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by vardump 11mo ago
Vampire is not really a 68k, it's an FPGA based system. A kind of fantasy could-have-been system.
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by vardump 11mo ago
> 160x100 CGA low resolution could do 16 color (bit of a hack, but semi-official). That's a text mode, but ok, I think some games used it for graphics.
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by vardump 11mo ago
I hope these new IKEA light bulbs finally reproduce deep greens. Some cyan shades were also nearly white. Blue and red shades were fine. (Not so coincidentally green shades are always missing from IKEA's product photos.)
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by vardump 11mo ago
320 x 200 CGA allows you to have only 4 colors at a time. Of course you can change the fixed palette on a certain scanline to have more colors. See for example California Games.
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by vardump 11mo ago
Since this is intended for embedded systems, supporting ARM DSP extensions would be beneficial. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I have not seen any compiler generate those instructions, other than through the use of intrinsics. I would ad
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by vardump 11mo ago
Have they already solved the issue of LIDAR destroying CMOS cameras with its laser?
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by vardump 11mo ago
Is there a tool that can dither to named colors?
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by vardump 1y ago
A side channel attack revealing AES key from just 90,000 traces. Sigh, side channel attacks seem to be everywhere now.
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by vardump 1y ago
To transfer files? Like large virtual machines, huge video files. Backup their files quickly. To support a homelab to learn new skills. To stream uncompressed video. To download 300 GB monster games. Some people can manage with slow network
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by vardump 1y ago
Obviously he/she meant 600 Mbps.
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by vardump 1y ago
I generally agree, although one should not forget x86 (and AMD64) leaves about 3-10% performance on the table due to having a memory model that doesn't allow to reorder loads with other loads and stores with other stores.
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by vardump 1y ago
Perhaps a Macbook is now fast enough to just run Windows 7 in full emulation? Haven't tried, though. Edit: Checked on Youtube. Yeah, Windows 7 seems to be fast enough on an Apple silicon Macbook in full emulated mode. For example: htt
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by vardump 1y ago
3060 doesn't have 128 GB RAM.
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by vardump 1y ago
No, just what has usually happened in the past with AI goalposts. At first, just playing chess was considered to be a sign of intelligence. Of course, that was wrong, but not obvious at all in 1950.
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by vardump 1y ago
Whatever the definition may be, the goalposts are usually moved once AI reaches that point.
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by vardump 1y ago
Reminds me of Simcity 2000. Or Populous.
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by vardump 1y ago
"an inherently repayable experience" Interesting choice of words.
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by vardump 1y ago
Damn, I've used em dash often — do I have to stop using it? Sigh. Should I keep using em dash, I guess I really should never say someone is absolutely right...
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by vardump 1y ago
"Even the highway driving (autopilot), which was great initially, has recently degraded in quality" Are you sure it's not a hardware or calibration issue? Disclaimer: I don't own a Tesla, but I'm just pointing out t
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by vardump 1y ago
The rockets at higher altitudes were all in wrong orientation. In reality, they don't fly straight up.
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by vardump 1y ago
That nVidia card is going to have 5x the memory bandwidth. LPDDR5X is going to be rather low bandwidth. (My guess is Intel's card is only going to have about 400 GB/s bandwidth.)
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by vardump 1y ago
I guess I'm waiting for the M5 Max chip. Hopefully it's configurable with 256 GB RAM for LLMs and some VMs.
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by vardump 1y ago
Probably gigabytes (GB) and not gigabits (Gb)? Edit: gigabits indeed. Confusing, my old M2 Max has 400 GB/s (3200 gigabits per second) bandwidth. I guess it's some sort of baseline figure for the lowest end configuration? Edit 2:
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by vardump 1y ago
Do you have some insider information how SpaceX is managed?
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by vardump 1y ago
Lidar also destroys camera sensors. That might become a huge problem in the future.
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by vardump 1y ago
Wider SIMD would be useful, especially with AVX-512 style improvements. 1024 or even 2048 bits wide operations. Of course memory bandwidth should increase proportionally otherwise the cores might have no data to process.
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by vardump 1y ago
Have you used both Tesla and CarPlay? At least CarPlay is pretty disappointing compared to Tesla's native functionality. The "apps" are all very trivial, mostly reduced to playback control or simple selections. Not a Tesla ow
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by vardump 1y ago
I wonder if something mechanical could ever talk even USB 1.1 at 12 Mbps. Perhaps if it was small enough...?
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by vardump 1y ago
The Moon was much closer to the Earth when it was formed. It's slowly becoming more distant. So the angular size has matched the Sun only for 450 million years. In 50 million years it's angular size will be smaller and total solar
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by vardump 1y ago
Instruction fusion still means lower code density. You can go overboard, but the newer ARM instruction set(s) are pretty good.

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