faragon

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Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA(nand2mario.github.io)
4 points by faragon 10d ago|1 comments
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by faragon 10d ago
New post by @nand2mario. This is the continuation of his work in his z486 FPGA core ([1]), now adding the implementation of the original Voodoo Graphics GPU. In addition to the linked blog post, it is also published a video ([2]), and a SD
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by faragon 15d ago
Accurate or not, there are many risks other than those that could bring AI companies value to 0. E.g., systems not requiring passing over all the data continuously, but in small regions running at L2-L3 cache memory speed. Once someone figu
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by faragon 1mo ago
Games, very few, if any. But software in general, quite a lot.
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by faragon 1mo ago
This is the closer we have for having a full 32-bit x86 system with FPU. Even with the lower precision in the x87 FPU by using the FPGA DSP blocks, eventually having a "486DX" (i486 instruction set + FPU) would enable running a ma
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by faragon 2mo ago
8K decoding needs HW acceleration, unless having 8-16 cores with AVX-512.
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by faragon 2mo ago
1) open-weights 2) critical mass 3) de-facto monopoly 4) closed-weights on frontier models 5) profit
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by faragon 2mo ago
Thank you very much! Is the SSFv2 mapper supporting memory writes in the MiSTer FPGA, too? (Megadrive and/or 32x cores). Also, now that there's a SH3 core already available ([1] for replicating the Cave CV1000 system), it could b
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by faragon 3mo ago
They may consider rewriting their web-based apps into native apps using IA.
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by faragon 4mo ago
https://archive.is/RsXYO
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by faragon 5mo ago
Microsoft degrading user experience plus lower price on Mac computers it maybe their downfall. E.g., removing local accounts, unwanted advertising, arbitrary decisions (forced TPM requirement), etc.
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by faragon 6mo ago
"All your Copilot are belong to us"
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by faragon 6mo ago
Wasn't their target to replace humans with AI? Why is that not applicable to their business?
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by faragon 6mo ago
IIRC, the original CGA/EGA version was: 8x 360KB 5.25" disks, or 4x 720KB 3.5" disks.
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by faragon 7mo ago
Maybe it's time for creating simpler languages, easier to validate with a mix of LLMs, grammar validation, and test-covered aggregation/integration.
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by faragon 7mo ago
It's "fair": ARM takes 1% of the iPhone CPU, i.e., less than 0.1% of the total phone price, while Apple takes 30% of the apps in the iStore
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by faragon 7mo ago
With the workforce may happen like with DRAM and NAND flash memories: unexpected demand in one side leaving without enough offer in other sides.
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by faragon 8mo ago
My question is how they'll update the hardware, if AI processors get outdated every 4-5 years? Or they will keep outdated satellites just for routing and Internet-related services?
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by faragon 8mo ago
Is it working for phone calls when running Debian and Windows?
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by faragon 8mo ago
Why Microsoft stores the encryption keys of the users in their servers? Key recovery is convenient, but in my opinion it should exist the "opt out" option, without MS being involved in the key storage in their datacenters.
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by faragon 8mo ago
My prediction: Google will win. Rationale: cost/token + pre-existing ad knowledge + APIs for third-party apps. My concern is how an OpenAI collapse could hurt Microsoft and Nvidia.
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by faragon 9mo ago
Why Apple don't sponsor Asahi Linux? E.g., I would buy Apple computers gladly for running Linux.
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by faragon 9mo ago
That's beautiful. E.g., I have Chinese coworkers and now I realize what they meant with "that's not wrong". I felt those expressions like humbleness, but now I realize they were trying to keep their authenticity. Mind bl
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by faragon 10mo ago
Why Apple don't just buy Intel? That would allow better vertical integration.
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by faragon 10mo ago
Empathy and humility are ok when shown by behavior, not when used as a "manipulative card" against "ego". E.g., when the "empathy card" is used to manipulate others in "you're an ego-driven person tha
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by faragon 10mo ago
Duralex were used and loved in Spain, too. Most houses still have some of them, although nowadays there's lot more competition. I would pay twice for their glassware, quality-wise is good stuff.
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by faragon 10mo ago
I used Dillo in 2001-2002 with the PlayStation 2 Linux kit. With 32MB of RAM for Linux, and 4MB for the graphics. It worked really well despite the CPU was 294MHz (MIPS R-5900, two-way in-order CPU, with SIMD unit, and only one hardware thr
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by faragon 10mo ago
VT102 specs, e.g., 8085A 6MHz CPU [1] [1] http://adb.arcadeitalia.net/dettaglio_mame.php?game_name=vt1...
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by faragon 11mo ago
Maybe the AGI will come with the equivalent of a "Turing Machine" enabling some kind of computability.
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by faragon 1y ago
Why Microsoft just don't make optional the TPM requirement for upgrading from Windows 10 to 11?

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