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by floatboth 5y ago
Vulkan! Compute! Shaders! I hate compute-specific APIs so much. Use Vulkan!
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by floatboth 5y ago
Back in the day™ web 3.0 referred to Semantic Web stuff. IoT rarely used "web" terms?
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by floatboth 5y ago
> the validation layers are written by your GPU manufacturer What? I mean they could write extra ones, anyone could, but The Main Official Pack Of Validation Layers™ is maintained by Khronos: https://github.com/KhronosGro
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by floatboth 5y ago
or webgpu-native/wgpu :/
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by floatboth 5y ago
These are different, and both are very important technical terms. It's not correct to exclude them. "Not based on trust" is the precise reason why proof-of-work mining exists.
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by floatboth 5y ago
You can buy actual money on the exchanges, so you "can" "buy" anything. That's why the assholes who write ransomware accept bitcoin.
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by floatboth 5y ago
Cavium ThunderX2 (RIP) had 4-way SMT
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by floatboth 5y ago
Who cares? The shitcoin economy can only be viewed as a whole. Your new "green" shitcoin will be exchanged with Bitcoin and other dominant coins that use PoW mining. Your shitcoin's value will be based on that .
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by floatboth 5y ago
It's all explained in https://youtu.be/xCHab0dNnj4 — the ONE and ONLY thing a public blockchain is useful for is censorship-resistant payments. Which might include good things (donation to your favorite whistleblower o
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by floatboth 5y ago
Stablecoins like Tether imploding will destroy the whole shitcoin economy though. We just don't know when, but someday it will happen. They're all clearly criminal fraudulent operations printing fake dollars not backed by anything
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by floatboth 5y ago
"web3" is Ethereum's term for the API that lets web pages do things with your Ethereum client. It's also a vague marketing idea for some kind of a future web that also involves hosting pages on IPFS and registering domai
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by floatboth 5y ago
> "Blockchain" != cryptocurrency Public blockchain basically means cryptocurrency-like things. It's all about transfers of value: whether it's coins, domain names or stupid cryptokitties — it's all about tradeab
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by floatboth 5y ago
It does not matter that some don't. Most do, especially the biggest one, so the shitcoin economy as a whole does.
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by floatboth 5y ago
It's so ridiculous that all these huge bosses of corporate America feel the need to not say anything negative. So far only Valve has responded relatively well to this bullshit.
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by floatboth 5y ago
You don't need vendor specific tools. Especially not on the pi 4 but even before that. The RPi foundation stayed on a 32 bit distro with the proprietary graphics stack forever due to some silly fear of breaking.. something (?) or whate
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by floatboth 5y ago
Both are about as bad. No matter how high you clock it and how good your RAM is, a Cortex-A53 is still an A53.
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by floatboth 5y ago
Even without onboard processing it's a very obvious move to offload it to a tiny microcontroller. Apple actually started by using a physically separate NXP micro that they branded "M7". Now it is of course on the main chip, b
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by floatboth 5y ago
Random CVV sounds fun, but that's kinda in the same "fun only" space as port knocking in networking. There are real auth methods that solve this, i.e. 3D Secure.
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by floatboth 5y ago
> they also have different networks (not MC or Visa) Is that also some weird American quirk? Everyone I know has a couple debit Visa/MCs..
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by floatboth 5y ago
Thanks! Interesting result, baseline performance is impressive (pretty close to my R9 5950X which does 4853/5069 MB/s) but the CRC32 hardware is surprisingly mediocre (Cortex-A72 on Graviton1 does 14840/14483, Neoverse N1 on
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by floatboth 5y ago
Relatively obscure fun thing: CRC32 checksum instructions. https://github.com/srijs/rust-crc32fast/pull/6 (Get rust nightly via https://rustup.rs , pull the repo, run: cargo bench --features nigh
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by floatboth 5y ago
Ryzen is at a process disadvantage currently so Apple should be more efficient on average. When AMD gets on N5 (soon), it's going to be even more competitive.
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by floatboth 5y ago
Laptops that have soldered RAM (including Apple) do not come with overclocked RAM though. I don't even know of any system with soldered RAM that would let you try pushing the speeds in practice, so this advantage is never leveraged
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by floatboth 5y ago
Channel != DIMM. Many small channels is just how LPDDR works, as opposed to DDR which has one big chungus channel. Well DDR5 has now split it in two. The total number of traces is the same.
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by floatboth 5y ago
> e.g. this bug on Linux This is literally one of the big things changed by what's described in the article (for those still using X11; it's already been solved for quite some time on Wayland)
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by floatboth 5y ago
Only as in using full software rendering, there's no other way to get GL (as there was GLX for X11).
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by floatboth 5y ago
It didn't actually have bad performance. I never had performance problems on YouTube, and I even made my own apps with Polymer / Web Components v0 (before v1 became a thing) purely in Firefox (never even tested in Chromium), it al
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by floatboth 5y ago
EGL is primarily about windowing system integration, it's what lets you initialize an OpenGL context in the first place. It doesn't really accomplish interop between different APIs on its own, though of course various interop meth
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by floatboth 5y ago
Yes, nearly everything about "Linux" in Firefox applies to BSD.
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by floatboth 5y ago
What? The ISA is basically completely orthogonal to multicore scaling.

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