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I take that there isn’t much motivation in moving to 128 because it’s big enough; it’s only 8 cycles (?) to fill a 512 (that can’t be right?).
8 cycles would be an eternity on a modern CPU, they can achieve multiple register sized loads per cycle.
If we do see a CPU with 128 bit addresses anytime soon, it’ll be something like CHERI, where the extra bits are used for flags.
I think CHERI is the only real attempt at a 128 bit system, but it uses the upper 64 bits for metadata, so the address space is still 64 bits.
He named the recovery barges after sci fi spaceships (modern sci fi, not old nazi stuff)
It’s pretty clear to me that Elon’s never read a Culture novel, they’re antithetical to him.
Not to the same extent, part of the point of AT is that everything shares the same feed, while the AP relays only offer the view of co-operating servers.
Now Mastodon does offer its own streaming API that lets you see every post on a given server, and at least the fedibuzz relay offers that as well, so if you use that API endpoint you’ll see every post of every server it knows about in real time.
A lot of the GPU drivers back then sucked since it was a rather large departure from how stuff worked under XP.
Like in one release we went from a model where only a single app could use the 3D bits of the GPU at once, to the system itself relying on them to present the UI and letting multiple apps share it at the same time.
Not really, with a GPU compositor it’s basically free.
That’s a fantastic recreation
They already exist, they range from smaller webring like relays to ones that tie the major nodes together.
And snac2 on a 4G hotspot, https://snac-mifi.vea.st/chloe/p/-1225603012.1737666104
If somebody is playing a game with the gamma set to 3 and brightness at 120%, and they’re still finding it too dark, they need to check if their monitor is actually turned on.
Jack Dorsey may have had lofty goals for Bluesky, but he doesn’t even work there anymore.
Which is a point in Bluesky’s favour.
It supports it, but it’s opt-in by apps.
Enabling compression is another option (Though with a speed and size penalty), it’s user visible at least.
His personal LLC is called “Excession”, considering some of the plot points in that book I doubt he enjoyed it at all, it’s just “nerd set dressing”.
At the time it was just an ad-lib by Jason Issacs, guessing he wished on a monkey’s paw for it to make sense in context.
There is, but it’s at high quality levels. If you’re using WebP for thumbnails or other lower quality situations (Which was the original intended use) then WebP will give you better quality than JPEG for a given filesize.
For lossless uses it’s even better, the format is much more limited than PNG, but in the common cases it beats it.