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Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by ska »

andrekandre wrote: post #244
koheripbal wrote: post #177

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Organic units should not be admired for their design. DNA is the worst spaghetti code imaginable. The design is such a hack, that it's easier to let the unit die and just create new ones every few years.

its a pretty amazing hack though the human body can scale from 1 cell to several trillion without going down for maintenance even once all while differentiating to different functions it can take a high level of damage and heal without needing a shutdown as well, most software crashes completely at the first exception cells give you that highly scalable and fault tolerant system that we all want

> without going down for maintenance even once

doesn't it go down for maintenance approximately once a day?

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by charlieflowers »

koheripbal wrote: post #177
ramraj07 wrote: post #71

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Every cell in your body is running a full blown OS fully capable of doing things that each individual cell has no need for. It sounds like this is a perfectly natural way to go about things.

Organic units should not be admired for their design. DNA is the worst spaghetti code imaginable. The design is such a hack, that it's easier to let the unit die and just create new ones every few years.

> it's easier to let the unit die and just create new ones every few years

Cattle, not pets

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by duskwuff »

wrs wrote: post #156
ronbarr wrote: post #150

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You’re talking about the Integrated Woz Machine. It was a custom disk controller that Wozniak created that was used in the Apple ][, /// and I believe on the original Macs. It was cheap, fast and worked.

And a later Mac, the IIfx, introduced I/O coprocessors to run the IWM, among other things. All part of the glorious wheel of reincarnation. [0] [0] https://www.computer-dictionary-online.org/definitions-c/cyc...

Crazier yet: the IOPs on the IIfx were 6502-based microcontrollers.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by setr »

javajosh wrote: post #215
maegul wrote: post #207

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Personally, I like the idea. IMO, we lost something when it became normal/expected to link our real-life self to our internet selves. We arguable gained some unpleasant things too (thinking of Facebook here). A persistent avatar/alias as an internet persona seems to match the real-life to internet-life relationship better. IE, for many, they’re different and rather separable aspects of life.

There was a Black Mirror episode that makes plain the downside of a virtual representation: it can be taken from you and manipulated by someone else. The persona becomes a sale-able commodity, and can be separated from your control.

Perhaps relevant — loss of control can be much more impacting depending on how much weight you give to that online persona: http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by mort96 »

mlindner wrote: post #79
masklinn wrote: post #19

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> Is Asahi Lina a pseudonym? Yes > Is Asahi Linux named after her? Other way around, it’s a pseudonym created to work on the project, IIRC Lina got involved early-mid 2022 while Hector Martin started the project in late 2020 / early 2021.

Why does she have so much clout when the latter has been working on this for much longer? I feel like there's some fanboyism happening here. This person basically just joined the project.

What do you mean by "so much clout"..? She's one of the people who decided to work on the Asahi Linux project, and she's writing and streaming about the work she's doing and participating in mailing lists and IRC communities. Is that an unexpected amount of "clout"?

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by abudabi123 »

Mistletoe wrote: post #51
dimator wrote: post #28

watching a virtual persona stream their development of their M1 GPU drivers is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen! it's easy to forget that this world is looking closer and closer to those dreamed up by Gibson, Stephenson, etc. what a time to be alive.

I like your optimism, but it seems more like a Phillip K. Dick novel to me. >In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerate effect called "nerve attenuation syndrome" or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS. from Johnny Mnemonic What can we do to make it more utopian?

  >  What can we do to make it more utopian?
A polity with an outmost shell of no bs ic spooks in a ratio of twenty to one cybersec defense to offense. There is the problem of sciengineers conceiving in the labs photonic computing but the committee member wage/salary slave cuts cost corners (or not but bloats up on unnecessary complexity) and we get the worsest join on the venn diagram in the industry spec.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by aftbit »

abudabi123 wrote: post #256
Mistletoe wrote: post #51

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I like your optimism, but it seems more like a Phillip K. Dick novel to me. >In 2021, society is driven by a virtual Internet, which has created a degenerate effect called "nerve attenuation syndrome" or NAS. Megacorporations control much of the world, intensifying the class hostility already created by NAS. from Johnny Mnemonic What can we do to make it more utopian?

> What can we do to make it more utopian? A polity with an outmost shell of no bs ic spooks in a ratio of twenty to one cybersec defense to offense. There is the problem of sciengineers conceiving in the labs photonic computing but the committee member wage/salary slave cuts cost corners (or not but bloats up on unnecessary complexity) and we get the worsest join on the venn diagram in the industry spec.

I feel like this is insightful but also I do not understand what you are saying. Can you perhaps elucidate?

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by Alekhine »

mlindner wrote: post #245
anaisbetts wrote: post #206

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If you were the Genre of person who got rude / explicit / insulting comments whenever you showed your actual face on camera, the vtoon trend would be quite easy to understand

Hector Martin (assuming they're the same person) looks perfectly fine on camera. They're an average looking person but I fail to find anything anyone would criticize about his looks.

Try being a woman.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by atahanacar »

leoqa wrote: post #217
teddyh wrote: post #189

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It’s like getting a specific haircut, choosing what model of glasses to get, or getting a nose job, or a tattoo. Or even just picking what style of clothes you want to represent yourself in. I.e. it’s simply choosing your appearance, using more modern technology.

That’s generous. I find it weird and creepy, interestingly the Hololive kids are exclusively young women with childlike affects. It’s not fooling anyone to pretend like this is normal self expression.

You sound like that religious old guy I see every now and then, who always annoys young people passing by for having tattoos and piercings.

Re: Tales of the M1 GPU

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Post by ramraj07 »

koheripbal wrote: post #177
ramraj07 wrote: post #71

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Every cell in your body is running a full blown OS fully capable of doing things that each individual cell has no need for. It sounds like this is a perfectly natural way to go about things.

Organic units should not be admired for their design. DNA is the worst spaghetti code imaginable. The design is such a hack, that it's easier to let the unit die and just create new ones every few years.

Poor comparison - DNA is compiled assembly language code. It is meant to be spaghetti to save space and reuse proteins for multiple functions. In that regard it’s the most efficient compiler in the universe.
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