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Bringing emulation into the 21st century (2021)

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Re: Bringing emulation into the 21st century (2021)

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Sharlin wrote: post #7
masswerk wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also mind: > Alright, if you’ve got this far I’m sure you’ve realised that the whole project is something of a joke. That said it is also an interesting intellectual exercise to consider whether it’s remotely possible to achieve >=2MHz with the architecture delivered. 2MHz with an architecture, which is up to 21st century hypes, that would be some! ;-)

"NodeJS developer refuses to believe that gigahertz means billion hertz" https://www.theolognion.com/nodejs-developer-refuses-to-beli...

Now, everybody knows that gigahertz is a generic unit for fast used by the Gig Economy, when they rent a user's processor for free by making them pay for a subscription!

(More correctly, it's a rating scale for user processors, like, Gig-A-rental, Gig-B-rental, etc. So, if you target 2.1 times Gig-A-rental class processor power available in the user base, which is also known as "Hertz" among insiders, you're targeting 2.1 GigAHertz.) ;-)

Re: Bringing emulation into the 21st century (2021)

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Post by majormajor »

masswerk wrote: post #11
Sharlin wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"NodeJS developer refuses to believe that gigahertz means billion hertz" https://www.theolognion.com/nodejs-developer-refuses-to-beli...

Now, everybody knows that gigahertz is a generic unit for fast used by the Gig Economy, when they rent a user's processor for free by making them pay for a subscription! (More correctly, it's a rating scale for user processors, like, Gig-A-rental, Gig-B-rental, etc. So, if you target 2.1 times Gig-A-rental class processor power available in the user base, which is also known as "Hertz" among insiders, you're targetin…

I was hoping this would be an actual confusion about "million million" billion vs "thousand million" - https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-61... - I got very confused with my grandfather about this once.

Re: Bringing emulation into the 21st century (2021)

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Post by ur-whale »

> Alright, if you’ve got this far I’m sure you’ve realised that the whole project is something of a joke.

I was there after the first paragraph.

I'm even surprised this monstrosity can pull off 1KHz.

Glad this is satire and I hope this will be read properly by the hordes of young devs wasting their youth energy and lifeblood on building everything cloud/react/js because it's supposedly hip.

Re: Bringing emulation into the 21st century (2021)

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Post by ur-whale »

glonq wrote: post #10

> Like any true modern application it also consists of significantly more JSON/YAML than code. Do we even need code anymore? I'm pretty sure that Ansible + YAML is turing complete, right? /s

Yeah, I'm waiting for the next article: "a nocode implementation of a PS3 emulator, how we pulled off implementing the GPU, running at 10 second per pixel".

Re: Bringing emulation into the 21st century (2021)

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Post by masswerk »

majormajor wrote: post #14
masswerk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Now, everybody knows that gigahertz is a generic unit for fast used by the Gig Economy, when they rent a user's processor for free by making them pay for a subscription! (More correctly, it's a rating scale for user processors, like, Gig-A-rental, Gig-B-rental, etc. So, if you target 2.1 times Gig-A-rental class processor power available in the user base, which is also known as "Hertz" among insiders, you're targetin…

I was hoping this would be an actual confusion about "million million" billion vs "thousand million" - https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-61... - I got very confused with my grandfather about this once.

Thank you! As a continental guy, I wasn't quite sure myself, when and how the UK joined this madness. In all fairness: adopting metric on the one hand, but also US billions on the other hand, is a bit odd, not to say, confusing… Is this the British idea of diplomacy? :-)
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