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by blihp 2y ago
This was just the author's current issue on Android. In another month or two it would have been something else. I fought similar battles for the better part of a decade before finally giving up when Google's policies made it so
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by blihp 2y ago
This was the company that made all sorts of noise about how they couldn't release GPT-2 to the public because it was too dangerous[1]. While there are many very useful applications being developed, OpenAI's main deliverable appea
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by blihp 2y ago
I use FreeCAD on a very regular basis and can understand why it's not more popular: it's very powerful but has some very sharp edges that will often have me using it in a state of near rage. Topological naming comes to mind but
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by blihp 2y ago
Yes, but as I recall it was a rather tiny subset of the database market unless one was very forward thinking and had Internet access and/or was part of a BBS community that shared information electronically which put you in the minorit
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by blihp 2y ago
There were lots of PC databases, of which dBase was one of the more popular ones.
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by blihp 2y ago
Beyond the technical reasons for the limit, it provides for a relatively painless way to begin to build out/for RISC-V[1] without an uncomfortable transition. For those who just want a better next iteration of the controller, they hav
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by blihp 2y ago
The tweet thread makes it clear: AMD has consistently based future strategy on the past which is why they were so ill-prepared for every major non-PC trend this century in CPUs until Ryzen. (which was basically catching up + much better val
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by blihp 2y ago
In the consumer space at least, WiFi was nowhere to be seen on a typical PC when Apple adopted it. Same with USB. So while it technically originated and existed elsewhere, there was no serious traction on it prior to Apple adoption. What
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by blihp 2y ago
I suspect it was all about the money. Those following him viewed him as their best bet for a good financial outcome for themselves.
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by blihp 2y ago
The author of the library has done numerous YouTube rants on how bad he thinks the AMD compute drivers are.
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by blihp 2y ago
Yes, some of those early cards were monsters usually due to some combination of discrete 7400-series logic (i.e. economies of scale weren't there for most ASICs yet) and memory chips (individual DIP chips as SIMM/DIMM modules were
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by blihp 2y ago
The point being made is that AT&T should have never been allowed to reform itself as it did, probably along with numerous other acquisitions/mergers that the government approved that they should not have. There was a period of tim
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by blihp 3y ago
Interesting article... I've been wondering why things seemed to go in a strange direction at Pine64. That article provided some clarity.
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by blihp 3y ago
They don't have a choice. FPGA's aren't like vanilla logic chips: they are highly proprietary both in terms of their specific hardware functionality as well as software tool chains and you can't second source them. Som
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by blihp 3y ago
Yes, there were 2-3 other (mostly web-based) services that stepped in with Feedly being the main one. However, by that time the popular client-side tools had been pretty much been wiped out due to years of Google's free offering. For
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by blihp 3y ago
Because history has shown that the money is in selling the picks and shovels, not operating the mine. (At least for now. There very well may come a point later on when operating the mine makes more sense, but not until it's clear whe
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by blihp 3y ago
No, the schemes being used are decidedly low tech for the most part and trivially detectable. Google's result quality isn't dying a death of a thousand cuts due to hordes of disreputable actors, it's dying a death of Google
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by blihp 3y ago
Yep, but what do you expect from an industry near its end. They tend to do better with the front page stories, but a lot of the local/filler stuff now looks like this. You're not going to have meticulously crafted articles with
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by blihp 3y ago
Sure, but the question is would OpenAI be around to see the investment bear fruit after such a spend? In the 90's infrastructure companies (you know, the 'rock solid' infra companies who were going to be around forever) spen
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by blihp 3y ago
That's because he doesn't design for where the state of the art chips are, he designs for where they are going to be.
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by blihp 3y ago
My take was that they currently have a working chiplet design and are looking to move to a wafer-scale (i.e. not cut up) design. Thermal/power/yield are all issues and the design has to take all of that into account. Cerebras ha
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by blihp 3y ago
When you really analyze at how many/most of the richest people in the world got so rich, they tended to extract (i.e. more parasitic) much of the value rather than create (i.e. more symbiotic) it. They have also often done so at t
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by blihp 3y ago
Right, that's the problem: getting mainline support while the processor is still relevant rather than years after the fact... if at all.[1] Also, the bar has moved. OpenGL was good enough 10 years ago. What about OpenCL? Vulkan? NPU
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by blihp 3y ago
I was actually looking into the Orange Pi this weekend... the driver situation remains a deal killer for me. Sadly the Raspberry Pi offers crap hardware with almost good drivers while most of the other SBC's offer good hardware with c
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by blihp 3y ago
Assuming it's the same 'tile' tech they're using in their GPUs, it's a chiplet with a Xilinx FPGA with hard IP blocks where appropriate.[1] So it's probably a matter of reverse engineering the bitstream as wel
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by blihp 3y ago
Don't be so sure that all, or even most, junior employees know any such thing. I've seen junior employees fired for doing silly things in prod before[1] [1] Of course whatever more senior bozo granted the junior the rights to blo
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by blihp 3y ago
Anything that pulls in income and/or pushes out expenses results in a higher tax liability to the IRS. It makes a lot of sense in the world of real estate and equipment expenses (i.e. items which have very long useful lives to a busin
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by blihp 3y ago
While it's slowed down in recent years, it's still active. Re: Pharo, that's just because they market it hard and don't give much (any?) credit back to Squeak which is what it was forked from. (and still shares more DNA
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by blihp 3y ago
I think so. SqueakJS fills the space Amber used to occupy.
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by blihp 3y ago
The problem with a text search is that you have to get your keywords exactly right. With LLMs you ask inexact questions like 'has the topic of X ever been discussed?'[1] without needing to have an exact match on X. An LLM front

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