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   by klelatti 3y ago

   I don’t think that this is surprising at all. Stock buybacks are undertaken as the return the company can get on the cash returned is lower than they think shareholders want. Subsidies exist to get the company to invest in a project where t
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   > Serif can do quite well, but also in the burgeoning AI-assisted space, where Serif has zero ability to compete I think you've hit the nail on the head. AI tools will become essential and if you haven't got the resources to co
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   Serif’s owners not Canva’s.
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   Based on last published accounts (2022) Serif is very profitable and growing strongly: revenue £31.2m (up from £23.4m) and operating profits £17.9m (up from £14.4m). So it doesn't seem like they needed to sell. Of course it is still sm
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   Is the definition of hacking writing code only for yourself? Surely (most of) the point of writing code is for other people to use it. If you ignore the majority of devices out there that you can write code for then that's not really a
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   Domination apart from the CPUs that power the main computing devices for the large majority of people (billions) around the world.
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   Maybe check out the Colour Maximite 2 with a Cortex M-7 [1] Very much in the spirit of the early home computers (inc a decent BASIC) but with a lot more oomph. [1] https://geoffg.net/maximite.html
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   As my local Greggs said on the door this morning "Crumbs!"
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   by klelatti 3y ago

   MIPS ISA? Is this a problem in practice in 2024?
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    Moore on Moore – The past, present and uncertain future of Moore's Law(thechipletter.substack.com)

    88 points by klelatti 3y ago|49 comments
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    Motorola's 6809: The Best 8-Bit?(thechipletter.substack.com)

    17 points by klelatti 3y ago|5 comments
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    A Deep Dive into the Underlying Architecture of Groq's LPU(codeconfessions.substack.com)

    3 points by klelatti 3y ago|0 comments
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    Tuning, Filtering and Switching helps Smartphones deal with 50 Frequencies(viksnewsletter.com)

    3 points by klelatti 3y ago|0 comments
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    Ian Cutress Interviews Pat Gelsinger(morethanmoore.substack.com)

    2 points by klelatti 3y ago|0 comments
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Mostly agree on lossless - frankly most people don’t have gear that justifies worrying about it. As a parent with a toddler YouTube premium is close to a necessity!
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    It might be helpful if you said why you think Spotify is better. I have no idea based in this comment.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Don't agree with the parent comment but we haven't really been moving in the opposite direction with special purpose instructions either. Look at a modern smartphone SoC (eg [1]) how much of that die is CPU even with caches? And a
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    John C. Dvorak on Intel's First Neural Network Chip in 1990(thechipletter.substack.com)

    95 points by klelatti 3y ago|73 comments
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Very likely. Took place at around 8pm so post work drinks that got out of hand.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    > Once someone is reported to be in the water, invariably they must wait for the body to pop up. Not quite invariably. The river police do rescue people who find themselves in the Thames. A couple of years ago I was walking between South
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Thank you!
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    > Fair comment. I was thinking of the original AS/400 hardware but AS/400 is used to refer the later PowerPC versions (which I guess Nadella would have been using here) and IBMi.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Fair comment. I was thinking of the original AS/400 hardware but AS/400 is used to refer the later PowerPC versions (which I guess Nadella would have been using here) and IBMi.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    I have a 'second' Substack set up five months ago. I've never sent an email or mentioned or promoted it anywhere. The main page just says coming soon. * It has 26 subscribers from 123 all time page views, is read in six state
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    Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993(thechipletter.substack.com)

    254 points by klelatti 3y ago|147 comments
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Yes there is a paywall at this point. Probably clearer if it said “the rest of this post is for paid subscribers’ but it’s not something I can change.
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Hi, Author here. Thanks for the feedback. I'm happy to correct any mistakes. Sorry you don't think this is useful. However, as the post clearly points out it's not intended to make you a GPGPU programmer. That really isn&#x27
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Thanks for subscribing! I've added CDC and Cray as one of my next 3 or 4 posts so watch this space. Feels like it needs to be a two-parter (at least) though!
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Europe has missed out on creating a true tech giant but it wasn’t because of GDPR or AI regulation. If I’m being cynical this piece is a combination of misdirection and lobbying on behalf of non European interests. Edit : Actually Europe ha
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    by klelatti 3y ago

    Hi! Author of this short post here. Thanks so much for this comment. It's been 'on my list' to do a much longer post on Control Data and Seymour Cray for quite a while. This has convinced me to bump it up the list!