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- Comment on Motherboards and systems with China's Loongson CPUs now shipping to US customers — options start from $373 for a DTX board with processor and cooler 8 hours ago:
Apparently the instruction set is off-brand MIPS64?!
- Comment on Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more 1 day ago:
I’m not an American but my impression is the Supreme Court is mainly designed as a last bulwark to ensure the US never under any circumstances ever does anything remotely good and this isn’t exactly improving that impression.
- Comment on 'SuperSega' FPGA Console Will Play Genesis/Mega Drive, Master System, Saturn And Dreamcast Games | Time Extension 2 days ago:
I’m a bit worried about their choice of name
- Comment on Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
Sweden’s mostly on Meta Messenger
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 5 days ago:
Can you (or a human) expand NPM, presumably not the Node Package Manager?
- Comment on 'One of the wildest Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding 1 week ago:
Has anyone been able to find an actual description of what this does? I clicked two layers deep and neither explains the details. It does sound like they’re doing CPU scheduling in the hardware, which is cool and makes some sense, but the descriptions are too vague to explain what the hell this is except “more parallelism goes brrrr” and it’s not clear to me why current GPUs aren’t already that.
- Comment on Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week 1 week ago:
Oh no we’ve gone full circle
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
Shows how much I know! (Nothing)
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
I assume we need a lot of breakthroughs to even have useful quantum computing at all, but sure.
Isn’t quantum encryption interesting for end users?
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
Wow they just…disabled all RAM over 3 GB because some drivers had hard coded some mapped memory? Jfc
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
The comments on this one really surprised me. I thought the kinds of people who hang out on XDA-developers were developers. I assumed that developers had a much better understanding of computer architecture than the people commenting (who of course may not be representative of all readers).
I also get the idea that the writer is being vague not to simplify but because they genuinely don’t know the details, which feels even worse.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
Interesting! Do you have a link to a write up about this? I don’t know anything about the windows memory manager
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
Presumably you’d have a QPU in your regular computer, like with other accelerators for graphics etc