side note, when first transistor-based portable radios showed up (as opposed to large lamp-based stationary devices), they were called "transistor". you would take not your portable radio with you, it was your transistor.
If they're not going to handle the return values, they should change the function signature to reflect this aspirational contract, that that function "never fails".
I see in the article they did change the poll_flush to run just-in-time at poll_shutdown. So they definitely can make a "best effort" poll_flush version that just does not return any errors for use in that loop.
I find it strange that software people will accept this level of flakiness from the hardware. Normally you would just send the card back, and request a replacement.
> One of the cards would only show up if I crossed my fingers when turning it on. Even reboots wouldn't cure it - I had to A/C power off and remove the power cable each time for 30 seconds.
This is ridiculous. Of course we are living through supply crunch, but that card is clearly defective hardware.
Yes. I kick myself that I did not get the 500gb model when getting was good. It was a massive price tag, but the hardware is NICE. And that MLX architecture really works. I run the gpt-oss 100gb model and it's right quick.
It is full of these short sentences that AI writing loves, sort of to feel "punchy". Normally you would copy-edit that stuff, join them up, have the writing have some rhythm. I agree with GP, the article is hard to read because it seems to have a lot of https://tropes.fyi/
> if they wanted to switch to pumping out destroyers, missiles and drones
This is such a naive take. Nobody is coming to US to try to outgun you. The moment petrodollar wobbles, the moment US Dollar stops being the world reserve currency, the game will be over for you. You will discover what it really means to be competitive, once the world stops giving you goods essentially in exchange for glass beads.
how did that work? did the Feds pose as some false flag bootleggers?
do you have some sources I could read up on?
thing is, russia has a large tradition of home distillation (samogonka), and they too have tropes of people going blind. there have been a lot of cases of people dying because of bad alcohol, here's somewhat recent case: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/contaminated-cider-deaths-russi...
side note, when first transistor-based portable radios showed up (as opposed to large lamp-based stationary devices), they were called "transistor". you would take not your portable radio with you, it was your transistor.