williamDafoe

Multics : everything is a memory segment, just get out your soldering iron and wirecutters to begin porting Multics to your hardware today!

IBM: everything is a record type, we have 320 different modules to help you deal with all 320 system-standard record types, and we can even convert some of them to others. And we have 50,000 unfixable bugs because other pieces of code depend upon the bug working the way it does ...

UNIX: everything is an ASCII byte. Done

I started writing code in the 1970s on TOPS-10, TWENEX, PLATO, and my undergrad thesis advisor helped to invent Multics. The benefits of UNIX are real, folks, the snake oil is the hardware vendors who HATE how it levels the playing field ...

Open source is a relative thing. Compared to iOS, Android is "incredibly open source!"

Is wells fargo not a bank? It doesnt even use 2FA and you can log via a browser in a ship money all over the planet!

I did mips per watt calculations in 2017 and Apple (A10 i think) was 2-3x better than intel. See "how to build a computer" by donald gillies (slideshare slides). I was shocked, i didnt expect this at all!

X Elite is not better than Ryzen5. Not better at all! Its why i own a hx365 AMD laptop...

The 2019 Macs were vertically integrated and Apple could do NOTHING good with the Intel PowerPig i9 CPUs. My i9 once once ran down from 100% charge to 0% in 90 mins PLUGGED IN ON 95W CHARGER! I was hosting a meeting. The M1-M4 CPUs forsake multithreading and downclock and this is one of the many ways they save power. Video codecs are particularly power efficient on mobile chips!

This will come in handy when DARPA builds the Phaser Cannon used to blast the Talosian fortress under the direction of Number One in the 23rd Century ...

I always considered stack overflow to be a Band-Aid placed on top of a mistake! The mistake was always poor documentation by the original system designes, and a policy of not allowing edits to the system design doc! And the more mistakes a documentation person makes, the larger the stack overflow corpus!

Now ChatGPT for SO is a Band-Aid on top of a Band-Aid on top of a mistake!

I really don't believe in the elitist policy to qualify for being able to answer stack overflow questions ... Whenever I have a better answer than all the existing ones stack overflow says I'm not qualified to answer so shut up! To hell with SO - I answer more questions at my company than anybody else and SO is run by elitst fools ...

Two thirds of the wikipedia article i wrote in 2003 have been deleted by rabid editors. It was a biography of my father, written based on interviews with my mother. I have found that restoring any of the rabid editor deletions results in threats of me being banned from editing my own article.

USA has three advantages that no place else in the world has. First we have the biggest oil deposit in the history of mankind with the Permian basin. Second we have more inland waterways in the Mississippi River system than the whole rest of the world combined and third this abuts the best farmland on the planet.

I would say that the USA also has an advantage of open immigration for intellectuals to keep our universities strong but the anti-intellectual Trump administration is destroying this advantage as fast as it can!

The greatest advantage that we ever had was to lead the free world in ideals. A friend of mine was telling me yesterday that every child in India when they reach the age of six wants to go to Harvard and settle in the USA. They want to stand up for freedom and for democracy and for putting down all the evil dictators in the world. We are losing this image very very quickly it could be gone in a matter of months!

Don't brag about our aircraft carriers it would take us 25 years to build 11 more. We are nowhere in ship building we destroyed our domestic shipbuilding in the 1980s when we reoriented it for military shipbuilding and then the Berlin Wall fell down and we drastically cut the military shipbuilding budget and that caused our shipbuilding to go to almost zero overnight (3 heavy ships per year nationwide whereas China's largest ship builder does THIRTY!).

The next time I want to program in YAML (which is NEVER) I'll use GitHub Actions......

Does anyone use GHA - full stop? Their stuff seems "me too" in most cases, they are definitely a follower, like microsoft Bing search ... google AI ...

Does anyone use GoogleAI? For an AI Company with an AI Ceo using AI language translation, I think their actual GPT products are all terrible and have a terrible rep. And who wants their private conversation shipped back to google for spying?

The most popular internet protocols are 100% text. This fact is indisputable. I doubt that the guys at google even know this, or know why ....

I have no idea how to use your app. It just shows 4 pictures and asks me to choose one. No. I refuse to play a challenge that is not explained wtf am i doing.

Once you screw up there is a temptation to screw up more and more in the same way ....

