anlumo @ anlumo @feddit.de

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That's equivalent to a parking fine for regular people. I know many people who would risk a parking fine if it means that they save a few minutes of searching for a parking spot.

You can buy just the motherboard of a Framework laptop and build something around that. There are even cases for them available to print.

RISC-V is exciting for chip manufacturers, not sure why end users should be. I personally don’t care whether the CPU in my system required the producer to pay a license fee.

I've started to ask ChatGPT first to avoid this.

I'm talking about culture, not specific companies. Of course, this is a very subjective observation.

The GNU project emerged from academics, which don’t get paid for their software in general, they get paid for writing papers about it. So, they want to stop all commercial use of their software.

The Rust project emerged from the startup culture, where everything is just a stepping stone to eventually get sold in some kind of software project to get rich. So, being able to use the software in a commercial setting is essential.

1.6 Billions, and everybody wondered why they bought Weta Digital and what they want to do with it. Apparently they didn’t know as well.

They didn’t even kill competition with that move, they just dealt a major blow to the film industry.

I personally prefer to use such languages, but I often don't have a choice for certain tech stacks.

It also took 6 years longer than everybody else to support WebGL2, and it's the only browser without a working WebGPU implementation. It also has no timeline for wasm-gc, while Chrome already ships with it default enabled and Firefox will ship with it on the next release.

As a web developer, Safari needs to either die in a fire or be transferred to a company that actually cares. It’s more than half a decade behind everybody else.

Speaking of extremely unprofessional…

Probably got cold feet because a few important people left as well.

Assuming the error message is accurate.

Murphy should probably stay clear of windows and high-risk endeavors for the rest of his life.

Isn’t that the big difference between civil law (most of Europe) and common law (UK, US)? The former follows the spirit of the written laws (even including comments by the lawmakers), while the latter follows the letter of the law.

Here’s an example for that: Apple needed to ship an x86_64 emulator for the transition, but that’s slow and thus make the new machines appear much slower than their older Intel-based ones. So, what they did was to come up with their own private instructions that an emulator needs to greatly speed up its task and added them to the chip. Now, most people don’t even know whether they run native or emulated programs, because the difference in performance is so minimal.

ARM chips are generally better at that.

That's actually pretty impressive, given that he 10x overpaid for it.

Microsoft is actually pushing Windows on ARM right now, since their exclusivity deal with Qualcom expired. This is going to get interesting.

Modern ARM GPUs already support OpenGL and Vulkan, that’s not a problem. Just some platforms chose to go mobile APIs due to running Android.

The trick with emulation that Apple did was to add custom instructions to the CPU that are used by the emulation layer to efficiently run x86_64 code. Nothing is stopping other CPU manufacturers from doing the same, the only issue is that they have to collaborate with the emulation developer.