NVIDIA has been struggling in recent years to find use cases for their graphics cards. That’s why they’re pushing towards raytracing, because rasterization has hit its limit and people no longer need to upgrade their GPU for that (they tried pushing towards 8k resolution, but that’s complete BS for screens outside of cinemas). However, most people don’t care about having better reflections and indirect lighting in their games, so they’re struggling to get anywhere in the gaming market. Now NVIDIA is moving into other markets for their cards that don’t involve gamers, and they’re just left as an afterthought.

I don’t think that this will ever change again. Games like DOTA, Fortnite and Minecraft are hugely popular, and they don’t need raytracing at all.

I personally tried going towards fluid simulations for games, because those also need a ton of GPU resources if calculated at runtime (that was the topic of my Master’s thesis). However, there have barely been any games featuring dynamic water. It’s apparently not interesting enough to design games around.

The others are probably still busy installing the fax-to-toot gateways.

If you’re talking SQL, it would be SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY dateposted LIMIT 100.

The most expensive part is probably “not blocked by the user”, which X recently got rid of.

Such an algorithm has to run server-side, since it needs access to the full database of content.

It would be possible to allow users to upload their own algorithms (for example via Web Assembly), but I don’t know about any service that allows for that.

Tesla should mill the car from one solid block of steel.

You only have to cry once a day to power your contact lenses!

Since the antitrust laws don’t exist any more, it’s legal, yes. If you don’t want that, you have to switch to Linux.

But consider the low gravity dances!

First off, Apple licensed the idea from Xerox, they didn’t steal it. Second, Apple lost because they had a badly worded contract with Microsoft for implementing Word for Mac that could be construed to allow them to copy the system’s API and thus UI.

It’s a bit more complex than that. Intel CPUs (to this day) boot in real mode, which is what DOS is using. In this mode, the system only has access to 640k of RAM. Windows 95 and later switch the processor to protected mode, where the system gets access to all of the RAM and also to memory protection features, so processes can’t real and write each other’s memory. However, in this mode it’s impossible to run real mode code, such as the one provided by DOS.

DOS games had a trick where they briefly switched back to real mode to execute DOS functions (mostly reading and writing to disk) and then back to protected mode, but I don’t think that Windows 95 did that.

Of course the air traffic controllers should be listened to, since they can predict the future tendencies.

I think railroads have less safety margin in their system, mostly due to having one dimension fewer available. A plane can (and automatically does) stop a collision by ascending or descending. A train can’t do that.

I’m not fixing anything, I’m just saying that “everybody panic!” is premature.

I’m not blaming NVIDIA for this, it’s just bad that the two jobs of creating cards and creating rendering tech are combined within a single company.

Yes, but the “everybody panic!” vibe the article is trying to convey is way too dramatic.

Based on the videos of near misses on YouTube, the safety margins are so enormous that even an event classified as near miss is not really recognizable by a layperson, because the two airplanes are nowhere near each other.

This is very exciting. Unfortunately, AMD card won’t be able to benefit from this, making the GPU market ever more fragmented.

Here in the neighbor country of Austria, the solar growth is limited by the installation capacity currently. There are backlogs of two years for nearly all installation companies, as far as I’ve heard. Prices are also crazy high due to this.

Those labels are there because people made a quick buck suing the companies when they messed up, not to protect the stupid customers.

If the courts would apply a reasonable level of common sense, they wouldn’t exist.

True, good point. As far as I know, it does turn itself off if it detects something it can’t handle, though. The problem with cross traffic is that it obviously can’t detect it, otherwise turning itself off would already be a way of handling it.

Proximity detection is far easier up in the air, especially if you’re not bound by the weird requirement to only use visible spectrum cameras.

(To make things clear, I’m just defending the engineers there who had to work within these constraints. All of this is a pure management failure.)