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xgkickt··on Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy
I certainly miss having COP2 instructions.
xgkickt··on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
They'd just pitch for using the same GPUs to run the digital dollar ledger, and begin the cycle again, maybe.
xgkickt··on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals
Where does that leave AMD, considering OAI are taking a 10% stake?
xgkickt··on California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing
How about everyone gets a cut each time their data is sold?
xgkickt··on The role of Amazon fires in the record atmospheric CO₂ growth in 2024
Recent collective decisions around the world suggest an impairment may occur at concentrations already exceeded.
xgkickt··on KDE is now my favorite desktop
At least Apple still allows the user to reposition the dock/taskbar.
xgkickt··on Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20
I thought those came from the automotive sector.
xgkickt··on Ten Years of D3D12
Game developers also call it DX12. We like to name targets with two characters and a number.
xgkickt··on Ten Years of D3D12
Last time I tried to do this (run iGPU as a compute coprocessor for the CPU) it was no longer supported, the driver enumerating both but forcing the use of one only.
xgkickt··on iPhone Air
I’ll wait for the MagSafe MiniDisc.
xgkickt··on Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale
Digital Heaven. We may not get it, but our AI death masks will.
xgkickt··on Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale
Reminder for everyone to donate to your favorite station (eg SomaFM).
xgkickt··on Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale
I thought Google+’s Circles was a good idea.
xgkickt··on ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs
I really would have thought we’d have ROP-less compute units or even texture sampling instructions on CPUs by now instead.
xgkickt··on AI is different
I do wonder if the amount they're spending on it is going to be cost effective versus letting humans continue doing the work.
xgkickt··on "This question has been retired"
The farm being a single core Pentium machine with 64MiB of memory, 1Gb HDD, and a 10Mbps network connection that gets powered down each evening.
xgkickt··on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria
Rebalancing the weights.
xgkickt··on A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car
The small print (of my card) mentions a maximum vehicle value. Every time I’ve asked for the vehicle’s value when renting abroad, it’s been higher than the card’s maximum.
xgkickt··on Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity
Sorry, was an offhand remark about solutions that may end up harming us further when applied on a planet-wide scale. How much of this stuff needs to be made to actually have an effect, and with how much energy? When any attempt at reducing CO2 is met with city-sized warehouses full of kW GPUs powered by gas turbines, adding to century’s worth of GHGs you start to feel what is the point of even trying to pretend there’s a way out.
xgkickt··on Two-step system makes plastic from carbon dioxide, water and electricity
I guess mass extinction (via microplastics) works for some planet-saving outcome.
xgkickt··on Only on Nantucket: The Curious Case of the "Stolen" Mercedes
They’d rather spend an extraordinary amount increasing the island’s elevation.
xgkickt··on MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
As one of the images states: “Happy Computing to all, And may all your computing be a Delight!”.
xgkickt··on MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today
Vib Ribbon is one example I can think of that also exhibits that property.
xgkickt··on Nvidia won, we all lost
AMD’s openness has been a positive in the games industry. I only wish they too made ARM based APUs.
xgkickt··on I hacked my clock to control my focus
I use a chess clock, hitting the rocker whenever I get up from my desk, or otherwise interrupted. It’s been useful for quantifying how much time is lost during the day and allow me to “bank” time should I need to step away for a bit.

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xgkickt··on Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit
In games only one console vendor allows you to write shaders in asm, though it is not very productive, especially with RDNA. Reading the compiler output is a good-to-have skill however, for teasing the compiler into better register usage, reducing divergency, identifying problematic folded math, and debugging live GPU hangs.
xgkickt··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Since there are already Kings of both Canada and Denmark, if Trump wants to be a King too, let them settle it the old way.
xgkickt··on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
I haven't looked through the code yet, but could be real/protected mode interop. IME render code back then was typically in asm also.
xgkickt··on FFmpeg School of Assembly Language
Only if using x86-64 IME. Other architectures that don’t require as much shuffling of data are far more legible.
xgkickt··on The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a disaster
I was trying to join a meeting in Teams from the calendar when up popped a “How are you enjoying Calendar” star rating dialog. I’ve never once listed “Office Calendars” amongst things that I enjoy. Much less now with this needy feedback blocking me from entering the meeting.
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