Here comes the push.

  • Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I mean, you’re such an absolute know-nothing that it’s hilarious. Nice xenophobic bullshit sprinkled in too. Sorry, no university for me, let alone FPGA in university in the 90s. When my friends were in university they were still spending their time learn Java.

    The world has changed since 30 years ago

    Indeed. And people like me have been there every step of the way. Your ageism is showing.

    and the future of integer operations is in reprogrammable chips

    Yes, I remember hearing this exact sentiment 30 years ago. Right around the time we were hearing (again) how neural networks were going to take over the world. People like you are a dime a dozen and end up learning their lessons in a painfully humbling experience. Good luck with that, I hope you take it for the lesson it is.

    All the benefit of a fab chip

    Except the amount of wasted energy, and extreme amount of logic necessary to make it actually work. You know. The very fucking problem everybody’s working hard to address.

    The very idea that you think all these companies are looking to design and build their own single purpose chips

    The very idea that you haven’t kept up with the industry and how many companies have developed their own silicon is laugh out loud comedy to me. Hahahaha. TSMC has some news for you.

    You’re only describing how ASIC is used in switches

    Nope, I actually described how they are used in SoCs, not in switching fabrics.

    That’s not how general use computing works in the world anymore, buddy

    Except all those Intel processors I mentioned, those ARM chips in your iPhones and Pixels, the ARM processors in your macbooks. You know. Real nobodies in the industry.

    It’s never going to be a co-proc in a laptop that can load models and do general inference, or be a useful function for localized NN.

    Intel has news for you. It’s impressive how in touch you pretend to be in “the industry” but how little you seem to know about actual products being actually sold today.

    Hey, quick question. Does nvidia have FPGAs in their GPUs? No? Hmm. Is the H100 just a huge set of FPGA? No? Oh, weird. I wonder why, since you in all your genuis has said that’s the way everybody’s going. Strange that their entire product roadmap shows zero FPGA on their DPUs, GPUs, or on their soon to arrive SoCs. You should call Jensen, I bet he has so much to learn from a know-it-all like you that has some amazing ideas about US universities. Hey, where is it that all these tech startup CEOs went to university?

    Tell you what. Don’t bother responding, nothing you’ve said holds any water or value.

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      11 months ago

      Because literally everyone else saw the writing on the wall and is preparing FPGA chips EXCEPT for NVIDIA. 🤦

      NVidia is just now trying to make their own ARM chips ffs. 5 years late. You’re dated and outmoded. Get with the future.

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        11 months ago

        They can be a xenophobic, ageist jagoff all they want. I’m not engaging with them anymore. They’re the carpenter that thinks a hammer solves all problems, if we pretend they actually did anything with FPGA as their day job.

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          11 months ago

          They didn’t say anything xenophobic. They may have played into the ageist stuff but it was after you tried to play “I’ve been doing since you before you were born” card, and that makes it fair game imo. You were being unnecessarily aggressive from the start of this exchange and I think they were matching your energy. This is my outside perspective but you may lash out at me too. I don’t have a dog in this fight, I’d have to do research before figuring out if either of you knows what you’re talking about.

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                  11 months ago

                  Uh huh… Bet it’s not. Because that would make things difficult.

                  And the classic down vote for calling out. 😆👍 Hard to shake the Reddit ways.

                  Have a good one!

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                    11 months ago

                    Let’s review. They said there was nothing xenophobic. But the original weirdo had some BS to say about american universities. Textbook definition. They said that there was no ageism until I said something, completely ignoring the fact that the original person initially claimed I was younger then them so I had no experience. I responded noting that I’ve been in the industry quite some time, not as an argument from experience but as a retort to the claim I was new to all of this.

                    The fact is, the person you’re now defending clearly didn’t read the thread, and you’re just here concern trolling. I provided links to retort the frankly idiotic claims about ASICs not being a far more popular choice than FPGAs, and it’s hysterical to see you people coming through worried about the discourse rather than the facts of the matter.

                    Bye now.

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          11 months ago

          Granted, it was a very controlled Reddit argument. It had all the elements, but with a bit of class. 😆

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            11 months ago

            Social media will always devolve into that. I like seeing arguments personally but when it devolves into name calling and ego stroking it gets annoying real quick