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by deaddodo 1y ago
Not to mention that few developers were doing hand optimized assembly by the time of PSX. They were certainly hand optimizing models and the 3D pipeline (with some assembler tuning), but C and SDKs were well in use by that point. Even Naugh
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by deaddodo 1y ago
That answer would be akin to someone asking “why is the sun round?” and answering with “it’s roughly the optimal shape for viewing the totality of the sun”.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Self-admittedly less knowledgeable about this subject, but how does this differ from IBoE?
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> It was designed to be completely different from previous console CPUs. Sure, but they used a PowerPC core with specialized SIMD processors that they then extensively documented: https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/c
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by deaddodo 1y ago
I don't think anyone with knowledge of emulation (from a research and development side) would say it's impossible. The Cell is a standard PPC core with some well-documented[1] coprocessors. A more realistic response would be: &quo
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> Moreover, foreign brand != foreign product. Tesla manufactures in China, as does Apple, Louis Vuitton, etc. This has nothing to do with PPP, and the fact that you are making this argument means you have no idea what it consists of at a
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> China's GDP (PPP) is already ~22% higher than the USA's [1]. Arguably, isn't this a better measure of value? PPP measures the real value to the citizens in a nation, and more closely measures actual economic activity. On
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> They can then use these earned dollars to transact with other countries, as the US itself insists they do. I feel like people who post this have no idea of the "eurodollar"[1] or the fact that it was London (and the EU, at th
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by deaddodo 1y ago
There's still plenty of information on the file format kicking around: https://www.fileformat.info/format/pif/corion.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20220214185118/http://w
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> Also remember taking ages to figure out that it meant "more icons" rather than just a silly made up word. The good ole' days of having to figure out a meaningful name in 8 chars.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> "I have tried to be fair and objective, but as I am the author of musl" Yeah, pretty obvious when they state as much in the first paragraph.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> The truth is that CISC was never a meaningful category in the first place (it was only ever "not-RISC"), and RISC itself ceased to be a meaningful category around 30 years ago. Yeah, I think we're saying the same things.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> I'd love some discussion on why Intel left XScale and went to Atom I thought it was pretty obvious. They didn't control the ARM ISA and ARM Ltd designs had caught up to + surpassed XScale innovations (superscalar, Out-of-orde
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Embracer Games is Swedish, not American.
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by deaddodo 1y ago
ARM isn't CISC and has, by sheer numbers, completely dominated x86 for decades now; not counting the massive number of MIPS, AVR, etc embedded chips. Additionally, if you want to get super technical (as if there were ever a real deline
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by deaddodo 1y ago
> - Register width: we somewhat maxed out at 512 bits, with Intel going back to 256 bits for non-server CPUs. I don't see larger widths on the horizon (even if SVE theoretically supports up to 2048 bits, I don't know any implem
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by deaddodo 1y ago
Man, I remember learning that the VCS/2600 had successors well after there time and was like "gee, I wonder how powerful those were". The difference between a 2600 and 5200 is a small step up, and the 5200 to 7800 is damn nea
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by deaddodo 2y ago
I haven't seen a person in this thread use free in the sense of payment yet, it seems pretty disambiguous that everyone is referring to free in the sense of liberty. This includes the point the person you are responding to is trying to
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by deaddodo 2y ago
I wouldn't even bother with this one. Either 100% not hiring (they've been posting the same role for over two years now) or the post is a misdirect. I applied two years ago when it was "US remote, San Francisco/PST prefe
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Not just strict, but their interview process is high-leetcode/old-Google-style. I wouldn't bother unless you're an ex-FAANG engineer with a hefty resume and regularly practice hard-level algorithmic problems.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Yup, same.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> Please apply through the website above. All submissions are reviewed by a real person! Then they're doing a terrible job. A few associates applied between 2-4mos ago each and never received anything beyond an acknowledgement of ap
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by deaddodo 2y ago
From digging around a bit, typical AMS rates. 80-120k EUR. Other's are welcome to correct me though, if it's off.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
As someone that was accepted for their interview process, you aren't missing much. I was halfway through the live technical when I just noped out. Still finished it, but knew I wouldn't be interested in progressing beyond it.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
The problem, like most things with GNU itself, is that large dreams are thought of but never actualized. So, just like using the Linux Kernel vs Hurd, the GNOME project had to plugin what was available; and that was GTK.
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Just to expound on this point: > GIMP was very tied to GTK+ 2 People seem to forget that GTK was originally created for GIMP, Gnome came around and co-opted it since it was more free (libre) than QT. GTK3 was a full rewrite divorced fr
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by deaddodo 2y ago
There was a period with quite a few: * Rise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise_Technology * NexGen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NexGen * NatSemi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by deaddodo 2y ago
Games didn't (not directly), but your workload did. If you ran an NT OS (2000/XP, primarily), the system would gain from being able to run background tasks without needing to preempt your game's logic. It's impossible to
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by deaddodo 2y ago
I gave the short version. Your outline of consequence and effect is correct. The British demanded specific oats and other crops, which required large allotments; this left the Irish farmers with a small portion of land to grow their own sub
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by deaddodo 2y ago
> they were largely responsible for explicitly refusing to help and making the situation worse. Moreso than that, they exacerbated it. The British farmer barons refused to lower their demand on their crops to allow the Irish to consume t

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