Good way to know (if not found online) is to start at 512x512 if you have a card with 12GB VRAM and try to increment it (the ui slider increases it by 64px for each increment) and backtrack when you start getting "cuda out of memory" errors. I've seen some renders on discord where the sizes are well above 1000px, so they must have had a 16/24GB cards or something similar.
In the research context, they are used to using 40GB/80GB hardware (and perhaps multiples) to train and render. So quite remarkable that it works on consumer hardware at this point.
edit: on second thought, they most likely rendered at 512px but then ran it through an upscaler model. I've been meaning to hook mine up but kinda forgot to try.
And you are taking what politicians say on faith. Here's a view from the other side:
Critics, including U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), were quick to blast the decision.
“Citing a ‘lack of industry interest’ is nothing more than fantasy from an administration that shuns U.S. energy production,” she said in a statement to CBS News. “Cook Inlet is the sole source of the natural gas that more than 400,000 people in Southcentral Alaska — and significant military bases that are critical to our national security — depend on. I can say with full certainty, based on conversations as recently as last night, that Alaska’s industry does have interest in lease sales in Cook Inlet. To claim otherwise is simply false, not to mention stunningly short-sighted.”
I don't get the "lack of use case" comments. There is no use case TODAY. But what does having 25Gbit fiber enable to be built TOMORROW? Shared photorealistic VR spaces immediately come to mind.
Well blame is a tricky word, and I'm sure he did not personally authorize the attack or had any say in it, but it is quite indisputable that he has been a huge factor in propping up Putin for the last 20+ years.
Is it? My understanding is that he completely peaced out of Russia shortly after Putin came to power and has been uninvolved in Russian affairs for ~15 years.
Putin literally became president under his recommendation to Yeltsin. When Putin was warring with the oligarch class and billionaires like Berezovsky, Gusinsky, and Khodorkovsky were imprisoned/killed and their assets seized, Abramovich kept hold of his wealth and influence. He was the one who hand picked Medvedev as Putin's successor in 2008. There are regular articles in the news about his meetings with Putin and exchange of lavish gifts. They are said to still maintain a close friendship.
It's hilarious that people are buying his PR transformation into some kind of philanthropist. Guy was and is rotten to the core.
Might as well say entire Brits prop teflon PM to kill Libyans and Syrians. Let's be honest here, you just don't assign guilt simply by association. Hitler did that. We all are better than that.
Also, while he grew up in Russia and made his fortune there, he's lived in the West for almost 20 years now. The amount of influence he has over war-peace decisions in Russia is zero. He's not Timchenko or Rotenberg.
FWIW I am not familiar with any protocol that allows one deranged person to launch nukes. I think the minimum # of people required is 3? In the US it's 4, IIRC (edit - could be 3 also)
