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Re:Keeping Rotary Alive: Mazda's Rotary Engine in the Age of... by Narishma on Saturday March 30, 2024 @01:40PM (#39876882)
That's not what they're saying. They're talking about things that couldn't be done due to performance issues but are now possible thanks to improved hardware.
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Re:Keeping Rotary Alive: Mazda's Rotary Engine in the Age of... by Ntrails on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:27PM (#39877341)
10 years ago we designed a system to approximate a chunk of maths we did not have time to do every second, too slow.

If you started from scratch you'd never even consider doing anything other than the original obvious "correct" maths. Approximation be damned.

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Re:Keeping Rotary Alive: Mazda's Rotary Engine in the Age of... by wredue on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:17PM (#39877251)
Software developers rarely question the hardware they are developing on/for. Unless you were developing in the pentium and earlier era, it has almost definitely not been true for you that “the hardware is not capable of running this idea” (ignore certain obvious high performance sectors).
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Re:Keeping Rotary Alive: Mazda's Rotary Engine in the Age of... by marginalia_nu on Monday April 01, 2024 @04:33PM (#39898925)
Dunno, there are some pretty large exceptions to that.

The AI boom is almost entirely a thing due to advancements in hardware. You simply couldn't build ChatGPT with 2014 hardware.

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