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by vdupras 2y ago
Yes, that's what I mean. Classic Oberon compiles to RISC5 (not RISC-V), which is a "made up" CPU. Unless you have a FPGA, Oberon is always going to be emulated on a regular machine.
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by vdupras 2y ago
/5d chess mode on What if Trump wants and expect some kind of coup attempt ("losing power"), a kind of Reichstag fire, in order to consolidate it? Trump's action appear self-destructive when you consider them in the cont
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by vdupras 2y ago
Yes, but we see that the "raising" logic is in place. Whoever stops raising the tariff "loses face". So they'll raise them until... infinity?
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by vdupras 2y ago
Isn't this essentially "we're closing borders"? Since the gloves are officially off, I'm wondering about something. Doesn't China hold a whole lot of US treasury bonds? What happens to those famous 10 years yie
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by vdupras 2y ago
Compiling Oberon to native code, nice! Since Oberon is as much a compiler as it's a complete system, a big part of the work is to integrate that system into its host. It seems they've done it for files and stdin/stdout, but n
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by vdupras 2y ago
Ah, so that's what happened. I guess they killed 2 birds with one stone with Kevin Hassett falsely saying that in confidence to some overambitious dumb guy. First, they identify a snitch, second, if they have strong suspicions already,
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by vdupras 2y ago
It's not that all of this is hard. Staying afloat is actually easy by mimicking whatever you see around. I guess it's akin to blissfully selling CDOs all around, right before the 2008 market crash. It's just that it's im
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by vdupras 2y ago
alfalfa is water-intensive. This export is straight up resource theft.
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by vdupras 2y ago
Of course they'll continue farming. Just not alfalfa!
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by vdupras 2y ago
I don't think it was OPs point. OP's point is that agricultural exporters in Utah profits on externalizations (aquifer depletion), which impoverishes everybody depending on that aquifer. When you come to the realization that you c
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by vdupras 2y ago
Of course, everything that was deemed 100% bonkers in that past will slowly be deemed as "duh, it was obvious that it was going to happen!" I mean, don't you remember that not so long ago, economists were telling us "Bus
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by vdupras 2y ago
Maybe that applying VAT to imports is done asymmetrically? If, for example, I'm a US citizen importing a european widget, will federal and state sales tax be applied on import? If they're not, then this might be why they're c
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by vdupras 2y ago
Now that's an interesting question. How does one review code of "vibe coded" apps? We're supposed to "vibe review" them? Reviewing code that even the author hasn't bothered looking at does feel like being
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by vdupras 2y ago
Sorry about the mess, I didn't anticipate the load. The website has been moved, but DNS propagation must occur. https://new.collapseos.org/ might work if your DNS still points to the old server.
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by vdupras 2y ago
Yes, but not of the sophistication required to produce a typical ARM CPU.
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by vdupras 2y ago
Collapse OS runs on the TI-84+ but doesn't implement mass storage on its flash yet, so it's not self-hosting on that target.
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by vdupras 2y ago
That looks really cool, but as we see from the size of the traces, I doubt you can fit a modern surface mount chip on that.
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by vdupras 2y ago
Collapse OS is fully self-hosting. Once you have such a system, you can improve it and deploy it elsewhere from within. But yes, your initial deployment will come from a POSIX machine. This is why I talk about two stages of collapse.
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by vdupras 2y ago
I 100% agree that computers are not necessary. But regardless of that, the ability to program microcontrollers is still a superpower and if you can have it, you have a hell of an edge.
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by vdupras 2y ago
Trade routes as we know them today are made possible by Pax Americana, which is fading as we speak.
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by vdupras 2y ago
For french speaking people, I recommend "Ravage" by Barjavel. It's not realistic by any means, but it's a nice take on this very issue :) The serious take: live in the countryside. This is an urban problem.
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by vdupras 2y ago
This link might be coming up in the context of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43481590 which went a bit under the HN radar. EDIT: oh, and in case the website goes over quota, try https://new.collapseos.org&
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Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers(wired.com)
21 points by vdupras 2y ago|2 comments
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by vdupras 2y ago
It seems clear to me that Musk is positioning itself to be one of the greatest welfare billionaire ever. The logic will go as follow: 1. Musk selflessly gives the US an immense service for which all americans should be forever grateful. 2.
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by vdupras 2y ago
And then I began to wonder what if we could isolate a whole country from the effects of LLMs. I know, impossible, but what if. They get to keep the old internet and all. A fork in the road. Just no LLMs at all. I wonder, after a few decades
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by vdupras 2y ago
I don't think that people deciding what goes in "production" are immune to scope inflation. Thinking that we need parity with another software without realizing the cost in terms of complexity of that parity requirement is, I
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by vdupras 2y ago
"parity" is the keyword here. Most of the time, the problem doesn't come from sloppy execution, but ever widening scope of the software. For example, my own "Almost C" compiler[1] is 1137 lines of code. 1137! Can it
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by vdupras 2y ago
The logical consequence of those tariffs are counter-tariffs.
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by vdupras 2y ago
Sure, but the context is taxpayers being burdened with 25% tariffs and having to scramble for alternatives. The idea is to invest that hypothetical 5% to build resilience.
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Yes, but if that new middleman has less "economy of scale" types of prices, then it makes truly local alternative compare better, no? In other words, let's say Amazon is 5% cheaper than all alternatives, including crude &quot

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