drspod

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[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

AI is definitely capable of making great music right now.

Got any links?

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

!esolangs@programming.dev

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • Does your phone automatically join open wifi networks?
  • Do you have worse cell signal than usual in this store?
[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

But website ads don’t get the ad money like YouTube.

Their website doesn't even have ads

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

You can see the planned specs for the two different models on their indiegogo page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/emudeck-machines-retro-emulation-console-pc#/

I'm guessing they have a pre-selected all-in-one board (designed for mobile devices) and they're just designing a chassis around it. There's still a lot that could go wrong, but it's a bit more achievable than actually designing, testing and assembling your own board.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You need to find a schematic for your car's electronics in order to get a proper solution for what you're trying to do. I would be particularly cautious about connecting a relay coil to some unknown wiring. The back e.m.f. from a discharging relay coil could easily fry a microcontroller if it happens to be connected to one.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Slightly OT, but for these instructions that do pick range of bits, add, insert into range, does x86 have dedicated silicon in the ALU to implement this process or is it implemented in microcode? If it's the latter then how can it be faster than the equivalent unrolled instructions on a RISC ISA?

This is more of a general question about how microcode can be faster than using separate instructions, which is something I have never quite understood. Any CPU engineers that can enlighten me?

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 weeks ago

So that would make it 1.4m in the last two weeks which makes a big difference.

It would have been nice for the article to actually discuss these specifics. I'm not sure what we're supposed to take away from it.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

He doesn't actually do the calculation required to give an estimate of what that number is.

Going on the stats in the article:

  • assuming that Wukong has just surpassed the revenue of Steam Deck in the chart so we can treat their revenues as equal
  • assuming Wukong price is $49.99 and average Steam Deck price is $500
  • using the stat that 14m copies of Wukong sold on Steam so far

that would imply ~1.4m Steam Decks sold

The article does go on to say:

Keep in mind that by November last year, Valve said the Steam Deck had already sold "multiple millions".

So really this (very rough estimate) is telling us nothing that we didn't know already. The top seller charts are showing exactly what we would have expected to see.

[–] drspod@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know my real age, I have a birth certificate.

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