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Still way better than Microsoft’s spyware and adware sadly.

bfrogon Ohio One Construction Timeline Update

Intel last I saw had gotten 2B of Uncle Sam money.

It’s spent over 50B.

bfrogon Torvalds: You can avoid Rust as a C maintainer, but you can't interfere with it

Rust does ok at this but typically works better with some tooling to make register and bit flag manipulation look more like normal rust functions. chiptool and svd2rust do this for microcontroller code using all rust. The only asm needed is going to be the bootup to setup enough to run rust (or C)

bfrogon Build your own SQLite in Rust, Part 5: Evaluating queries

This is a really cool set of articles, and while it’s not going to replace sqlite it’s fantastic to see the pieces needed to do sql with SQLite’s file format

bfrogon Visualize Ownership and Lifetimes in Rust

This would be fantastic in helix

bfrogon India's Tata Consultancy Was Gaming the US Visa System

h1b abuse you say? Shocking.

bfrogon Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

This only works even remotely if the politicians agree to work together on some level. Modern US politics went all in on Newt Gingrich’s blockade method to ensure the big bad democrats can’t look like they ever do anything.

And here we are with only slightly less broken healthcare with the ACA, a plan originally from GOP, which is constantly hounded on for being terrible. All while drug and medical prices fleece every dollar from every pocket.

So this is what it comes back to when congress can’t do their job of helping the American people or balancing the budget. A populist comes in and smashes the norms.

bfrogon Inside OpenAI's $14M Super Bowl debut

The AI company resorts to those pesky costly humans yet again. Almost like it’s a money bonfire of waste.

bfrogon Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023)

Right, that would require social endeavors to solve social problems instead of targeting the next quarter yacht money

bfrogon Google "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" (2023)

Frankly I hope this pops the AI bubble back to reality. We don't really need a 500B investment in AI. We do need a 500B investment in cleaning up our emissions. Something AI would only make worse.

bfrogon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

What are people filling these datacenters with exactly if not nvidia?

bfrogon Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers

So tsmc and nvidia basically then?

bfrogon Statum: Zero-Boilerplate Compile-Time State Machines in Rust

I was thinking more along the lines of dynamic sets of client state machines or or device drivers. But right I get type states make this an adventure. Embedded Rust kind of has this problem actually, because the type states mean the state of say all the device drivers. This can easily mean some type parameter explosion of a parent structure that say has a set of peripheral driver structs as members

bfrogon TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...

And yet…

bfrogon TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona

https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-knowingly-used-child-l...

bfrogon Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab

People here cost a little more. No one here does quite the volume jlcpcb likely does. Perhaps there’s some artificial market factor as well like CCP tends to weigh some scales. There’s board assembly machines made in china as well likely further reducing the cost to build out assembly lines. Perhaps cheaper sources of basic materials like copper.

Likely multitudes of factors at play all of them in favor of China

bfrogon Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab

Limited to non existent jobs. Not much else to say, the jobs like so many others have been exported. Taiwan and China being the electronics and manufacturing centers means design has steadily moved as well. Ask any board house in the west how things are going, the ones that are left that is.

bfrogon Nix – Death by a Thousand Cuts

I love the ideas behind Nix. But as noted here, there's a thousand cuts to be found.

My biggest issue has been packaging binary distributed programs. These often want files in a particular directory somewhere, often want to find relative path libraries or plugins, want certain configuration options in etc...

None of that Just Works, there's a whole confusing method to try and monkey patch the software to work but its long list of not being able to find the information you want, not being able to do what you want, or simply limitations around how nix wants to structure things that make it really really frustrating.

If something like Nix were to be done again... I'd really recommend starting with something like a strongly typed flake like language with tooling a lot closer to that of cargo from rust from the get go. Errors should be easy, projects should be easily setup independently, etc. Where every project can simply be built as an independent thing. Sure there's downsides, but the upsides are that... you don't have the impossible task of managing one of the largest mono repos, if not the largest, on github. With all of the insane issues that entails. It wouldn't be that terrible to have a crates.io equivalent to publish, test, and share flakes.

Now I think I might've just created flakehub... but flakehub still relies on nix the tool and nix the language which are far from easy to work with.

bfrogon Apple will soon receive 'made in America' chips from TSMC's Arizona fab

Imagine TSMC not getting US funds to bring over a Taiwanese workforce large enough to result in "Little Taiwan" being constructed in the desert.

bfrogon Statum: Zero-Boilerplate Compile-Time State Machines in Rust

One of the issue with type states if you aren’t aware is the state of each type needs to then be a type parameter of the parent type. Meaning creating a dynamic number of these state machines would be frustrating.

Do you have some thoughts or samples of say a Vec of Lights as an extension of the sample tou have?

bfrogon Why Rust nextest is process-per-test

There’s a similar test library for c that does this and it’s great. I love the concept, it works well most of the time.

bfrogon Man trapped inside driverless car as it spins in circles

But I keep hearing AI is the future! Bleak indeed

bfrogon Kodak increases film production capacity to meet commercial, consumer demand

Film teaches you to value and think about what you are shooting with it. It also has a certain aesthetic that to younger generations has a retro look.

35mm cameras are still quite affordable, can’t say I blame people for wanting to shoot film!

Maybe this will help reel in medium and large format film prices, where film really can do unique things that digital sensors still can’t quite capture.

That said I love the Nikon Z I have.

bfrogon Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth

What breakthrough are people expecting in robotics I wonder?

bfrogon Darktable 5.0.0

I’ve just recently started with a real camera and editing raw files. Darktable has so many modules and options it’s quite intimidating. After a month of tinkering and trying it out I still don’t really have a solid handle of what module i need for the outcome I want which I think maybe just comes to experience?

I still don’t fully grok what filmic is supposed to do, it seems like several things in one.

bfrogon When Zig Is Safer and Faster Than Rust

Does zig now enforce memory ownership rules and signal all things have well defined behaviors? No? Ok then its not safer. Title is misleading at best and downright false at worse.

bfrogon Trump sides with Musk on support for H-1B visas for foreign tech workers

Sundar Pichai a gem? What? Are we using the same Google?

bfrogon Pigment Mixing into Digital Painting

Doesn’t Krita do this?

bfrogon U.S. homelessness jumps to record high amid affordable housing shortage

Crazy as there’s no shortage of land to build houses on. Of course there’s also not many great jobs in the empty west or endless fields of corn and soy (coated in cancer causing chemicals no less).

bfrogon Google's Results Are Infested, Open AI Is Using Their Playbook from the 2000s

Google in 2000s was excellent. Modern Google makes me feel like I’m a product being sold a lemon at a barb wire fenced used car lot. It’s horrible, the things being shown are horrible, and there’s questionable ethics and value to be had by even going there.