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by nrclark 10mo ago
I'd be surprised if Qualcomm replaces their application processors (the cores that typically run Android/Linux or QNX) with RISC-V any time soon. Aarch64's ecosystem is huge, and Qualcomm would cut their customers off from it
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by nrclark 10mo ago
Most SOCs on the market today have a mix of various CPU cores. It's common to see designs with a few big ARM Cortex-A cores running an OS like Linux or Android, and then some smaller Cortex-M microcontroller cores that do housekeeping
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by nrclark 10mo ago
Awesome, that's great to hear. Now if Qualcomm would only relax the walls between their business units, their other customers could benefit as well. Who benefits from having separate BUs maintain fully separate software stacks? It&#x27
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by nrclark 10mo ago
It matters when you're doing custom hardware, or when you're designing a product where boot speed matters, or when you need to implement something special. A full-featured U-Boot implementation would be fine IMO. But for the gene
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by nrclark 10mo ago
If anybody in Qualcomm leadership is reading this thread: this is a good start, and I applaud you for it. There is also a lot more to do if you're serious about growing your market penetration beyond phones. The drivers might be up on
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by nrclark 11mo ago
Ironically, the actual luddites weren't anti-technology at all. Mechanized looms at the time produced low-quality, low-durability cloth at low prices. The luddite pushback was more about the shift from durable to disposable. It'
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by nrclark 11mo ago
Yes it is. It can be hard to spot if you don’t know it’s there though.
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by nrclark 11mo ago
Would you feel the same way if we're talking about your car's driver-assistance ECU? If you can change its contents, then so can a remote attacker.
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by nrclark 11mo ago
I think that a lot of companies stepped back from the GPL when GPLv3 was announced, because it puts some pretty severe restrictions on how you can productize. The tl;dr is that for any GPLv3 software that you ship, you have to also give you
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by nrclark 11mo ago
Mozilla sure is going out of their way to alienate their remaining users. This is going to be Pocket 2.0. Who asked for this? Who wants it? Certainly not the Linux / open-source crowd, and they're just about the only ones who are
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by nrclark 11mo ago
one possible counter-argument: can you say for sure how your brain is creating those replacement words? When you replace tree with rainbow, does rainbow come to mind because of an unconscious neural mapping between both words and "fore
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by nrclark 1y ago
out of curiosity, can you elaborate on that a bit? I've shipped std::variant in a few designs and it's been OK, but maybe I didn't use it deeply enough to see issues.
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by nrclark 1y ago
Understood. Even in keeping with your definition - people are irrational actors. We make incomprehensible choices all the time, with no real reason at the moment of decision. Then our brains backfill and rationalize later. Keep in mind that
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by nrclark 1y ago
Game theory has its place. But most game-theory explanations that I see fail to take humanity into account. People are irrational actors way more often than they are rational ones.
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by nrclark 1y ago
afaik, Raspberry Pis move around 7M units annually. Based on their first announced product ( https://www.arduino.cc/product-uno-q ), I think Qualcomm is trying to get into that space, and they bought Arduino for the brand nam
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by nrclark 1y ago
If I had a dollar for every time a Qualcomm rep promised me something that never actually happened, I'd be a hundredaire.
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by nrclark 1y ago
it's time to accept that you are on the wrong side of history, my guy
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by nrclark 1y ago
As a product, I like Slack a lot more than teams. Chatting is easier, the apps are better, reminders and scheduled messages, workflows, etc. Threaded conversations are much easier as well, and aren't artificially restricted to certain
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by nrclark 1y ago
Agreed for flavor - using good ingredients makes a huge difference. But texture is also a big part of how we experience food, and box cake's texture is very hard to beat IMO (at least I've never been able to do it).
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by nrclark 1y ago
Depends on how you’re using the data. There’s a pretty strong correctness signal in the user behavior. Did they rephrase the question? Probably the first answer was wrong. Did the session end? Good chance the answer was acceptable. Did they
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by nrclark 1y ago
That would be doing Californians a favor tbh. Then we'd have an excuse to leave this rotten union. Coastal Oregon and coastal Washington can come too.
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by nrclark 1y ago
That sounds a lot like "They're eating the cats! They're eating the dogs!". I know a lot of Sikh folks and they're pretty chill.
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by nrclark 1y ago
Yes to calling CMake/etc. No to checking in generated Makefiles. But for your top-level “thing that calls CMake”, try writing a Makefile instead of a shell script. You’ll be surprised at how powerful it is. Make is a dark horse.
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by nrclark 1y ago
Agreed with this sentiment, but with one minor modification: use a Makefile instead. Recipes are still chunks of shell, and they don’t need to produce or consume any files if you want to keep it all task-based. You get tab-completion, para
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by nrclark 1y ago
I feel like submodules are one of Git's most misused features. They're intended as a method of pinning read-only upstream Git dependencies. And when used for that purpose, they're good at what they do. I think that people mos
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by nrclark 1y ago
Does Claude Code use a different model then Claude.ai? Because Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 routinely get things wrong for me. Both of them have sent me on wild goose chases, where they confidently claimed "X is happening" about my code bu
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by nrclark 1y ago
There's a distinction to make between Jewish people and Israel. Jewish people are fine. The Israeli genocide of Gaza is not.
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by nrclark 1y ago
citation needed
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by nrclark 1y ago
It's also worth noting - the Bible isn't a single book, and it never was. It's 66 or 73 separate books (depending on the flavor of Christianity), bound together in a single binding. Much more of an anthology than a single boo
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by nrclark 1y ago
The landing team's job is to "land" patches into upstream. They take Qualcomm code and spin straw into gold until it's eventually good enough to contribute to projects like the Linux kernel. Having read a lot of Qualcomm

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