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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The PS2 had full 128 bits DMA bus, and full 128 bits registers. IIRC Dreamcast too.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

He’s right though. It would be the same instructions but bigger potential numbers. Faster in some use cases, slower in others. But it would look the same.

Unless you can describe your question in a more precise and technical manner, this is similar to asking how would it feel to the touch…

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

There are already special instruction sets that deal with 128 and up bits. Many SIMD. AVX-512 for example deals with 512 bits at a time.

At this point the advantage is parallelization and specialization of operations. AVX can be used for video encoding/decoding for example, or crypto, ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The resolution is virtual. If this can attain the same pitch/ppi as your eye can see, then you can create infinite monitors around you and you can switch around by turning your head. A very different experience than physical monitors. That’s what I meant, but it’s also what Apple is selling.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (11 children)

They’re selling it as a working aid, and monitor replacement. Like an iPad with infinite display size and resolution. I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t just send emails and have video conferences with it all day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Depends on what dead means. Digg is still around.

I’d rather ask the question; how many weekly active users have Reddit lost in the past two months. It will likely take months until we know.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Worldwide. So you’re competing with people sewing shoes at 1$ per hour.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

vs Hyperion:

Dan Simmons: We’re headed for some bleak imperialism nonsense but humanity’s salvation will come from serving AIs we haven’t discovered yet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m an engineer with trade secrets on his laptop. I’ve heard of dozens of people getting laptops stolen from their cars that they left for like ten or fifteen minutes.

The chances are slims, but if it happens I’m in deep trouble whether those secrets leak of not. I’m not taking the risk. I’m encrypting my disk.

It’s not like there’s a difference in performance nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

/serious If you try with a non-human user agent I would expect it to return something machine readable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nah, clearly all HR are orcs. I once got a “zug zug” as an answer.

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