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by monocasa 1y ago
The main part of the Cray was a compute offload engine that asynchronously executed job lists submitted by front end general purpose computers that ran OSes like Unix. It was actually pretty close to the model of a GPU.
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by monocasa 1y ago
There was apparently earlier Pentium 4s that supported some version of a 64bit isa, support for which was fused off before sending to customers in order to convince people to move to Itanium. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-
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by monocasa 1y ago
There's also tcc, which has a shebang compatible extension to allow it to be used by scripts.
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Why We're Nerfing the Nintendo Switch's Repairability Score(ifixit.com)
4 points by monocasa 1y ago|0 comments
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by monocasa 1y ago
He pioneered that modern post production heavy flow for blockbusters, and everything listed is pretty common in that niche. Honestly it's almost more notable these days when that kind of stuff doesn't happen. You're basically
606.
by monocasa 1y ago
Like a lot of things, the taxonomy kind of breaks down at the edges and arguments can be made either way. I will throw out there though that ALU width and buses are generally seen as orthogonal to 'bitness' of a processor, and mor
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by monocasa 1y ago
I mean, you're looking at almost a month out or so given the extra stress of the end of the semester with finals and projects. And the semester is only five months or so to being with. It's not really realistic to make this a mor
608.
by monocasa 1y ago
> First, why do people throw away tennis shoes, unopened food etc? Why not take with them on to their next destination? At my wife's alma mater, the way move out in the dorms worked was that you had 24hrs after your last final and t
609.
by monocasa 1y ago
What's wrong with a monorepo?
610.
by monocasa 1y ago
Or Firefox.
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by monocasa 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory
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by monocasa 1y ago
That's like saying that software languages are all DSLs, the domain being the description of von Neumann style software.
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by monocasa 1y ago
I swear to god, if we set off the Yosemite supervolcano from heavy mining there...
614.
by monocasa 1y ago
Axis angle has gimble lock when composed.
615.
by monocasa 1y ago
My understanding was that the main benefit of quaternions in computer graphics was representing rotations in a way that doesn't result in gimble lock. And beyond that, for those rotations, a quaternion doesn't scale nearly as well
616.
by monocasa 1y ago
A true gradient descent into the trash can.
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by monocasa 1y ago
John Friel. I normally wouldn't care about a mistake that'd be corrected when someone clicks through, but I think this is release supposed to be a sort of memorial to his life.
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by monocasa 2y ago
JavaCard was just implemented as just a regular interpreter last time I checked.
619.
by monocasa 2y ago
Even better was a complete system rather than a mode for arm processors that ran a subset of the common jvm opcodes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoJava
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by monocasa 2y ago
(2008)
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by monocasa 2y ago
And something like 90% of Nvidia's revenue at this point is from the datacenter market.
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by monocasa 2y ago
I don't know why it's redacted here; maybe he couldn't find a public source. It is a mind bendingly tiny 16MB/s bandwidth to perform CPU reads from RSX memory.
623.
by monocasa 2y ago
And it wasn't targeting devices that had enough spare RAM to run a JIT.
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by monocasa 2y ago
At least for jazelle, R0-R3 were an alias for top of stack, which removed a lot of memory accesses for the stack nature of the ISA.
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by monocasa 2y ago
This is not achievable. There isn't enough rewritable microcode to do this even as a super slow hack. And even if all of the microcode were rewritable, ucode is kind of a fallback pathway on modern x86 cores with the fast path being ha
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by monocasa 2y ago
I don't even know if eventually we'll hit an equilibrium. The end of Moore's law pretty much dictates specialization, it's just more apparent in fields without as much ossification first.
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by monocasa 2y ago
Way larger uplift. NT functionally got rid of the hal<->krnl distinction, and baked a lot of Qualcomm-isms into the shipping arm kernels. Probably the easiest way would be a light weight hypervisor that translates Qualcomm specific ha
628.
by monocasa 2y ago
Their mainframe terminals do, and that's one of the conversions their script has to make. The 3151 was designed to integrate with other systems where ASCII was already prevalent.
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by monocasa 2y ago
They're mostly banned in Denver. I think they put a cap on them, and a new one going up means that another one has to come down. Functionally most have been eliminated because of this. There's some interesting architecture where
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by monocasa 2y ago
AFAICT Linux wasn't even ported to PowerPC at the time of NextSTEP being acquired by Apple.

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