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by smoldesu 3y ago
I'd imagine a landlord would say that.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
There are also personal computers that have no browser options. Ostensibly, Microsoft and Google are competing here, just abusing the horrible precedent of first-party control.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
In business, you may find that the two are synonymous with each other when you want to make an attractive platform.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Dotnet Core and Mono both supported AArch64 targets long before Apple Silicon existed, too. I think characterizing Microsoft as "lazy" in regards to RISC is wrong from a pragmatic point-of-view.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Anticipation of what? Microsoft has "supported" ARM as far back as Windows RT, but developers and integrators don't care. The hardware didn't (and still doesn't) sell, and every usable core design is either from the
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Nvidia should really be able to do both. Their integrated solutions like Orin scale up to a certain point, but the demand for modular compute is still enormous on the server side (and enthusiast market). Given that CUDA will support both go
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's characteristically fascist, but your instinct that all this will end poorly is probably right. Ever since the Snowden leaks, we've known that multiple nations built up a digital power disparity that can st
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It's platform politics, at the end of the day. It's Apple's platform, they choose what to stock it with. This whole situation stinks, though. If Jon's being honestly transparent, it's a sad confirmation of how deepl
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Even disregarding the human rights violations and lack of labor protection, there are fundamental problems with Apple's relationship with China. This isn't a business decision we're talking about, this is a domestic supercorp
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Why needle a business partner (China) Why make an adversarial superpower a critical "business partner" in the first place?
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Do I fault Apple for being a rational profit maximizing entity I mean, if that entity is rationalizing censorship to maximize profit, maybe you should? The alternative is blaming Jon Stewart, and eventually I'm going to get tired
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> all that outrage is just meaningless virtue signaling Virtue signalling is when you do something menial or deferent to target a specific population. Like when you'd modify a film to remove certain flags or introduce story-beats fo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Apparently nobody at Apple when they signed Jon Stewart.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
If you're talking about the long-term history of the term: https://www.etymonline.com/word/fast
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by smoldesu 3y ago
People eating is not a software problem, it's a capitalism problem. Code just sits on a server, and in 99% of circumstances the costs of retrieving or modifying it is negligible enough to copy it. What you're describing is where t
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> What would stop more and more people choosing to become freeloaders if UBI is implemented? The promise of property and personal wealth, probably. UBI wouldn't be enough to live off of for most people, and there's no incentive
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I wanted ARM to succeed too. I have the original Rev2 RasPi board sitting 10 feet away from me, for all the good an ARMv6 SOC does me in 2023. Even back at release it was little more than a glorified embedded SOC that could boot Linux for g
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> The rest can be implemented at a higher level Eg. the rest is optional and doesn't come with the same guarantees as the base network. I don't hate cryptocurrency personally, but it's not hard to see how 99% of users woul
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> It's like Steam's marketplace, but without having to have one company have control ...and without payment processing, fraud detection, customer service, moderation tools, user reviews or a refund policy.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Roughly a decade ago, that's what people said about ARM too: "A licensed RISC ISA? Why use that when MIPS and PowerPC and x86 exist?" For the most part, all it took to put ARM on the board was to get it's core designs on
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Even post-2020, I've seen vanishingly few production stacks that "just work" using ARM virtualization.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I don't think your lifestyle choice conflicts with educating people about backdoored systems. It seems to me that Hackers and civilians can work together to identify obviously backdoored systems (eg. Dual_EC_DRBG) and encourage review.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Is there a way for us to give this topic the attention and thoughtful discussion it deserves? Probably not. While I agree that it's an important topic, it's potential to be flamebait for everyone involved kinda outweighs th
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> I have some sense that OpenAI already has a system (that they haven't released) that many reasonable people will consider AGI. How would you define that? I don't think multimodality is a high-enough bar to say something is de
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by smoldesu 3y ago
No, evidently. See my previous answers for justification.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Reddit does it as well, now: https://www.reddit.com/contributor-program Both instances feel less like an olive branch and more like a last-ditch effort to retain the important users. Instead of listening to user concerns or
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by smoldesu 3y ago
The state provides order. They police things and maintain the economy under terms we consumers call "good". That costs money, so we pay for it via taxation - logical and moral. On top of that, a portion of your taxation goes beyo
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Largely I agree, but going from 99% untrue to just 90% untrue doesn't make it not wrong.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It totally makes sense to me; nothing about it seems "immoral" like you've posed. Our country produces revenue far in excess of meaningful compensation for executives, business owners and shareholders. The only logical, nay m
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by smoldesu 3y ago
I mostly disagree with Doctorow's opinions on how platforms die, and I don't really hate Elon as much as I could. I do think Twitter is bound to fall off if it hasn't already, though. The value it provides is too easily copie

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