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rnrn

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    Which model wrote this bizarre article? Lots of emphasis on no kernels written and nothing recompiled but the intro and conclusion somehow suggest this is also the value of runinfr…

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    Comment #48957707

    looks like a bunch of boring desks for software developers, i don't see any electrical or computer engineers

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    Comment #47535733

    > For example, they invented the .eh_frame walking technique to get stack traces from binaries without frame pointers enabled. This is not an accurate summary of what they develope…

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    Comment #47455688

    No, wrong decade and wrong split - the test & measurement equipment and scientific equipment was long gone from HP at the time of the HP -> HP inc + HPE split. It ended up in Agile…

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    Comment #47443355

    How do get the weights for the right set of experts for a given batch of tokens into fast memory at the right time? The activated experts is only available after routing, at which …

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    Comment #47441692

    Why is there a new kernel driver here at all? It appears that all it does it allocate system RAM (“DDR4”) and export it as a dmabuf for import to cuda as mapped external memory. Th…

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    Comment #46338516

    This is not about reclaiming memory by swapping the contents out to disk. It is about killing processes due to having overcommitted beyond the available memory plus swap space. The…

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    Comment #45782841

    It’s not a cargo cult if the actions directly cause cargo to arrive based on well understood mechanics. Regardless of whether it would be better in some situations to align to 128 …

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    Comment #45782804

    > even on x86 on recent server CPUs, cache-coherency protocols may be operating at a different granularity than the cache line size. A typical case with new Intel server CPUs is op…

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    Comment #45198137

    Do you use some old version of iTunes to put music on it or are there other tools with better support for old iPods?

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    Comment #45003198

    This was in the “truth” posted by Trump on his social media announcing the deal: > It is my Great Honor to report that the United States of America now fully owns and controls 10% …

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    Comment #44995893

    Are you sure congress didn’t authorize this ? i.e. actually specified that the money could only be used for grants and could not be used for equity purchases? > The Department of C…

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    Comment #44995799

    I thought this too, but after reading some of the other comments here I read some of the text of the chips act and the 2021 NDAA (mostly section 9902) and AFAICT Congress appropria…

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    Comment #44796176

    *consummate Vs

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    Comment #44555055

    > This should be made obvious by the fact that both the metal-semiconductor transistor (i.e. MESFET, patent filed on 1925-10-22) and the depletion-mode metal-insulator-semiconducto…

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    Comment #44543291

    > The NMOS transistors used in the 6502 were quite large and worked on the basis of electrostatic charges ... as opposed to bipolar transistors that are inherently quantum in opera…

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    Comment #44320450

    Are these instances actually funded by 2021 IIJA BEAD program? I don’t think Illinois has actually awarded any of that funding to providers to build anything yet. It looks like the…

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    Comment #44283787

    removing comment since I regret attempting to engage in this thread

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    Comment #44283641

    removing comment since I regret attempting to engage in this thread

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    Comment #43905063

    I think you are confusing uniform registers with the uniform keyword in RSL / GLSL / HLSL? maybe some vendors have had an equivalent to uniform registers for 20 years, but per the …

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    Comment #43424118

    I don’t think x86 as an ISA is necessarily declining much and AMD has products with zen4c / zen5c compact cores intended to compete with Arm server products. AMD doesn’t have to pa…

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    Comment #43423984

    I assume the question is why AMD is not making EPYC or Ryzen processors with Arm cores for the application processors. AMD continuing to have the Xilinx line of FPGAs with some Cor…