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cherryteastainon Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series

This is entirely Qualcomm's doing. If they supported Arm SBSA/UEFI+ACPI like some other Arm chip companies (e.g. Ampere) you could boot a generic Linux (or indeed BSD) Arm distro on their chips no problem. Controlling the entire platform is not necessary, just follow the standards.

cherryteastainon There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

Graphene OS devs themselves recommend that you install apps on Graphene OS via Google Play Store for security reasons. They also explicitly recommend Graphene OS users to not use F-Droid or Aurora Store. Make of that what you will.

cherryteastainon What Sun got wrong

Difference is Sun was providing a "full stack" proprietary product including CPUs running a proprietary ISA, Unix OS, compiler, desktop environment and productivity apps. All that Dell does is assembling standard, commoditized parts and putting a free OS on it. Dell's business is incredibly easy to replicate, while Sun's business is extremely hard to replicate. Of course, Sun's competitive advantage turned into a curse when the components of that vertical integration become uncompetitive both features and price wise vs. the GNU/Linux-on-Intel stack. But regardless, Dell could never replicate the vertical integration Sun had.

cherryteastainon On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Navier Stokes assumes the fluid is a continuum. The smallest scales that it effectively models [1] are larger than the mean free path of the molecules in the fluid, measured by the Knudsen number [2]. Whenever a phenomenon in the Navier Stokes equations happens in a scale on the order of or smaller than the mean free path, Navier Stokes effectively is unphysical. So, this is a phenomenon in the equation we use to model the fluid, not a physical phenomenon observed in a real fluid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_microscales

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knudsen_number

cherryteastainon On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Navier Stokes existence and smoothness has approximately zero bearing on engineering applications

cherryteastainon Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]

For an incompressible flow:

\nu d^2 u_i / dx_j dx_j - Viscosity

-1/\rho dp/dx_i - Pressure gradient

u_j du_i / dx_j - Advection. Kinda like momentum transfer from the motion of the fluid itself. Nonlinear, which makes the N-S equations hard to solve

du_i/dt - Rate of change of velocity. Note that this is in an Eulerian framework so it's not the acceleration of a packet of fluid, rather it's just the change in velocity at a particular location in space

Euler is when you omit some terms. Forcing is when you add some other terms to account for phenomena external to the fluid like gravity or flow through a porous medium like in the article.

cherryteastainon How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+

MTE is not the only blocker here. Pixel 7 series do not have it and are currently supported by GrapheneOS. There are other concerns regarding things like a proper secure element implementation and timely firmware/binary blob updates.

cherryteastainon US removes Syria from terrorism sponsor list, lifting major investment obstacle

> buddies at the helm in Iran

Shows how ignorant you are of the dynamics of the region. Iranian regime belong to the Shia sect, and backed Assad in the civil war. Sharaa/Jolani's faction are Sunnis, principally backed by Turkey. Shia and Sunnis generally dislike and often fight each other.

cherryteastainon Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

> There’s a short sighted cheering on of the 3rd tier and lower companies offering lower rates, but we’re already seeing them ratchet up the pricing and keep larger models closed after they get market attention.

Sorry, but people are cheering on Chinese companies (of whom your are unduly dismissive with your '3rd rate' comment given how good GLM-5.3, Kimi K3 are) not only because they are more economical, but also because they do not constantly refuse to do legitimate tasks and provide you with the weights for self hosting these models.

cherryteastainon Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

They would not be so vehemently against it if it did not work. There is a reason E2EE, duress passwords and similar technologies are under such intense assault these days.

cherryteastainon US debt tops $40T as Treasury doubles bond buybacks to calm markets

Doing that in the middle of the AI bubble would be a huge systemic risk to the US and world economy. Expansion of the US economy is now largely driven by the colossal amount of data centers being built. No one anywhere in the world would invest in risky data centers, LLM company IPOs etc if they could get a 30y 20% bond. Financial institutions like investment banks, hedge funds rely on the AI musical chairs to justify the trillions of commitments on their balance sheets. A Volcker style rate hike would trigger a dash for the exit and cause the collapse of some of these institutions, risking a domino effect rippling through the entire economy.

Plus it'd also massively increase USG deficits since all the debt that's added and rolled over would be financed at that elevated rate. At that point, cuts would amplify the above domino effect (cf. Kalecki Levy equation) reducing tax intake, but no cuts would mean unleashing a debt spiral.

cherryteastainon The Two Factions of C++ (2024)

> Google supposedly significantly lowered its participation in the C++ development process, and instead started to work on their own C++ successor language.

Did they decide to keep things as is or rewrite in Rust with LLM assistance in the couple years since this article? Carbon seems to have gone nowhere.

cherryteastainon People are worried about America's solvency

They did the equivalent in their time which was cutting the precious metal content of their coinage.

cherryteastainon Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election

Other parties did not support Binface

cherryteastainon Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM

For comparison, the GNOME Weather app takes 80MB.

cherryteastainon Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium

Looking at more holistic metrics, the lowest HDI US state (Mississippi) has a HDI of 0.868 [1], around the level of Argentina/Uruguay/Oman [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Dev...

cherryteastainon Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium

This is about country's total GDP. Per capita graph in TFA shows Poland is still behind Belgium [1].

[1] https://images.euronews.com/articles/stories/09/86/71/11/108...

cherryteastainon Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

So is Anthropic...

cherryteastainon Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?

> Early capitalism didn’t have steady growth because of technical advances. It had steady growth because it was early capitalism.

The same technical advances created rapid growth in non industrialized non capitalist societies once they were introduced like the USSR or China. It's silly to say that orders of magnitude reductions in human labour needed to produce food, provide clean water, build sanitation and sewer systems do not result in steady growth regardless of economic system. Producing the food easily is more fundamental than deciding who gets what amount of easily produced food allocated to them.

cherryteastainon Go 1.27 Interactive Tour

Probably won't/cannot be ımplemented. C++ and Rust disallow the analogues of this (templated virtual methods/dyn with a trait containing methods taking type parameters) as well.

cherryteastainon DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

This is China's way of applying its modus operandi of '80% the quality at 20% the price' to LLMs. Aim is dumping the tokens on the world market like they did with other industries like shipbuilding, steel etc.

cherryteastainon If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?

Big PC OEMs offer models with various distros preinstalled. Examples: Lenovo [1], Dell [2]

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/gb/en/configurator/cto/?bundleId=21NS...

[2] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/xps-13-9350-inte...

cherryteastainon US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

GrapheneOS has a feature to scramble the locations of the numbers on the passcode unlock screen to prevent this exact problem

cherryteastainon Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

Right, I thought you meant there was some GPL-caused license issue.

cherryteastainon PySINDy – A package for the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamical systems

Maybe if you apply it at a microstructural scale (think seconds) with order book and trade print data from many sources/symbols. Certainly not if you blindly apply it to the time series of the price.

cherryteastainon Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS

What do you mean? BSDs have tons of code lifted from the Linux amdgpu driver.

cherryteastainon US Government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system

Easier solution: phone wipes itself if passcode is not entered every X hours

cherryteastainon Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)

> Very early in the empire, a law made all conquered people officially Roman

Wouldn't call this "early" in the empire. Caracalla [1] did this in 212AD by granting Roman citizenship to free noncitizens, well after the beginning of the empire in 27BC. W Roman Empire fell in the late 470s so about half of the empire's lifetime had severe legal stratification between citizens, free noncitizens (peregrini) and slaves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutio_Antoniniana