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Nah they'd rather try to continue to force snapdragon on windows where no one actually cares about this and the experience is trash.

AArch64 is dead for Windows and client Linux, and the knife is in Qualcomm's hands.

Ah yes, the qualcomm way. Rather than upstreaming things so it just works make a Qualcomm Linux, perhaps with NDA and laywer speak to sign off on to get access to anything at all, all to use their mediocre hardware.

Qualcomm you suck, upstream your drivers, make it open. Stop faffing about with closed proprietary junk. Somehow Intel, Tenstorrent, and AMD understand this but you don't. You aren't NVIDIA! Even if you were NVIDIA know that people absolutely despise that model.

Sitting in a modern pickup is worse than a school bus for visibility. You cannot see in front of the truck at all. Real blue collar work seems to mostly have moved to work vans like the sprinter which have much better visibility, much more friendly height for storing, can still tow, etc.

Pickups are 1000% pointless now

I’m moving all my machines to NixOS. I’d done this before but ran into time constraints creating ports for convoluted binary software. With LLMs now as good as they are it’s quite possible this isn’t a problem anymore. I’ll be finding out.

Wild. A great book by Clive had this exact sort of scenario where an AI so powerful it could break into any system. In typical Cussler fashion there was some Indiana Jones/Laura Croft mysticism around it but still…

The modern world is a wild place!

How do you measure the performance of people? This is subjective and biased every time.

There is no inherit in Rust. If you choose to try and do OOP horror Rust makes this fairly painful

Isn’t this effectively a mediocre MediaTek SoC glued with an over priced GPU with an OS that’s barely usable and I guess the ask is $5k? What a deal!

C++ the good parts is essentially C. If C had the concept of traits and generics or something like them like Rust there’d be no need for C++ and its ideas of mediocre inheritance and macros (templates).

Xilinx has often thought of the software as the special sauce that sets them apart it seems like.

At this point its a net negative. Nothing like a massive bloated Vivado that now requires a slow spywareOS to run its rotting carcass of gigabytes (100's) of java.

About the only good thing Vivado does is fail to synthesize correctly... oh wait that's a mystery bug that I and many others have run into. And impossible to understand why.

FPGA tooling desperately needs open source tooling like C needed GCC.

Why would customers trust a company that does rug pull penny pinching moves like this? Tells me a lot.

radicle is awesome and Just Works from what I've tried of it

Funny, I need an LLM to figure out what most people consider "readable" python as its highly unreadable to me. The lack of types, top to bottom flow, and more tends to make it all very confusing for me to read anything python that's > ~1000loc

I asked claude if it thought openclaw was better. It said it didn't know what openclaw was.

I mean best of luck policing this is all I'm going to say. We will soon be back to the "core contributors only" kind of policy in many projects I imagine to avoid the slop spam. The verification will be at the conferences.

I'm not sure how you could really take a stance on this. If someone used the tool to expedite work its unlikely you'd ever know it.

If you use the tool to yeah, go one shot a ton of garbage then it will in fact be garbage.

radicle.xyz also does the distributed/seeded forge setup and I think does a nice job of it already.

I wonder if radicle.xyz will start taking off, as there is no corporate entity hanging over its head, and never likely will be.

GitHub lost its way right around the time it was bought by a large corporate entity.

Had they remained independent I have no doubt it'd be a very different story.

It all runs better with Linux, Linux isn’t wasting cycles spying on me.

NixOS can be all of these things given a nix expression to make it so

The thing here is I doubt many people care that it’s a little slower. The price point makes it an excellent computer without a decent operating system.

The alternative is a crappy computer with a horrible operating system.

Exactly this. I love Apple tells you it’s a big Trojan in effect that can do anything. Yeah no thanks.

Oh yeah no... its still terrible even without all the spyware.

First experience of Windows 11, trying to download a file through firefox caused my 18 core 10980xe to have the entire UI freeze for the full time the download was going.

Reverted back to windows 10 immediately and the problem went away.

Windows 11 is full of spyware from the Mothership

Funnily it probably runs Windows better than the typical corporate spyware burdened x86 laptop.

Aaaand I cancelled.

Open Source is not Free Support, the sooner this reality sets in (accelerated surely by AI spam) the sooner we get to the happy place.

It’s the taxi app wars all over. Yes Claude is great. But how many people are going pay once the subsidies are over?

Like uber I believe current pricing is heavily subsidized by capital investment. The investors likely believe the bot with the users is a winner.

The real winner will be the good enough bot with customer hardware and scale to run it cheaply. There’s exactly one current contender as far as I know with both.

C isn't really the protocol though, its just a way every language has of exporting simple symbols. Otherwise how else does this work, you'd never every language to understand every other languages symbol name encoding scheme, some of which are complete jibberish (I'm looking hard your way C++).

The real protocol in action here is symbolic linking and hardware call ABIs.

You could always directly call Rust functions, but you'd have to know where to symbolically look for them and how to craft its parameters for example.

If this is well defined then its possible. If its poorly defined or implementation specific (c++) then yeah its a shit show that is not solvable.

I which no one cares about. As a 1% player having a convoluted C++ centric stack when the 99% player has something different e ouch porting requires critical thinking means no one gives a damn about it.

ZLUDA has more interest that SyCL and that should say it all right there.