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by slavik81 4y ago
Which APU do you have?
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That may be true, but the problem is real. It's not their question (nor mine), but here's an example I came across a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21178182 Unfortunately, there's no way
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by slavik81 4y ago
I didn't know there was a public cloud with MI200 instances available. Where is that?
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by slavik81 4y ago
Have you managed to figure out how to create a numbered list with more than one item in it? I certainly haven't.
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by slavik81 4y ago
Were you using OpenVDB? I'm not sure it solves that particular problem, but I found it to be a great library for dealing with this sort of data.
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by slavik81 4y ago
What heat pump did you get? I wanted to get a heat pump, but I ultimately ended up just buying AC. I was told it was not possible to pair with an existing furnace because heat pump control systems were proprietary and incompatible with a st
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by slavik81 4y ago
> The beauty of the Internet is nobody knows if you're a dog That comic meant a lot to me. When I was growing up, I found that most adults would treat me with condescension. On the internet, I could engage in conversation as an equa
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by slavik81 4y ago
The production of hydrogen is already 70-80% efficient. The conversion back to electricity seems like a bigger bottleneck for vehicles at ~40-60%. Wikipedia claims that fuel cells can hit 85% efficiency by using cogeneration to repurpose th
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by slavik81 4y ago
> When SimEarth came out, I spent hours and hours just rereading the thick paper manual of how it all worked, because the only places I could play it on the disks were in the computer lab after school, or for an hour a day on the home co
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by slavik81 4y ago
> Not everyone agrees to who belongs in the pantheon, but for them there are fictional hackers, like Mel Mel wasn't fictional. Melvin Kaye was an application programmer at Librascope, and there's a photo of him in the company n
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by slavik81 4y ago
A few more Drumheller facts: Drumheller was one of the filming locations for Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The Star Trek museum originally located in Vulcan, Alberta is now in Drumheller.
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by slavik81 4y ago
I write all my code in C++, but when debugging, I format my printed data so that I can examine it in octave.
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by slavik81 4y ago
Why would anyone think it was a conspiracy in 2013? This was an established practice and documented all over the place a decade ago. Here's the Wikipedia page on cloud seeding from 2010 (twelve years ago): https://en.wikiped
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by slavik81 4y ago
> Git was specifically developed to manage the Linux kernel project, a famous example of a monorepo. Is Linux a monorepo? It's one project with a single release artifact. To me, Linux just looks like a big project. I'd define a
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> Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.) ~ Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (1657
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> If you are responsible for two tons of metal flying down the road at 70 mph The Mercedes system has a top speed of 40 mph. > We can handle being passengers and we can handle being drivers but we can't switch in a split second.
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by slavik81 4y ago
My favourite use of Blob Opera is this rendition of Cruel Angel's Thesis: https://youtu.be/2nGcm848Eyg
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by slavik81 4y ago
I suppose full access to adult life in the US would be at 35 when you reach the minimum age to serve as president.
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by slavik81 4y ago
Similarly, my Pixel 4a called the police yesterday when it fell out of my pocket and hit the floor.
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by slavik81 4y ago
> they have gone out of their way to break any sort of network effects. Most recently they added the whole "wholly new target based CMake" stuff That was in 2014. If that was their most recent screw-up, they're doing prett
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by slavik81 4y ago
> What is the CMake standard option for toggling between library types? -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=<ON,OFF> > What is the CMake standard option for toggling lto? -DCMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION=<ON,OFF> > What is the CMak
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by slavik81 4y ago
I borrowed a friend's Steam Deck and created a Debian userland to check if there were any issues using the hardware for ROCm. As far as I can tell, the only reason ROCm doesn't work on the Steam Deck is that the necessary software
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by slavik81 4y ago
The signed and unsigned keywords work the same way as long, e.g., `unsigned` alone is equivalent to `unsigned int`.
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by slavik81 4y ago
There are people living just about everywhere. Open up Google Maps, switch to satellite view, zoom out until the scale is 2 km / 1 mi and scroll until you no longer see farmers' fields. I had to go 500 km, and I only actually foun
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> etymology doesn’t determine meaning. Otherwise we would have to conclude that “woman” is male-gendered because it etymologically derives from “man”. Man was not gendered when "woman" originated. In Old English, the words for
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by slavik81 4y ago
If so, that's more promising. The HIP runtime sits on the ROCm Runtime (ROCr), which sits on hsa-kmt (ROCt). I was under the impression that the driver handles pretty much all of the stuff that is hardware-specific. It's an RDNA2
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by slavik81 4y ago
> The integrated steam deck gpu simply can't work with [the kernel amdgpu], though. That's a shame. I was hoping it was something I could help with, but that's a bit beyond the scope of what I can fix myself.
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by slavik81 4y ago
That's not enough information for me to understand what's wrong, but I suppose maybe I should find a Steam Deck and try things out myself. If you want to follow up privately, my email is in my profile.
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by slavik81 4y ago
That's interesting. I'm no expert on the Steam Deck, but I would have expected it to work. Do you have any more details about the problem?
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This article is also basically equivalent to "the median vs. the average." Just as the mean is not the only average, Whitted's algorithm is not the only ray tracing algorithm. Path tracing is itself a ray tracing algorithm.

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