Grosvenor

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by Grosvenor 8mo ago
> Not a problem for me, but every SGI out there is fixed function only. Is that true? I remember sgi had a shader library for modeling light aimed at the automotive market. All the demos and examples were showing off car paint colours in
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by Grosvenor 8mo ago
Huh. I had thought the n64 was basically an Indy xz graphics. What was the rcp closest to? I was always confused why sgi didn’t throw the rcp on a pci card and dominate the pc graphics market.
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by Grosvenor 8mo ago
They got the N64 running on the MiSTer. So an indy should be possible, they're closely related systems. I'd love an Onyx/RE on an FPGA someday. Next to my FPGA cray.
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by Grosvenor 8mo ago
Yes. There were early models available with 320x200 or 640x480 rez. They didn't have accelerometers, so it was just a dumb screen on your face.
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by Grosvenor 9mo ago
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by Grosvenor 9mo ago
This isn't anything like an OODA loop. The key to the OODA loop is feedback mechanisms from decisions and actions, and implicit guidance and control between decisions actions and orientation. What we have here is a REPL with the output
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by Grosvenor 9mo ago
Lisp? I'm always surprised when agents aren't working directly with the AST.
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by Grosvenor 9mo ago
It's much worse than that. If you dare to ask that a team speak with the problem owners - mechanics, managers, etc, you will get booted right quick. Since the 2010's data science has gone from scientific based curiosity in solving
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by Grosvenor 9mo ago
This is extremely relevant for the current conversation. All this has happened before. IBM and the holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
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by Grosvenor 9mo ago
I'm tugging at my memory with this page: http://www.sgistuff.net/hardware/systems/index.html I had a teal Indigo2, an O2, and an Indy at various points. Neat stuff, but time moves on. There's some comple
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by Grosvenor 9mo ago
Oh I think you may be right here. I was thinking originally 2000/onyx 2 which were basically the same system just with or without graphics pipes. And you’re right origin had three models (maybe more) a tower system (o200), a deskside s
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by Grosvenor 9mo ago
So there were two computers made with the same bits mid 90s. Origin(compute, blue) and onyx(graphics, purple). Both had deskside and rack systems. Onyx had a few slots reserved for graphics, original could have more compute boards. But you
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by Grosvenor 9mo ago
You means SGI onyx? The cool looking purple one?
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
There's also Franz Osinga's book Scince, strategy, and war, which covers John Boyd's work in detail.
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
Linux had been doing SMP for about 5 years by that point. But you're right OS resource limitations (file handles, PIDs, etc) would be the real pain for you. One problem after another. Now, the real question is do you want to spend your
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
But we still miss out on the great ANSI colors. I kinda do want to go back to oldschool bbses, with cool text-mode lightbar interfaces.
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
Since I might have peoples' attention for a moment (Can no longer edit my original post). Might I suggest the King William's college quiz this Christmas? https://kwc.im/wp-content/uploads/2025/12&#x2
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
Woah. I didn't know about that. I found it from asciiart.eu. This stuff makes me wish HN supported ANSI. We could have so much fun. (Also PRE or preformatted text would be useful). Merry Christmas and happy new years everyone!
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
That is probably true. But Roomba sucked in the early 2000's too. They never got better.
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
Worthwhile for the hotel and book recommendations. Obviously he has better food taste than I do, so those too. I will shit like a mink and love it.
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
What he's getting at is single level storage. Ram isn't used for loading data & working on it. Ram is cache. The size of your disk defines the "size" of your system. This existed in Lisp and Smalltalk systems. Since
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by Grosvenor 10mo ago
And we have those French/English text corpora in the form of Canadian law. All laws in Canada at the federal level are written in English and French. This was used to build the first modern language translation systems, testing them go
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by Grosvenor 11mo ago
Yeah that was my unspoken assumption. The pressure here results in an entirely different approach or model architecture. If openAI is spending $500B then someone can get ahead by spending $1B which improves the model by >0.2% I bet there
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by Grosvenor 11mo ago
Could this generate pressure to produce less memory hungry models?
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by Grosvenor 11mo ago
I’ll counter with the jaguar xk engine in production for 43 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_XK_engine I assume the American s will be by with a pushrod v8 soon.
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by Grosvenor 11mo ago
I love browsing who is hiring. Sometimes you come across companies like this (and others) that you just hope do well.
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by Grosvenor 11mo ago
German speakers usually have very good English, but this is already one of their tells. Fixed that for you.
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by Grosvenor 11mo ago
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