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maybe put some of that R&D budget towards making new CPUs? instead of just skylake again?

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the fact that intel is paying people to use their chips, is unable to shrink their process sizes (because they're still using skylake from 2015) and is just worse at using their own micro-architecture IP than AMD is just hilarious to me

@tom given that intel is currently paying people to use their rebadged, overclocked skylake chips i think you'll get your wish soon

@body@mastodon.social homestuck was free and tapped into the broadening audience of video game understanders and a growing culture of bitter absurdism. It was the right thing at the right time to get extremely popular. It even has the thing where you can sort yourself into a fictional ingroup

@body@mastodon.social add a mode to tine that just physically routes the sound through some bad components and call it mick gordon mode

would be cool to just write whatever works and have a computer figure out the computer part, you know?

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won't fix bad code but it could make mediocre code a bit snappier

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I'm generally dubious about having machine learning do everything (you put shit in and shit's what you'll get out) but one place where that could be really useful is a compiler/code-optimiser that just attempts to produce a faster but otherwise identical version of the input code

@envgen if anything get into baseball cheating, which is far more interesting than the sport

@envgen im an expert at being bored by sports and baseball is one of the few ball sports I can't fathom anyone enjoying. its the most boring use of superhuman strength and reflexes ive ever encountered

hello friends and enemies, would you like a halo 3 stream tonight?
I have never played it before because I'm very poor

@jk unfortunately for the emulation community the N64 is not structured like a PC OR a particularly effective games console

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