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by ndiddy 1y ago
Most of the text on the site seems LLM written as well. Given that the scope of the project involves making their own programming language, OS, and computing hardware, but they don't seem to have made very much tangible progress toward
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The current system gives Apple a 30% cut of every transaction that happens on iOS. Did you really think they'd voluntarily give that up just to be nice?
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> Too many people have the "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" quote internalized to a degree they won't even think about any criticisms or suggestions. Yeah I find it frustrating how many people interpret tha
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by ndiddy 1y ago
You can buy the chip, but I'm not sure what that gets you. The only publicly available documentation seems to be the datasheet, which only covers its physical and electrical specifications. I don't see any register-level documenta
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by ndiddy 1y ago
My hope is that if they started responding to CVE bug reports for hobby codecs with something like “This is a codec written by someone in his free time and intended to be used for preservation purposes. We do not support using this codec wi
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by ndiddy 1y ago
My point of view is that the unpaid ffmpeg maintainers should stop playing along with the corporate "security researchers" and not prioritize a bug over everything else simply because it's a CVE. In this case, the "high
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by ndiddy 1y ago
https://0ver.org/
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> It's insane that x86 Debian is still compiling all software targeting Pentium Pro (from 1995!). Note that Debian no longer supports x86 as of Debian 13.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> I also just tried it and of course it's not notarized, meaning that it's almost impossible for anyone to install on macOS, unless they know of the secret button in System Settings. I don't understand why you're blam
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I think you can still get Paint Shop Pro and CorelDraw as a one-time purchase from Corel. I'm not sure how good the current versions are, but I regularly use Paint Shop Pro 8 from 2003 and enjoy using it. Of course, it's definitel
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The problem is that OpenAI will have to keep doing this basically indefinitely, as otherwise open-source commodity models will catch up with them and offer an equivalent product at a much lower cost. If the company is reliant on having to k
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by ndiddy 1y ago
One thing that bothers me about the lack of a redesign is that it means there's been no progress on minimizing or getting rid of the notch. Apple is clearly able to do this, they made the notch smaller on iPhones a few years ago, but o
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Not just Texas! 38 states have legislation that bars the state government from doing business with any company that boycotts Israel. As a US taxpayer, I would think that the involuntary contributions to Israel being taken out of my paycheck
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> but I will say I'd rather the company at least tries to do some good given that Facebook HQ is not very far from their offices and appears to have been actively evil in this specific regard. Sure! let's take a look at OpenAI&
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the ma
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Note that for most of the more esoteric platforms NetBSD supports, “support” simply means they continue to cross-compile to target that platform. There’s been lots of cases where there’s some major regression that makes a port unusable (can
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The project is currently mainly focused on upstreaming as many of their patches as possible, and maintaining the existing code. M3/4/5 have a completely different GPU instruction set from M1/2, so they would need a large amou
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by ndiddy 1y ago
This isn't anything specific to uutils. When you build a Rust program that links with glibc, it needs to use libgcc to do the stack unwinding. If you look at other packaged Rust programs on Ubuntu, they all depend on libgcc for this re
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> since Apple will never make hardware at lower prices Apple has a deal with Walmart to sell the M1 Macbook Air for $600, so that's their current low-cost option. For the future, data-miners have found evidence that Apple will be ma
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Agreed. Since GNU Coreutils is GPLv3 but uutils is MIT, my guess is eventually Canonical will start using "works like the GNU software except you don't have to comply with GPLv3" as a selling point for Ubuntu Core (their IoT
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Yes, they're the only charging ports on the laptop.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The transition era was certainly annoying, but now that it's over I think the Mac experience is objectively worse. My PC laptop has 2 USB-C ports that can be used for charging, display, 40 Gbps transfer, etc., just like my Macbook Air.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> What's going to happen, though, if it's possible to buy a PC that's just as good as an ARM Mac in terms of both performance and battery life? Their advantage against Microsoft is that the Mac UX may be degrading, but the
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The past 50 years of American economic policy has basically been "look how much money we can make if every other country acts against its own interests indefinitely".
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Did you look at the link at all? That's what this company sells. They make ballot marking devices that print your vote on a ballot paper, then a separate ballot box that counts the votes by scanning the ballot papers.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Nobody said anything about Microsoft here, so I don't understand the comparison. Just like Apple is better than Microsoft in that they don't actively prevent people from running the software of their choice on the hardware they bo
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Not being able to audit what you voted for after the fact is by design. Otherwise, it would make buying votes a viable strategy since you'd be able to show them who you voted for. Yes, taking a picture of the ballot is an option, but y
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by ndiddy 1y ago
If IAR was able to make the existing C++ codebase fit in the chip's flash and GCC wasn't, that seems like a win for IAR. If you're selling products in volume, the cost of the IAR license is dwarfed by the amount of money you
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by ndiddy 1y ago
There's a class of high-spec microcontrollers that have a ton of RAM and flash and built-in support for stuff like touchscreens. It looks like Qt is able to run on these: https://www.qt.io/platform/develop-software
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Are you on 26 yet or still 15? I've heard a lot of bad things about performance getting way worse on 26, so I'm wary of upgrading my M1.

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