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by DCKing 6y ago
> Is exactly what they should stay away from. Work on the bloody browser, forget about the rest. This is short term thinking. A slightly better Firefox tomorrow is nice I guess, buy I care way more about being able to use Firefox in 2030
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Project Nested – NES Emulator for SNES(forums.nesdev.com)
2 points by DCKing 6y ago|0 comments
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by DCKing 6y ago
No, thank you. Can we do without the Reddit attitude here please? The choosing beggars, the needless quoting of debate fallacies in what is not a debate? If you ask your impression of Nvidia's business practices, and they give you thei
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by DCKing 6y ago
What exactly are you invested in in this discussion? We were originally discussing Nvidia's business practices don't match ARM's business practices. But you seem to just want to take on people's personal views on Nvidia
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by DCKing 6y ago
I've already mentioned in the top parent comment that Nvidia is perfectly entitled to behave this way. They clearly know how to run a successful business in this way. I have bought Nvidia chips in the past and will continue to do so in
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by DCKing 6y ago
I would agree that general Nvidia troubles don't particularly stand out in the PS3 hardware design clusterfuck, but Microsoft's and Nvidia's falling out really is indicative of terrible relationship management even if it was
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by DCKing 6y ago
> I'd wager that Apple has been using AMD for something as mundane as offering better pricing, rather than disagreement 12 years ago. (Again: despite all the lawsuits, Apple is still a major Samsung customer.) This used to be true,
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by DCKing 6y ago
Ah, I was not aware of this agreement. Qualcomm has shown in the past to be able to build great custom ARM CPUs not based on an ARM standard design. But it seems they decided the investment was not worth it after their custom Kryo design (
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by DCKing 6y ago
The ARM company is not just about the instruction set architecture. The ISA wouldn't be interesting at all if no good processors were built with the ISA [0]. For RISC-V to succeed, it requires a company that builds some good processor
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by DCKing 6y ago
I think the common theme in your examples is that in these situations other parties bend to Nvidia's demands. Nvidia has no problem with other parties bending to their demands. But when another company or organization requires Nvidia t
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by DCKing 6y ago
Apple very much does not and is reported to have a perpetual license to the ISA. Apple will most likely be fine even in the worst case scenario. Qualcomm however has been rebranded/tweaked (which is unclear) ARM standard CPU core desig
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by DCKing 6y ago
This is quite concerning honestly. I don't mind ARM being acquired, and I don't mind Nvidia acquiring things. But I'm concerned about this combination. Nvidia is a pretty hostile company to others in the market. They have a t
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by DCKing 6y ago
It's worth pointing out that MacPorts still has a lot of modern tools and utilities working for PowerPC Macs . This is despite PowerPC Macs being 'officially' stuck on GCC 4.2 (unless you install newer... through MacPorts),
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by DCKing 6y ago
Although it's great news this is being worked on, that thread strongly suggests that this is still very much in WIP status? The only thing they state is that Firefox supports VAAPI in general since 75/76 (which is what I said),
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by DCKing 6y ago
Don't recommend this old setting. If you need GPU acceleration, force enable WebRender support in Firefox (gfx.webrender.all=1). Making web pages render with GPU support will barely help video decoding if at all though. For this to wor
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by DCKing 6y ago
Check again: Firefox will do this for you now using VAAPI on Wayland since a couple of weeks. If you have an AMD or Intel GPU it should just work on e.g. Fedora and (not sure about if this is explictly needed) setting a Firefox feature flag
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by DCKing 6y ago
One of the suspected main reasons why we don't have proper original Xbox emulation yet on the PC is because of the fallacy that "it should be easy to emulate an x86 console on x86 PCs". This has lead to many failed attempts t
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by DCKing 6y ago
The DraStic developers have commented that they don't gain much if anything because it runs on ARM [1]. It's just an efficient emulator. If/when it is open sourced as promised, it will run very fast on x86 systems too most li
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by DCKing 6y ago
Radio firmwares having full RAM access is an urban legend, at least on phones from the last 10 years. The baseband interface is actually done through a USB like protocol. The legend ticks all the boxes of privacy minded/distrusting peo
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by DCKing 6y ago
Regular non-pro Threadripper has officially supported ECC from the start: https://www.amd.com/en/products/ryzen-threadripper The usual distinction is that Threadripper regular takes unbuffered ECC, whereas Threadr
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Cloud providers aren't very intelligent security layers. I think I lost track of what you're trying to discuss now. I'm not arguing cloud providers are a security "layer" in any sense, just that they take resp
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by DCKing 6y ago
Ah yes, but now you're describing requiring you to set up engineering regiments within your castle, some portion of which you could outsource to your cloud provider in the alternative situation. My point is that this security boundary
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by DCKing 6y ago
While it's true what you say, the underlying assumption is the general approach of "my network is secure and keeping track of what goes in and out is something I control". I won't comment on how it applies to your situat
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by DCKing 6y ago
It seems you're talking more about running costs, and not about any of the security aspects I was talking about? I'll happily accept that you can pay less money for the same amount of power, but security isn't free. You don&#
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by DCKing 6y ago
Self hosting is only best if you want maximum control. But most people can't handle that imagined level of control in reality, at least not on the same level as a major cloud platform. AWS (or GCP or Azure) infrastructure is overwhelmi
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Sins of the PS2: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(patreon.com)
4 points by DCKing 6y ago|0 comments
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yeah, whichever package manager you use is a huge improvement over working your way through dodgy ad-ridden websites and installers. I'm guessing the HN crowd can use either. A big plus for Chocolatey is that it has an official GUI (Sc
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by DCKing 6y ago
I recommend everyone on HN using Windows to use Chocolatey and Chocolatey GUI to install their software. Chocolatey is a package manager / "app store" for FOSS and other free-to-install software on Windows. Downloading random
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by DCKing 6y ago
It seems I have a little bit more to learn on this project. Are there any sources I could read?
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by DCKing 6y ago
Interesting thing to consider. I wonder how actively people want to protect 68k, as not even Freescale/NXP seems to use it anymore. Shouldn't that already be problematic for the 68k projects in hardware through FPGAs? Apollo alrea

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