softfalcon

Confused as to why "Google TV" didn't win out in the end. Seems like the obvious choice. Is it boring? Sure.

Does it immediately tell you absolutely everything you likely need to know if you're not already buying an Apple TV? Yes.

I agree with you that the ideal is to have UI/UX work resolved before starting dev work.

In my experience, this has never happened. I’ve moved around hoping that somewhere, leadership has fixed this problem and nope. It never happens.

There are just too many unknowns and never enough time for design to stabilize. It’s always a mad dash to collect whatever user info you can before you slap together a final mock-up of the interface and expected behaviour.

I am convinced that the decay is often very slow. There are signs of impending failure and it frequently drags out for many, many years.

Then, eventually, you'll see a "straw that breaks the camel's back" and the hollow shell of the company will finally, fully implode.

This is what Boeing did for their manufacturing... look how it's playing out for them now.

In my opinion, one the most reliable signs is when companies stop repeatedly investing into their product innovation. The moment they start behaving like an established behemoth (monopoly/oligopoly) and you see repeated stock buybacks and frequent layoffs, the end is coming.

This applies to most large, inefficient corporations that get too comfy with success and forget how to pivot fast, take risks, and fiercely fight for their place in the market.

Eventually, any organization that falls into this state, slowly stagnates into oblivion.

One can only hope. Goodness knows it would be better if Intel were more competitive in this market. Let's cross our fingers that you're right and we see a resurgence after the new fabs come online.

This sounds worryingly like “sales are down, cut costs to maintain profitability to spike our stock numbers” and not enough focus on what I believe is actually wrong, which is that they can’t seem to reliably make competitive processors in a stiff market.

Anyone else feel like this is bean counters at Intel playing the wrong game? I personally feel like leadership at Intel lost the plot almost a decade ago.

I wrote one of these in C# years ago after seeing my friend write one in GoLang even more years ago.

GoLang: https://github.com/wyattjoh/cloudflare-ddns

C#: https://github.com/nick-funk/dyn-dns

Mine is more barebones since I threw it together quickly in an afternoon. I feel like many a HomeLab person fighting their ISP is taking advantage of this Cloudflare API trick

It all comes down to "doing the work"... which is the key to "executing on the idea".

There are countless folks who like to have ideas and imagine a dream scenario where other people labour to bring those ideas to life. I meet them regularly, some of them were at one point my friends.

Folks will always try and talk their way into a free lunch. Make sure you're not the one paying for it.

They have a financial incentive to never delete your data. Storing old data forever creates a perfect paper trail to sell to advertisers and perfect the shadow profile they keep on all of us.

I agree that deleting all your data after a year makes sense practically, but they'll never do it because it makes them too much money to keep it around.

Maybe this is how it is at some places, but in my experience, it is not the case. I have friends who have worked in cyber-security for Fortune 500 companies and almost all of those companies would short-change (or outright ignore) the recommended spend and suggestions of their cyber-security employees, contractors, and advisors.

Where are you getting your information from? The levels of security negligence I hear about aren't even a big ask. Huge companies neglect to do basic things like "don't store your passwords in plain text" or "make sure you salt and hash your passwords".

I don't think it's fair to say cyber security teams are failing if companies are blatantly doing the worst and most obviously wrong things on the daily at the highest levels.

They fire up gasoline generators when the load is high as a back-up to natural gas generation.

There have been periods of rolling brown outs due to high industrial demand where I live. I know people in the industry and also watch the local news where they report that the gasoline backups have been activated and the brown outs should stop. Can confirm, they sometimes burn gasoline for power generation.

Modern numbers at a provincial level show that it's much higher than 13% in 2024. Canada is slowly becoming a massive housing/real-estate bubble.

Ah yes, you've been fooled by the oil and gas propaganda. The entire oil and gas industry is only 3.2% of Canada's GDP. However, you'll never hear that from the army of O&G lobbyists who permanently reside in Alberta 24/7.

Hey folks, I live in Alberta. This isn't as big of a win as you all think it is. We replaced coal burning with natural gas and gasoline burning power generation.

For those who will say, "but Alberta has wind and solar!" please know that our current premiere (similar to a governor) is actively attacking all of our renewable energy investments. Her name is Danielle Smith and she's quite literally a former oil and gas lobbyist.

The only reason this is being touted is because big oil in Alberta is happy we've switched over to burning their carbon emitter of choice.

Take that into account when you read this feel good piece about Alberta being "coal free".

I feel like people forget that AMD has huge contracts with Microsoft, Valve, Sony, etc to design consoles at scale. It's an invisible provider as most folks don't even realize their Xbox and their Playstation are both AMD.

When you're providing fab designs at that scale, it makes a lot more sense to folks that companies would be willing to try a more affordable option to nVidia hardware.

My bet is that AMD figures out a service-able solution for some (not all) workloads that isn't ground breaking, but affordable to the clients that want an alternative. That's usually how this goes for AMD in my experience.

