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by sspiff 3y ago
I'd love to tell you what it did suboptimally in my usecase at the time, but I no longer have the code and it's been so long I don't remember the specifics. Like I said in my earlier comment, it was so long ago the performanc
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by sspiff 3y ago
Most GPUs run threads in groups of 16 or more, with one instruction pointer shared by all of the threads in a single group. So if some threads need to take an IF-branch, and some need to take an ELSE-branch, both paths are executed in seque
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by sspiff 3y ago
A GPU is a really, really fast map hardware processor. Reduce steps are not good at utilizing all of the silicon hardware available IIRC.
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by sspiff 3y ago
I used Futhark in the past. It's probably been 5 years or more, so a lot may have changed since then. It's absolutely a much lower barrier to entry, especially if you are familiar with functional programming. However, it also leav
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by sspiff 3y ago
Does anyone have any indication of ProtonVPN doing something fishy? I always considered them fairly trustworthy and they offer a free option.
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by sspiff 3y ago
Ah the memories! I used to run JLime and NetBSD on Jornada and MobilePro machines. While definitely not perfect, they were really nice and useable, and far more portable than contemporary laptops. You could run X11, they had PCMCIA (for wif
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by sspiff 3y ago
> It used to be that we’d get new computer languages about every generation. […] And then it kind of stopped. There are still people developing languages, but nobody cares. I think this is false. We can see great interest in new language
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by sspiff 3y ago
As someone who used to have a cheap-ish 3x27" monitor setup, I can confirm neck strain on big triple monitor setups is most definitely a thing. Imagine combining this with carrying the weight a pair of technogoggles like these,and I th
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by sspiff 3y ago
Is there a list of unsupported syscalls and instructions, and how to add support for them for people interested in contributing?
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by sspiff 3y ago
This is amazing. I've been wanting to create something very much like this for ages, but never got around to it (because life). Is there a contributors guide for the project?
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by sspiff 3y ago
Regardless of regulation, the same market shift has occurred in Europe. As someone who prefers low and light vehicles I can lament this, but we can only blame ourselves. Wagon and sedan sales have plumetted. Even the king of affordable cars
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by sspiff 3y ago
Most EVs will still be SUVs or crossovers, sadly. Even moreso than with current ICE vehicles.
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by sspiff 3y ago
Same here. I ended up getting a Zephyrus G14 in January, with all-AMD CPU and GPU. If framework announced this laptop before I bought mine, I would probably have waited and stuck with my old junk until it became available.
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by sspiff 3y ago
What does "200%" resolution mean? I prefer displays with a resolution where I don't have to do any scaling honestly.
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by sspiff 3y ago
I do on my local network. Nothing that's on the Internet. I think it's still enabled by default on Fedora and Debian.
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by sspiff 3y ago
In my experience, most of my coworkers have been passionate about some aspects of software development at least. People aren't always passionate about the projects we work on at work, but most are passionate about things like software
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by sspiff 3y ago
It's hard to say without actually testing the hardware with a power meter, since throttling plays such a big role and power budgets advertised are often just a single figure approximation of a much more complicated formula. I run a hom
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by sspiff 3y ago
This analysis is wrong because it is focusing on a limited number of high end chips. You can buy CPUs that cost a fraction of any of those listed that will absolutely demolish even the best chips from 6 years ago today. All while consuming
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by sspiff 3y ago
That looks so wrong. Why would they do this?
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by sspiff 3y ago
That sounds more like a nightmare to me.
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by sspiff 3y ago
I think it would make more sense for Nintendo to make a more powerful console on a compatible platform that isn't handheld, kind of like the Sega Master System/Game Gear or Sega Mega Drive/Nomad consoles. So you can enjoy the
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by sspiff 5y ago
The hard drive equipped T1200 was the first computer I ever used. We had two of them at home as a kid after they were discarded by the ministry of public health where my dad worked as a clerk. I had so much fun playing Keen on the slow blue
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by sspiff 6y ago
M1 is a 20W (max) CPU and a 40W SoC (whole package max). However, in most intense workloads it doesn't go near 40W, more like ~25W under high load. Still incredibly impressive.
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by sspiff 8y ago
I'm curious, feature-less in what sense? Not an Apple fan myself, but everyone I've heard has praised the XR for basically being an XS with a cheaper screen. Personally, I think the price points for these phones have become irrati
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by sspiff 8y ago
Your comparison with corporations and nations is not entirely fitting. Money and words work out fine. In the case of nations, we don't have to agree for them to be real. For example, China (the Peoples Republic of China) does not agree
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by sspiff 8y ago
Generally, blockchain "mining" requires a problem that is hard to solve, easy to verify. If I understand it correctly, the genome sequencing problem is hard to solve, hard to verify.
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by sspiff 8y ago
At the risk of sounding pedantic, can we not use the term crypto for cryptocurrency or blockchain related stuff? Crypto already has a well defined meaning that is in common use, which is related to cryptography, not cryptocurrency. Edit: Po
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by sspiff 8y ago
Sorry, I didn't intend to make it a code block, just wanted to indent the list headers. Is there a list syntax for HN comments?
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by sspiff 9y ago
I wonder if the planned Vista/7/10 support will extend to kernel mode drivers, especially for WDDM2 and up graphics drivers. Currently, the supported graphics drivers is pretty sad for modern-ish hardware on ReactOS, because they
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by sspiff 9y ago
I know a bunch of people (mostly gamers) who refuse to upgrade from Windows 7 to 8 or 10, mostly because of usability and privacy concerns. Eventually, they'll have to (DirectX 12, but I'm sure there's a ton of APIs for non-g

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