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by talldayo 2y ago
Be fair, now. Most of those Windows 95 binaries run just fine on Linux too =-) > It wasn't too bad but I had no trouble at all installing all my Win 10 software on Win 11. Let me guess - you weren't using that Windows 10 machi
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by talldayo 2y ago
In case you are not familiar; the current state of ballistic missile defense is so poor that American politicians have lobbied against deploying it and giving American citizens a false sense of security. Both THAAD and AEGIS are very impres
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by talldayo 2y ago
"in a long time" kinda doesn't matter to me. America hasn't built a supersonic bomber "in a long time", you'll have to excuse me for not caring. The value of such a weapon is dubious and only made sense in
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by talldayo 2y ago
The afterburner on the SR-71's engine is being fed super-compressed bypass air from the intake. It can ignite the exhaust with comparatively minuscule amounts of fuel when compared to a regular turbojet. At speeds beyond Mach 3, you do
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by talldayo 2y ago
"Civil" supersonic aircraft is a designation, that's it. Like the other comment said - you can fly supersonic military jets with a civilian designation as long as the jet is deemed airworthy. The real question is whether this
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by talldayo 2y ago
> But possibly not super high end NVDA chips but instead little Apple iPhone AI cores or smartwatch AI cores, etc. We tried that, though. NPUs are in all sorts of hardware, and it is entirely wasted silicon for most users, most of the t
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by talldayo 2y ago
> I don't know why but Asking Nicely never works for anything, why should international trade be any different. America literally failed to compete. We had fabs, even competitive and industry-leading ones, for several decades. But I
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by talldayo 2y ago
PRISM, Five Eyes, Lawful Intercept, Stingray/ECHELON wiretapping: Bipartisan support, completely ethical, and an imperative of national defense. We simply cannot trust our tech companies enough to do the right thing on their o
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by talldayo 2y ago
That means the remaining 10% are similarly disillusioned by the impression Apple or AMD could "just write" a CUDA alternative and compete on their merits. You don't want either of those people spending their money on datacent
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by talldayo 2y ago
I used to think the exact same thing would happen when we paid Pakistani and Indian labor to do America's busywork. That was about 15 years ago, I no longer have the same enthusiasm you do.
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by talldayo 2y ago
If the summary goal of your existence is to be the most delirious waste of resources that humanity has yet known, sure. It's the hammer and nail of spoiled burnouts everywhere that need a credible ruse to help them out of the bottle. S
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by talldayo 2y ago
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” - Frank Herbert, Dune
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by talldayo 2y ago
What calendar year did you just crawl out of? The majority of Windows and Mac users rely on cross-platform Electron apps and web browsers more than any other type of software (including native apps). The only constituent market that demand
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by talldayo 2y ago
Well, the Steam Deck's release coincided with the popularity of reconstruction techniques. The Deck didn't "force" devs to consider optimization so much as it just gave them a low-end reconstruction target to play with.
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by talldayo 2y ago
Eh, I take a much more "gloves off" approach to this mentality. If you bought an Airport thinking that it would be your forever router, you're a moron. Same goes for buying an eero, or Google Home, or even an iPad at this poi
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by talldayo 2y ago
> which involved complicated rust `no_std` and linker setup for compiling rust code onto bare metal RISCV from scratch. That's complicated, but I wouldn't say the resulting software is complex. You gave an LLM a repetitive, tra
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by talldayo 2y ago
Most of this is offset by the godawful mouse acceleration profile MacOS uses by default. Many external mice, even with the sensitivity turned up to max, will not respond to small wrist movements at all and instead require disabled acceler
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by talldayo 2y ago
Tiling window managers tend to tear more than any other desktop out there. Especially on x11, where you're expected to composite your own desktop without any (!!!) synchronization primitives, it's extremely common to get halfscan
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by talldayo 2y ago
Don't worry, Trump is friends with Tim Cook. Nobody who's friends with Apple can be a bad person, that's what you've told me so many times on this website.
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by talldayo 2y ago
True how, though? Does Big Tech have too much power because it's disproportionately irresponsible, or because nobody else innovates like technology does? Did we get here through natural competition or abusing the undeniable de-facto co
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by talldayo 2y ago
Well sure, you could accuse Apple and Huawei of the exact same thing and still be right. Hardware OEMs are extremely desperate to force their customers through first-party services to extend the value of their sale. News at 11. Because Amer
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by talldayo 2y ago
> What is Google's first mover moat? AdSense
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Games don't, but xWayland does.
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by talldayo 2y ago
"Competitive FPS gaming" stops allowing anything besides fresh Windows installs after a certain point. It's a diminutive distinction, like pointing out that emulating GameCube games won't let Smash Melee players fight co
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by talldayo 2y ago
This Just In: Nvidia Stock Rising In Response to Demand For DeepSeek Inference
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by talldayo 2y ago
Context ain't free. The larger your project becomes, the more money you will spend trying to infer code from it. It's possible that the cost of writing complex code with AI exponentially correlates to the complexity of the working
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by talldayo 2y ago
https://archive.ph/indZg
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by talldayo 2y ago
Professionally, Oracle is pretty much the only cloud provider with a super strong focus on ARM. If you want a Linux distro with guaranteed secure and complete packaging for AArch64 you're not going to find many non-corporate options.
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by talldayo 2y ago
> I look forward to their version of Nvidia GPUs at half the price. Arguably China doesn't have the technology required to manufacture 30-series GPUs with the yield or unit cost Nvidia did. I wouldn't hold my breath for Chinese
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by talldayo 2y ago
Another campaign promise fulfilled, although to a small demographic: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4d75zl212o

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