It's called universal government provided healthcare. We have it in Canada. Gets rid of that nasty, unnecessary, "for profit" medical sector.

Though, I think that may actually be as-large or a larger problem for America than non-profit taxation/exemption policies.

You have to admit, you could clamp down on the other crap easier if healthcare being a "non-profit" wasn't such a big deal due it just being managed by the government.

Yeah, everything here is 2.5G ethernet end-to-end. I don't think that's the issue. :)

Appreciate the details you’ve provided!

I’m going to do some more Parsec experiments this weekend thanks to your info.

Something is clearly wrong with my setup, I’m going to figure it out.

Oh, wild, I didn't know that. I definitely see some high latency on Parsec within my home.

It might be bouncing around through the net somehow instead of transferring directly within my local network? I wonder if something about local peer-to-peer discovery isn't working properly?

Maybe that's also happening to the other person comparing GeForce Now to Parsec?

The default for Parsec is h.265, it's only on older machines that can't hardware encode/decode that fall back to h.264.

The reason they're likely seeing latency issues is that Parsec doesn't have the localized servers that GeForce Now has. Servers closer to your location will always have lower latency.

This is a simple case of nVidia simply having more money, more servers, and better infrastructure than Parsec. Which isn't surprising given the scale and cashflow difference of the two companies.

Thanks, appreciate you backing up my thoughts on this.

I’ve already received several down votes from folks who seem to disagree with my concern.

Is anyone else reading this and seeing the worrying, “we can just medicate away the autism”?

They’re talking about a possible pharmaceutical “fix” for autism in children under 5.

Seems a bit premature for just recently finding a metabolic difference in a cohort of children.

A djinni with Tim Apple's face would be funny. Comes out of a home pod and magics the whole recording studio into an iPad. Probably too whimsical for an Apple's taste though.

Don't attack me, I'm not disagreeing with you that an nVidia GPU is far superior at that price point.

I simply want to point out that these folks don't really care about that. They want a Mac for more reasons than "performance per watt/dollar" and if it's "good enough", they'll pay that Apple tax.

Yes, yes, I know, it's frustrating and they could get better Linux + GPU goodness with an nVidia PC running Ubuntu/Arch/Debian, but macOS is painless for the average science AI/ML training person to set up and work with. There are also known enterprise OS management solutions that business folks will happily sign off on.

Also, $7000 is chump change in the land of "can I get this AI/ML dev to just get to work on my GPT model I'm using to convince some VC's to give me $25-500 million?"

tldr; they're gonna buy a Mac cause it's a Mac and they want a Mac and their business uses Mac's. No amount of "but my nVidia GPU = better" is ever going to convince them otherwise as long as there is a "sort of" reasonable price point inside Apple's ecosystem.

That's wild. Also, I don't think this solves the "I can win cause I'm rich" problem. I don't think many people can reasonably be expected to want to willingly mail their phone to another person.

Especially, considering that likely means you need to have two phone plans plus two phones. It's pretty hard to say to your friends, family, or boss, "sorry, I can't take calls right now, my phone is in Vermont so my buddy can catch me a Gengar."

I think it's so they can provide a quality web experience curated to facilitate their Patreon goals.

Their work is free, but they likely want to ensure folks know "who" is making all these assets and that they have a Patreon so you can help support their efforts.

That seems fair to me considering the generosity at play here.

I'm curious as to how well this works when upscaling from 1080p to 4K or 4K to 8K.

Their 128x128 to 1024x1024 upscales are very impressive, but I find the real artifacts and weirdness are created when AI tries to upscale an already relatively high definition image.

I find it goes haywire, adding ghosting, swirling, banded shadowing, etc as it whirlwinds into hallucinations from too much source data since the model is often trained to work with really small/compressed video into an "almost HD" video.

> Apple gave up on OpenCL, after disagreements how Khronos managed it.

Ah yes, the old "I can't completely control it, cause I'm Apple, so I'm taking my ball and leaving" ploy.

Though, I will admit, AMD was also playing this game at the same time, so a disagreement was bound to happen between them and Apple.

> Metal Compute provides a CUDA like development experience.

And there it is. Proving my prior statement, Apple didn't want an open compute platform, what they wanted was their own compute platform and it would have "been nice" if they could pretend it was "open" and they "shared" nicely with the other tech kids.

Before people come at me as an Apple hater, please know that there are many, many Apple devices in my home. I'm not an Apple hater, but I call it like I see it.

Having used both, it is true that CUDA has the "enterprise edge" of being a proprietary, paid for product, backed by an (almost) trillion dollar company. There are features and conveniences in CUDA that aren't present in OpenCL.

That being said though, for how little funding, research, and support OpenCL receives, it is an astoundingly capable tool.

I don't think it's fair to compare apples and oranges, even if they're clearly both "fruit" with a "high sugar content".