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Farfignoggen

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    Comment #49034833

    At least going forward, with both AMD's AI accelerators and Consumer GPUs using the same RDNA based IP, there will be less reason for AMD to drop RDNA GPUs from the ROCm/HIP suppor…

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    Comment #49005613

    "DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns Gamers Nexus" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uefFYe6bM

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    Comment #49005472

    Sure, now do the Entire Linux Manual Pages as Railroad Diagrams, if it was Good Enough for the Old Boroughs Mainframe systems then it's good for Linux! BNF as well!

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    Comment #49005410

    "We" at Mozilla do not care about ADA as our Firefox browser's spell checker is so Gawd Awful for folks that have issues with spelling and such!

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    Comment #49005191

    LOL, no Mention of IMEC(Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre) in the EUV development process and the only reason that the US can restrict the ASML EUV equipment is the EUV Light…

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    Comment #49005078

    Blender SYCL Back End question, is there any potential there to get Polaris and Vega iGPUs/dGPUs working for GPU accelerated Cycles rendering via SYCL? And so AMD's abandoned Polar…

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    Comment #49004892

    It's nice to see Emulators getting GPU acceleration on older Graphics generations where there's plenty of useful parallel compute to be tapped into! How about Supporting Vega And P…

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    Comment #49004537

    Jim Keller: "RISC-V is the Future"

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    Comment #49004431

    I Got registered to vote when applying for a Driver License renewal and even though I checked no on the form and I've renewed my DL multiple and never voted once since and said no …

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    Comment #49004339

    Making things more expensive for Americans in attempt to bring production back to the US, and for an infrastructure that will take multiple years to reestablish, is not going to he…

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    Comment #49004209

    Desperately trying to find uses for that AI so that all those billions expended can appear useful to the Investors, that are mostly just the AI Companies themselves investing in ea…

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    Comment #46255192

    So pain all around for the supply chains for PCs/Laptops and Console/Devices makers until the DRAM/NAND Market prices stabilize. Maybe Nvidia's Jensen can convince the US to allow …

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    Comment #46254868

    Because the ISA that a modern microprocessor is engineered to execute is different from the Micro-ops execution engine/Other(The Actual Hardware) that's a custom design that's the …

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    Comment #43281370

    The EU and Canada, UK, Australia, Mexico/etc need some new Trade Pact to counter What Trump is doing and to reduce their dependency on the US as a trading partner longer term! The …

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    Comment #43281068

    Since 1980 the Republican controlled houses of congress have intentionally not raised the Worker Soc Sec Retirement withholding amounts so as to not have to properly increase SS-Be…

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    Comment #42948661

    Considering that the US is a Crony Capitalistic country rather than a Free Market Capitalistic country we maybe need many more like Linda Khan, and in the US Congress especially. T…

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    Comment #42860860

    Trump's buyout offer to US government workers is not for government efficiency reasons it's for some far more sinister(Project 2025) reasons to inject that ideology into all levels…

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    Comment #42848814

    The US has forced China to build a Better Mousetrap! And do so with GPUs of lesser processing power than the west has access to! The west's policy to limit GPU technology access to…

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    Comment #42627753

    The good news about Steam Deck OS on Non Valve Hardware is that the Firmware/BIOS will be optimized and vetted for the Linux Kernel and so that's better for the Hardware Ecosystem …

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    Comment #42623344

    That should be restated as "Production Ready" for the average user that's not Linux Neck-beard Class for Graphics driver Dark Arts! And Blender 3D(3.0/Later) has a definite eWaste …

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    Comment #42623252

    Is anyone testing Blender 3D 2.93(OpenCL is still the GPU Compute API on that now legacy Blender edition) on Linux to see if it works for iGPU/dGPU accelerated Cycles rendering on …

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    Comment #42596346

    Well I've seen and programmed on Burroughs Corporation Mainframes(IBM Mainframes as well) and have seen an actual Sperry Corporation Univac Mainframe Drum Storage system(Ginormous …

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    Comment #42587207

    And the answer to the question about why Musk hates remote work is: that working from home requires no potential car(Electric Cars in Musk's case) usage to and from the office! And…

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    Comment #42504832

    Apple Acquired Palo Alto Semiconductor to start off Apple's In house Chip Development process! And Jim Keller was an Employee of P.A. Semi and read up on P.A. Semiconductor's Found…

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    Comment #42366732

    Looks like the Next administration is more interested in rewarding billionaire donators with government positions regardless of if they are actually qualified for those positions! …