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New comment by RantyDave in "Every GPU That Mattered"

RantyDave — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:51:13 +0000

The Nvidia NV1 mattered even if it was a misstep.

I'd say Voodoo 3 mattered because it killed 3dfx.

And the Matrox Parhelia mattered for much the same reason.

New comment by RantyDave in "Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI"

RantyDave — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:19:08 +0000

Ahhh, so is this a chip "more optimised" for connecting GPU's to reality ... or are they skipping the GPU step entirely? Are GPU's only for training now?

New comment by RantyDave in "Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL"

RantyDave — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:03:33 +0000

Damn, that's really impressive.

New comment by RantyDave in "Swift on Android: Full Native App Development Now Possible"

RantyDave — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:33:39 +0000

Likewise. It took me a while to "get" flutter but now I'm here, I 'aint leaving.

New comment by RantyDave in "1.5 TB of VRAM on Mac Studio – RDMA over Thunderbolt 5"

RantyDave — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 03:21:32 +0000

Couldn't you "just" use a honking fast SSD and set it as a swap drive?

New comment by RantyDave in "A Love Letter to FreeBSD"

RantyDave — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:56:19 +0000

"a thousand-day uptime shouldn’t be folklore"

I reboot a lot. Mostly I want to know that should the system need to reboot for whatever reason, that it will all come back up again. I run a very lightly loaded site and I highly doubt anybody notices the minute (or so) loss of service caused by rebooting.

Pretty sure I don't feel bad about this.

New comment by RantyDave in "A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue (2022)"

RantyDave — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 03:52:06 +0000

This is one of the things that changed when we moved from SATA to NVME. SATA has only a few "in flight" instructions and NVME does 64k.

Begs a question though: are there any NVME "spinny rust" disks?

New comment by RantyDave in "A programmer-friendly I/O abstraction over io_uring and kqueue (2022)"

RantyDave — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 03:49:04 +0000

There was a brief fascination with user mode TCP over DPDK (or similar). What happened with that? Can you get similar performance with QUIC? Does io_uring make it all a moot point?

New comment by RantyDave in "Basalt Woven Textile"

RantyDave — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:58:51 +0000

Quite. I don't see why we need this in a world that already has Kevlar, Dyneema and Carbon.

New comment by RantyDave in "Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used"

RantyDave — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:16:40 +0000

Thing is, I have stopped expecting Xcode to be any good.

Actual native macOS/iOS development got beaten senseless when the App Store made it clear that "unsustainably low" was the expected price point for third party developers; and that Apple were treating the store more or less as a market research exercise and good ideas absolutely would be stolen.

So it's an internal tool, really. And we're I-guess-lucky that they document it and release it for the proles.

New comment by RantyDave in "Django 6.0 alpha 1 released"

RantyDave — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:57:26 +0000

A built in task framework? Good BYE celery, you will not be missed.

New comment by RantyDave in "The future of 32-bit support in the kernel"

RantyDave — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 01:36:47 +0000

Zephyr is not an OS in the conventional sense, it's more a library you link to so the application can "go".

New comment by RantyDave in "Can cheaper lasers handle short distances?"

RantyDave — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:52:09 +0000

Sorry, waveguide? For light? I thought that’s what fibre was.

New comment by RantyDave in "Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States"

RantyDave — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:52:23 +0000

And New Zealand

New comment by RantyDave in "Shutting Down Clear Linux OS"

RantyDave — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 06:12:21 +0000

You have to remember it comes with a phenomenal debt load.

New comment by RantyDave in "What went wrong with wireless USB"

RantyDave — Sun, 04 May 2025 08:55:58 +0000

Awesome. Now do WiMax.

New comment by RantyDave in "WASM will replace containers"

RantyDave — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 04:06:29 +0000

OMG I hated DCOM so thoroughly.

New comment by RantyDave in "Court of Milan orders Cloudflare to block ‘piracy shield’ domains, IP addresses"

RantyDave — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:16:52 +0000

I'm sure someone in Cloudflare did the math before they went to court and decided their business in Italy was worth saving. If it was, say, the Channel Islands they'd probably just tell them to stuff it.

New comment by RantyDave in "Researchers get 'compact' hard X-ray machine to work"

RantyDave — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 23:31:49 +0000

One nm wavelength? So this could be used as a source for photolithography?

New comment by RantyDave in "Rackspace Spot – Rackspace – Pricing Page"

RantyDave — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 07:46:59 +0000

Rackspace? Wooowww. Tonight I’m going to party like it’s 1999.