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by fidotron 1y ago
> there is a lot of collective information going into this valuation No, there isn't. For example, I would like to legally bet against Anthropic existing as a going concern in five years. Where can I do this? All the information aga
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by fidotron 1y ago
This isn't a market in that sense though - it's very much one sided what Anthropic tells us and they are privately traded. It is very far from a situation where the price discovery mechanism is allowed to work.
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Remember the YouTube acquisition? To many, it seemed bonkers. Because of the legal uncertainty about what they were doing. There was no fundamental technological impediment. Here the technology simply doesn't exist and this is a g
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by fidotron 1y ago
That's now between an entire Instagram and WhatsApp acquisition cost. It's hard to escape the conclusion this is dumb money jumping on a bandwagon. To justify the expected returns here requires someone to make a transformer like l
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by fidotron 1y ago
This isn't going to happen. You won't have modern mobile banking or cellular communications in a device without binary blobs or "trusted" compute modules you cannot inspect.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I think it's time for us to go back to having mobile phones (texting, virtual credit cards, tethered wifi hotspots etc). separate from mobile storage and compute (mp3 players, cameras etc.). The modern mobile ecosystem is selling games
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by fidotron 1y ago
The CISA announcement, which contains a lot more substance, was posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065458
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by fidotron 1y ago
This is brutal but accurate. I have heard from authors that get asked by publishers what their X and Instagram follower counts are before they're even considered. Being able to connect to an audience is becoming absolutely everything.
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by fidotron 1y ago
I worked on the software dev side in the games industry for years. I have never seen a worse time to be attempting to make a living doing that, it's pure madness. The endgame being pushed, and looking increasingly technically viable ov
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Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide(cisa.gov)
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Nvidia at Hot Chips 2025 Pushes Blackwell to Power Neural Rendering(techpowerup.com)
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GoDaddy extends backorder deadline by 60 days(domainnamewire.com)
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by fidotron 1y ago
That game was ahead of its time. My team worked on the post launch updates/ports of it, and because it was well optimized for the original dev target it was actually a bit of a pain! (The shadows especially). It was working on that whi
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by fidotron 1y ago
Looking at the changes going on in computing regarding the need for constantly updating certificates for a website, verified identity to develop mobile apps etc. it's clear there is a background push for control of everything such that
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by fidotron 1y ago
There's a dimension to this people wilfully ignore: the AArch64 design is inspired, especially if you have a team as good as Apple have to execute an implementation of it. And that isn't a one way causality because AArch64 is what
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by fidotron 1y ago
I can't be the only one that simultaneously appreciates that IBM are still in the game but remains mystified as to who is actually buying and using this stuff. They simply have to have some farms in government running this to make it m
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by fidotron 1y ago
Purple and orange were/are common spot colours for that reason. My father used to work on all sorts of R&D involving things like how much K to use in substitution of CMY without getting desaturated etc. It's a real rabbit hole
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by fidotron 1y ago
> You can see why by looking at the Hue chart for this color This misses the point: the example claims the hue isn't shifting, when it very clearly is. It's not a question of why.
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by fidotron 1y ago
It's practically cyan, which is half way to green, not a lighter version of the blue to the left. This is on a MBP built in display. This totally has uses but it is not, as claimed, "there is no hue or saturation drift" given
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by fidotron 1y ago
> In the example above, you can see that the OKLCH colors maintain consistent blueness across all of the shades, while in the HSL example, the lighter shades drift to purple and the darker ones muddy out towards grayish. There is a very
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by fidotron 1y ago
If we include the idea that either one of them is allied to a major power at war with the US over a hundred year horizon, right now that looks pretty likely, and arguably is one of the things the current US admin are trying to stop before i
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by fidotron 1y ago
The Nintendo Wii SoC was actually fabbed in Canada and exported, but that facility has changed into something slightly different because the whole east coast/hudson river valley fab world went sideways a while ago. > We import tons
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by fidotron 1y ago
My claim is Canada has no unique product that it offers that the US is sufficiently conspicuously dependent on for it to guarantee any real sense of true independence, and so it finds itself subject to the whims of a foreign state. Right no
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by fidotron 1y ago
This kind of answers your own question: the reality is you are only a reliable US ally [1] if you can hold them by the balls TSMC style. Given that countries go to great lengths to develop and maintain such dependencies. Canada's curre
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by fidotron 1y ago
About 15 years ago I was introduced to an environment where approximately a hundred developers spent their lives coaxing a classic style expert system ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system ) into controlling a
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by fidotron 1y ago
> I miss those buttery-smooth pans. Modern displays are better at this than those CRTs, you're playing back the wrong thing the wrong way. i.e. framerate conversion, badly streamed video or it's trying to sync to an external cl
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Pykrete(en.wikipedia.org)
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Who restarts their IDE all the time? Android developers reindexing.
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by fidotron 1y ago
> but I haven't seen a transformative technology from them yet either The fact you would think this is the core of what I mean. Cultures in countries which have active and powerful manufacturing sectors view the increase in reliabil
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by fidotron 1y ago
That was the classic GIMP problem too. Meta comment: damn it's good to see something worthwhile at #1 on HN this morning.

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