I wanted Intel to do well so I purchased an ARC card. The problem is not the hardware. For some games, it worked fine, but in others, it kept crashing left and right. After updates to drivers, crashing was reduced, but it still happened. Driver software is not easy to develop thoroughly. Even AMD had problems when compared to Nvidia when AMD really started to enter the GPU game after buying ATI. AMD has long since solved their driver woes, but years after ARC's launch, Intel still has not.
It's also a hardware problem. For example, Alchemist's EUs being SIMD8 but games requiring SIMD16, so it needs to be dispatched to two EUs in a lockstep, or the lack of support for Execute Indirect instruction commonly used in UE5 games, which is currently emulated in software, makes game compatibility a very hit-or-miss.
Battlemage is supposed to fix all these architectural issues. EU in Xe2 is now SIMD16 (which is why the number of EUs per Xe2 core is halved from that of Xe1), and they've added all the previously software-emulated instructions, including Execute Indirect, so in theory Battlemage should be in a much better position in game compatibility side of things.
On Linux side of things, lacking sparse residency support in i915 also contributes to game compatibility[1] (though this is now available under Mesa 24). This is something the new xe driver is supposed to fix, but it's still a long way to go until it's actually usable.
As a former employee, I can say it isn't. It's worse. A lot more of the great people Intel used to have left because Intel tanked and went nowhere while they watched AMD, Nvidia, Broadcom, and a whole bunch of other hardware companies go through the roof. It's basic economics for these people who have the ability to leave. Put yourself in their position.
I had management who were so enthused about "shift left" that we shifted far left and broke the shifter, or perhaps, mis-shifted. Now we spend too much time developing test plan and testing and arguing about PRD that we actually deliver more slowly than competitor by a lot.
Another flavor of this I've encountered is people in the management chain who can only think about faults per time interval and not about faults per interaction.
So you make a tool that prevents errors and speeds up a process, now people use it four times as much, and now they wonder why they're only seeing half as many faults instead of an order of magnitude less.
We are humans. We cannot eliminate errors, we can only replace them with a smaller number of different errors. Or as in your case, a larger number of them.
That is exactly what the execs at my company are telling us when asked about not using Nvidia -- diversifying away. It's funny though because we have no Nvidia for training at all. We use Trainium because we could not get our hands on Nvidia.
1) The amount spent on homelessness in California
2) The number of homeless in California
you will realize that both charts could represent a fast growing SAAS business. One for revenue and the other for users. The people working in the government sector known as the homeless industrial complex have incentive to keep the charts going in that direction.
The only real effective solution to homelessness is to give homeless people houses and then extra support, other solutions (whilst having some beneficial effect) aren't sufficient.
However the concept of a homeless industrial complex has essentially been pushed and overblown by right wing think tanks with significantly worse solutions.
Hahahaha, that won’t solve it either. That just incentivizes categorizing people as homeless so the industry can create substandard housing at inflated prices (to the taxpayer) and lock them into it (while charging the taxpayer to administer it forever). See the racket that is ‘affordable housing’ in the same areas.
The thing to realize here is that these groups would rather have a large, unsolvable problem they can constantly try to ‘fix’ at great expense, than actually resolve a real problem.
24 billion dollars for 184,000 homeless people (United States Department of Housing and Urban Development estimate). That's 135k per person. Where is the money going if not the homeless industrial complex?
> A lot of people here seem justifiably angry at Boeing management's total destruction of an engineering corporate culture. It's unclear to me if fixing that is what the machinists are demanding or if they just want normal union things like being paid more and working less.
Let's not be naive here. People are going to strike on what they are incentivized to strike on. Not the goodness of their hearts.
They should want to influence the company to ensure they can keep their jobs, at the higher pay they want, indefinitely. There's a clear incentive: without the corporate culture fixed, they'll go from on strike to laid off when Boeing goes bankrupt before they can get the full raise.
You keep speaking of "it". I have had experience with "it". Sometimes it turns out that "It" is this very scary clown show that percolates down into the rest of the organization in a "cover your ass" mentality that is simply based on nothing but personal incentives to not be fired. "It" can indeed be percolated by clowns in the organization in this case.
I currently have 388 videos bookmarked on TikTok all about home design that I used to help guide decision making on my home remodel. I have 389 videos bookmarked about cooking. I’ve never amassed a collection of resources this size on any other platform, both text and video. It’s a really good system for disseminating knowledge that I care about.
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