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Post by ethbr0 »

dwringer wrote: post #247
Mistletoe wrote: post #211

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You are so right. Bizarre. I thought that was Phillip K. Dick for all of my life I think. Even worse because Johnny Mnemonic is one of my favorite movies! I’ve got the Black Shakes worse than I thought.

I was shocked to read this comment because I interpreted your original comment as meaning a Philip K Dick novel would be optimistic compared to the cyberpunk dystopia in which we find ourselves now. lol Anyway it's pretty fair to confuse the two I think, there can't be any way Johnny Mnemonic wasn't influenced by Blade Runner (I'm guessing it's true of both the movies and of the books). Very similar themes and protag…

Johnny Mnemonic was dead tree published in 1981. (I have the issue of OMNI)

Blade Runner, the movie, was released in 1982.

And PKD's DADoES was published in 1968.

Honestly, IMHO, Blade Runner in movie form shares more DNA with Alien than proto-cyberpunk. They're both character studies rather than world-building exercises, albeit with massive credit to Ridley Scott and the design team that their "background" world is more lifelike than many world-centric films.

But Blade Runner fundamentally lacks the multi-level cutthroat competitive aspect of cyberpunk. Oddly enough, a quirk that frequently recurs in British scifi, in contrast to the more free market American themes.

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Post by Razengan »

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?

Move to Mars and start over.

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Post by vl »

dwringer wrote: post #247
Mistletoe wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are so right. Bizarre. I thought that was Phillip K. Dick for all of my life I think. Even worse because Johnny Mnemonic is one of my favorite movies! I’ve got the Black Shakes worse than I thought.

I was shocked to read this comment because I interpreted your original comment as meaning a Philip K Dick novel would be optimistic compared to the cyberpunk dystopia in which we find ourselves now. lol Anyway it's pretty fair to confuse the two I think, there can't be any way Johnny Mnemonic wasn't influenced by Blade Runner (I'm guessing it's true of both the movies and of the books). Very similar themes and protag…

I’m watching The Peripheral, which seems to be influenced by Ready Player One. Which is ironical, since Gibson is a granddaddy of Ready Player One.

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Post by fareesh »

I've never played games on my M1 Macbook - what are some popular reasonably graphics intensive games that it would support? Could it run Dota2 for example?

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Post by mlindner »

Alekhine wrote: post #258
mlindner wrote: post #245

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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.

My first response was a bit curt so I've removed it. (Edit: I can't seem to remove it.) Yes I'm aware a lot of women get harassment when they show their face streaming. It's one of the reasons it's so popular in Japan for women to be vtubers rather than show their face while streaming while the popularity for men doing it is significantly less (though there's still plenty who do it without changing their voice).

However Hector Martin is not a woman living in Japan and they look perfectly fine/average.

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Post by simonh »

dist1ll wrote: post #92
est31 wrote: post #84

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I think making it harder to build an OS by increasing its scope is not going to help people to build Linux alternatives. As for the components, at least their interfaces are standardized. You can remove memory sticks by manufacturer A and replace them with memory sticks from manufacturer B without problem. Same goes for SATA SSDs or mice or keyboards. Note that I'm all in favour of creating OSS firmware for devices,…

Building an OS is hard. There's no way around its complexity. But closing your eyes and pretending everything is a file is a security disaster waiting to happen (actually, happening every day). And furthermore, OS research is not only about building Linux alternatives. There are a lot of operating systems that have a much narrower focus than full-blown multi-tenant GPOS. So building holistic systems with a narrower f…

> There are a lot of operating systems that have a much narrower focus than full-blown multi-tenant GPOS.

I hear some of them are used to manage embedded components in GPOS systems. Oh, wait…!

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Post by punnerud »

Not one comment here about the “GPU drivers in Python”. I like the idea of iteration speed, over pure speed.

And the coprocessor called “ASC” also have similarities with Python, where the GPU is doing the heavy lifting, but the ASC (like Python) interact using shared memory. The same Python is doing with a lot of its libraries (written in C/C++)

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Post by dagmx »

Razengan wrote: post #299
astrange wrote: post #283

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They are written in a strange subset of C++ with its own inheritance system and currency classes. In NeXTStep they were written in ObjC, and probably should've stayed that way.

> They are written in a strange subset of C++ with its own inheritance system and currency classes. Can someone explain? Is there something other than DriverKit, which seems to be C++? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/driverkit

I suspect they’re either conflating things with ObjectiveC or FireBloom (https://saaramar.github.io/iBoot_firebloom/)

Both would sort of fit those descriptions I guess if one were to squint.

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Post by simonh »

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.

Death isn’t a solution to maintenance issues, there are some organisms including animals that live many hundreds of years and possibly indefinitely. The reason seems to be to increase the rate of iterations, to keep up the pace of adaptation and evolution.
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