+1 for Hasura. It's such a pleasure to use. Having a configurable backend with so much fine grained Authorization. It's just awesome. It literally cuts your project time in half.
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#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
WRT F150; I am so upset with the state of the auto market when it comes to pricing. Manufacturing margins are enormous when it comes to cars. The F150 is no different. A two seater (effectively) vehicle stamped out of metal and plastic should never cost as much as those things do. I hate car companies and their pricing models.
Look up the chicken tax bill that passed a few decades ago that basically stopped any foreign car manufacturers from selling pickups in the US. That's why trucks are so much more expensive than other types of cars.
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU, and a big solid state disk. That's a lot of compute engine for $400. Somebody will probably make supercomputers out of rooms full of those. Mmm, this sounds like exactly what people said at the time the PS3 was going to be released, and I can only recall of one example where the PS3 was ever used in a cluster and that probably was not that…
The key differentiator is x86 vs PPC and 1 TB/s bus.
> 1 TB/s bus
Is that the new marketing term for shared VRAM?
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#235Oxide Computer Company
“True rack-scale design, bringing cloud hyperscale innovations around density, efficiency, cost, reliability, manageability, and security to everyone running on-premises compute infrastructure.”
Corey Quinn interviewed the founders on his podcast "Screaming in the Cloud", where they explain the need for innovation in that space.
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...
Basically, on-premises hardware is years behind what companies like Facebook and Google have in-house, it may be time to close that gap.
They also have a podcast, "On The Metal", which is such a joy to listen to. Their last episode with Jonathan Blow was really a treat.
https://oxide.computer/podcast/
It's mostly anecdotes about programming for the hardware-software interface, if that's your thing ;).
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#236Self-driving cars. Now that the hype is over and the fake-it-til-you-make-it crowd has tanked, there's progress. Slowly, the LIDARs get cheaper, the radars get more resolution, and the software improves. UE5's rendering approach. They finally figured out how to use the GPU to do level of detail. Games can now climb out of the Uncanny Valley. The Playstation 5. 8 CPUs at 3.2GHz each, 24GB of RAM, 14 teraflops of GPU,…
Gpu solved LOD won't save video games from the uncanny valley. In some cases it will make it worse. It makes for nice statues and static landscapes though.
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#237- Far UVC lights (200 to ~222nm) such as Ushio's Care222 tech. This light destroys pathogens quickly while not seeming to damage human skin or eyes. - FPGAs. I'm no computer engineer, but it seems like this tech is going to soon drastically increase our compute. - Augur, among other prediction platforms. Beliefs will pay rent. - Web Assembly, as noted elsewhere. One use case I haven't read yet here is distributed com…
I'm an FPGA engineer and I doubt they will go mainstream. They work great for prototyping, low-volume production, or products that need flexibility in features, but they are hard to use (unlikely to get better in my opinion) and it's hard to see where they would fit into a compute pipeline given that you need to transfer the data to the FPGA, perform your computation/processing, and then transfer the data back. That…
FPGAs will go mainstream if software can automatically program them. Imagine some watchdog inspecting the CPU and figuring out what it needs hardware acceleration for, building that netlist or pulling it from a large library, and sending it to the FPGA and then routing work from the CPU over to the FPGA.
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#238VR. It seems just about ready, but still a little too expensive. While good games are obviously already there, I'm more curious about work. Would an infinite desktop with an appropriate interface beat the reliable old 2x24" screen setup I have? I think it could.
> While good games are obviously already there, I'm more curious about work.
Good games are most definitely not there. The consensus is that Alyx is really the only worthwhile VR title. Just about everything else is gimmicky and trite. VR still has a long way to go.
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#239zk-S[NT]ARKs and related zero knowledge tech along with scalability improvements to Ethereum is poised to revolutionize financial tech. It will take decades to play out much like consumer PC and internet and we are still in very early stages.
But when it really picks up the impact will be as big as when Dutch invented modern finance in early 1600s.
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#240Uh mine. Duh.