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Edit: this was the Turbo units, which did have a bus-assisted block copy.

Before that, just well-tuned 68030 burst block copy - they rendered to backing store and did block copies with a special case of vram to vram block copies (used for window compositing).

Ah, McKinsey. That their pro-remote study was bogus will probably come as a shock to the four people left on planet earth who aren't familiar with "where there's fraud there's McKinsey"

Why do you think "DEI people" are running DEI programs?

Scott Alexander has a good summary of what went wrong with the former mindset (fill the job with the qualified candidate becomes mimic the population at large or else): https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-the-origins-of-...

The problem with DEI is that it did, in fact, turn into a policy of racial quotas, only the quota-ness was denied even though the threat of legal action was omnipresent.

Unfortunately many of the employees _most interested_ in remote work are such because they want to do things other than work.

Not all. I work with some remotes who are awesome. But the 24 year olds who want to work remotely from Thailand aren't getting their shit done.

The company was publicly lying that it did because execs thought it would help us recruit younger people.

I work for a company that made a big deal about how well it worked. The CEO and chief people officer both made a lot of public statements about it, during and just after covid. They did this claiming they had the numbers to back it up and said numbers but they basically made them up. It was PR and they were using it to aid recruiting into what was and is a company that young people avoided. What numbers they did have were mostly inertia and a side effect of lockdowns (people had little else to do); new projects and new teams floundered very visibly.

Internally, it was very clear that it did not work. The numbers were massaged to back up the executive leaders, but everyone was pretty clear what was going on, and even the exec leaders, in leader-only meetings, did eventually admit that it was "more nuanced" initially to "does not work" internally. The company has since moved away sharply from remote employees. It's still not full-on RTO, but it's edging toward it.

I'm not saying this is everyone, but I think people should really take the 2020-2023 rise in remote and the narrative around it with a grain of salt. Most of the companies that championed it have reverted, and they aren't doing that because bosses are control freaks.

compositing has nothing to do with 3d acceleration.

NeXT slabs and cubes did have a low-function blitter used to composite the main display.

And you believe this?

Surely then they have no swe reqs right?

Nextstep used compositing in the late 1980s.

Nationalism is by far the most successful leftist project.

It’s kind of amazing that the left has forgotten that fact.

Hans Moravec has an incrementalist approach to this which I think actually does accomplish eliminating the copy issue.

Yes, it is. Please name a windows laptop with great speakers and mics.

It’s night and day.

If it was just patent avoidance why aren’t there any non-apple laptops either their sound quality? Both the microphones and the speakers are some of the best audio I’ve ever encountered.

Can you describe this "find a bug" workflow?

Call Manager etc have zero to do with SP networks.

None. Salvia, at least in my experience, doesn't really have the executive function operating until very late in the process.

Anti-trust is the reason a lot of the kinds of deals you’re talking about don’t happen.

I’d wager almost everyone on HN drinks alcohol regularly.

I am not recommending it, because it’s hard to get and the experience lasts a full day and is rough - compared to the living experience of mushrooms - but the granddaddy of all psychedelics - Mescaline - is how I learned to understand what people meant by visuals.

I disagree.

Salvia was the most profound experience I’ve had from a drug. I got to witness a reboot and POST of myself, with discrete functions coming back online in stages.

Nothing has been like that before or sense.

Twice was enough. I learned something from it but it wasn’t fun and that lesson need not be repeated.

you should try a mangosteen or cherimoya. discovering the broader fruitiverse was pretty eye opening.

None of the apple chips are ECC so they are poorly suited for servers in any case.

Most of the technology that TSMC uses was developed in the US and Europe.

If you can connect to a friend's jellyfin, you can also get the UI package delivered from the friend's server.

They've sort of conflated three different ideas - one, the non-browser clients are separate and need a way to select multiple servers from a common wrapper app; two, for development purposes separate the server of the UI package from the backend being accessed; three, have a server based application.

None of these items are uncommon, they are just commonly solved by making the separate front-end server an exception rather than a weird and senseless default. Most people solve this by making the dev mode case an exception.

Moreover, why not just add a button to the UI to automatically connect to the _UI serving server_ instead of having the user type it?

I love jellyfin, but this stuff is just terrible design for out of box experience or connecting from a new client instance, and it breaks when you're traversing a network boundary with something like Tailscale.

This is silly however for the typical use case of a web browser connecting to a server and very silly as default behavior.

It may be, but it's also the default behavior and .. really... makes no sense at all.

I love jellyfin but their web model is just bizarre.

Why on earth, when you go to 192.168.whatever:8096 does it ask you what server you want to connect to? Like.. THE ONE SERVING THE PAGE.

Just now I decided to connect to Jellyfin over tailscale and it's asking me to add a server; on 100.xxx, which is the jellyfin server which served the UI. And it doesn't seem to want to accept any answer as to what the server URL is.

I think you’re basically ignoring the history. I cited the MAPS example specifically because it was a highly observed study where the people involved were incredibly aware of what had gone wrong in the past with psychedelic-assisted therapy and even given that still couldn’t keep it out of a single trial.

The history of psychedelic use in therapy is part of how we got here in the first place. The therapists in the 50s and 60s were engaging in inappropriate behavior with their patients with regularity.

I am very pro psychedelics but the 60s provides an almost endless array of examples of how it can go wrong. Psychedelics basically do not belong in a therapist to patient context because the therapists attracted to that approach have a tendency self-select.

A lot of the modern day gurus and shamen have exactly the same problem.

I hear you. I didn't try any of them until I was in my late forties. I don't drink and we basically tried pot a few times a year in our thirties. I read about set and setting and we decided to try it.

Taking mushrooms with my wife in our forties was probably one of the top ten most important things I've done in my life.

The traumas absolutely come up. That's kind of the point. They take you where you need to go even if you don't want to go there. I had a lot of rage and anger and deep embarrassments and now it feels like that's been scraped out of me, like a boil that needed to be lanced.

It's not for everyone to enjoy but I think it's for everyone, once or twice.