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by phire 3y ago
Why not bake instruction alignment into the cache? When you can assume instructions will always be 32bit aligned, then you can simplify the icache read port and simplify the data path from the read port to the instruction decoder. Seems lik
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by phire 3y ago
From what I've heard, the problem with this type of site isn't really the people expressing their own suicidal thoughts. The problem the motivations of the people who responding to these expressions. Apparently these sites attract
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by phire 3y ago
Because nobody ever dedicated serious funding towards a 2nd implementation. Even Ruffle is doing it on a shoestring budget (some sponsorship and a lot of volunteer work) If Adobe had committed to turning Flash into an open standard back whe
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by phire 3y ago
Yes, but that's only a problem with the runtime implementation. I remember a number of people pushing Adobe to transform the runtime into an open standard. Then every browser would have been allowed to create their own implementations
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by phire 3y ago
Flash didn't die because it was bad. The reason why Flash became so popular is that while the development tools cost money, the player was free for anyone to install. Browsers eventually started installing Flash by default (mostly so t
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by phire 3y ago
Cycle-accurate software emulation is a topic that I've been looking into on and off for years. The Higan concurrency architecture hit a wall because it needs to sync between modules every single cycle, what gets very expensive as the c
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by phire 3y ago
> Interesting that ARM1 was only 25,000 transistors. Did the i386 really have additional features that justify an order of magnitude? Feature wise, the ARM1 is probably more comparable to the Motorola 68000 from 1979, both have ~16 32b
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by phire 3y ago
That appears to be all the infomation, got to start building that hype early. On the plus side, Molyneux can't follow his normal MO of over-promising if he isn't providing any details.
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by phire 3y ago
It's not incorrect to call them distorted sprites. They are. But they are also texture-mapped quads, because the two concepts are functionally identical. Sega explicitly pointed out this relationship in the documentation they sent out
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by phire 3y ago
Yes, but it's basically the same story with the playstation. VDP1 draws distorted textured quads (it's misleading to call them sprites). The playstation's GPU displays distorted textured triangles. The playstation GPU also kn
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by phire 3y ago
> Sega released Saturn as a full fledged, 3D focused hardware. A year before the PlayStation 1 was out. The Saturn only beat the playstation to the Japanese market by 11 days. The gap was more like 3 months in other markets, but only b
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by phire 3y ago
I mean the arcade version of Daytona USA, which ran on a dedicated 3D arcade hardware (The Sega Model 2) that predated the Saturn by 2-3 years. Part of the reason why the Saturn port of Dayton USA was so good, is because the game was design
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by phire 3y ago
As much as I dislike Musk and the mess Tesla has created with "Full self-driving", I don't think you can blame Tesla marketing for the public misconception of what an aircraft autopilot does. Because, the Tesla autopilot feat
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by phire 3y ago
You are forgetting the Sega Model 1 and Sega Model 2 arcade platforms. So many great 3D games (Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, Daytona USA) Sega's problem wasn't that it didn't see 3D coming. They did, despite the common claim
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by phire 3y ago
The actual algorithms used for autopilots are really simple. A simple autopilot will do nothing more than hold the wings level so the pilot doesn't need to continually keep their hands on the controls. From there, more functionality is
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by phire 3y ago
Especially since Tesla (or at least Musk) were pushing the idea that Tesla owners would be able to earn passive income by letting their "Full Self-Driving" equiped cars act as self driving taxies, competing with Uber/Lyft on
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by phire 3y ago
Boards don't micromanage to that level (or more, they shouldn't) There might have been an explicit mandate that Unity's pricing structure should be changed, but more likely it was just an explicit or implicit mandate that the
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by phire 3y ago
I would be a little surprised if design patents can protect against portrayals in media like games/movies.
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by phire 3y ago
Apparently the contracts for the F35 didn't mention "Intellectual property" at all, and now the government now regrets the oversight (especially with regards to the source code for the software running on those planes) [1] As
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by phire 3y ago
Epic will probably define it in terms of "purpose" If the purpose of the 'visual tour' is to showcase or advertise another product, then it will fall under the new rules, no matter how many gameplay elements you add. If
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by phire 3y ago
For some important context, The "Attention is all you need" paper that established the transformer architecture that most LLMs use, is a paper about explicitly machine translation. It the idea of using transformers for non-transla
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by phire 3y ago
As a programmer, it's my experience that the computer itself usually works correctly. It's almost never a hardware bug. But software.... software gets things wrong all the time and the computer hardware just blindly does what the
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by phire 3y ago
The headline is a bit misleading. It implies there is solution to reverse climate change that just so happens to be both fast and cheap. What the study actually claims is that delaying doesn't make the cost of any solution cheaper. No
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by phire 3y ago
When I hear "smart glasses", I'm thinking either a display, or some kind of active optics. It's a total letdown to click on a product like this and it's nothing more than a camera, a touchpad, and some crappy speake
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by phire 3y ago
> (where the PS2 is a machine with 32MB of RAM and no memory paging) The PS2 hardware does have full support for memory paging (at least on the main cpu core). PS2 Linux makes full use of it. But the default TLB configuration from the
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by phire 3y ago
> If you ever saw the South Park episode where they try to get the cable company to do something on their behalf and the cable company people just touch themselves inappropriately upon hearing the lamentations of their customers, well,
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by phire 3y ago
It makes sense now that I think about it. We usually base our intuition on the older and simpler branch predictors of 10-20 years ago, where the location of the branch and it's taken/not-taken history are tightly coupled. In those
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by phire 3y ago
The A, B and C are essentially three different aircraft, designed for different use cases. They were developed by the same program, designed to share as many parts/technology/software as possible, and to look almost the same... Bu
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by phire 3y ago
I assume they would have gotten around to testing it if the space shuttle program ever got anywhere near its planned operational capacity. But with only 4 operational shuttles, ~20 days maximum ndurance and only 5-10 flights per year, it wa
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by phire 3y ago
The idea of non-custodial bridges runs straight into the oracle problem. How does the smart contract on one blockchain know the state of the smart contract on the other blockchain. One common workaround is to make the miners/validators

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