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by bfrog 1y ago
And yet... the world keeps proving Intel and AMD wrong on this premise with highly efficient Arm parts. While sure, there's bound to be improvements to make on x86 ultimately its a variable length opcode encoding with a complex decoder
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by bfrog 1y ago
One emergency visit is like 10k here now. Best of luck.
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by bfrog 1y ago
Let me know when the legal quagmire around AI generated junk is sorted and it can run reasonably on a local desktop not on a cloud. I might give it a go again. So far it’s been trash that requires cloud access with questionable legality aro
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by bfrog 1y ago
I've yet to see AI produce anything that wasn't hot garbage. I'm perfectly fine using Rust or C without carpal tunnel issues depending on the context.
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by bfrog 1y ago
The question to ask is... why have the junior be a chatgpt interface if this is the case.
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by bfrog 1y ago
AI is hot garbage being used as if its a hammer and everything is a nail. The sooner this house of cards collapses the sooner real value can be gained from it by using it as a tool to appropriately assist. But we're in the mega hype ph
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by bfrog 1y ago
Go nearly gave me carpal tunnel with the vast quantities and almost the same but not quite the same repetitive code patterns it brings along with it. I’d never use it again.
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by bfrog 1y ago
So Qualcomm continues its Qualcomm behavior.
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by bfrog 1y ago
Hey I know a few started up former hw design people that worked at intel just prior... maybe you've all heard of tenstorrent?
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by bfrog 1y ago
Intel is absolutely in a death spiral. Not much else to say. They are cutting cost with no real plan on growth if they are saying they won't invest in the foundry anymore. Foundry was a solid play by Pat, really their only play. Instea
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by bfrog 1y ago
Any athlete really knows this to be true. You don't lose weight running/lifting/biking, you lose it in the kitchen. Multi-day hiking forces the issue as you have to carry the kitchen on your back.
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by bfrog 1y ago
This is why it’s worth paying for email not at Google. It’s not expensive. You could self host but that’s a nuisance I’m happy to pay someone for. Search sucks even when using English. It fails to find emails I know have certain words in th
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by bfrog 1y ago
The language is highly productive, it’s pragmatic enough. There’s no perfect language until our brains can directly describe what we want a machine to do without intermediary translation layers like C.
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by bfrog 1y ago
I might be alone, but I miss the ridiculously simple all manual cars/trucks with crank windows, 5 speed and a clutch, and just the simplest damn interior. I don't want all the damn gadgets, those things inevitably break and then c
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by bfrog 1y ago
AI slop is coming in all forms. I see people using AI for code reviews on github now and they are net negative leading people to do the wrong things.
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by bfrog 1y ago
I have a fundamental fear that Apple will lose itself the day it chases profits with Ads. If I wanted Ad spam I would've used Google.
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by bfrog 1y ago
The republican playbook continues… profit for their family, friends, and donors at the expense everyone. Tax cuts aren’t needed, we already have relatively low taxes. Taxing all the ways rich dipshits work around taxes is very much needed.
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by bfrog 1y ago
I too can cast pointers to memcpy'ed C structs. What I can't do in a short order is generate language agnostic descriptors in an IDL that then gets converted to the language of choice to send/recv messages over a wire or file
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by bfrog 1y ago
It's another Uber moment for VC. The bullshit ends as soon as becoming a functioning business suddenly takes precedence, and the real costs start to come out.
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by bfrog 1y ago
Cheap by what measure? Surely not by the carbon footprint these large capital intense datacenters are going up in droves to support them? Surely not given by the revenue being generated by one silicon design company at the moment? I think t
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by bfrog 1y ago
he was a lobbyist as fcc chair too if you watch what he voted for
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by bfrog 1y ago
US carriers are the absolute worst trying to squeeze every penny while the service has become worse. Flew through Japan on a Japanese carrier and the difference was insane. Japanese carrier was customer centric at every step.
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by bfrog 1y ago
Why bundle redis and not another embedded kv store like lmdb?
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by bfrog 1y ago
“Don’t promote” sigh
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by bfrog 1y ago
Guix not supporting non-free packages out of the box is the only real issue I have and that’s directly tied to the gnu origins. If guix were as pragmatic as NixOS and nixpkgs then I don’t think I’d have anything to say, lisp is way nicer.
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by bfrog 1y ago
Unless it becomes a typed language with clearer syntax around what is what, it’s painful at the scale of nixpkgs and nix without nixpkgs just isn’t all that useful.
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by bfrog 1y ago
I’ve tried a few times now, it’s great when you don’t have to actually write nix yourself. At scale though the typeless dictionary style parameter approach is so impossibly unreadable, constantly hunting down some nixos helper and its under
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by bfrog 1y ago
There’s no web. There’s big ad companies striving to keep eyeballs. There’s a few lone bastions of what was. Mostly it’s ads.
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by bfrog 1y ago
Now do Boeing so the message is clear. US DoJ cutting deals and ending the criminal prosecution is just so unbelievably typical.
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by bfrog 1y ago
so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should Dr Ian Malcolm was spot on except it wasn’t Dinosaurs that turned out to be the idiotic creation instead it’s massively wasteful chatbots

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