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sharpneli

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About sharpneli

Low level graphics programmer. Vulkan, DX12 etc. History with gpgpu stuff too.

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    Comment #48589738

    Hydro has a natural limit. After you have put a dam to every river that’s it. And the Swiss aint far from that. There are also cloudy days without much wind, and those are quite ha…

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    Comment #46344565

    Is there any need for that? Just have a few good CPUs there and you’re good to go. As for how the HW looks like we already know. Look at Strix Halo as an example. We are just getti…

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    Comment #44451693

    CDNA is based on the older gcn arch so they share the same as pre RDNA ones and RDNA ones.

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    Comment #40357051

    I tried it out. I asked if it can generate a voice clip. It said it can’t on the chat. I asked it where can it make one. It told me to use Audacity to make one myself. I told it th…

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    Comment #40113222

    They were around $60 or your regional equivalent. This means $140+ today assuming 1990 dollar.

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    Comment #40030851

    And that is why we use products made by companies in California. Non competes are good for the big incubent companies, but bad for the economy and the workers.

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    Comment #40029348

    Another issue are non competes. Everyone wants to get a tech sector like California but insist on having non competition agreements being either valid or conditionally valid meanin…

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    Comment #39960950

    Inverse fourier transform of a non transformed signal gives you basically the fourier transform with some changes (I can't remember which, were the numbers conjugates or something?…

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    Comment #39535280

    Depends on the place. This sort of interoperability is explicitly allowed in the EU.

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    Comment #39469748

    It was a joke. Obviously there was no contact whatsoever between the two. Gemini basically forces the current US ethnical representation fashions to every situation regardless of h…

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    Comment #39466729

    It was extra hilarious when asked to generate a picture of ancient Greek philosopher it made it a Native American. Because it is well known Greeks not only had contact with the new…

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    Comment #39163107

    Not just that. It does require Atkinson cycle to reach the efficiencies they have. It just means that the compression stroke is shorter than the power stroke. Basically with that c…

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    Comment #37519701

    It may be choking on too large of a threadcount. By default Starfield creates as many workerthreads as what you have cores. And it scales really badly. For your setup it likely mak…

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    Comment #36681495

    My old iPhone X that’s now a video player for my kids is 7 years old and receives updates as usual. It did not cost $10k.

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    Comment #36393051

    1) Probability of that is so miniscule as to be nonexistent. I’d suspect foul play at that point. As in someone just transporting the animal there. You can’t really get identical D…

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    Comment #36224004

    In 2020 Apple invented unified memory? More seriously people need to stop with the Apple comparisons. Unified memory has been a thing for a way longer time. Heck around 2014 AMD ha…

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    Comment #36184779

    Browser doesn’t really have limitations in that regard. Thus it offers nothing unique in that sense that’s not already in normal windows/whatever desktop platform demos. If some fr…

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    Comment #36184326

    With browser it’s the bog standard WebGL and now WebGPU. They bring nothing over just doing normal demo using native graphics apis directly. They are good ways to distribute progra…

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    Comment #35680657

    It’s the same mechanism that triggers the game mode in Windows. You can tag a program in the Xbox game bar as a game if it hasn’t recognized it by default.

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    Comment #34678160

    Even better: Make the train stop right before lights turn red. With careful timing you can wreck the car with no harm to the train.

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    Comment #34665370

    On that I fully agree. And the reason why scala approach doesn't work is because it's horrendously inefficient. What actually does work at massive scale is the GPU style workload. …

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    Comment #34664514

    Not just X86, the older X86. Before Pentium Pro there was not even register renaming. So one was both register starved and the registers you saw where actually the registers you go…

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    Comment #34663381

    One reason is that they are already here. It's just called the GPU which happens to be way more parallel than puny 128 cores. That's a major reason why just bunch of low power CPUs…

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    Comment #34400004

    AMD has a really weird view on how the programming world works internally. Some years ago they had some ARM server chips. Did they allow people access? No. They only allowed it for…

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    Comment #34272951

    >Q: Can't Wizards of the Coast change the License in a way that I wouldn't like? >A: Yes, it could. However, the License already defines what will happen to content that has been p…