slabtickler

creative industry/enterprise. similar to Asus ProArt line and high end ThinkPad workstations

putting aside the lack of quality of most LLM-written code (even the big scary tech demo-y stuff), there is more to life than this pragmatism of "value adds." you can just write code because you want to.

this sentiment is also very funny considering the subject matter is reimplementing coLinux, which no one uses anymore, except as a toy, for an operating system no one uses anymore, except as a toy.

all art has lineage, but all art is not simply reducible to mimicry. the act of creative endeavor is not to just be a parrot

coffee was mid. it's right next to pike place, you can get actually decent coffee down the street. not talking about starbucks either

a lot of people on here are going to instantly defend any AI use in spite of the specifics but the over-abundance of blatant diffusion model art in cost-cutting nowadays, in places where it isn’t even expected, is ridiculous. marketing is by no means the peak of artistic endeavor but genai logos for small business street taco vendors, coffee shops reek of laziness. never mind the inundation of places like Etsy and Redbubble where it is getting increasingly less possible to find stuff made with human intention. shades of the anti-materialism of the 90s: now consumer products are all just generated, never made.

there is this coffee shop in downtown Seattle, Artly coffee, that operates on this gimmick of serving robot-produced coffee. a 20 year old employee hangs in the back to essentially do nothing and sit on their phone. it is a silly experience worth trying once, but no more. Coffee by itself is already a cross section into the hyperindustrial production that has informed the trajectory of our lives since before being born, but i feel regardless there are such things that are a step too far

deanonymization via automated stylometry is not a new idea, e.g. from 2015:

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

Fails to mention any TBDR-based GPU at all. Do PowerVR and Qualcomm not exist? Or hell, Apple?

imo the fragmentation argument is very flaky. this is not like, e.g. the old ARM big endian mode which accidentally created a separate ISA for really dubious reasons. the only thing that really have a need for alternate store orders on ARM at this point are just (x86) emulators. This argument may have made more sense 10, 15 years ago but ARM has become so ubiquitous that the idea of “oh my port of this originally x86 userland software crashes on ARM due to a synchronization bug, better use this TSO thing as a get-out-of-jail-free card “ really doesn’t have much water to it now

just speaking honestly i would not consider I$ snooping as part of the definition of TSO. it is part of the x86 memory model yes but “TSO” does not define the full story here

That was mostly IBM's doing and goes well beyond the purview of the ISA specifically. x86 doesn't really define that you "must use a BIOS/UEFI/etc." You can't boot, for instance, a standard copy Windows or Linux on a Sony PS4 (which is not actually a PC compatible, even though it almost seems like one) without ten billion asterisks and hacks.