endliner

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   by endliner 3y ago

   This is a somewhat misleading metric, seeing how FP64 compute isn't a priority for consumer GPUs. Still, it's great to see that at least some facet of modern GPUs can be replicated independently without using an ridiculously overs
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   by endliner 3y ago

   They weren't identical, but they sure stood apart from others. Both used 64-bit MIPS CPUs, both had dedicated 128-bit SIMD cores driving their display list based GPUs. For a 1996 N64 having a SSE2 level SIMD was absolutely amazing. The
3. 3.▲
   by endliner 3y ago

   I absolutely love how Sony then trampled over Nintendo by first using their experience from this collaboration to make their own PS, then basically cloned the N64 architecture in the form of PS2.
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   by endliner 3y ago

   Apart from exhausting natural resources, industry also makes our lives miserable in other, more subtle ways. Compared to 150 years ago, the air we breathe is foul, the water we drink is contaminated by plastics and other chemicals, the food
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   by endliner 3y ago

   Freshwater and fertile topsoil are easily exhaustible resources. There are rivers (e.g. Colorado River) that are drying up due to overuse, and much of human waste gets either polluted with chemicals or ends up flushed into the ocean, never