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Honestly kind of heartbreaking to see her leave asahi Linux. She has done insane work building the vulkan driver from scratch. I wish her well working at Intel. If I ever buy an Intel GPU I can rest much easier it will work well on Linux. If she is working on the Linux driver stack that is.

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There isn't really anything left to do for her - everything missing (including work on the newer graphics chips) can be somewhat easily done by less talented people, building on her work.

She did the challenging stuff she cares about. One aspect of nerd brain often is that you can hyperfocus on challenging stuff, but can't get the motivation to work on stuff you don't care about - and even what would be a 20 minute task can end up taking days because of that. It's great that she has the self awareness to set goals, and step away once they're done.

I didn't have that in that age - and still sometimes struggle. I was lucky enough that my employer back then recognized my issues, and paired other people with me for doing the stuff I was not interested in, and now usually manage to load those issues onto other co-workers by myself.

M3, M4 and soon to be M5 are ready to be cracked open :). From what I understand they are actually different somewhat hardware wise. So it's really not like there would not be a continuations of this work. But of course it's natural to want something else after years of working on the project.

Take into account that she's focusing on the 3D stack, not the overall hardware. Even with hardware differences there's a good chance it's not different enough to make it an interesting new challenge.

Given the features that have been advertised for the M3+ graphics and compute stack, there's rather a good chance that it is different enough to create big, new challenges for third-party support.

Yes I meant the GPU specifically not the hardware in general. An example is the support for hardware ray tracing in M3 and beyond. In some now deleted french fediverse post Alyssa indicated M3 has a new architecture.

Sounds like ADD to me. Easy to be labeled as "Lazy" etc.

Yeah, no way there’s any evolutionary fitness to having a brain that only works on problems it finds worthwhile. /s

Ideally, society would be aware of such people and actually use their potential. AR struck it lucky and so did a few others (cough Richard Stallman cough), but most don't and end up burned out by rigid megacorp structures and processes that don't respect that people, even those one might call "neurotypical", aren't cogs in a machine.

I've said it before and I will keep saying it again: the financialization of everything and the utter dominance of braindead, long-since disproven MBA ideology is going to seriously impede our societies in the next decades.

Yup.

And now that tech is flooded with people, it's gonna be easy to just not deal with the troublesome "weird" people, and instead go with those who are happy to go thru all the bureaucracy and 10 stage interviews

ADD is an old term -> ADHD. Nvm.

I wouldn't be so quick to judge someone for ADHD.

Because I have it, untreated. And I couldn't even finish university because of it. I'm unable to do certain things, like at all, I'm nearly physically ill when doing these things. Hard to explain it, to someone without these problems :)

Luckily enough, it's not that important here / Idc about money, career etc.

Alright. ADHD-PI, that's simpler.

I have ADHD-PI or whatever (diagnosed). I know the struggle. it's a life long battle that never ends.

Hang in there

This is of course great as long as you can find enough "challenging" work to perform, but any successful project is going to involve a whole lot of seemingly "boring" work. A big part of true maturity and professionalism is being able to find the interesting challenge even in these more run-of-the-mill tasks and successfully engage with them.

(Mind you, I'm not talking about a matter of inborn temperament or character, much less a moral flaw! Rather, finding the compelling challenge even in "boring" tasks is a valuable skill and situational tactic that anyone should explicitly learn about and aim to acquire as part of becoming a mature professional, not a matter of morality or somehow being dismissed as "lazy"!)

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