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by frogblast 26d ago
That was the PS3 SPU. It was very fast for its time, but only for the small subset of code that could work within its constraints, and viciously difficult to program for.
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by frogblast 1y ago
Often not elusive bugs, but elusive performance. GPU compilers are hard: Once you've done the basics, trying to do further transforms in a mature compiler will almost always produced mixed results. Some kernels will go faster, som
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by frogblast 1y ago
I agree with the protectionism aspect, to a degree. I also believe the current system does not achieve that in any way.
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by frogblast 1y ago
IMO the problem is that H1B employees are stuck at the employer for the duration of their green card process, and so end up both paid lower and unable to escape abuse. I think a very high application fee is actually part of a good solution,
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by frogblast 1y ago
My prius (2006 model) finally had the traction battery (NiMh) start to loose modules at about 250K miles. It was clearly getting weaker, but drivable at that time. Then Covid hit, and it sat for 2 months without being driven / charge
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Oodle 2.9.14 and Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs(fgiesen.wordpress.com)
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by frogblast 2y ago
What plotting libraries work well with Polars?
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by frogblast 2y ago
You can still use the app. You get asked both to have the app get access to the MAID, and get access to location. If this is a problem, it is a problem because you said Yes to both. You could have said No. You can change that choice
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by frogblast 2y ago
My 2019 Kia Niro has some not-worthwhile connected service you can simply say No to. It is then a fully offline car. Assigning ownership involves handing someone the key fob.
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by frogblast 2y ago
Given the conclusions in these articles, I'd expect insurance prices for larger vehicles to be substantially higher, because the underwriters have a large incentive to get this right. My own policy has two drivers with a long flawless
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by frogblast 2y ago
The drive is inside the car. How do they get at it, and guarantee it isn't tampered with in the meantime?
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by frogblast 2y ago
> Yes but the police can't start occupying my house or deny me access to it because I wasn't home to let them in With a search warrant, they can. You can be kept out of your home until they complete the search and seizing of t
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by frogblast 2y ago
The path of least resistance is skipping the search warrant and asking the owner politely, which the article indicates is what is happening. But if that doesn't work, then preserving evidence is considered to be very important. For e
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by frogblast 2y ago
Without first hand knowledge, I'll take a guess: if the owner of the vehicle isn't available or cooperating, then getting access to the USB drive requires opening up the vehicle without a key, which could require some time or sp
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by frogblast 2y ago
Are you using bluetooth headphones? Radio interference is far more common than any scheduling issue.
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by frogblast 2y ago
Correction: There is a big scaleup of capacity that's coming online exactly as BEVs are growing in popularity slower than many previous forecasts (hence lots of press about some carmakers having to scale back BEV production, while st
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by frogblast 3y ago
> In the end, this tech just takes control from you. In these difficult scenarios, the alternative photo I'd get using such a small camera without this kind processing would be entirely unusable. I couldn't rescue those photos
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by frogblast 3y ago
If you're interested in more background about one user-visible problem being directly attacked by this new GPU architecture, that could be "shader compilation stutter" (although there are many others). These are two excellent
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by frogblast 3y ago
Even if you're not memory bandwidth bound, leveraging these 2x FLOPs on recent designs is hard, often due to issues like register bank clashes. They are low utilization, but apparently still worth it because process node changes have m
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by frogblast 3y ago
As you state, GPU latency hiding is basically equivalent to hyper threading, just with more threads per core. For example, for a 'generic' modern GPU, you might have: A "Core" (Apple's term) / "Compute U
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by frogblast 3y ago
DOTS/ECS has nothing to do with geometry LODs. Those are purely optimizing CPU systems. Even if DOTS was perfect, the GPU would still be entirely geometry throughput bottlenecked. Yes, UE5 has a large competitive advantage today for h
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by frogblast 3y ago
Despite the original post talking about DOTS rough edges, I didn't see anything in that article that actually suggested DOTS was the cause: that would cause CPU overhead, but it seems like they simply have a bunch of massively over-det
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by frogblast 3y ago
Ideally they know exactly how it will perform: Every part of the chip, including the caches, memory controller, and DRAM is implemented in a cycle accurate simulator. There are often multiple versions of that simulator, one written in C&
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by frogblast 3y ago
Indeed, which is why it is a bit silly to spend so much money on both. And yet the US does.
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by frogblast 3y ago
You're making the single most common misunderstanding of the United State's ICBM defense capability, because you assume the goal is to "defend every city". The real goal is quite different. The math starts to look very
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by frogblast 3y ago
Did he make that true via policy changes, or was it an astute observation of what was going to be true given economic realities?
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by frogblast 3y ago
I was wondering if a “chain of custody” law for personal information can make this enforceable. You can request your personal information from a holder of it, and along with that comes the identity of where/when/who that data was
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by frogblast 3y ago
Alternatively, maybe it is clear to responsible media organizations that some leaks really are in the public interest, and some really are against the public interest. There was nothing scandalous in this leak to be exposed, but it does put
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by frogblast 3y ago
This is the best I've found that covers recent developments: https://meistdan.github.io/publications/bvh_star/paper.pdf
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by frogblast 3y ago
I strongly suspect the reason Nvidia trees are so shallow is that NSight simply isn't showing the actual tree structure, probably because Nvidia considers that proprietary. It appears to just list all the leafs of a tree in a big flat

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