Influencers are the ones doing Q/A for NVidia, what an embarassment! I guess the cards shortages are so severe they didnt have any spares for internal Q/A!

Actually the wires don't scale down like the transistors do. I remember in graduate school taking VLSI circuit complexity theory and the conclusion was for two dimensional circuits the wires will end Moore's Law. However I've seen articles about backside power delivery and they are already using seven+ layers so the wires are going through three dimensions now. Copper interconnects were a one-time bonus in the late 90s and after that wires just don't scale down-signal delay would go up too fast. Imagine taking a city with all the streets and houses and the houses now become the size of dog houses but you can't shrink the streets they have to stay the same size to carry signals quickly!

I get this impression that the Rust people think they are a stage where Rust is a viral phenom but it's really not. Nevertheless, they are behaving like its viral and trying to force it down everybody's throats, even though I never heard of some software package or system that was built natively in rust that truly went viral. The other day I tried to install a python package and - big surprise - it REQUIRED me to install a rust toolchain to install the python package! Well, that package went straight into the dumpster (i'm on WSL which DOES NOT have a rust toolchain)!

This "we're viral" behavior when "it's really not" is very childish.

Given that Jensen completely omitted ANY MENTION of rasterization performance, I think we can safely assume it's probably WORSE in the 5000 series than the 4000 series, given the large price cuts applied to every card below then 5090 (NVidia was never happy charging $1000 for the 4080 super - AMD forced them to do it with the 7900xtx).

1. Because you shoot at puddles? 2. Because you play at night after a rainstorm?

Really, these are the only 2 situations where ray tracing makes much of a difference. We already have simulated shadowing in many games and it works pretty well, actually.

The 3090 + 5900x is a mistake. The 5900x is 2 x 5600x CPUs. So therefore, when the games asks for 8 cores, it will get 6 good cores and 2 very slow cores across the infinity switching fabric. What's more, NVidia GPUs take MUCH MORE CPU than AMD GPUs. You should either buy an AMD GPU or upgrade/downgrade to ANYTHING OTHER THAN 5900x with 8+ cores (5800x, 5800, 5700, 5700x3d, 5950x, 5900xt, anything really ...)

This is just absolutely false, Steam says that 4.21% of users play at 4K. The number of users that play at higher than 1440p is only 10.61%. So you are wrong, simply wrong.

AMD is an excellent choice. NVidia UI has been horrible and AMD adrenaline has been better than NVidia for several years now. With NVidia, you are paying A LOT of extra money for trickery and fake pixels, fake frames, fake (ai) rendeering. All fakeness. All hype. When you get down to the raw performance of these new cards, it must be a huge disappointment, otherwise, why would Jensen completely forget to mention anything REAL about the performance of these cards? These are cut-down cards designed to sell at cut-down prices with lots of fluff and whipped cream added on top ...

The 4080 was designed as a strawman card expressly to drive sales towards the 4090. So this is by design.

It looks like the new cards are NO FASTER than the old cards. So they are hyping the fake frames, fake pixels, fake AI rendering. Anything fake = good, anything real = bad.

Jensen thinks that "Moore's Law is Dead" and it's just time to rest and vest with regards to GPUs. This is the same attitude that Intel adopted 2013-2024.

It looks like the new cards are NO FASTER than the old cards. So they are hyping the fake frames, fake pixels, fake AI rendering. Anything fake = good, anything real = bad.

This is the same thing they did with the RTX 4000 series. More fake frames, less GPU horsepower, "Moore's Law is Dead", Jensen wrings his hands, "Nothing I can do! Moore's Law is Dead!" which is how Intel has been slacking since 2013.

This lawsuit will cast a cloud of darkness on any startup company that wants to build a new arm chip design! What a terribly stupid thing for ARM to do - they have basically pointed a gun at their own head and pulled the trigger!

A lot of companies with great IPR have very terrible management, now ARM has joined that club! Pay their license fees religiously for almost 30 years and they turn around and sue you, GEEZ!

As I said on another forum yesterday, Qualcomm almost always wins its legal battles - when they lose its not because they are wrong but usually only because their lawyers screwed up (Broadcom lawsuit of ~2012). It's kind of a Boy Scout Company in a legal sense and they are very careful. They retrained some of their best engineers as lawyers to help them succeed in court battles ...