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You are talking to an ex-IDF member who is being deliberately obtuse.

I'm sure the average American will appreciate this insight when they apply for payday loans.

buys a $7 oat milk latte

Well no wonder you're poor. If you bought an espresso machine it would pay for itself in less than a month.

Let's put it this way. You're a wealthy patron that sponsors an animated feature-length film you intend to put on the blockchain. You pay the animators, the film is made, and now the hash is on the blockchain.

Strictly speaking, your "ownership" is only of the hash. Unless you register the film as a copyright, the US won't recognize your ownership of the film. You cannot stop people from sharing or deriving the work without legal protection, the utility the blockchain provides in this instance is entirely cosmetic. NFTs aren't just unnecessary - they're useless without external guarantees. The "chain of provenance" for the cloud is a scam. All digital works can be copied infinitely for $0/copy, and the ultimate irony is that the only way to stop that outcome is from abandoning the blockchain and relying on a government to protect you.

You want to know where all the talented, educated and principled technologists were during the NFT boom? Far, far away from any form of blockchain.

I cannot name a single moment in the history of my life where another person has asked me who "owns" a piece of digital art. I know people who asked about the author, but nobody cares about the owner.

Unless your ownership confers some sort of meaningful control over the piece, society will entirely ignore your rules and distribute the work however they want. It's not like you can take the case to court, anyways. You're role-playing on a extralegal asset, not a tallying stocks and bonds.

but what matters is the provable artist signature.

This actually means nothing in a medium where you can create infinite perfect copies of something. If we had 100,000 identical replicas of Starry Night then there would be no value in a signed original. This is how digital art fundamentally works, your "ownership" persists insofar as people respect the authority of your notary.

make this make sense.

Sure. Modern Chinese RoRo vessels fit more than 1 shirt on them. The average shipping manifest to America looks more like 125,000 shirts, 10,000 tons displacement of natural gas, 40,000 sex toys, 20,000 Macbooks and a few dozen merchant marines making the trip. The "great cost to the environment" was manufacturing these products. The carbon footprint for shipping linens around the world is negligible, and cheaper than buying American-made.

It doesn't take a genius to see that this isn't an environmental issue, China will fuel up their boats regardless and take their surplus elsewhere. This is about American businesses outright failing to compete in the free market in places that matter, like car manufacturing and $1 tee shirt factories.

If that's your best refutation then I must have hit close to home.

If you don't know the answer, it's time to hire an engineer.

Ask Linus Torvalds.

Not really, "master" is about as indistinct of a term as "merge" and "rebase" are. There are huge amounts of git ergononics that can be improved and master branch is one of them.

If it wasn't for muscle memory and my bash aliases, I'd be using main too. Get a life and stop bitching about default environment variables, it's a huge red-flag to employers.

Why? To make people type more letters and waste their employer's time?

For the record; I still use master branch for personal projects. But trying to impose it on anyone else is madman-levels of obsession that you might want to work out with a therapist. It simply does not matter to anyone with actually relevant priorities.

WRT github, you just skip the second line when adding your upstream origin.

If you mean the greater global consciousness... nobody cares. Main is 2 fewer letters to type, you'll sound like a madman advocating for anything else. It would be easier to bring back eight-space tabs or BSD coreutils. You should make your peace with it one way or another and find a productive hill to die on.

All of a sudden they're competitive with NVIDIA

Apple has no interconnect technology comparable to what Nvidia ships to datacenters. The larger Nvidia clusters measure their addressable memory in terabytes, the value of Unified Memory at that scale is practically negligible (if not wasted bandwidth).

You're making some pretty handwavy generalizations here without a solid grasp on why Nvidia dominates GPGPU compute.

I’ve asked both Claude and ChatGPT, and they agree that finding contracts in the range of $150–$200 per hour should be realistic.

Unless Claude or ChatGPT is offering to pay that salary, I would take it with a grain of salt.

Very reminiscent of the "native gaming is over" crowd that promoted HTML5.

Is this what SEO spam looks like in the AI age?

If you can afford a Tesla, you do not principally concern yourself with the price of gas.

Used ICE is still cheaper in the US, doubly so when you don't have charging subsidies.

Not to mention the variety of Chinese EVs available to the international market. Aftermarket prices are hitting a desperate low for a very, very good reason.

RISC-V chips tend to be slower, but architecture-wise there's not much an ARM chip can do that a RISC-V one can't. Both are pretty well-supported for the coding/web browsing use case laptops get employed for.

The "support" is complete. Proton has only a few critical dependencies and they are officially supported by AMD's GPU drivers already. I cannot name a single part of their hardware stack that would not get supported on-parity with the Steam Deck.

Valve as a company could shut down tomorrow, and AMD users could still use Proton to play Windows games as long as their GPU is Vulkan 1.2 compliant.

That is ideal, but also pretty unnecessary. The only thing AMD has to support on their end is Vulkan, and the work on that front is effectively finished. What Valve can offer is HID support for handheld hardware and potentially shader caching servers for huge swaths of identical hardware models.

With a desktop there's a limit to what Valve can commit to. There's not a single controller firmware to support, and probably not even a consistent GPU setup to cache for. The extent of realistic support for these AMD boards is kinda fully realized at this point. Proton is, and will remain, a plug-and-play experience for AMD users that own supported hardware.

You could mod one into the hardware if you really wanted. The drivers for the Magic Trackpad are pretty much flawless on Linux, you could engineer your own plug-and-play solution with COTS hardware if you found the motivation.

Just read jtsummers comment. I am responding to the parent's question in context, I don't care about the numbers or who they absolve.

I can't blame YC for feeling the heat. VC has gone off the rails in the past few years, and their proudest alumni is an ex-Worldcoin CEO that wants everyone to invest in technology that's been "around the corner" for the past 8 quarters.

I'm not saying there's a directive on-high shutting down this discussion, but if the majority of users are really YC-affiliated then this entire Trump admin thing is understandably embarassing.

Specifically because it was designed to comply with compute sanctions.

https://archive.ph/1IXry

ARM is not a GPU architecture, nor is Apple Silicon the most power efficient GPU/CPU available to datacenters. The factor Apple is optimizing for is their own profit - they're terrified by the notion that another company might dictate their software margins for them.

Yup. Apple knows that they don't have to ship anything more than a whitepaper to justify their stance to current customers. They could announce an internet-connected bidet with a webcam and there would still be people arguing that it's safe until someone exploits it.

The fact that Apple is comfortable shipping a whitelabel ChatGPT is proof that the whole Private Cloud Compute thing is just for show. They're perfectly happy partnering with the Worldcoin guy to sell you something popular if there's money in it for them. Apple knows people expect them to release some haughty whitepaper, so they cook up PCC and claim you can audit it if they think you're worthy of seeing the insides. Now all the privacy nuts can pipe down while Apple plans a longer-term strategy to make their hardware compete in the datacenter.

There is a world where Apple takes their own privacy commitment to the next level through radical transparency. But that's not what PCC is, it's another puppet for the Punch-and-Judy security theater that sells their iCloud subscriptions.

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