erik

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by erik 7d ago
> People ditched their digital cameras en masse when smartphones became popular. Not because the smartphone cameras were better, but because they were convenient. The early 00's transition from CRT to LCD monitors was similar. The
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by erik 3mo ago
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 Strix Halo.
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by erik 3mo ago
Oh, interesting. I assumed the PPU could pass through video the way the TMS9918 can. My mistake!
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by erik 3mo ago
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 Famicom graphics. I found this video that shows a Playstation
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by erik 4mo ago
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 notoriously difficult! Generally pixel art created for
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Four hundred car batteries wired together [video](youtube.com)
4 points by erik 7mo ago|1 comments
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by erik 9mo ago
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 legitimate developers.
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by erik 9mo ago
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. They added it so you can put 4 Studios together in an LLM
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by erik 9mo ago
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.
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by erik 1y ago
> 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 universal.
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by erik 1y ago
> 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 wavelength violet. Same with the rainbows created f
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by erik 1y ago
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 Nintendo still aggressively enforces their copyright on their old
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by erik 1y ago
> 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 dismissals. And Hacker News is heavily weighted to down
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by erik 2y ago
That works until you see what appears to be 9 sprites on the same scan line in the border region.
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by erik 2y ago
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 when it hasn't been written to. And t
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by erik 2y ago
> 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 problems mostly come from firmware bugs, not from nand wea
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by erik 2y ago
> 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 cards that are know to work with their cameras for this
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by erik 2y ago
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 is the Genesis/Mega Drive + SVP chip. I can't name
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by erik 2y ago
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 an application crash wouldn't bring down the who
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by erik 2y ago
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.
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by erik 2y ago
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 VGA. But there are no modern parts that offer thi
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by erik 3y ago
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 there in the hardware on this device, but it's not e
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by erik 3y ago
Youtube was also an acquisition. Haven't heard much about successful Google acquisitions lately though.
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by erik 3y ago
I vouched for this comment, but it looks like you're shadow banned. You might want to email support.
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by erik 3y ago
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* is a substantial architectural difference. *except f
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by erik 3y ago
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 have many of.
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Reverse Engineering an LCD Display(sudhir.nl)
180 points by erik 3y ago|20 comments
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by erik 3y ago
Throughput yes, latency no.
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by erik 3y ago
We were pretty proud that we had a graphical browser running under DSLinux a good 6 months before Nintendo released the Opera cart.
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by erik 3y ago
I think wikipedia is wrong. I don’t see how it would make sense to have a mmu in the ram expansion card.

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