LeFantome

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by LeFantome 12d ago
I don’t know how fast it is but that does not really follow. They added those instructions so that Linux would boot. Linux assumes Pentium and no longer boots on 386 or even 486 for the latest kernels. The presence of instructions first add
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by LeFantome 12d ago
That one is offering Pentium Pro and SSE3 emulation. Not too shabby.
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by LeFantome 17d ago
Time to rename Mercator the “Map of America”.
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by LeFantome 18d ago
Marriages too
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by LeFantome 23d ago
It is right there in the name. Software had always been one big project with a dedicated team to build something one off, like building a hospital. Every customer commissioned their own software. Microsoft recognized that the future was wri
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by LeFantome 27d ago
> RISC-V fragmentation bites again... Wrong. What fragmentation? Find me a 64 bit RISC-V chip you want to run Python on that will not execute an RV64GC binary. The issue is not fragmentation but ecosystem maturity. The exact same situati
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by LeFantome 27d ago
Vector extensions are the biggest gap. That is going to make a pretty big difference for some stuff.
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by LeFantome 27d ago
Great point. But QEMU is no longer faster than real hardware for the latest RISC-V chips. You are right though that QEMU is probably faster than anything only capable of RV64GC (lacking RVA23). So QEMU would probably be a great option for t
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by LeFantome 27d ago
I imagine that their issue is reviewer bandwidth. If all submissions were high-quality, it would probably work. But that is probably unlikely. Maybe the project could host a searchable directory of AI contributions hosted at external GitHub
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by LeFantome 27d ago
The problem is, Linux is improving too quickly for Haiku. I have been looking forward to running Haiku as a daily driver for years. And it is almost there. It may even be good enough now for many people. Modern browsers really help. But I w
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by LeFantome 27d ago
Lurking eyes perceive Your clever, veiled slight, well played. I tip my fedora.
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by LeFantome 27d ago
I think there should maybe be shadow repositories available for Open Source projects where things like your driver could be contributed. I get why Haiku does not want to deal with it do this is not a criticism. But I have also used AI to po
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by LeFantome 28d ago
Thank you!
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
Why does any country need a deal with the US? Canada is more integrated than anybody and they are walking away. Canada believes productive trade with the rest of the world is better than a bad deal with the US. China was prepared to do the
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
I think it can be Europe, Canada, Australia, and South Korea. The world has the technology. Canada has the resources and the manufacturing capacity. Europe has the money. It can be done. Look at Ukraine. They are becoming a military superpo
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
You are both right. The world capitulates more than it should. But the world is also moving away and building contingencies. The world needs leadership. And Canada is helping with that. I do not think that reciprocal tariffs are actually th
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
> I'd expect Raspberry Pi 4 levels of performance Well, there is some speculation regarding these chips so no sense arguing too much about it. That said, the SpacemiT K3 is already faster than a Pi 4 and even substantially faster th
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
The SiFive, Tenstorrent, Rivos (Meta), and Qualcomm RISC-V chips are not fabricated in China. I mean, Chinese suppliers may license their cores of course. But even Chinese RISC-V makers were going to use TSMC until US sanctions got in the w
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
History tells us that open standards pretty much always beat out proprietary ones in the end. You cannot buy the company backing RISC-V to take out the competition. And if a RISC-V company stumbles, the ecosystem carries on. But if even one
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
The first Ascalon silicon, Atlantis, will not be the latest process. As you say, that will impact performance. But there are plans for other chips to use newer process, and of course you can license and do what you like. The point is that R
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
> China was investing heavily in RISC-V, which implies that either they're going to have to settle for permanently crippled perf Not quite. RISC-V application class processors are a new development. They are starting from behind but
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
SiFive P870 and Tenstorrent Ascalon are pretty much Zen 3. Tenstorrent is supposed to be releasing silicon soon. You can license their cores now. SiFive says customers have the P870 already but I am not sure who those are.
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by LeFantome 1mo ago
If you got “freedom with $$”, there would have been no ARM/Qualcomm lawsuit.
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by LeFantome 3mo ago
https://wordtsar.ca/
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by LeFantome 3mo ago
Current trends indicate that regular Windows 10 may as well.
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by LeFantome 3mo ago
I bought a 2013 MacBook Air for $50 two years ago to take on a backpacking trip. It runs Linux and I use it all the time. I had a video meeting on it this morning. You run OpenCode with Big Pickle on it with decent performance. So you can e
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by LeFantome 3mo ago
I have been using this for a couple of weeks and it has been very stable. Other than xfwl4 itself, the rest of the desktop has been the released XFCE 4.20 components. Already it is a better way of running XFCE on Wayland than using somethin
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by LeFantome 3mo ago
Are you trying to tell me KDE requires you to configure wifi at the command line? No. No, it absolutely does not. I have used Plasma on at least four different distros in the past 2 months and that has not been true for any of them.
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by LeFantome 3mo ago
Looking forward to GLM-5.2 in OpenCode. But a lot of other people are going to happily shell out for Opus 4.8 at way higher prices.
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by LeFantome 3mo ago
He certainly had to do a bit of heavy lifting but it is great seeing FreeBSD becoming usable on laptop. I may consider trying to spin up FreeBSD on a non-essential machine just to give it a spin for a bit.

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