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[bridgman]

I don't think anyone has said that "you are fully protected if you take it". Efficacy ranges from ~50 to ~90% depending on the vaccine and the...

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... and the whole "dying" thing. Lots of people are infected by the common cold every year, and we accept that because it rarely kills them....

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Agree that any change you make in register usage will impact register renaming, but I don't think any of those changes give you the illusion or benefit...

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Right... the value of CXL is as a vendor-neutral interconnect - we have been shipping HBM-speed coherent on-die interconnect along with inter-die (GMI)...

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Excess mortality calculations do not rely on classifying cause of death - they just compare deaths per month/year in a region relative to previous time...

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OK, so I guess you are talking about x86 having fewer architectural registers than RISC-V then (16 integer registers for x86-64, 32 for RISC-V RV32I)...

[bridgman]

At the risk of nitpicking, I don't think the existence of push/pop instructions (or the PDP11/68xxx equivalent of auto-increment indirect addressing modes)...

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OK, that's an interesting point... assuming I am stripping away the sarcasm correctly....

[bridgman]

"Crippled" can mean a lot of things in this context but the most common usage is fusing off hardware functionality so that FP64 throughput is...

[bridgman]

Can I suggest you tweak your default wording a bit and focus on video memory bandwidth rather than Infinity Cache ?

Miners do not have a...

[bridgman]

What I said was that the ROCm components in the packaged amdgpu drivers support both RDNA1 and RDNA2, and were heavily tested on RDNA2.

I...

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There is also an option to display signatures rather than avatars (default) - testing to see if that makes a difference.

EDIT - looks like...

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re: "a Mesa driver on the software side that AMD doesn't"... Mesa supports multiple APIs including OpenGL and video encode/decode, and AMD is...

[bridgman]

AFAIK ARM publishes CPU and GPU core designs but not entire "phone on a chip" SOCs - they don't have/own the tech for the entire chip.
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I don't think it's an either-or thing... IIRC most of the drivers using ttm are actually using TTM BO's wrapped in GEM objects, combining TTM features...

[bridgman]

AFAIK modern x86 processors have been replacing x86 opcodes with fixed-length micro-ops (combining as well as splitting) for a long time now. All, not...

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I suspect there are no Windows drivers for a lot of this hardware....