this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2025
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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for anyone reading this comment hoping for an actual eli5, the "technical POV" here is nonsense bullshit. you don't program GPUs with assembly.
the rest of the comment is the poster filling in bad comparisons with worse details
literally looks like LLM-generated generic slop: confidently incorrect without even a shred of thought
For anyone reading this comment, that person doesnt know anything about assembly or C.
this user is just too smart for the average awful systems poster to deal with, and has been sent on his way to a more intellectual lemmy
you know I was having a slow day yesterday cause I only just caught on: you think we program GPUs in plain fucking C? absolute dipshit no notes
the wildest bit is that one could literally just … go do the thing. like you could grab the sdk and run through the tutorial and actually have babby’s first gpu program in not too long at all[0], with all the lovely little bits of knowledge that entails
but nah, easier to just make some nonsense up out of thirdhand conversations misheard out of a gamer discord talking about a news post of a journalist misunderstanding a PR statement, and then confidently spout that synthesis
[0] - I’m eliding “make the cuda toolchain run” for argument of simplicity. could just rent a box that has it, for instance
yep, clueless. can't tell a register apart from a soprano. and allocs? the memory's right there in the machine, it has it already! why does it need an alloc!
fuckin' dipshit
next time you want to do a stupid driveby, pick somewhere else
Sufficiently advanced skiddies are indistinguishable from malloc