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mircea_popescu: aha. imagine that thing, with individually wired pixels, the cable coming out of its back as thick as the fucking viewport.
mircea_popescu: and if i want to do a slideshow i do a for loop, and the machine cycles through the bmps as fast as memory updates, which is to say i get 2GHz ie 2 bn fps.
mircea_popescu: basically printing the screen with tits should be cat tits.bmp > screen0
mircea_popescu: sure. but in your hands not in the fucking crazy chip.
mircea_popescu: this (xy) thing is a raster artefact. i'm not fucking scanning the pixels.
mircea_popescu: pixels really are just color(rgb), 3 bytes. the xy is implicit.
mircea_popescu: do you understand that the "graphics" ad-hoc card-programming was more code than the actual game for most studios in the period ?
mircea_popescu: just the issues of bad blipping, flipped buffers, jesus almighty.
mircea_popescu: taking the god damned gpu hardware out of the computer would improve it immensely.
mircea_popescu: the insanity that occured. the errors. the nvida game developer dessant teams. the whole decade.
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't think you appreciate the horror of directx/opengl, for blessed lack of experience. but if you wish to get spooked and not be able to sleep ever again, do review the history of opengl 2006-2016 in context.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even a modest 1024x768 screen would be 2mb which is not bad for memory inspectionz either
mircea_popescu: by now "gpu" can move on to its proper niche as... hash engine (ie, what in period lingo would be "math coprocessor") and the video can go back to being straight up dac
mircea_popescu: anyway - a tightly coupled video-ram bridge would even do away with the dumbass "drivers" and etc.
mircea_popescu: if i want to see a 1mb page of "ram" on my display whop's to prevent me. "real time" wtf is that.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : the whole "what part of buffer to redraw" and the assorted nonsense comes from a time of scanning crts. i would be very much interested to see computing hardware built around a lcd paradigm. which is to say : no more hdds ; everything is flash rom, the "hdd", the "ram", the "display". arrays of x by y cells is all.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's some literary talent in the idle fucker, who'd have guessed ?
mircea_popescu: so today we find ben_vulpes has taken a celerity vow, which is like a chastity vow ("you shall not fucke") but it goes "you shall not worke for empire"
mircea_popescu: in honesty i always found this entire "reorder it by timeline" bulky and ineffectual. my mental teeth always did this wire clenching by itself
mircea_popescu: kristi doesn't have any sql anything on her computor ?
mircea_popescu: bout same as current cunts. there's a reason all that's available to the general population on dating sites is well used 40+yos
mircea_popescu: possibly because you're wasting your time with internet dorks who aren't involved in asic market ?
mircea_popescu: let it be pointed out that it's the best anal fissure curative agent.
mircea_popescu: and in totally unrelated news, hyaluronic acid is not really available this side od the pond ?
mircea_popescu: dude... so you sit down to read an article, like a phrase in it, keep going only to notice you're actually mentioned.
mircea_popescu: "Either a priapic clown or an embalmed witch are going to be running this country next year, and all I have is a case of fermented corn syrup." << lol!
mircea_popescu: ahahahaha it is up to bank to decide if it wants to offer services to rich merchant "based on its risk appetite" ? is it also open for bank to decide if it wants to offer services to muslims etc ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, kurdish zone population swelled 30% in the past year, all civil servants and pashmerga salaries are in arears, and oil prices stay low.
mircea_popescu: mats btw how's mosul ? the beobachter surprisingly speaks of "tough resistance" and "slowed advance" ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz... hillary shit-ton is going into "digital currencies". VEN!
mircea_popescu: his declared jp morgan fortunes were 500k to 1mn ; the minimum net worth for the 4147-20 "saphire preferred signature extra hurr durr" is 25mn
mircea_popescu: Framedragger amusingly, he didn't officially report having enough with them to allow him to get that.
mircea_popescu: anyone remember that line where asciilifeform said something like "dorks prove cryptosystem security by the theorem that if it looks complicated to them it probably is complicated enough" ?
mircea_popescu: certainly easier. and once oyu have it in, adding the other adds no utility.
mircea_popescu: very simple to show it's better : stale-while-revalidate will show arbitrarily old data to some users ; periodic-recalculate will never show data older than the period.
mircea_popescu: the solution where it's simply computed with some frequency is better.
mircea_popescu: so could the cache be reconstructed houry or somesuch to avoid this ?
mircea_popescu: now it does. what hapopens i suspect is that the queue for the cache becomes overlong, then when a requyest hits the machine starts processing it, takes > 30 s or w/e it is, the connection timeouts
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform phuctor/stats just times out. i suspect this happens A LOT. nething we can do about it ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. german state/govt has a point : peons are replaceable. if they won't fuck - there's orcs somewhere that will.
mircea_popescu: whole steaming pile of droppings is predicated on "don't get involved and let us run things" after all. match made in heaven.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but usg is always very keen on counting the jwzs on its own lists. nixon's "silent majority" and all that.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger they're pretty much on turkey's kill list. seems unlikely there's gonna be that many to celebrate 2020.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what junk is in them. changes every year. maybe handicrafts, or w/e.
mircea_popescu: in other news, the b2b cocksucking season is open early this year. if anyone wants to receive those inane gift baskets corps keep trying to send on my behalf, drop me a line (with your physical address).
mircea_popescu: if there isn't any infrastructure, the difference between "extremists" and "civilised people" is nil. much like when there aren't any balls, the difference between usg presidential hopefuls is nil.
mircea_popescu: lol someone's been reading the prev shotgun quadcopter thread ? :)