albanread · HackerTrans

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People should zoom right out and think about the whole RISC-V project. When our phones have billions of transistors, are we seriously supposed to believe that RISC philosophy still matters. Personally I greatly prefer the user programmable 68000 family of processors. The marketing of RISC-V is perhaps the most impressive thing about it. Each to their own, I can see why giant SSD manufacturers want to use a license free design and share the cost of compiler development. Is there really anything else?

albanread

4 lata temudiscuss

"Every M1 Mac .. due .. for .. refresh .. "

Great, I look forward to Apple sending me an M2 to put into the CPU socket, or will it be a download to reconfigure my M1 into an M2.

albanread

5 lat temudiscuss

Back in the day I joined evening classes just to get access to the technical college library. Reading books was a thing then. I do see some value in erasing human history and starting again. We have been so comprehensively vile to each other it might be better to erase it all.

albanread

5 lat temudiscuss

If anyone was serious about democracy they would give tax payers the option to select the services they are willing to pay towards. Tick the box to pay towards a new Aircraft Carrier, a new Hospital, Vaccines, Making viruses more deadly etc.

albanread

5 lat temudiscuss

I think the message of They Live; is that our rulers complete lack of empathy for ordinary people means they might as well be aliens. Also I don't think it was a vision of the future; it was about society at the time.

albanread

5 lat temudiscuss

If Microsoft were a person; they would be a rich, lucky, lazy, easily distracted person who takes zero pride in their work, content to leave inconsistent garbage littering a product used by hundreds of millions because they are just too bored by the whole thing to bother fixing it.

albanread

5 lat temudiscuss

There was a short story where children were put behind a wall and brought up to believe that magic was real; at some point it started to work for them.

albanread

5 lat temudiscuss

I think the concept has been explored quite widely.

Indicators might be that groups of physicists believe in new tiny particles and then discover them.

Depending on how powerful the effect is; it might have interesting implications.

Consider that despite all the odds we are still here as a species. For example I sometimes imagine that the world was destroyed by a global atomic war in the 1980s but since we all rejected that bleak reality - we have this current reality instead.

albanread

5 lat temudiscuss

You are right and it is a useful thing to know.

There is a commercial license to help encourage the big well funded customers to pay for the tools they need to compile millions of lines of company confidential ADA.

And a license for only open source software; just in case students or hobbyists want to write their own robust open source rocket guidance system and share it on github.

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