Last time I visited Tom Shardware it felt like the whole thing is basically an ad. Is the content still any good? I recall back when it was the go-to.
undersuit 2 hours ago [-]
They seem to have locked a lot of interesting content behind the Premium News package, correct me if I'm wrong I can't read the Premium content to judge how it compares to the free Reddit reposts.
That and the shuttering of Anandtech sucks.
mikestew 2 hours ago [-]
Even behind a pi-hole that whole site is a game of “find the tiny little x”.
BRB, the raspberry pi is sending CPU temp alerts now…
ianmarcinkowski 23 minutes ago [-]
I no have a few esp32s sitting around. I no wonder what else I could use these for?
neuralkoi 2 hours ago [-]
This really begs the question as to how much juice you can get from $5 compute.
This IS IoT in my opinion, not whatever bloatware comes with your Samsung fridge or wifi-connected faucet.
Rohansi 1 hours ago [-]
> $5 compute
Unrelated but the author at Tom's Hardware is apparently unaware of AliExpress so they bumped the price from $2 (or less) to $5. And that's the price for just one. These things are so cheap you can throw them in everything. They're the perfect alternative to a Raspberry Pi because they have WiFi, Bluetooth, lots of GPIO, and decent compute. Not enough to run Linux but you don't need Linux for IoT.
xboxnolifes 23 minutes ago [-]
There's very little compute going on in this chip. It's a few hashes per second. Which is to say you can do a lot with $5 of compute if you can figure out how to not need to use a lot of compute.
bombcar 50 minutes ago [-]
A pregamgamanagany test can be $5 and apparently it can run doom, so in bulk compute has to be pretty cheap.
buckhx 4 hours ago [-]
Clever hacker needs to look up a Bloom Filter
Lukas_Skywalker 3 hours ago [-]
Lazy commenters need to look at the README to see that the bloom filter is mentioned as a next step. The hacker is indeed clever.
amelius 3 hours ago [-]
Only if the hacker also tests for false positives.
Lukas_Skywalker 2 hours ago [-]
The way it's worded in the readme makes it sound as if this was exactly the intention.
amelius 2 hours ago [-]
Very clever hacker indeed!
May even have Sonnet or Opus level of intelligence.
amazingamazing 3 hours ago [-]
> how it could grow : Bloom filter in RAM as a fast pre-filter (skip flash for the ~99% of misses)
What do people use bloom filters for in production? I've only ever used as part of a blacklist
gtowey 36 minutes ago [-]
Search partition pruning in distributed databases is one concrete application I'm aware of.
Hashtables optimized for really large item counts; it can be a useful fast pre-check for item existence.
rustyhancock 2 hours ago [-]
The README mentions it and conventionally it seems right.
But back of the envelope it seems you're shaving not much off if the latency is primarily WiFi latency (tens of milliseconds) not flash reads (microseconds?).
If you use loads of transient clients perhaps a LRU cache would help since round trips might be quite slow.
Graziano_M 2 hours ago [-]
I opened the article and immediately ctrl-f'd for the word "bloom". Though the author plans to use them.
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That and the shuttering of Anandtech sucks.
BRB, the raspberry pi is sending CPU temp alerts now…
This IS IoT in my opinion, not whatever bloatware comes with your Samsung fridge or wifi-connected faucet.
Unrelated but the author at Tom's Hardware is apparently unaware of AliExpress so they bumped the price from $2 (or less) to $5. And that's the price for just one. These things are so cheap you can throw them in everything. They're the perfect alternative to a Raspberry Pi because they have WiFi, Bluetooth, lots of GPIO, and decent compute. Not enough to run Linux but you don't need Linux for IoT.
May even have Sonnet or Opus level of intelligence.
https://github.com/M-Abozaid/esp32-c3-adblock
Hashtables optimized for really large item counts; it can be a useful fast pre-check for item existence.
But back of the envelope it seems you're shaving not much off if the latency is primarily WiFi latency (tens of milliseconds) not flash reads (microseconds?).
If you use loads of transient clients perhaps a LRU cache would help since round trips might be quite slow.