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by smoldesu 3y ago
"You types" is Hacker News. You could not narrowcast to a more finance-obsessed tech forum if you tried.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Am I an Apple Customer because I own a Magic Trackpad? Are there fees or conditions that I should be rationally subject to because I made that purchasing decision? This mentality of corporate fiefdom is new to me. Reminds me of another vert
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> but Apple is not a monopoly and they have all the right in the world to tax developers. 1. "Apple" is a lot of things, and depending on how you define it (eg. internal app market, API provider, browser developer, etc.) they a
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Your own compute probably sucks. It's possibly some variant of CoreML, supporting a select few ops up to whichever featureset Apple considers supported. Or maybe it's some version of Microsoft's backend, either ONNX with a cu
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The issue is violating Apple trademarks. Apple vs Corellium ended with Corellium successfully arguing Fair Use on a novel iOS emulator that they sold to researchers. Apple's only protected trademarks were for the wallpaper and icon art
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You're mostly right. CUDA was a "sleeper product" that existed early-on but didn't see serious demand until later. OpenCL was Khronos Group's hedged bet against the success of CUDA; it was assumed that they would in
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Until the Carterfone decision it was, in fact, illegal to attach a non-Bell phone to the network. ...and the Carterfone decision was long overdue. The entire antitrust legislation against Ma Bell was protracted a half century because,
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by smoldesu 3y ago
You could buy non-Bell phones and even connect them to a functioning telephone network. The problem (and incentive for antitrust action) was Bell's business of charging users to connect to their proprietary and all-encompassing network
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by smoldesu 3y ago
"Exactly! I would tell those people to use another telephone, not sue Bell Systems to change their phone network" "Exactly! I would tell those people to find another supplier, not sue Standard Oil to change their business tac
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Relax, we have Fruit Ninja VR. The rest is just a matter of waiting for more software to materialize.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Correct. It's why the concept of 'proprietary UNIX' didn't survive long once program portability became an incentive.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
At first, it was because Nvidia had a wide variety of highly used cards that almost all support some form of CUDA. By-and-large, your gaming GPU could debug and run the same code that you'd scale up to a datacenter, which was a huge bo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Those people should have spoken up when their hardware manufacturers abandoned OpenCL. The industry set itself 5-10 years behind by ignoring open GPGPU compute drivers while Nvidia slowly built their empire. Just look at how long it's
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by smoldesu 3y ago
What stops you from using SwiftUI with Python?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Portability
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by smoldesu 3y ago
My crocodile tears are yours.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Your heart's in the right place, but if making Free Software was as easy as drafting a manifesto then Linux would have photoshop alternatives a hundred times over. People will continue developing closed-source AI because AI is expensiv
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by smoldesu 3y ago
My guess is that it will be possible within the next decade, but not economical until the further future. A flexible e-ink display with decent color isn't too far-fetched, but anything with more than 5 pages could end up costing a sm
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I resent my inability to leave my bike on the sidewalk without it being stolen. It doesn't do a whole lot for me.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Even when btc lightning solves most reasons Lightning is nice but it's an unrelated project. Bitcoin itself is still fundamentally flawed and Lightning is basically syntactic sugar on the same decaying infrastructure. It "sol
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by smoldesu 3y ago
That's a very convenient way out of explaining yourself.
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Sure, but that's not really what the article is talking about. Western intelligence tools can be (and are) exported to allied nations. China's same tools are organization-oriented and only function well in the context of an autocr
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The fundamental rules of Islam, Judaism and Christianity have absolutely no correlation with HN moderation. What are you talking about?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I recently found out about llama-cpp's official "Server" function: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/blob/master/examples/... Works like a charm for my (simple) use case. I'
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I think many of my objections are fundamental. How will eyeglasses control external light bleed without physical blockers? How will battery technology adapt to a wire-thin design language? How will the field-of-view extend beyond the glasse
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Two, this would constitute starting a trade war over…browser engines. Good luck getting people who depend on popular votes to back you up on that. It's so insane you'd be forgiven for forgetting that it already happened (with
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Barack Obama ran for president on the platform that marriage was between a man and a woman. Is he homophobic? No, his administration ratified nationwide gay marriage. He's a straight person too, that doesn't stop him from emp
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> I don't understand why would you care who created it. I mean Brendan Eich is pretty bad, but their kerfuffle with Tom Scott[0] is what scared me off for good. I wouldn't feel comfortable recommending software that manipulates
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And then what? We just get a different way to interact with screens? Phones and tablets can leverage their size to pack bright displays, tactile controls and large batteries. Targeting the Ray-ban form factor is going to require some ugly s
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Most people in the US pay for phones that come with a call/texting plan, usually unlimited these days. There's little demand for alternatives because pretty much everyone buys phones under contract. SMS is really the only thing yo

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