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by blihp 3y ago
I was in a similar situation not too long ago and found that describing the part to ChatGPT worked. I did have to course correct it a couple of times, but eventually it got me the answer I was looking for.
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by blihp 3y ago
Probably a lot of both. Disney is almost single-handedly the reason copyright is as screwed up as it is here in the U.S. as they have been the primary corporate actor behind the copyright extensions over the past several decades.
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by blihp 3y ago
What are you using to read/post to HN? That would likely be enough to run Cuis on. I've run Cuis on a Pi 2 and that was fast enough to provide a reasonable interactive development environment with a useful amount of memory. Run
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by blihp 3y ago
> well that is true, except one case when vm doesn’t run on the desired hardware/software combination. So in my case I had quite a story of trying to port vm unsuccessfully so far . ( see details : https://news.ycombinato
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by blihp 3y ago
There isn't one. Smalltalk implementations, including Cuis/Squeak/Pharo, are image-based. So applications in their world get packaged more like a word processor/spreadsheet document than a traditional executable from o
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by blihp 3y ago
In the dark ages when internet access was limited and/or via dialup for most of us, there were several tools and protocols to work with what we had: email, ftp and usenet were some of the main ones. Usenet was basically a primordial s
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by blihp 3y ago
While it isn't impossible, I agree that it's unlikely in the current political climate. If we could ever get back to a place where government was even remotely functional, it could almost trivially address the right to repair iss
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by blihp 3y ago
Meta/Yann LeCun were generating the hype around Galactica that caused expectations to be different. You can't say things like 'Type a text and Galactica will generate a paper with relevant references, formulas, and everythin
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by blihp 3y ago
That's usually the case as the hardware encoders tend to make tradeoffs in the direction of lower transistor count / faster frame processing while software encoders have the luxury of going for higher quality.
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by blihp 3y ago
AV1 hardware encode just started rolling out with the most recent GPU architectures so the majority of hardware still has to do software encoding. I'd also guess that a very large fraction of the hardware out there doesn't even h
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by blihp 3y ago
For GPU compute drivers on the majority of their consumer cards on Linux the claims are most certainly true.
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by blihp 3y ago
IIRC, nothing below the 6800 is supported by ROCm... so the lion's share of their installed base of the 6000 series is excluded from 'official' support. nVidia's compute drivers support all of their devices and have a
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by blihp 3y ago
They didn't know that at the time. Not an outrageous story as hotter is generally better for pizza ovens.
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by blihp 3y ago
Sorry for the lag in my reply (I just noticed your response)... I very much appreciate the info as I found the lack of official RISC-V support in 12 surprising. I hadn't read about the blockers to being ready for the release which mak
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by blihp 3y ago
In the interview he runs down the issues they encountered going down the pure AI accelerator path. It sounds like they've decided the opportunity wasn't there (i.e. too hard) so they've pivoted.
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by blihp 3y ago
The Debian project has been historically a vocal proponent for open hardware/firmware/drivers etc. and here we are in 2023 having Debian somewhat controversially acknowledging that proprietary firmware may be required at least by
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by blihp 3y ago
You can run a reasonably current Debian install by just switching to the testing repos after you install a stable release. This mostly works pretty well but occasionally[1] you'll have an issue. While you could get absolutely up to
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by blihp 3y ago
That doesn't answer the question. It's still 'unofficial' per https://wiki.debian.org/SupportedArchitectures If you want the maintain the status quo you support the hardware that has the most users, if
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by blihp 3y ago
While I'm glad to see proprietary firmware both included and segregated in its own repo, I'm wondering why RISC-V wasn't added as a supported architecture in Debian 12? It seems like that supporting at least an open ISA woul
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by blihp 3y ago
Heh... yes, that was a popular joke at the time and one of many cautionary tales in picking a multi-word domain name.
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by blihp 3y ago
There was always the possibility of some sort of aggregator/other front end sitting on top of the SO data. We just didn't know exactly what a successful one would look like until relatively recently. I always limited how much I
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by blihp 3y ago
Because despite claims to the contrary most of these sites/projects aren't created for altruistic reasons, they were created to make money (at some point). Cashing out is typically part of the long term plan. In the case of Stack
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by blihp 3y ago
Even then, not really. Most of the time they had 4-6 hours of actual programming that they just repeated.
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by blihp 3y ago
> is this a sign that RH can't afford to run their business? Afford has nothing to do with it... IBM will continue tightening things up with/at RH to get their ROI.
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by blihp 3y ago
The same reason most of AMD's 'open' initiatives don't gain traction: they throw it out there and hope things will magically work out and that a/the community will embrace it as the standard. It takes more work tha
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by blihp 3y ago
QuickBooks and GnuCash handle the accounting, which supplies the data needed for your taxes. However, they won't spit out your tax forms as that's a separate task and not likely something open source is going to tackle anytime so
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by blihp 3y ago
The problem with FPGA's isn't the hardware... it's quite complete and capable. It's the software stack you're forced to access most of them via that makes them a non-starter for many/most hobbyists. (cost is a
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by blihp 3y ago
That's only when a mid-level or lower person/group wants to make a change. If it comes from the C-level, it gets done very quickly.
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by blihp 3y ago
It's more than just that: for the money, their consumer GPUs don't compete in compute tasks (especially inference/training) and their Linux compute drivers are a pile of steaming garbage on consumer hardware. It's rea
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by blihp 3y ago
You just copy/paste the text of the complaint (this is why you hear many complaining about maximum context size... for some use cases you want to feed in a lot of text)

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