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[DrYak]

For those interested to further read on the subject bridgman is refering to : the keyword to search is "masking".

And it was something...

[DrYak]

Back in those days, in CUDA it was left to the programmer's choice :

- normal pointer math is direct memory access (direct to video RAM,...

[DrYak]

I think that remote gaming would definitely be an interesting application.




...because for games (specially the 3D-intensive...

[DrYak]

Indeed, thanks for pointing out.



Back when I was writing CUDA code, texture make nice look-up tables (even if not using any...

[DrYak]

Is it just some more fleshed-out version of what was already done in the past on openSUSE with Btrfs + Snapper + Zypper/Yast (automatic snapshots before/after...

[DrYak]

Is there any key difference between a machine learning card vs. a gaming GPU ?

I mean, yes, of course, machine learning card also have the...

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Actually the firmware DOES NOT run on the ARM CPU. It runs on a different RISC that is embed inside the GPU and communicate with the linux kernel running...

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But on the other hand, the webpage mentions it's just merged in.
(I have the impression that there is no official centralized reliable status page,...

[DrYak]

I might be getting things wrong, or maybe the patreon page and the website are both out of date, but the among the main features that attract user to...

[DrYak]

Regarding the whole bittage discussion :

- the 16-bit to 32-bit mainstream PC transition took quite some time, because you needed completely...

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LCDs have a fixed resolution.
Cheap LCDs with VGA ports tend to do very simple tricks when the input resolution doesn't match the output resolution,...

[DrYak]

I wish I was born a black attack helicopter.
My life now feels incomplete.

:-D...

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RAID1 can be directly handled in LVM (you can ask LVM to do RAID1 when allocating a logical volume from 2 different physical volumes in a volume group)....

[DrYak]

Note that :
- Raid1 is considered stable for quite some time and used in production.
- Raid 5/6 on btrfs is only beginning to fully implement...