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by rrss 6y ago
It's not just about Trump, though. The U.S. Congress has been consistently ceding power to the executive for decades. It would be nice to see a shift in the other direction, but I'm not optimistic.
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by rrss 6y ago
In the special election, the top 3 candidates (two republicans and one democrat) got ~80% of the vote. There were a lot of other democratic candidates that got a total of ~15% of the vote, so it's plausible that Warnock (the democratic
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by rrss 6y ago
> drivers who opt in at their own risk If it was actually just at their own risk, it would be substantially less bad. They opt in at their own risk, and at the risk of those around them.
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by rrss 6y ago
> There are proven good solutions for fast and safe concurrency with ownership tracking and a good compiler/scheduler. Do you have any pointers to these solutions for the uninitiated?
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by rrss 6y ago
PowerPC had support for block address translation, which provides a handful of registers to specify translations for variable-sized blocks, which is close-ish to what you have in mind (though very limited), in addition to an inverted page t
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by rrss 6y ago
> No, it happened much earlier, in WDDM 1.0 WDDM 1.0 supported virtualized video memory, but it did it in software by patching command buffers to reference the new physical memory addresses. Not until WDDM 2.0 did WDDM actually support u
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by rrss 6y ago
> Modern OSes don’t allow userspace code to directly access peripheral devices, GPUs included This depends a lot on the OS and on the peripheral, but this is certainly not true across the board. RDMA verbs, for example, definitely involv
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by rrss 6y ago
This is an inaccurate take. The default for an approved CA ballot initiative is that it cannot be amended or repealed by the state legislature. Normally changing a ballot initiative requires another ballot proposition, so an initiative perm
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by rrss 6y ago
> With that being said, its cool to see that MI50 is competitive against A100 in scientific compute. Both A100 and MI50 are on TSMC's 7nm node, so that is a pure architecture vs architecture competition. These tests used V100 (TSMC
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by rrss 6y ago
What you are describing is a hidden variable theory - i.e. there is some concrete state of the particles, but it is hidden. John Bell demonstrated that in order for a hidden variable theory to make predictions in agreement with quantum mech
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by rrss 6y ago
> Everyone (including myself) who mentioned a few months ago that lockdowns will make the poor poorer Everyone, including the WHO, too. Read the WHO's "COVID-19 Strategy Update" from mid-April. It's pretty clear about
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by rrss 6y ago
David Nabarro of the WHO said in an interview that lockdowns should not be the primary method of control and that lockdowns should only be used to buy time to develop better strategies to test, trace, and isolate clusters. He mentions Asian
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by rrss 6y ago
New Almaden predates prop 13 by over a century.
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by rrss 6y ago
I wonder if cloudflare is using mellanox libvma these days. The article notes they were using ef_vi on solarflare NICs at the time, but it looks like they switched to mellanox NICs in their 9th and 10th generation servers. https:/&#x2
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by rrss 6y ago
FYI, clang 10+ has support for -ffp-exception-behavior that enables configuring this behavior. > maytrap: The compiler avoids transformations that may raise exceptions that would not have been raised by the original code. Constant foldin
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by rrss 6y ago
Yes. > In 2003, Deutsche Bank helped Mr. Trump’s casino company sell hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds. > Mr. Trump’s company defaulted in 2004, leaving Deutsche Bank’s clients with deep losses. The bank’s investment division t
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by rrss 6y ago
Warren Buffett is in an entirely dissimilar boat, because Warren Buffett does not have enormous losses to carry forward, and therefore actually pays significant personal income tax ($1.8 million on personal income of $11.5 million in 2015).
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by rrss 6y ago
The Intel Edison, Galileo, Curie, and Joule boards were roughly similar to what you propose. They were all discontinued in 2017.
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by rrss 6y ago
- Josh Rosen. West was there to the end.
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by rrss 6y ago
By this logic, we basically still don't even have offline ray-tracing. Both Renderman and Hyperion have denoisers that Pixar and Disney use on feature films. > And because we could not afford to render images to convergence, we need
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by rrss 6y ago
very interesting, thanks!
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by rrss 6y ago
Are the AMX instructions available in EL0? Is it possible AMX is implemented with the implementation-defined system registers and aliases of SYS/SYSL in the encoding space reserved for implementation-defined system instructions? Do you
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by rrss 6y ago
WMMX was exposed via the ARM coprocessor mechanism (so it was permitted by the architecture). The coprocessor stuff was removed in ARMv8.
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by rrss 6y ago
> ARM doesn't give NVIDIA a world-class CPU team like apple's, amazon's or fujitsu. Are you referring to the Graviton2 for Amazon? If so, you might be interested to learn that ARM designed the cores in that chip. > (NVI
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by rrss 6y ago
FWIW, this article suggests the static software scheduling you are describing was introduced in Kepler, so it's probably at least not entirely new in Volta: https://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-g
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by rrss 6y ago
FWIW, Ethernet supports RDMA also, via RoCE. > A to B latency is around 2-5 ns (nanoseconds). What are A and B? and where did you get these numbers? HCA latency is more like ~500 ns.
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by rrss 6y ago
> making nvidia gpus part of the arm ISA what would this mean? are there any CPU ISAs with a GPU integrated into the ISA instead of just a peripheral?
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by rrss 6y ago
which phreakers and pirates built the internet?
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by rrss 6y ago
unless you have navi, in which case rocm is not supported and doesn't work and I guess AMD expects you to use opencl.
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by rrss 6y ago
https://daringfireball.net/2019/09/richard_stallmans_disgrac...

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