Yep. My wife just started as a professor (humanities) and she entered on H1B visa last week, as green card takes years to obtain. I have been offered a teaching job at the same institution as a partner hire and they have filed an H1B petition for me.

Unless they clarify that education is exempt from these rules, my wife will surely have to quit her new job. She is supposed to go on fieldwork later this year and she won’t be able to re-enter. Not to mention I can kiss my lecturer offer good bye. This is an incredibly retarded situation.

Execution with masking is pretty much how broaching works on GPUs. What’s more relevant however is that conditional statements add overhead on terms of additional instructions and execution state management. Eliminating small branches using conditional moves or manual masking can be a performance win.

Quick note: I looked at the bindless proposal linked from the blog post and their description of Metal is quite outdated. MTLArgumentEncoder has been deprecated for a while now, the layout is a transparent C struct that you populate at will with GPU addresses. There are still descriptors for textures and samplers, but these are hidden from the user (the API will maintain internal tables). It's a very convenient model and probably the simplest and most flexible of all current APIs. I'd love to see something similar for WebGPU.

No.

M3 GPU uses a new instruction encoding, among other things. Also, it has a new memory partitioning scheme (aka. Dynamic Caching), which probably requires a bunch of changes to both the driver interface and the shader compiler. I hope the Asahi team will get to publishing the details of M3 soon, I have been curious about this for a while.