User's banner
Avatar

PaX [comrade/them, they/them]

PaX@hexbear.net
Joined
113 posts • 2.6K comments

Very tired nerd who doesn’t know how to speak correctly

Ask me about floppa, Plan 9, or computer architecture or anything computers really (if you want)

The only zoomer qualified to operate an RBMK reactor

Researcher of rare and powerful beanis

:cat-vibing:

Direct message

I was writing something much longer but I started actually reading about the PS3’s memory map and uhh

The memory pools aren’t really split* orrr… I guess it depends what you mean by “split”. The RSX can actually access the Cell’s XDR memory, it’s just somewhat slower because the RSX isn’t directly connected to the XDR memory bus so it has to ask the Cell BE to make accesses. For comparison, it seems the Xbox 360’s main memory is connected to the GPU which results in longer latencies for the CPU to access memory but apparently Microsoft partially mitigated this by the addition of more cache memory for the CPU.

*https://www.psdevwiki.com/ps3/RSX (scroll to: “RSX Memorymap”)

permalink
report
reply

Good post, it really is just different types of computers (although game consoles continue to get less and less interesting architecturally :( )

Also I started writing a response to your original post (interesting question tbh) that is quickly scaling out of control

permalink
report
parent
reply

Ohh, I must not have watched enough cuz I only remember the mega-popular surgeon with Joe Brandon syndrome (won’t retire even though his brain is melting) at the start of the show

Just imagining a Dhar Mann medical drama show now lol

ARROGANT DOCTOR does bad thing, INSTANTLY REGRETS IT

They show covid spreading via a green cloud that looks like this

Lmao, I see

permalink
report
parent
reply

I only vaguely remember it tbh

I thought it was weird and bad that they were doing the Dr. House thing again of an extremely toxic doctor who abuses his residents but also is a cool-badass type guy who goes up against the medical establishment or something and is always right

Especially because the episode this shows up on does a two time-line thing of HOSPITAL RAVAGED BY COVID and Future Wedding Where Everything is Nice

Lol, interesting juxtaposition

Did they pull it off? It sounds like it could be good

permalink
report
parent
reply

You said to @culpritus@hexbear.net that Grey’s Anatomy was a similar show so I started thinking about recent medical dramas

permalink
report
parent
reply

NO WAY WTF

Total guess lol

I watched some of it like a few months ago and thought it was pretty mid tbh

permalink
report
parent
reply