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by fidotron 1y ago
So you will continue to buy Swedish?
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by fidotron 1y ago
Right, so we have other ARM64 implementation that are this good? Bonus points for ones without ex-Apple employees involved in their design, because maybe those people might know something about it.
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by fidotron 1y ago
And his direct example, Reason, is Swedish!
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by fidotron 1y ago
He doesn't seem to realize they aren't American either.
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Yes clearly that's why the from-scratch RADV driver was often faster. Because AMD didn't actually care about the Linux driver since it didn't make them moeny. > The dirty open secret in the tech industry is that the s
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by fidotron 1y ago
> I always think just open sourcing the whole software stack for graphics cards would be an excellent thing for hardware manufacturers, > Maybe I'm just naive Yep. There are things hidden in the design of very widely used hardwar
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by fidotron 1y ago
Let's see if they follow it with an article about Sweden (Kiki's Delivery Service), Colmar (Howl's Moving Castle) the Welsh mining villages of Castle in the Sky or Adriatic islands of Porco Rosso. Miyazaki loves Europe more t
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by fidotron 1y ago
Whatever tech scene SF may have had died with the dotcom 1.0 collapse. What has existed since then is various forms of ad and surveillance web apps masquerading as something more interesting. Actual SV always was and remains much more inter
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Usually when a company needs to send someone to another country to do training or some work for a week or two they just go as tourist What? You simply say you're traveling on business, you absolutely do not lie and say you're
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The Haruhi Problem(mathsci.fandom.com)
1 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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Navy chief caught installing unauthorised satellite receiver (2024)(independent.co.uk)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
There was a certain French mobile games company that maintained a private fork of this. Quite how used it was in production was never entirely clear.
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by fidotron 1y ago
> The PA-RISC processor are really cool I'm glad someone else thinks so! There's a very interesting vid about the design of the ISA here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C53tGHzp1PI and I think it's pretty
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by fidotron 1y ago
> N64 was effectively Indy Not really, no. The memory system and graphics systems are completely different, and the CPU is a different MIPS processor to one in any SGI desktop. Some devkits did involve having whole subsystems on expansio
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by fidotron 1y ago
I seem to recall the CPU in the N64 was specced to be something like 75% of the performance of a Pentium 90 but for 20% of the price. The PS1 doesn't even have floating point. When the PS2 was released it felt like x86 was advancing fa
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by fidotron 1y ago
> I suggest you get over it and invest in some evidently much needed English-language remedial classes. So you're just a contrarian troll.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I think the irony of this is the MIPS processors weren't that good for very long at all. (Famously Toy Story was rendered on SparcStations, even if the animation was prepared on SGIs). The PA-RISC ones seemed to have the most staying p
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by fidotron 1y ago
Your claims are IRIX is not "high res" and not "angular/facetted", both of which are objectively ludicrous, regardless of your feelings on the matter. > But since I've never used an SGI workstation Evidently
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by fidotron 1y ago
> high-res, high-contrast, and angular/facetted (almost brutalist) GUIs The implied criticism here of IRIX being low res, low contrast and in any way having rounded edges demonstrates some serious ignorance of the subject.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Right, and to emphasise the point there are x86 machines which are not architecturally PCs, such as the original XBox and Playstations 4 and 5.
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by fidotron 1y ago
It's incredible how in 2025 people still don't grasp what a system on a chip is [1], and that the CPU cores are just a small part of the whole. Your operating system is barely concerned about the instruction set, and much more con
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by fidotron 1y ago
In Quebec in Canada. Because I was in games I was able to move with work, and eventually got PR and then citizenship. Quebec has its own problems too, but the sense of pointlessness in the UK is something else.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I left the UK about 20 years ago, and whenever visiting the deterioration of basically everything is very noticeable. It's very hard to shake the impression that what is left in the tech industry there is loosely what you may call defe
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by fidotron 1y ago
> FOMO is out of control right now Exactly. The whole stock market is currently behaving like the crypto bubbles.
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NASA bans Chinese nationals from working on its space programs(bbc.com)
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by fidotron 1y ago
TBH had I known too many of the specifics of the platform by now they would be forgotten or I wouldn't be able to mention them! These games were largely heavily derived from their Brew/WinMo/Symbian versions, which were (subs
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by fidotron 1y ago
The security around developing these things pre launch was a bit hilarious, even compared to later mobile devices/tablets. A few of the members of one team I worked on were instructed to bring their passports to work in the months runn
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by fidotron 1y ago
I think this ignores an important point: many of them participated in this process. A lot of those idealists turned out to prefer money.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I definitely believe people underestimate the potential of OpenWRT as an app platform. Before getting sidelined with work I did some proof of concept WebRTC SFU on it https://github.com/atomirex/umbrella which worked s
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by fidotron 1y ago
This is an astonishing victory for Google, they must be very happy about it. They get basically everything they want (keeping it all in the tent), plus a negotiating position on search deals where they can refuse something because they can&

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