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Why is this even an "if" at this point? China's EV industry has overtaken the US's. They are at worst only slightly behind in AI -- all of the best large open weight LLMs are from Chinese companies, and there are more major Chinese LLMs chasing SOTA than western SOTA LLMs.

Literally everything the second Trump administration has done in office has made the Chinese much stronger in every possible way, and the USA much weaker.

The USA isn't completely doomed if we can get past the current madness somehow. However, while I don't know what post-Trump America looks like, the USA has permanently ceded political and technical leadership. Trump has sealed the US's fate.

Strangely enough, AI could turn this on its head. You can have your cake and eat it too, because you can tell Claude/Codex/whatever to build you a full-featured Swift version for iOS and Kotlin for Android and whatever you want on Windows and Mac. There's still QA for the different builds, but you already have to QA each platform separately anyway if you really care that they all work, so in theory that doesn't change.

Of course, it's never that simple in reality; you need developers who know each platform for that to work, because you must run the builds and tell the AI what it's doing wrong and iterate. Currently, you can probably get away with churning out Electron slop and waiting for users to complain about problems instead of QAing every platform. Sad!

Care to elaborate? This sounds like a prelude to an argument to funnel more people into vocational schools/more funding for vocational schools.

(Not a criticism! I don't personally feel informed enough to have an opinion on this subject.)

You're focusing on the executable format, which is very much not the driver model.

As one of those users: absolutely fucking not.

If anyone wants a deep dive on this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert

GOPs and Democrats are the same on environmental, science, and public health policy completely, huh? You sure you wanna both sides it that hard?

Have you ever actually used macOS? It doesn't sound like it.

"Goal" implies there's a plan instead of just wanton cruelty for the sake of cruelty.

How do you define "swapping?" Even on Intel Macs, the memory statistics don't map the way one might expect. Be careful when making assumptions about what those metrics actually mean.

obligatory Dabblers and Blowhards https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

Seems like the Japanese have had this major blind spot in software engineering since the 90's. Even Sony didn't bother to use what they learned from the PlayStations to produce their own TV OS, outsourcing it to Google. It's as if the 5th generation stuff not working out just burned out that circuit in Japan entirely.

of those, Q4_K_S is better

Is there a reliable way to run MLX models? On my M1 Max, LM Studio seems to output garbage through the API server sometimes even when the LM Studio chat with the same model is perfectly fine. llama.cpp variants generally always just work.

CoreAudio was developed alongside xnu / IOKit for Mac OS X, so it’s kind of all of it. Apple had the opportunity to start fresh with a built-in super low-latency audio subsystem at the turn of the century, and they took it.

Please take anything this fella writes with several grains of salt.

Genuine question: Are GitHub workflows stable enough to be used for benchmarking? Like CPU time quantum scheduling is guaranteed to be the same from run to run?

Why are you surprised? Java always suffers from abstraction penalty for running on a VM. You should be surprised (and skeptical) if Java ever beats C++ on any benchmark.

macOS and Windows have a much smaller set of variants, and tend to ship a single UI with everything included with OS. Even the best single desktop Linux distros will ship divergent KDE and Gnome apps.

If you want essentially perfect high-DPI support out of the box and can afford higher end displays, use macOS. It just works. I see the comments above about scaling, and to that, I say: most people will never notice. However, a Win32 app being the wrong scale? They'll notice that.

But the real display weak point of Linux right now vs Windows is HDR for gaming. That's a real shitshow and it tends to just work on Windows.

We should want open borders. Immigration is a significant net positive. But we can settle for controlled immigration with liberal limits.

H1-B is stupid on its face. You're seriously telling me that this software engineering job absolutely cannot be filled by an American? That doesn't pass the laugh test.

Arbitrary cruelty is the point. There isn't a coherent rationale. You're going to the gulags if the subhuman pig in the mask says you are. You'll be lucky (?) if they don't just decide to execute you in the street. This is the reality on the ground right now. In a blue state in America.

This is a very silly argument.

There were several actual Unixes released based on Mach, and some of them more purely Mach than macOS/NeXT ever have been.

It is ridiculous. I skimmed through it and I'm not convinced he's trying to make the point you think he is. But if he is, he's missing that we do understand at a fundamental level how today's LLMs work. There isn't a consciousness there. They're not actually complex enough. They don't actually think. It's a text input/output machine. A powerful one with a lot of resources. But it is fundamentally spicy autocomplete, no matter how magical the results seem to a philosophy professor.

The hypothetical AI you and he are talking about would need to be an order of magnitude more complex before we can even begin asking that question. Treating today's AIs like people is delusional; whether self-delusion, or outright grift, YMMV.

You should really read the book mentioned in the post you're responding to.

Parts of Orange County are really beautiful after the rare good rain. Doesn't wash away the rampant bigotry, though.

No one would have recognized any tropes in 1957 beyond Shakespeare. Even Joseph Campbell wasn’t popularized until decades later.

I don’t think you can assign that meaning here one way or another. The context in the story at that point (IIRC) is that he’s sort of lying to the protagonist, or at least misleading him.

IANAL, but I don't believe either of these things is a recognized concept in US antitrust law.

I love the idea of ending the Wayland vs X argument by supplanting them with GDI+ (kind of implied, though not explicitly stated, by this proposal).

macOS and iOS too — syscalls aren’t stable at all, you’re expected to link through shared library interfaces.