sharpneli

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Low level graphics programmer. Vulkan, DX12 etc. History with gpgpu stuff too.
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Comment · 4 months ago
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 harsh during winter.

What should one do then? Just shut everything down?

Comment · 10 months ago
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 getting bigger and bigger integrated GPUs. Most of the flops on that chip is the GPU part.

Comment · 1 year ago
CDNA is based on the older gcn arch so they share the same as pre RDNA ones and RDNA ones.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 that the advertisement said it could.

Now it said yes it can here is a clip and gave me a broken link.

It’s a hilarious joke.

Comment · 2 years ago
They were around $60 or your regional equivalent. This means $140+ today assuming 1990 dollar.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.

Comment · 2 years ago
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 meaning there is a gray area that stifles innovation.

Comment · 2 years ago
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?). Applying it the second time gives you same result as if you'd do the forward direction transform twice.

If you apply fourier transform 4 times you get your original function back. You can think of it as 90 degree rotation. Inverse transform just rotates it in the opposite direction.

The rotation analog is not even too far fetched as fractional fourier transform allows you to do an arbitrary angle rotation.

Comment · 2 years ago
Depends on the place. This sort of interoperability is explicitly allowed in the EU.
Comment · 2 years ago
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 how well it fits.

Comment · 2 years ago
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 world but also had prominent population of Native Americans.

It really wants to mash the whole world to a very specific US centric view of the world, and calls you bad for trying to avoid it.

Comment · 2 years ago
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 cycle they can get massive compression ratios. As an example newer Toyotas are at 14:1 ratio with 41% thermal efficiency. That’s close to diesel territory on a gasoline car.

Naturally when you floor it it goes to Otto cycle and efficiency drops.

Comment · 3 years ago
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 makes 32 threads like it does on my 16 core Zen4.

I limited mine to the same as what the consoles have and it made things quite a bit smoother. You can try adding these to your StarfieldCustom.ini

[General]

uMaxPrimaryJobThreads=8

uMaxSecondaryJobThreads=8

Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
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 DNA on earth. It’s to be expected that it would be even harder if there are no common ancestors. 2) Yes. In order to make that you need to basically fully understand the organism in question. All of it’s properties are the same and product of the same evolutionary history by the virtue of you just looking at the existing creature and making an 1:1 copy

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