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I think it is well established that repeat COVID infections have an increasingly severe impact on your body. It is also true that COVID can weaken your general immune system. But t…

I have a million miles on United alone, and many more on others as well: I’ve never once heard such a message either.

Same here. OpenAI commented on the verboseness of answers as something they need to work on.

A subscription model where you know the exact terms is less exploitative than a fixed cost where it’s not even clear if the upgrade is sticky or not (as is currently the case for T…

It’s exploitative if it is not sticky and isn’t clearly communicated. But it’s not relevant for the Mercedes case where it’s very clear that it’s a subscription. For my personal ca…

My Model Y has a $2000 in-app purchase option to increase acceleration by something like 0.5s. It’s not a subscription, but the idea is the same. It doesn’t bother me one bit: I bo…

If it works for a celebrity, it also works in case of a calamity.

Reminds me of the "Can I move? ... I'm better when I move" scene... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoCK5r2TWg

Being an owner and being an investor are orthogonal concepts.

It would make zero difference, except, maybe, for the PCIe bandwidth test. Because all other tests were stressed interfaces that reside within the GPU silicon itself or between the…

I’d go dither than that and claim that almost everything of importance has checksums: Google Docs, Google Sheets, Git submissions, all my important web accounts, the traffic with m…

Why pay for something I don’t need when there’s the option to not pay for it? - me Just yesterday, I bought an extra 64GB for my home Linux PC. I absolutely couldn’t care less abou…

That seems like a stretch? Isn’t the more obvious explanation that laptops with a real GPU are much more expensive and that the weaker, integrated GPUs are more than good enough fo…

I was wondering about that. According to Nvidia RTX 4090 product page, it still used PCIe 4.

Moving around data is indeed a major issue for any throughout oriented device. But for a gaming GPU, PCIe BW has never been an issue in any of the benchmarks that I’ve seen. (Those…

But why would game programmers care about shader core latency??? I seriously don't understand. We're not talking here about the latency that gamers care about, the one that's measu…

GP100 and GP GeForce has a different shared memory structure as well, so much so that GP100 was listed as having 30 SMs instead of 60 in some Nvidia presentations. But the base arc…

Thanks for that. The weird part is that this latency difference has to be due to a terrible MC design by AMD, because there's not a huge difference in latency between any of the cu…

I don't agree. Turing is an evolution of Volta. In fact, in the CUDA slides of Turing, they mention explicitly that Turing shaders are binary compatible with Volta, and that's very…

Density, I can accept. But what kind of latency are we talking about here? CDNA has 16-wide SIMD units that retires 1 64-wide warp instruction every 4 clock cycles. RDNA has a 32-w…

Holy false equivalence, batman!

They're defending taking advantage of a miner's forced fire sale. Less waste, lower price for a good GPU. What's not to like?

AMD's decision to have different architectures for gaming and datacenter is still a major mystery. It's clear from Nvidia's product line that there's no reason to do so. (And, yes,…

I'd be more than happy to by a 3080 (or similar) for a bargain price, knowing that it has been run at lower voltages and power levels. As for waste: I very much hope it will not be…

How many giraffes is that?