>I think that when I write a good comment it gets buried and the only time comments are really popular is when I write something trite or silly that a lot of p

>I think that when I write a good comment it gets buried and the only time comments are really popular is when I write something trite or silly that a lot of people are already thinking. probably more to do with the gamification of user generated content. you see the same thing on imgur and reddit: the well thoughtout comments don't get up voted nearly as much as the memes and injokes. >I am all for new architectures. But the trick is getting people to make the effort to make use of them. IIRC at the time there were a lot of complaints against the Cell processor that it was "too hard" to program for. >https://www.cnet.com/news/sony-ps3-is-hard-to-develop-for-on-purpose/ https://www.cnet.com/news/sony-ps3-is-hard-to-develop-for-on... >https://www.gtplanet.net/playstation-3-cell-more-powerful-modern-chips/ https://www.gtplanet.net/playstation-3-cell-more-powerful-mo... >https://www.gtplanet.net/the-ps3-era-was-a-nightmare-for-polyphony-digital-says-kazunori/ https://www.gtplanet.net/the-ps3-era-was-a-nightmare-for-pol... >What can be achieved that is not possible or is price compatible with something boring and old-fashioned like 128 x64 cores etc That's probably the main issue today, x86/64 are cheap and nearly all the problems can be fixed in software. Changing architectures and instruction set is too big of an upfront cost for most people/companies to deal with, and I think that is why we're only seeing Google and Amazon starting to look for other solutions. >https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/graviton/ >https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2017/04/building-ai-chip-saved-google-building-dozen-new-data-centers/amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2017/04/building-...