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Looks like there is currently no RDMA support for thunderbolt, so it's a much higher latency connection. Apple has RDMA over thunderbolt working, so I wonder if it's possible on St…

Oh, interesting. I assumed the PPU could pass through video the way the TMS9918 can. My mistake!

There is one obscure product that actually did use the feature. The Sharp Famicom Titler (or Famicom Editor) was a full Famicom that could show an external video input behind the F…

It doesn't seem that bad to me? Most of the problems that I see in that video look like recording issues where the camera isn't handling max brightness well. Recording CRTs is noto…

On top of this, I find ads on app store search results to be particularly bad. It's a business model that comes with all sorts of perverse incentives. It's so bad for users and leg…

The Mac Studio, in some ways, is in a class of its own for LLM inference. I think this is Apple leaning into that. They didn't add RDMA for general server clustering usefulness. Th…

Inference is almost certainly very profitable. All the money they keep raising goes to R&D for the next model. But I don't see how they ever get off that treadmill.

> Gaming is the only area where I expect plugins have limited permissions. Do you mean mods on Steam? If you do, then that's down to the individual game. Sandboxing mods isn't univ…

> many people have never actually seen the colour "violet" which is a single wavelength of visible light The violet seen in a rainbow (in nature, not a photo) is legit single wavel…

The patent on the lockout mechanism has expired and clean software implementations of the algorithm have been created. So the old legal protections no longer apply. And while Ninte…

> But this means his pro and con opinions don't match typical opinions and this makes him polarizing. And hence some people will flag his articles reflexively or post reflexive dis…

That works until you see what appears to be 9 sprites on the same scan line in the border region.

I've seen the same. I don't think it's the reboot. My understanding is that NAND undergoes wear-leveling even when it is read only. The card shuffles data around its storage even w…

> Why mount the SD card read/write. Why not mount read-only. I have seen dozens of name brand SD cards fail while mounted read only in a medium sized deployment of Pis. The problem…

> I've long wondered why it remains the problem only on Raspberry Pi. SD card firmware is often buggy and only heavily tested with windows. Camera manufactures will specify SD card…

Upper right quadrant would be an 8-bit (or maybe 16-bit) CPU paired with a 3D graphics capable GPU. SNES + the SuperFX chip is the closest example I can think of. Similarly, there …

Windows 95 was a big step forward though because it had actual process isolation and preemptive multitasking. While it wasn't very stable compared to Linux or NT, for the most part…

Larrabee was mostly x86 cores, but it did have sampling/texturing hardware because it's way more efficient to do those particular things in the 3d pipeline with dedicated hardware.…

Modern retro computer designs run into the problem of generating a video signal. Ideally you'd have a tile and sprite based rendering. And you'd like to support HDMI or at least VG…

This goes to an impressive level of depth. The ability to use a PC as a USB device opens up lots of fun possibilities. It's a little bit tragic that the required xDCI option is the…

Youtube was also an acquisition. Haven't heard much about successful Google acquisitions lately though.

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The current and previous generations of xbox and playstation do use x86 CPUs with integrated AMD GPUs. But they aren't just PCs in a small box. Using a unified pool of GDDR memory*…

In this case he had 150+ of them, so it wouldn't matter too much if he destroyed a few of them in the process. It would be more nerve-wracking to do this on something you don't hav…