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Lol... in this case, cheese imports from China are much cheaper, just not quite as good.

And for those who are all "but dur CCP get all ur data" you can use things like AWS Bedrock (at least for earlier versions of Deepseek and Qwen for now) and have more familiar people get all your data. Or buy (at obnoxiously inflated prices) your own HW and not send your data to anyone.

It looks like Supermicro had some DDR3 Xeon v3/v4 boards, and the first thing that came to mind was a Shenzen workstation/gaming board using recycled parts... haven't searched on that but it's bound to exist.

There are repos on github. Which, technically, means you can download Windows source from Microsoft. Just not legally.

It's the Alder Lake MAX. Originally decent design just pushed too far.

Not offhand alas, but I figure someone's bound to have made one by now...

RP2350. 5v tolerant IO if set up correctly, enough GPIO's and the PIO's to trigger everything at once, and more than enough speed to emulate flash.

Smart(sic)Media is just a NAND flash interface really.

Ah, the 2000's, when CompactFlash cards weren't that compact, and SmartMedia wasn't at all smart.

If it's worth it to you, you could try running it on Deepseek v4 flash which is very cheap right now...

I actually finally got started with CC after 4.6. ;)

The output is certainly prodigious (I can do things for side projects that I'd be very unlikely to finish on my own), but it's not a coding prodigy so it hasn't dislodged me from the idea that it's outsourcing.

Overall, yes, quite remarkable.

China also picked up (from A123) and ran with LFP batteries which are inherently safer.

I think the gist of it still applies to even Claude Code w/Opus 4.6.

It's basically outsourcing to mediocre programmers - albeit very fast ones with near-infinite patience and little to no ego.

The fab was already taken apart and sold by then.

CD's have repatterened uncompressed data using scrambling codes to keep the waveform stable (i.e. ~50% on/off)

And a Laserdisc with digital sound literally has that CD audio EFM waveform in the lower frequencies.

Agreed - if you're only writing things with Claude Code that would exist anyway (largely day job things) you're missing out.

Having an AI-slop version of X for your own gratification is usually better than having no version at all.

Yeah this feels at least partially Claude-written to me too.

You also need "make no mistakes"

This is in the Qualcomm SOC chip, so it's not something that has to be designed into the phone per se.

It's meant to be Just Good Enough to keep C-Suites from picking Zoom and Slack.

Yup... the first Ryzen/EPYC chips were literally a saving throw.

AMD's driver/software woes compared to nVidia make more sense when you realize they barely made it here at all.

Sound out the first three letters. I find it a very fitting description myself.

I guess that makes it a hononym of a different acronym.

As someone who grew up on Atari 8-bits, they missed a trick by not calling this the 800.

SNMP: It's an acronym and a homonym.

Agreed, it along with claiming victory on that certain thing that started five years ago and didn't end yet, realllly annoyed the left. And now, matters are worse.

(It also made the statements about "radical left" candidates very ironic.)

There's a critical instruction for Objective C handling (I forget exactly what it is) but it's faster than intel's chips even in Rosetta 2's x86 emulation.

... and because of activist investors, they're throwing that away.

Maybe it's the exposure to Chinese? I've heard that training models on code first helps, so I could see it.

I've also heard hearsay that R1 is quite clever in Chinese, too.

The sad thing is that, from what I can tell, Intel doesn't have a true planned successor to Alder Lake-N.

It really might be as bad a mistake as not having Intel Isreal's futher development of Pentium 3 would have been. (in other words, no Pentium M, no Core 2 Duo, no Nehalem...)

AMD was in critical trouble just ten years ago - if Zen 1 had failed AMD would have faced bankruptcy. Probably a good reason why they're so behind on the software side.

So AMD going from that to 2-3x intel's market cap is just... not quite as impressive as Apple's turnaround, but certainly in that direction.

Someday this should be upgraded to an 8th or 9th gen core i7. ;)

Intel's graveyard, even before this year, is just about as big as Google's.