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by phkahler 1y ago
>> I think they have a lot of potential in the dedicated GPU space I think dedicated GPUs will be dead soon. AMD will beat nVidia with APUs that compete with midrange DGPU in performance with lower system cost. With AI using GPUs we w
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by phkahler 1y ago
But leading edge these days is like 15 to 20 percent performance or density. It's not a huge lead any more.
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>> Intel might still run fabs, but they'll be mostly contracting them out to people who want cheap ASICs and 10 year old fab tech. Intel fabs have never had to be as cost effective as others. They were selling top end chips for
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Nobody makes main processors in 22nm anymore, for instance. That’s basically what was used in production 10 years ago for processors. Raspberry Pi would beg to differ.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Well if it's used as a thin film on screens, it wouldn't require much more production to make a few square centimeters more for chips to build a computer to use that screen. We also ramped production of those screens without some
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by phkahler 1y ago
Pentium 4 didn't hit 3.8GHz. It melted at 1.4 or so.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Are lung cancer rates up? Obviously eliminating or reducing the primary cause will lead to larger percentages of the other causes among cases.
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by phkahler 1y ago
I think the parent post was saying the money is not well spent, not that the US can't afford it. We could clearly throw a lot more at the UN, but that would just be doubling down on a bad investment. At least thats how I read it - bett
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> There was never career path for a vibe coder. Vibe coder won’t be a thing in a year. There’ll be a new, meaningless term though. Last year it was "prompt engineer", or was that 2 years ago already. Things move fast on the
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> You're essentially asking for a heavily customized phone OS No. I'm asking for a "dialer only" phone OS. It can take the form of an always-on-top dialer app over a standard OS. That's it.
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by phkahler 1y ago
IMHO you should not be marketing a product to software developers. That market is completely saturated and most of the tools are free. Today's super-simple big market idea: We got my elderly mother a flip phone and it's too hard
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Your wording strongly implies you think there's something shady going on, but what's the actual issue here? There is a distinction between shady and illegal. What they do is legal. Doing it behind closed doors while the c
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> I think it's inverse-square No, for "a magnet" it's an inverse cube law. I've often wondered if the force holding a nucleus together is really magnetism. No, physicists you don't need to correct me, I
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> I don't get it how in the world someone can just enter the room when the device is on. The magnet is always on. His wife was in the room. Unless you're previously aware of the dangers of an MRI machine it looks like any
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> I would say that was viable because it had zero dependencies and could be built with the equivalent of gfortran *.f77, provided one changed the source in plausible looking ways first. Came to say this. Minimize your dependencies. S
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by phkahler 1y ago
The message reads like "AI did this bad thing" but we should all see it as "Another stupid person believed the AI hype and discovered it isn't trustworth" or whatever. You usually don't see them admit "gee
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by phkahler 1y ago
I think by asset stripping the parent is including other plays. Private equity buys a company, sells the real-estate to their friends and leases it back to the company on a long term lease. Then after other shenanigans they IPO and dump the
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by phkahler 1y ago
Some do.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Do people still take his comments like that seriously?
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by phkahler 1y ago
Since medicade wasn't established by the constitution, how do resident aliens get coverage? Maybe they do, maybe they don't. I'd like to know.
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by phkahler 1y ago
That would be one example. What about Redis pulling a license change, and the whole WordPress battle for control? If it ain't GPL and it IS popular, I think those kinds of things are more likely to happen than not.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Free software was never about "free upgrades forever". It's about the freedom to fork. I never noticed the word "fork" in the GPL. You may want to reread it, as I think you missed the point.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Yeah I see a lot of corporate backing of Linux (GPL) and a bit of proprietarization of non GPL OSS. Meanwhile my employer also uses git and gcc, which are both GPL. Companies that use software like it Free. Companies that develop softwa
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by phkahler 1y ago
But software developed by enthusiasts might be better than software designed by managers and hoards of beginners using AI.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> technological superiority Haha. I work on Solvespace which is technically inferior to FreeCAD, which is also inferior to the big commercial offerings. We shall have our MVP in a few more years! Most our contributors would not be wo
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by phkahler 1y ago
All large FLOSS programs are GPL licensed. Even with all the Rustaceans rewriting in Rust while abandoning the GPL, their flagship - Servo - is GPL licensed. There is an aversion to CLAs among those donating their time, and with that an ave
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by phkahler 1y ago
I thought such resonance was unstable. Isn't that the reason for the gaps in Saturn's rings?
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by phkahler 1y ago
I remember seeing this, reading the high level description of how it works, and doing my own implementation in school. Probably in Turbo Pascal on a 486.
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This. I think the executives have an obligation to state their plans so investors can decide if they want to back it. But if making top dollar is a requirement then lots of companies should liquidate and invest in other companies with highe
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by phkahler 1y ago
Another nice pattern is to have any particular value written exactly once, or from exactly one place in the code if it gets updated. For embedded control I'm finding the blackboard pattern with single assignment to be super useful.

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