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rbanffy
194,611karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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Well... They are registers, so yes. The question is whether it'd make sense to do it and what problem would that solve. In a past life, I taught young programmers you can, of course, make a phone…
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Dedicated PCIe or memory-attached inference units will continue to exist, and will continue to do the heavy lifting, but an ISA extension provides latencies any external unit would have trouble matchi…
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You vastly overestimate the ability of the US to win wars. Have they won this one yet?
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You have a power plant capable of generating the energy needed to take you to relativistic speeds (at minimum) or punch holes through spacetime (a couple hundred orders of magnitude more) that’ll radi…
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I am sure the reason came from Microsoft. They have mastered outplacement as an offensive weapon.
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Their Windows CE developer mindshare didn’t make the translation to post iPhone software. There was so little in common between the two worlds one would need to start from scratch.
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Expandable machines are attractive when the future is uncertain. I imagine a server chip would have abundant DDR6 and PCIe lanes. Oddly enough I’m now buying my PCs with all memory slots occupied beca…
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A GPU can be used for inference, but, for that use, there are much better choices. Apple designed their NPUs for that, IBM added an NPU to their mainframe chip and AMD and Intel are planning on adding…
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ARM was chosen for the Newton, then the iPods, then the iPhone and so on. Apple’s experience with ARM has a long history. Same applies to RISC. Apple didn’t leave PPC because it was a dead-end. They w…
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The CPU/NPU/GPU part is probably coming, but the 1.5TB of RAM might be delayed a bit. More interesting footnotes are the server chips: is the MacPro making a comeback?
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I'm getting the popcorn ready. This will be interesting.
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That'll work until Iran starts sinking ships trusting Trump's word for them "controlling" Hormuz. Which should be more or less the first time a ship tries to cross without an Irani…
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I think the biggest mistake was adopting Windows as their OS. It negated any technical advantages they could have over Android.
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Reminds me I need to update my `burn.sh` script.
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My bad. I need to retake my geography classes from high school
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A minute of silence for him. No echoes.
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Not my favourite movie though. The horror in space trope is a very tired one. Alongside the poorly lit spaceship. Spaceships are workplaces and workplaces should provide adequate illumination so you c…
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It’s a wonderful little movie. Absolutely adorable.