markhahn

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by markhahn 2y ago
if your lens is old-bad vs new-good, you are blind to merits. didn't the good egcs stuff get merged after all?
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by markhahn 2y ago
average reflects the population, of course. max graph shows no such fall - laptops going up even. how about this interpretation: desktops are fast enough; laptops are getting faster but people tend to buy more usable laptops, not faster one
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by markhahn 2y ago
um, yeah, like everything is a jvm today.
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by markhahn 2y ago
Odd. Linux is by far the most/largest/longest successful project. Or do you have a counterexample?
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by markhahn 2y ago
Brings to mind certain world figures who have normalized this kind of petulance (which is bullying when real power is involved).
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by markhahn 2y ago
The proponents think the value of their "innovation" is obvious, but it is not. Is it innovative? Is it valuable? Is it worth the cost? Who is it valuable to? I don't see why the kernel team should be obligated to react in an
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by markhahn 2y ago
Not an especially significant event, by the numbers. It's a large community so there are tails.
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by markhahn 2y ago
Their ethic is to win by any means. The purpose of shock-and-awe is to change the facts on the ground, before and institutional guardrails can engage. It's less fait accompli than humpty-dumpty.
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by markhahn 2y ago
Sure, aid is propaganda. How do you get to regime change?
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by markhahn 2y ago
"Capture" is the basic theme of current US government. MAGA capture of the Republican party, for instance. Regulatory capture by by various industrial sectors.
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by markhahn 2y ago
let's be clear: deminimus being $800 is corrupt. what gets me about this sort of thing is that we don't wind up getting to the bottom of it. the current deminimus violates the intent - we need to not just restore it to something
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by markhahn 2y ago
honestly, I still don't get the point of wayland.
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by markhahn 2y ago
anonymity doesn't preclude chain-of-trust (really "reputation"). after all, anonymity only means "can't be linked to real-life identity".
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by markhahn 2y ago
Well, also pro-publicity and pro-distraction (firehose). Of course those are ultimately self-benefiting too.
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by markhahn 2y ago
no, if you think trad-norm is dark mode, it just identifies when you started using computers.
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by markhahn 2y ago
windows originated very little: plenty of type-on-page metaphor predated it. original was light mode: printer terminals. yes, green-on-black became normal in the mid seventies, and some amber-on-black. but even early lisp machines, the Al
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by markhahn 2y ago
Like who? Rabid globalization fans?
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by markhahn 2y ago
are you claiming that the US disadvantages non-American traffic? like Chinese vessels are less safe, or not free to travel, or prone to piracy? I think that's not the case. you can make a case that Russia's "shadow fleet&qu
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by markhahn 2y ago
do you really think fabs are labor-intensive, or that they discharge toxic waste?
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by markhahn 2y ago
chip fabs are big and contain a lot of things like pumps (and even a few very exotic lasers). but they're not power-intensive the way a steel plant is - or even a datacenter.
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by markhahn 2y ago
No, the world outside PRC don't believe Taiwan should be "unified" against its will. The fact that Tiawanese industry is quite important is more of a gain factor, not polarity.
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by markhahn 2y ago
odd that you're not an Applehead but still think they're somehow "improving" the industry. perhaps you mean "they provide competition among peers like Samsung and Sony, without which the industry would go slower, pe
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by markhahn 2y ago
It doesn't really have to be that way, does it? Yes, they're very loud right now, but what's preventing a set of (non-MAGA) voices from presenting a coherent counter that includes concern for efficiency and effectiveness, bu
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by markhahn 2y ago
IOW "burn it all down". I never thought I'd see anarchists being called "Republican".
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by markhahn 2y ago
Other than lottery winners, who cares? Is there some reason lottery winnings (or other forms of gambling) should be treated gingerly?
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by markhahn 2y ago
very nice investigation. shame about the unnecessary use of cat :)
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by markhahn 2y ago
its called pre-conceding
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by markhahn 2y ago
e cores are more like atom - intel owes no credit to arm.
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by markhahn 2y ago
how many customers care about raster performance?
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by markhahn 2y ago
Huh? Nvidia does three things well: - They support the software ecosystem - Cuda isn't a moat, but it's certainly an attractive target. - They closely follow fab leaders (and tend not to screw up much on logistics). - They do int

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