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  • But AMD has been making leaps and bounds improving their GPU software

    They are still largely shitting the bed here. Their ROCm installer won’t run on Ubuntu 25.04 last time I checked, and the 9070xt won’t work on OSs that ROCm DOES support because the kernel and graphics stack is too old.

    ROCm has been “almost ready” to be a drop-in replacement for CUDA for almost a decade. I feel like it literally would take nvidia ceasing to exist to give them the critical mass to push it over the finish line




  • Not an American, but basically decide how much risk you want to take on - then depending on that answer set aside money (0-40%) for safe investments - things like bonds (guaranteed returns) or potentially gold (lower volatility). The rest goes into a 80/20 (or 60/40, or 90/10, no one can say what’s best) split between domestic and international index funds. Things like the S&P500, Dow, and US whole market index, and then some into EU, Asia/Oceana, and emerging market index funds.




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    If I was the maintainer, I too would probably reject the PR because it didn’t remove the gender entirely.

    Cool, but that isn’t what happened here. The PR was closed immediately because the maintainer considered using gender neutral pronouns “personal politics” - he had ample opportunity to clarify his stance, or simply comment ‘resubmit in passive voice’, but he didn’t. Clearly the problem wasn’t the active voice, it was the summary of the change, because when that exact same PR was re-submitted much later with a commit message of ‘Fix some minor ESL grammar issues’, it was accepted with no discussion

    As an aside, I absolutely disagree with the use of passive voice. It’s more verbose, and harder for the reader to comprehend. It’s why every style guide (APA, Chicago, IEEE, etc) recommends sticking to active voice, especially in the context of ‘doing things’.


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    If goes against established norms here

    What’s the established norm here. All people compiling software by source are male?

    he said politically motivated changes aren’t welcome

    What’s politically motivated about changing “he” to “they”. As you said, gender doesn’t apply here, so the neutral word is literally preferable.


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    Yes, I’m sure that PR would have been accepted instead /s

    But you’re right, it doesn’t matter at all, the reasonable thing to do would have been for the guy to spend 3 seconds clicking the accept and merge button, or 6 seconds making your change. instead he wrote a comment stating that inclusive language has no place in his project










  • You can’t grow anything in the winter,

    Globalization! And before that, preserves. Good thing is nothing spoils when the world is your fridge/freezer

    don’t the pipes freeze and burst?

    Water mains are buried deep enough that they don’t freeze. Tap water is noticeably colder.

    Is it bad for the roads and bridges?

    Yes. The cold isn’t, but freeze/thaw cycles are. Most asphalt roads needs to be resurfaced every 15 years or so

    Do the homeless freeze to death?

    Yes, but most cities have heated shelters around here where people can come when it gets too cold to sleep outdoors

    The squirrels?

    Northern mammals evolved to handle it

    What about reptiles, snakes and lizards?

    What are those?