FizzyOrange

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[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 5 hours ago

Doesn't sound impossible. Apparently their ARM laptops are very good.

[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 5 hours ago

It means to sell, with a slight negative connotation that it's a hard sell.

[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Not really. It will predict more vulgar output but that is fixed by fine tuning. It's not going to "poison" it in any meaningful sense.

[–] FizzyOrange 8 points 22 hours ago

Wow the level of drama and anger here is crazy. I assume it was cathartic to write at least!

[–] FizzyOrange 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

But you'd still be crazy to use it for either of those purposes, given how safety critical they are. I expect it would be more likely used in robots like Spot, or manufacturing robots.

[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah good point about the license. I guess it depends on the terms they have.

Still, 80% of something is better than 100% of nothing...

RISC-V isn't quite mature enough to replace AMD's chips yet but it would make sense as a long term goal.

[–] FizzyOrange 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not too bad if you strictly enforce Pyright, Pylint and Black.

But I have yet to work with Python code other than my own that does that. So in practice you are right.

[–] FizzyOrange 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Why is x86 on the way out? There's a few things that are converging:

  • Moore's law is dead enough that the difference between the ARM and x86 ISAs is relatively significant. Nobody cared about a 20% difference when computers were doubling in speed every 2 years but they no longer are. You can see that in other areas like Google adding support for 16kB pages, which gives a relatively small 5% performance boost which never would have been worth the effort in the past.
  • Intel is being absolutely trounced by TSMC on manufacturing.
  • ARM has matured enough to enter the laptop/desktop space.
  • Apple switched to ARM, proving it can be done, and proving that it's a huge improvement.
  • Emulation of x86 on ARM has matured to the point where it works with little fuss or overhead. I believe ARM has added instructions to help with this (but don't quote me on that).

ARM has much better efficiency and price than x86, and software compatibility is basically solved. There aren't really any fundamental reasons left to stick with x86, so when more systems become available (it's pretty limited right now) people will switch.

[–] FizzyOrange 2 points 3 days ago

Where did I leave my Eee PC?

[–] FizzyOrange 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Hopefully AMD doesn't get complacent and stick with x86 forever. I don't think anyone would have guessed it even 5 years ago but it's pretty clearly on the way out. I'm sure it will stick around for another 5 or 10 years, but in 15 years people will look at you funny if you buy an x86 chip.

[–] FizzyOrange 1 points 5 days ago

Ok that was maybe a bit unfair!

 

Does anyone know of a website that will show you a graph of open/closed issues and PRs for a GitHub repo? This seems like such an obvious basic feature but GitHub only has a useless "insights" page which doesn't really show you anything.

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Dart Macros (youtu.be)
submitted 6 months ago by FizzyOrange to c/rust
 

Very impressive IDE integration for Dart macros. Something to aspire to.

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