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jimmoores··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
America is being run by somebody who doesn't understand the value of science, so it is seen as a waste of money and worse, systematically destroyed. The problem is that the result won't become apparent for about ten years at which point Americans will be asking why everyone else is making money from science and technology breakthroughs and they're getting poorer.
jimmoores··on A practical guide to running 8x RTX PRO 6000's
These people have zero idea what they're doing. Not a single mention of pipeline parallelism that would actually make the setup useful to run a big model.
jimmoores··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
He's dead wrong about the usefulness of the technology, but he's dead right about the uncontrolled corrupt circular financing that is driving this crazy over-expansion and market distortion. He fulfils a very useful function as a counterweight to the big tech horse-shit hosepipe that sprays us every day.
jimmoores··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
They blew up my interest when the stole my money by cutting me off from Gemini CLI with no explanation or recourse. I did not violate the terms of service and my only crime seemed to be not wanting to use Antigravity. They still took my money for the rest of that month and gave me nothing for it.
jimmoores··on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
If the Chinese labs can compete on a shoestring budget with access to much less powerful hardware, Google should be able to compete as well. They're becoming almost irrelevant for agentic coding right now.
jimmoores··on Nvidia projects $673B in sales as AI demand widens
The way publications just regurgitate this stuff with no critical thought boggles my mind.
jimmoores··on Fuzix OS
It's basically a micro Unix implementation aimed at old and resource constrained systems. I've been following it for a few years. The documentation is terrible, there are hardy any updates, but it does seem to be making slows, steady progress behind the scenes. I think it just needs to reach a critical mass of functionality and we'll see it popping up on raspberry pi picos, 8-bit micros etc. Definitely needs some TLC in the comms department though. Oh, and don/t be fooled by the archived status - it moved to https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
jimmoores··on Apple Business
Frankly, if you think that, you're not exactly a power user of office suites. Apple apps are a complete joke in the professional world.
jimmoores··on Apple Business
The statement that Apple has been supporting businesses for decades is just the most self-serving bunch of crap. You can tell how thin this is by the way they push local ads on Maps as some kind of headline feature. What a joke.
jimmoores··on Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model
I unexpectedly liked this. I thought the recommendations were actually useful.
jimmoores··on Telo MT1
Wow, that is one ugly vehicle. It looks like it's been in an accident.
jimmoores··on Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy
JetBrains does a great job with this by actually rewarding users who report bugs with free licenses and such.
jimmoores··on What I would do if I was 18 now
Delusional.
jimmoores··on LLM-generated code must not be committed without prior written approval by core
They're still using CVS?
jimmoores··on Where Is OpenCV 5?
Why are the words 'Computer Vision' not above the fold on the front page? How am I supposed to know that CV stands for Computer Vision rather than Curriculum Vitae?
jimmoores··on Launch HN: Neptyne (YC W23) – A programmable spreadsheet that runs Python
I've seen a bunch of companies do this. The problem is always that it isn't Excel. This means usually things like XLWings, Excel-DNA, etc. are actually more useful.
jimmoores··on Ask HN: Are USB-C ports less durable than micro USB?
There probably _is_ something in the port compressed up against the back - try scraping around inside with a non-conductive pointy thing.
jimmoores··on Anatoli Bugorski stuck his head inside a particle accelerator (2020)
There has been several articles about this man recently. I come away from them wanting to help him financially. I feel if you're going to publish an article about him, and make money from adverts on your website, you have a responsibility to try and help this man. If not it's just exploitation.
jimmoores··on On Apple's Piss-Poor Documentation
The only thing that might make Apple improve their documentation is if there was evidence that people started actually abandoning Apple's platforms.

Currently it seems there is a never ending supply of developers ready to gamble years of their careers on Apples Terms & Conditions, and while these same people usually eventually realize that there's ultimately no money to be made, they are replaced with a new generation seeking an AppStore paved with gold. Until that stops, the docs will stay piss-poor.

While I have often used a Mac for development and enjoyed it, I don't often actually develop anything for macOS or iOS because, well, why would I risk my livelihood on Apple's whim? They regularly destroy developer's lives with no thought or consequence.

jimmoores··on MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS
Bizarre, pretty misleading pages about electro-magnetic radiation were a huge turn-off.
jimmoores··on LDM: My Favorite ARM Instruction
On the original ARM2 this design made a lot of sense because if you understood how the instruction timing worked, you could essentially perform as well as a specialized blitter. I never understood this at the time, and largely blame that on a popular ARM Assembly Language book I had that said that LDM/STM were just convenience instructions, essentially syntactic sugar. They most certainly were not. With the right alignment and using enough registers you could get 2-3x the throughput of using single word load/stores. I honestly think if that book hadn't gotten it so wrong there would have been a lot more decent games for the Archimedes machines.
jimmoores··on Ask HN: Resources to encourage teen on becoming computer engineer?
Great book: computer architecture a quantitative approach
jimmoores··on Emotionally Expressive Text to Speech
You're making a mistake many engineers make in thinking that getting a startup off the ground is all about engineering. Frankly, engineering is often the easy part, and I say that as an engineer who co-founded a tech heavy successful venture backed startup. The hardest thing is choosing a compelling product and then selling it to paying customers. If you think business people undervalue techies, don't make the same mistake by under-valuing business people.
jimmoores··on Some Obscure C Features
These examples actually were more obscure than the usual list.
jimmoores··on Radicle Architecture
When a blog about a collaboration tool devolves into a formal state machine definition and blocks of lisp syntax, I have my doubts about the project's ability to communicate with potential users.
jimmoores··on Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful
Yes, the communications primitives line up with event synchronizations and the select with the external choice operator, but Go doesn't implement the process operators parallel, seq and interleaved. This is what the guy is getting at, without realizing it. The slightly grandiose noise in the writing kind of reminds me of Wolfram actually (ouch).
jimmoores··on Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful
This is realised in a real language as occam. I've never understood why so few languages have a par construct, it's much more natural than asynchronous launching.
jimmoores··on Ask HN: Viable tech for hotdesking in software dev?
I've had a good experience running Windows 10 on Azure DevLabs VMs accessed via Remote Desktop from Mac and PC. Even with the VMs running in Ireland (I'm in London), they're very snappy and can happily use Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc. Even video and light 3D works well. I wrote up a blog post on it: https://www.mcleodmoores.com/blog
jimmoores··on Ask HN: What is 1 thing that can take a Junior's career to the next level?
Having the buck stop with you. With nowhere else to turn, you have to step up pretty fast. It forces you to own your decisions and not run to more senior people to help with your problems.
jimmoores··on Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
It's a lot more than 10 rashers. It's about 1kg or 2lbs of bacon (around 100 rashers). Completely nuts to eat that much, if nothing else, the amount of salt consumed would be enormous.
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