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Comment #29127224
Kind of a lame answer but: Google it. There are blogs online that reverse engineer and document old game engines. Lots of abstracting as pointers, esoteric assembly optimization, c…
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Comment #29126307
Pretty sure LESS industrial feedback loop generating behavior is the best climate-change solution. Nuclear power probably seems pretty great to WSJ and capitalist readers who want …
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Comment #29125913
> Decentralization seems to work well for cases … I skipped copying it all because it’s right there; not limiting my reply to that snippet. Yeah information network signal attenuat…
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Comment #29123206
General purpose won as it was realized monolithic chips that did it all were infeasible due to manufacturing technology in the past. Overtime the political story about market winne…
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Comment #29122238
I’m going to rely on the insight of my friends in the chip biz working at Intel and Qualcomm back in the day; generic CPUs “won” as it became aware manufacturing anything different…
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Comment #29121701
Xfinity provides internet while Comcast screws customers Trickle down is a euphemism for peeing on people from the top It’s all obfuscating semantic games to conceal their applicat…
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Comment #29119675
Security will play a huge role in obsoleting software development as a job. Monkeys in chairs papering over generic CPU design is pushing chip makers to consider silicon designed t…
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Comment #29118569
There’s an argument to be made that political austerity causes social segregation and people to die in poverty of preventable problems. Why don’t we set aside the rap battle and Ma…
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Comment #29111804
Fair doesn’t mean the same. I align with Apple a bit more as they actually do interesting manufacturing R&D; they’re all terrible on the software and privacy side. Google is 3-4 us…
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Comment #29110845
How is this different than instigating demand for Lamborghinis and 30 room mansions? Gaming people to do things of nonsense utility is about all humans have to do after basic life …
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Comment #29110792
Agreed. Just put your commercials on YT, Twitch, but always link to your wallet; whether it’s Patreon or a tshirt store elsewhere. Decouple. Take advantage of network effects. Mode…
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Comment #29109739
With different software pipelines they could run right on a GPU It’s all state in a machine, and ML is showing us recursion + memory accomplish a lot; why all the generic structure…
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Comment #29109637
Yeah I think that’s a side effect of knowing how the sausage is made. I have written my own ECS loops, rendering pipelines; all naive but after that it’s optimizing to product fit,…
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Comment #29108222
“Enthusiast” CPUs seem pointless. My CPU is never above 20% in AAA games as it’s all on the GFX card now. Good to see CPUs going through the great decoupling that software did. IMO…
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Comment #29094873
Check out bio electrical regeneration research If you haven’t come across it, the teams inject drugs that do nothing to cells but instigate an electrical field effect. What happens…
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Comment #29085127
This is where open source can shine. Contributors must maintain standards but can work anywhere. From a logistics and utilitarian human need standpoint we don’t all need to go down…
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Comment #29072719
Replies seems to be of the perspective I was suggesting we target courts proactively. I don’t think anything I wrote constrains public response to lobbying courts. We could lobby t…
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Comment #29072583
There’s little context to say the opposite either, which is really the whole problem. It may not be so black and white but you didn’t really help readers lean the way you wanted. T…
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Comment #29072358
Leon Cooperman was quoted today as saying if people don’t follow along with billionaires they’ll deviate into unnatural behavior. If that guy and anyone who believes the masses kow…
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Comment #29066673
It’s been known for a while that human communication is the real impediment to technical development. Companies I’ve worked at that sucked had awful internal communication. It was …
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Comment #29066447
So only after it’s precedent and harder to undo then does it matter? This is basically saying there’s no point in testing software, ship every line to prod and see what happens. Th…
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Comment #29066246
The author covers your perspective: > But, that’s only because you are a noob and you don’t deal with the things that I have deal with. > Someone on the internet In conclusion: not…