@vertigo that's awesome, I was sooo happy to hear that the project was still happening when we crossed-paths here :)
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 15:54:56 EDT 
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 15:53:43 EDT
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yes :)
If you had an interconnect that supported RDMA you could even have remote processes drawing directly into the video buffer w/o local CPU intervention.
I'm sure there's people doing things like this but I I'm just not deep enough into display tech to know :)
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 15:51:58 EDT
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@h always inspiring and I can't say how helpful it is to have other people to talk to who are interested in these things :)
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 15:50:44 EDT
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I don't have much more specific criticisms, just that display seems to be a monolithic thing that's hard to apply the techniques I'm familiar with to.
It probably doesn't help that personally I pretty low requirements for display tech :)
What I'm thinking about is how X originally worked, where what was on-screen could be composted from local sources or across the network. I know this has downsides, but it lets you break things down in cool ways.
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 15:44:38 EDT
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@garbados holy hollerith batman!
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 15:42:22 EDT
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One thing I'd like to see re: display is a less "tightly-bound" approach. What this is I'm not exactly sure, but it seems like most display techniques have little abstraction between the various layers which limits how you go about optimizing their performance.
I understand that this is mostly out of necessity, but it's an area that I think could benefit from some new thinking architecture-wise.
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 15:32:47 EDT
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I think this makes a lot more sense than focusing on a fast CPU. We're already seeing the limits of that strategy, and if you can get good performance by optimizing the other aspects of the system you'll always have "crank up the CPU" in your back pocket if you need it :)
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 15:27:32 EDT
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Yeah, we'll move as fast as we can sustain. I've tried to push faster & harder in the past and something is always lost or destroyed.
I have to learn this lesson the hard way over and over it seems :)
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 12:33:45 EDT
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Got an email from AT&T today with a subject line of "What's better than 1 new iPhone?"
Zero, zero new iPhones.
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 23:39:26 EDT
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I just read an article about the dog kennels the American government is keeping children in. Chain-link fences inside emptied-out big-box stores, blankets on concrete floors.
If you treated your own child this way you would go to prison, but the government does this because immigrants are somehow a threat more evil than treating children like animals.
I look forward to supporting whoever comes to liberate this country in the spirit of the French resistance.
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 16:37:03 EDT
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โComputers are not the thing, they are the thing that gets us to the thing.โ
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jun-2018 00:42:30 EDT
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If you like the art, but you donโt like the artist...
Steal the art.
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 17:23:37 EDT
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FOSS & smashing capitalism; two great tastes that taste great together!
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 12:10:14 EDT
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If nothing else, todays events re-enforce the importance of creating, using and supporting free software.
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 10:09:43 EDT
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That's a great point. This isn't a technical problem, it's a social one, and we don't do as much as we should to give engineers a social education.
I only came about mine through trying to solve my own feelings of alienation :)
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 10:08:39 EDT
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@gabe That's the worst part for me, is that when I try to tell them this they treat me like I'm naive or just a FOSS bigot.
But I was a Microsoft consultant for 10 years, I know those motherfuckers inside and out.
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 04-Jun-2018 10:05:24 EDT
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As much as I'd like to blame capitalism, I'm not sure that's the whole thing here.
Microsoft is an abusive company, but they go in cycles so that every 5 years of so there is a fresh set of users who think they have "changed", only to get bitten once MS has them in a corner.
I've lived through at least 4 generations of this. Almost nobody learns.
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 30-May-2018 14:41:38 EDT
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I saw the best cpus of my generation destroyed by patents, starving hysterical cache-misses,
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 24-May-2018 00:42:04 EDT
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I got an email from GitHub today that said they are locking me out of my account due to a suspicious login.
Well I guess thatโs one more closed, proprietary, centralized system that saved me the trouble of deleting my account ๐
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jjg (jjg@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 23-May-2018 10:51:10 EDT
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@Azure the only explanation I can some up with as to why auth is such a mess is that there is probably a lot of money being made selling things to people to avoid dealing with it :)
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