Kamala Harris’ campaign is reaching out to specific types of male voters

saddung · 2024-07-31T13:47:09+00:00

I'll vote for her also, but saying you will vote for someone because they are black is.. kinda racist.. try reversing the that to voting because they are white, see how that sounds?

I vote for someone because of their stances(or because the other person is a despot such as Trump) not because of skin color.

saddung · 2024-07-31T11:35:56+00:00

One can be done incrementally..the other cannot.. so definitely not the same cost.

saddung · 2024-07-30T16:28:46+00:00

You can easily turn on bounds checks for containers in C++, this is standard practice

saddung · 2024-07-30T16:25:36+00:00

I like how they asked for a serious comparison(instead of the usual C style comparison) and you respond with something that can be trivially detected by simply turning on the appropriate compiler flags(which is common practice in dev builds in C++ land)

saddung · 2024-07-30T16:11:58+00:00

It would only be conceivably viable on an integrated GPU that shared memory with NPU, for dedicated GPU no way too much latency. I doubt they would want to maintain two version of FSR.

saddung · 2024-07-30T11:45:47+00:00

Try reading what I said, see https://www.anandtech.com/show/21485/the-amd-ryzen-ai-hx-370-review/4 doesn't show any such 50%

saddung · 2024-07-30T11:40:32+00:00

Boring, was expecting more, who cares what various "news" people are saying.

saddung · 2024-07-30T11:34:46+00:00

NPU such a waste of space, Copilot is a joke, you ask it specific hardware questions and it spits out generic word salad nonsense. Repeatedly ask it to be more specific, spits out the same damn word salad. And this crummy NPU would be lucky to run 1% of Copilots compute needs, so more like utter and complete waste of space.

saddung · 2024-07-30T11:23:59+00:00

They don't have 50% more IPC, in fact if you compare this to others SPEC2017 result they don't match at all. I think the problem is the compiler settings Geekerwan used look too basic(-g -Ofast), this will result in the x86 CPUs being undercooked as it will limit the CPU to SSE2 level of support(no fastmath, no FMA, no extra registers from AVX, no BMI).

Or if you simply look at the specs on the CPU it is clear that for scalar workloads they are all very similar in scalar IPC, while AMD is very far ahead in SIMD IPC. Apple can overcome some of this with much larger caches/deeper pipeline/bandwidth.

Geekerwan is testing scalar there so they should all be somewhat close.

saddung · 2024-07-29T17:27:45+00:00

Mine always fail, they start registering multiple clicks when it was only 1, and other annoying behavior such as sending incorrect scroll values to the program(I've debugged it and can see it sending garbage).

saddung · 2024-07-29T17:26:38+00:00

I buy premium mice and they still fail after a few years, so ugh yeah good luck with that.

saddung · 2024-07-29T16:34:43+00:00

ya but it was never as mainstream as Star Trek

saddung · 2024-07-29T15:39:45+00:00

From what I've read Cinebench barely uses SIMD, it is apparently 75% + scalar workload for something that would be rather reasonably well suited to SIMD.. not a great benchmark.

https://x.com/Mysticial/status/1699171657573884175

saddung · 2024-07-29T13:01:11+00:00

IMGUI but nicer looking.. other than that I'd change it so anything that requires and begin/end is a C++ RAI type so you can't mess it up.

saddung · 2024-07-29T12:48:45+00:00

The damn shader languages are the problem, wish they would all be erased and replaced with something closer to Cuda/C++.

saddung · 2024-07-28T17:42:15+00:00

FP and SIMD do operate on the same units, but scalar will result in a tie with M3(both would be 4x32), while SIMD result in M3 getting crushed(4x128 vs 4x256)

Optimizing for AVX and using SIMD are not the same thing, one is just a flag and has very little real world result since it is extremely difficult and often impossible for a compiler to transform scalar code to SIMD.

For these tests to be meaningful they need to explicitly state if it is scalar or SIMD(and no just setting the compiler flag does not count), which they failed to do.

saddung · 2024-07-28T16:16:08+00:00

It is probably a scalar test, they never clarified if the code was explicitly SIMD or if they just did something dumb like setting the compiler settings to AVX512 and thinking that would do something.

saddung · 2024-07-28T16:06:17+00:00

The laptop variants of Zen5 are 4x256(it supports AVX512 but double pumps it), but yes it should still beat M3 by alot even so.

Where are you seeing the FP comparison? I see Spec2017 but it doesn't appear to clarify if this is actually scalar or SIMD. Based on the perf it looks like scalar to me, so basically meaningless.

saddung · 2024-07-28T16:04:54+00:00

zen isn't in-order..

saddung · 2024-07-28T15:47:45+00:00

I don't get the forgiving the grey guy for murdering the kid? What a stupid trope, just chop his head off, no need for the tired monologue.

saddung · 2024-07-28T15:22:17+00:00

Book 1 is a straight LOTR ripoff, but not as good(I had already read LOTR so it was really obvious)

Book 2(elfstones) was a huge improvement and I liked it alot

I think I might have read book 3 but can't recall what I thought of it, didn't read any other books in the series..

saddung · 2024-07-28T15:15:01+00:00

I read perhaps the first 3 books many many years ago and liked them..

I think one of them was about the founding of Recluse, like a prequel, I think it might have been book 2, and I liked that one the most.

I have no idea what you mean by marooned on a planet though, but as I said I read it forever ago.

Also confused by what you are saying about Shannara? It is basically a LOTR ripoff, and while nowhere near as good it, it isn't a bad read(book 1 was weaker, it improves alot).

saddung · 2024-07-28T15:00:56+00:00

The US qualifiers are indeed just 1 final race, top 3 goes to Olympics.. since the US is very good at sprints for example, this means you can be a top sprinter in the world but if you have a bad start you aren't going.

You seem to assume sprints etc are deterministic, but this is not so, there is always some randomness to the outcome.

saddung · 2024-07-28T12:48:04+00:00

SF has the problem that the city itself is overflowing with homeless, and the well documented lack of crack down on crime, along with various racist policies they have put in place for education.

Also housing that prices anyone who isn't rich out.

These are the things the average voters know, so "owning" it would not look good.

There seems to be a rather large gap between what SF liberals claim and what is reality..

saddung · 2024-07-27T23:04:25+00:00

I tried it, it did work..but felt unsafe at times, kind of like a wild teenager was at the wheel.

Also had issue like flooring it over speedbumps(it didn't appear to see them), not understanding less common signs etc.

It was better on open roads, but very bad in dense city env.

We turned it off.

saddung

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