Is it him or is it a general AI that he created?
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John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
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#152OpenBSD 6.7 is going to be released tomorrow https://www.openbsd.org/67.html Their release engineering is awesome!
This is the first release to install to UFS2 (which they confusingly call FFS2) by default.
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#153Be cool and you will be cool.
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#154Re: John Carmack is reading and contributing to OpenBSD source code
#155John Carmack is the person I'd most like to read a programming book authored by.
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#156Here is your daily reminder to read "Masters of Doom", a book about the early days at ID Software. It's an amazing look into a really cool time in gaming and software as a whole. It's a great book, mostly about John Carmack and the guys at ID! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_Doom
The book is on my must-read list has been a while. That's a shame I haven't got time to read yet.
It's very interesting, especially if you grew up playing id games, and it's also an easy read. Go for it!
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#157What happened to his AGI work?
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure, the factual parts of that are accurate. Your opinion colors some of the adjectives. OpenGL works well, for example. No CUDA, no NVENC/DEC.
Well it is a bit of a grey zone but I have gotten Vulkan to work and I think at least NVENC works as well. The solution is rather hacky though. It extracts libraries from the Linux driver and loads them when you run programs. A look at the code make it seems like cuda is getting loaded as well so it may work. https://github.com/shkhln/nvshim
While i respectfully congratulate the authors of that shim for their ingenuity, that is no support.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not saying that he will solve AGI on his own (he did quit rocket science after all), but you are greatly underestimating the impact he can have in the field. He basically evolved almost on his own two multi-billion dollar markets by doing noticeable technology leaps and finishing things at the right time. That must count for something. I would bet he cannot solve AGI, but he will surely leave something inspiring…
> He basically evolved almost on his own two multi-billion dollar markets Not sure what this had to do with AGI, I don't even think there is a relationship in the skillset required
There is basically none. People on HN have this weird god-worship of John Carmack. He's a great engineer and businessman, but a top-tier theoretical researcher? He has less to offer than most PhD students in these fields. It's kind of insane the cult following he has.
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#160Is there any more context to OP's post? I guess someone just noticed in the mailing list, but it's not clear whether maybe John Carmark does this with all code everywhere in the universe. And then probably still has some interesting coffee break conversations... On a different note. I am something of a Ubuntu fan and try to be more involved there. But then again the xBSDs where x = {Free, Open, Net, ...} are one of t…
To me this kind of stuff is fan junk news. I get that even hackers need celebrities, but front page of HN is a little extreme for a thing like this without context. If there was more context like, John C has re-written half of BSD, then we're talking - but this is very celebrity grocery list to me.
So many celebrities are celebrities for banal, superficial reasons.
Calling this a "very celebrity grocery list" story is a disservice.
Carmack's one of the most accomplished programmers in history in terms of innovation, skill, and longevity. His words and opinions also carry a fair bit of weight, even today. His contributions and technology choices matter in a way that a celebrity's grocery list do not.
If there's an injustice here, it's the fact that there are many Carmack-level coders out there, toiling away in relative obscurity, who don't have their contributions trumpeted in this way.