rwmj

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by rwmj 5d ago
Not to mention the horrible installer. At that time, Debian and Red Hat installs were super-easy compared to Solaris. And Sun controlled their own hardware stack too!
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by rwmj 5d ago
I was asked to benchmark some Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/Intel hardware in around 1997, and the price-performance of the Linux gear was easily 3+ times better. There wasn't really any comparison, especially when you consider how
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by rwmj 5d ago
Cash is rivalrous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
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by rwmj 6d ago
> You mean besides stable-diffusion.cpp ? Yes, thanks, I didn't know about that. Will try it.
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by rwmj 6d ago
Additional question is what kind of local hardware would be required for this? 7B parameters sounds very light weight, but I'm not sure. (Edit: The download is 33 GB). Edit x2: As usual I'm in a twisty maze of pip packages tha
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Company Dynasties Die in the Dark(investing101.substack.com)
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by rwmj 8d ago
There's a rather large difference in scale for a start.
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by rwmj 8d ago
(Not an expert but ...) unless you pin threads to cores, which is not the default and somewhat awkward in Linux for user applications, having a per-thread cache doesn't really make sense as your thread could be moved to another core an
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by rwmj 8d ago
I don't know, but assumed that Valve doesn't require studios to recompile their software or use any special tooling, it's basically just packaging of existing executables. This is also why they do Windows on Linux emulation.
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by rwmj 9d ago
It's Arm based, although they barely mention that.
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by rwmj 10d ago
I've paid to drive a train simulator (in fact, I have a collection of several train simulators).
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by rwmj 11d ago
Good for car manufacturers , not necessarily for cars or their owners. As a car owner I quite like manufacturers to be forced to produce source code.
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by rwmj 11d ago
They eventually fixed the one where it didn't sort properly, but it tooks months: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/12253 https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues&#x2
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by rwmj 12d ago
I definitely remember installing it off 20+ floppies onto a 386 back in the day. Most of the disks contained packages and you didn't need to install all of them though.
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by rwmj 13d ago
For compilers yes, but if you look at the 8086 demoscene where presumably most things are hand-coded, 8087 instructions allow incredible code compression. eg https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78045
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by rwmj 13d ago
I remember getting a 80387 (coprocessor for the 80386) and POVRAY renders going from running for days to still many minutes but you could sit and watch it.
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by rwmj 13d ago
Knowing how to go from whatever is fresh today in the garden to a meal is a cooking skill, yes. And how to preserve gluts of fruit, also a skill.
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by rwmj 13d ago
Shush there! Don't ask any difficult questions!
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by rwmj 13d ago
In a very narrow sense it may be true that Nvidia expects to make some multiple of the money invested (unlikely to be 100x but whatever). But you can't talk about that without talking about the wider economy. If the wider economy, an
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by rwmj 13d ago
I haven't been schooled in farming, but my understanding of food has greatly increased since we started growing our own vegetables.
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by rwmj 13d ago
We know that use of AI has a negative result for students: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/09/08/students-who-dont-use-ai-...
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by rwmj 13d ago
That doesn't change that programs doing this can be shady (or very useful).
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by rwmj 14d ago
You mean the closed source code that Red Hat acquired when we bought Qumranet for $100 million, then open sourced, maintained at a loss for many years, and is now (still) open source and available to everyone to use as they wish?
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by rwmj 14d ago
Yes, Red Hat dropped SPICE support quite some time ago. Apparently in RHEL 8.3: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5414901 It's definitely not part of any current Red Hat product. See my other reply for why th
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by rwmj 14d ago
Not enough people want to pay for VDI basically, certainly compared to how much it costs to maintain it. SPICE at the time that we abandoned it "only" supported 2D and video compression, which is complicated enough, but everyone
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by rwmj 14d ago
GTA in real life.
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by rwmj 15d ago
I'm a Fedora developer and I can assure you that Fedora's behaviour when it runs out of memory is still terrible.
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by rwmj 15d ago
All I want is the oomkiller to always kill firefox. Somehow that's very difficult to achieve.
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by rwmj 15d ago
Next up: Hard working romance scammers out of work after police shut down operations.
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by rwmj 15d ago
One good thing is that we've extended UK residency and a path to citizenship to anyone who was born in Hong Kong before the handover (so everyone over about 30 y.o). It's pretty much the extent of what the UK could do under the c

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