Wow that's super nostalgic. You're on a great path! After doing something similar, I switched to Haskell. Give it a go if you have the time.

I met someone who bit shifts for life, uses opengl shaders for compute, but has no sql experience and is afraid of opening a tcp socket.

Trivial under plan9/9front. Under Win32/POSIX, run way.

On bit shifts, pick any Forth programmer and shaders will be almost like a toy for them. They are used to implement double numbers (and maybe floats) themselves by hand by just reusing the only integer numbers they have and writting custom commands to output these pairs of integer as double numbers. They can probably implement multithreading processing by hand in Forth and also know the IEEE standards for floats better than C programmers over 20 years.

If it starts to get better after it absolutely cannot get any worse and users start to parade their experience switching to other platforms like badges of honor, is that really a win? After so many got their time and money wasted?

I mean I guess there is no reason to care, since their main products work in a browser, powerbi users and gamers can endure anything and old people will just get their grandchildren to fix their windows.

I was wondering who convinced ARM to manufacture hardware. Turns out it was Meta.

Now if only they would go back to being "Acorn RISC Machines" and make a nice desktop home computer again...

One can dream.

DGX Spark is pretty nice. It could be cheaper if they removed the NIC though.

I have the ASUS variant. I like it well enough.

I see the NIC as a form of future proofing, but we'll see.

My Ryzen 9 mini-PC from 2 years ago outperforms this thing in raw CPU Though.

I hate RISC OS architecturally, but if they made a new Archimedes or whatever that ran it I'd buy it

Nuvia/Qualcomm lawsuit and Softbank.

Fabless. Like AMD and Nvidia. So I would think about it more as branding and packaging than Manufacturing

Huh, many companies use TSMC, in fact, probably all of them use TSMC, including Intel, yet there are only a few who dominates in performance. There are much more in designing chips than what you just listed.

Intel uses its own fabs for certain IP, tsmc for others yeah. As far as I've seen the latest greatest Panther Lake that stuff is made in intel's arizona fabs.

There's a big difference between just providing IP and actually doing the physical design, manufacturing and packaging. You can't just send your RTL to TSMC and magically get packaged chips back.

I haven't ever ordered an ARM SoC but I also wouldn't be surprised if there were significant parts that they left up to integrators before - PLLs, pads, SRAM etc.

Classic AI psychosis, you can do it with a single prompt, etc. etc.

If you find such a db with options, it will find "successful trading strategies". It will employ overnight gapping, momentum fades, it will try various option deltas likely to work. Maybe it will find something that reduces overall volatility compared to beta, and you can leverage it to your heart's content.

Unfortunately, it won't find anything new. More unfortunately, you probably need 6-10 years and do a walk forward to see if the overall method is trustworthy.

I still research efficient algorithms. You can describe these to LLMs and they do it without any prior art. They just took away the stomach churners.

In fact, we probably started a communist revolution in software with anthropic/openai streaming your solutions to lesser coders.

You're actually better off using the LLM to consult textbooks from the 70s, because most likely someone already came up with a better algorithm that hasn't seen adoption yet.

Rude!

I am not thrilled to use java, but it really does what it says on the tin. A customer copied the jar file I sent them to their as400 and it just worked. There is nothing quite like it.

Go binary says hello. No VM overhead. Everything is statically linked.

Hi go binary, unfortunately you don't exist, because there is no cross compiler for that platform. Also please don't crash if you ever do get cross compiled, since the target system doesn't understand your utf8 strings.

Why not do fads in moderation? I've always done this.

Don't convert it all to xhtml, just start closing your <tags>

Don't go full UML code generation mode, just use it to illustrate core business logic.

Don't buy an iPhone, get an n8.

Don't be a cryptobro, just get one, set it aside.

Don't go full TDD, but use it for bug fixes.

Don't go full knowledge graph/org mode, just have a captain's log.md and an assets/ folder.

Don't go full microservices, create modular monoloths.

Don't go full agent teams, just use normal cli.

etc. etc.

That is not the case at all, considering that he himself started using and tweeting about llms for coding fairly recently. He's probably less experienced in that area than most people who started using claude cli last year.

He is a researcher who understands neural networks and their architectures exceptionally well. That is all.

> He is a researcher who understands neural networks and their architectures exceptionally well. That is all.

And that is precisely why he is more qualified on the subject than your average vibe coder!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding lol