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[-] Gurfaild@feddit.de 133 points 2 years ago

I FIXED my CAPSLOCK KEY to FINALLY enable CRUISE CONTROL for COOL

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 years ago

I can not tell you how many videos and channels I avoid because of that shit.

also ones that have dumb ass thumbnails that do nothing to hint about the content.

[-] featured@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 years ago

Agreed, have you tried Dearrow? It’s from the person who created SponsorBlock and is a crowdsourced way to get rid of the clickbait

[-] Dubious_Fart@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago

I'd rather just not give the jackasses the attention, than go out of my way to use an app to hide their jackassery

[-] dinckelman@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I love this addon. It's made my YouTube experience significantly better

[-] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

BETTER VISIBLE, VISIBLY BETTER

[-] tal@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

If the Daily Mail's editors do it, it must be a good idea!

Is this just because of the title, or is the video's content contentless? /gen

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[-] trclst@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am not the creator of the video but amazed what it all makes it into the stable branch.

[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago
[-] NoXPhasma@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

AMD patches for preferred core (prefer those cores which can clock higher) are a mess and ended up not working because of a wrong if condition. Showing that no one at AMD even tested it before submitting. The programmer in the video complains about AMDs developers being incompetent and shows how it's fixed.

[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] Olissipo@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Apparently there's a bug in an AMD's driver. It was supposed to assign processes based on each core's self reported performance, but because of the bug it was random.

This "self reported performance" is based on evaluation done to the cores in the fab process, by AMD. Meaning, due to imperfections some cores are a bit better than others.

[-] NoXPhasma@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not just random, it simply does not even work. Because they set this:

+/*Preferred Core featue is supported*/
+static bool prefcore = true;

And later in the code they do the if condition wrong:

+	if (prefcore)
+		WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->highest_perf, AMD_PSTATE_PREFCORE_THRESHOLD);
+	else
+		WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->highest_perf, AMD_CPPC_HIGHEST_PERF(cap1));

if should look like this:

+	if (prefcore)
+		WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->highest_perf, AMD_CPPC_HIGHEST_PERF(cap1));
+	else
+		WRITE_ONCE(cpudata->highest_perf, AMD_PSTATE_PREFCORE_THRESHOLD);

There is probably even more wrong, looking at the code quality, but this at least makes the preferred core work.

[-] Olissipo@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I don't know if we're discussing semantics. A performance score is attributed, and before the fix their scores were all 166. It doesn't work, as you said. So the consequence is the preferred core being "random", isn't it?

[-] NoXPhasma@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know if it's random, the CPU scheduler still decides what thread to use. It will have its own semantics, but I don't know on what those are based.

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