs, delayed more, and delivered only a handful of actual units (if they delivered any at all). The same chaos would repeat itself with Ethereum unless an established player - someone creating Bitcoin ASICs - got involved. There's no need for them to take that risk when they can keep pumping out Bitcoin ASICs.
Further, long-term Ethereum is a dead coin. I firmly believe the switch to "Proof of Stake" instead of "Proof of Work" will kill mining, and thus the coin itself.
Most modern (ULEV / PZEV / whatever) gasoline vehicles already do run more cleanly than electric cars when you take generation into account.
So this is a pointless claim.
If instead he's claiming that their gasoline car will run more cleanly than an electric car does, ignoring generation, then nah, that's bullshit.
Let me restate that, you got caught responding to a headline after parsing it incorrectly and failing to read TFS or understand WTF you were talking about.
Then you replied to yourself trying to sweep your failure under the rug.
This is why I buy nothing but Apple products for my home and family. Only Apple takes the time to vet every single app submitted for sale in the App Store.
Only Apple has a plain privacy statement online.
Only Apple is in constant heat with the Feds wanting your data (Google and Samsung hand it over like Skittles!)
If you value your security and privacy, there is only one choice: Apple Inc.
I hate Apple, iOS, iPhones, etc.
You are absolutely correct. If you care about security, Apple is the only choice. No, they're not perfect (especially lately), but Android is a joooooooooooke with regards to security. As far as privacy goes, I wouldn't trust Apple not to spy on me, but it's clear that if they do they're not doing it to anywhere near the extent that Google is.
And that's ignoring the fact that most of the malware on the Play Store (spyware, adware, etc.) isn't considered malware in the Android world. It's par for the course to exploit your users and shit on their devices!
Nope, this is Trump doing as much damage as he can before he is impeached.
Aww, look at the little Democrat. It's cute the way it's so dumb and blind.
Make sure you keep him in his SafeSpace during the State of the Union address tonight! And don't let him hear about the memo until Maddow and Blitzer have spun it into a cozy web of lies for him.
Except the "facts" are being distilled, filtered, and represented by a biased source.
You literally have to choose who to believe in every case where you are not present to directly witness events.
Why should anyone believe Facebook when they've been caught red-handed manipulating trending news stories?
He needs to be put on suicide watch before the state of the union address tonight and the release of the memo.
Because of the opportunity the headline provided. I don't think BeauHD's posts are any worse than the msmash's or whoever else's. They're all shit. Slashdot is a zombie.
I pointed out that there is plenty of tollerance.
So, in which way am I wrong?
Old time TV sets were fully analogue.
There is no 'tolarance' for frequencies, everything that goes through the capacitors ends up on the screen.
Just go away.
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Meanwhile, the world's largest meat processor, BeauHD, invests in shitty Slashdot posts.
Yes, but Activision at the time had a different "best possible score". No one knows why.
Surely, THIS will be the bubble that lasts!
-Dorianny, Expert Slashdotter
Old time TV sets were fully analogue.
There is no 'tolarance' for frequencies, everything that goes through the capacitors ends up on the screen.
As long as all the signals are coherent in relation to each other (the electron beam jumps to the next line at the end of the line and not in between) a TV will render a screen or a sequence of screens just fine in a HUGE soectrum of frequencies.
I had a NEC myltisynch 3D and an Arcon Archimedes, we run that combo in any thinkable weird screen set up the NEC could handle.
Wrong again, angel'o'sphere. Why is it you always show up to spout off on bullshit you know nothing about?
There's plenty of tolerance. There has to be. Blymie covered it very well. If you need a good overview of how analog TVs work and handled the addition of color, check out Technology Connections on YouTube.
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Activision said it was 5.54 back in the day, and initially rejected the 5.51 claim. They later accepted the 5.51 claim.
5.57 is based on some other competitor's analysis of the code.
When the company in Florida does business with people/companies in New York or commits a crime in New York (such as stealing the identity of people who live in New York.
Except New York doesn't get to regulate interstate trade. New York is going to have to demonstrate that specific New York citizens were harmed (e.g., their identities were stolen), and then the worst they can do is ask the feds to tell the Florida company not to sell its services to people in New York.
You don't have to physically set foot in a state to commit a crime in that state.
You pretty much have to if you want the state to have jurisdiction to do something about it.
And since when does New York get to dictate what a company in Florida can do?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: The vast majority of Twitter's "users" are bots. There are probably less than 10 million daily active users at this point. Everyone and their dog has dumped Twitter and Snapchat for Instagram. And I mean they literally have accounts for their dogs that have huge followings. Having an Instagram-famous dog is a career now.
I'm not a Republican, you moron.
This would in theory make carriers compete for customers everywhere, and increase signal availability and quality for everyone.
You said:
I've never understand why people even believe in "consciousness".
The reason people "believe" in it is because people are themselves conscious. At least, I am. I think, therefore I am. In fact, the only thing I can know for sure is that I, a conscious being, exist. I can know this because I am the one knowing it.
Similarly we imagine we are conscious and have free will.
This is balderdash. And it's a frequent argument (often from shitty internet capital-A Atheists) now. If consciousness is imaginary, or an illusion, then who the fuck is imaging it or being deceived by that illusion? Who is experiencing it? The very concept of such a thing requires a conscious entity to experience it.
If you think you're just a state machine, that's great. It may even be true. But you're essentially arguing that you, a conscious entity, do not exist. From my point of view that could certainly be the case for you. As I am not you, I cannot experience being you and cannot claim you are conscious. Even if I met you and interacted with you, you could be an empty meat bag with no thought, simply reacting to physical laws. I, however, know that I exist, and I choose to believe that other conscious beings exist. This is despite the fact I have no evidence for that (and logically cannot ever have evidence for that).
I've never understand why people even believe in "consciousness".
Cogito ergo sum, you fuckwit.
On your computer, in the cloud, etc. Just encrypt it and don't be a retard.
Can you explain how? I'm familiar with youtube-dl, but not mpv.
Do you really see a youtube link, then slap it into youtube-dl, wait for the download, then watch the video?
Do you browse/search youtube at all? I find that finding shit is worse than the page with the video on it, so I can't imagine how your method makes things better. Once you've got the link to the video you want to watch you're past most of the bullshit.