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Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for a hundred and eighty million years. That's 1.3% of the entire history of the universe. Written history stretches back roughly five thousand years. Imagine the world one million years from now. It would be
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The list is short for Canada: nothing. As part of the renegotiated NAFTA agreement, all copyright terms have been extended by twenty years.
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One of my coworkers uses a Vega 56 in their local workstation. That card is six years old. It's not officially supported, but it still works. I have no idea if the AI frameworks work on hardware that old, but the math libraries still d
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I went to see Cabin in the Woods based on nothing but the title and the 18A rating. It was quite an experience.
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The fxguide article is the more interesting of the two, as it includes further updates and clarifications from Weta.
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They don't. As per Weta's statement [1] > Unity will continue to own the technology it acquired and will evaluate the best way to enhance its offerings over time. [1]: https://www.fxguide.com/quicktakes/uni
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Wasn't it the Smallpox Eradication Program?
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Browsing in incognito mode does not prevent the sites you visit from tracking you.
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> that's the real loss here: any chance of governing this properly got blown up by incompetence If this incident is representative, I'm not sure there was ever a possibility of good governance.
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My grandfather died of emphysema. He spent the last twenty years of his life struggling to breathe. It's a horrifying condition.
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You judge the passage of time by remembering the things that have happened since the last time that you checked the time. If you can't remember what you've been doing, then it could have been minutes or it could have been hours si
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A normal camera does not have as great a dynamic range as human vision. However, you can take multiple photographs at different exposure settings and combine the images in software afterwards to achieve the same result as a single photo wit
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There are also plenty of successful Disney shows that never get a disc release. I'm still waiting for a Star vs. The Forces of Evil DVD or Blu-ray.
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There's a lot of kernels that are specialized for particular sets of input parameters and tuned for improved performance on specific hardware, which makes the libraries a couple hundred megabytes per architecture. The ROCm libraries ar
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> I have an RX 580 8GB at home I would be happy to give you free of charge if you don't have access to that card (Polaris 20). I appreciate your generosity, but the costs for the older architectures are dominated by the supporting i
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It's too late to edit, but I should add that the RX 6600 XT is not officially supported by the upstream ROCm project. It's not clear to me that the experience would be better on any other distro. That's where having public te
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This is why Christian and I have invested so much effort into the CI system for Debian. There needs to be a clear accounting of what works and what doesn't for every library on every architecture.
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> One current obstacle is infrastructure: the Debian build and CI infrastructures (both hardware and software) were not designed with GPUs in mind. This is also being worked on. To be more direct, one thing we lack is funding. AMD has pr
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There was also a nuke truck in RA2, but it was exclusive to Libya.
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Warfarin is a particularly good example of the dose making the poison, as it is both a rat poison and a common prescription medication for people who are at risk of blood clots. An anticoagulant can be a useful medication, but taking too mu
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> If you want to get a good picture of how sideways updating can even be watch the linus tech tips on where he wanted (and has the tech ability) to patch his light switches. But could not even get them to give him the correct firmware or
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FWIW, ROCm GPU support is getting better, particularly in the distro-provided packages. e.g. https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team/community/team-project/-/...
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Nothing I described requires giving up ownership of the vehicle. All that is needed is for it to be able to navigate to and from the parking lot by itself, and to move spots when requested by the parking lot's computer.
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Once cars can drive themselves, parking lots no longer need to surround businesses since everyone will have a free valet that can drop you off and park your car in a distant lot. The parking lot surrounding the business can be redeveloped i
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> However, ROCM/HIP etc. really seems to be catching up (I even see them packaged on Arch linux). There are now distro-provided packages on Arch, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora.
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The Debian packages support a much wider range of hardware than the AMD packages do. Just about any discrete AMD GPU hardware released in the past five years should already work or will work soon.
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> their latest API [...] is currently only supported on a handful of their latest top end cards While there's very few cards that are officially supported, I've enabled most RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 GPUs in the OS-provided packages on
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Have you tried rocm-smi for controlling power limits? https://manpages.debian.org/experimental/rocm-smi/rocm-smi.1...
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The Radeon Pro W7900 is 48 GB. https://www.amd.com/en/products/professional-graphics/amd-ra... The W7900 is officially supported by ROCm on Windows. On Linux, the W7900 is enabled, though not officially suppo
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> My solution to every ounce of apprehension is deleting and re-cloning out of paralysis and fear. Having worked with older version control systems, I found that to be one of the best things about git. If I had a problem with a version c

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