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- fidotronThe entire problem is they aren't nearly as "very competitive" as would be politically convenient.
- My experience is in the US they are no less talented, there is just a much wider abandonment of doing anything which isn't going to generate money, along with being disparaging towards anyone that does pursue things as an amateur.
i.e. being a "sports fan" is more socially acceptable than being someone that actually plays a sport enthusiastically but not at a high level.
- As a semi Rust hater, but Firefox user, I believe Mozilla should go absolutely all-in on Rust, for a mixture of direct and indirect effects. That and/or launch an open source e-Reader development project.
No MBA type is going to be able to do anything of the sort.
- You're doing all of it right there.
You, a European, want to tell the US public how their resources are to be used, and when they don't agree with you then you act morally superior about it.
- The Europeans want it both ways: they want the US to pay for and be responsible for policing the world, but to do it the way the Europeans want with them free to criticize the US and act morally superior the whole time. This act has become utterly tiresome.
- There's room for innovation in this space, but making a viable business here will be hard.
The enthusiast market is so wrapped up in Home Assistant and existing NAS boxes that you would need a killer app to aim first for more normie use. It looks like they tried being a crypto node at home solution and are now pivoting to be more general.
- Reminds me of my favourite UK totalitarian politician fantasy story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2019/03/14/yes-a-poli...
The UK went culturally off the deep end a long time ago.
- The way this, and various other proposals/actions in other countries, are all popping up at the same time, seemingly independently though obviously not, has to be one of the biggest warning signs of trouble in my lifetime. Not helped by various European states deciding they want national service again all of a sudden.
Our governments have turned into the very thing they claimed to be opposing for decades. It's disgraceful.
- They also like to indulge in massive post purchase UX changes so if you like it now there is a good chance you won't in a year.
- Is this their YouTube goes legit moment? i.e. Disney get paid (by indirect means so far) for characters on OpenAI but not (yet) Gemini?
If this includes exclusivity deals it could be big.
- https://patents.justia.com/assignee/ventana-micro-systems-in...
RISC-V being freely available does not mean that implementations of it will not be patented from here to the Orion nebula and back.
- The main reason was to run Windows (3.1) inside a window on Risc OS in parallel. You could copy/paste between them too iirc. Use of floating point code from Risc OS was so non-uniform (i.e. the culture was rolling your own fixed point code) that any attempt to speed that up via offloading to another type of CPU would have only worked for a specific configuration of everything. The x86 cards available weren't exactly speed demons either.
At one time there was a lot more community excitement about shoving many Arms on a single board, or a DSP, but the StrongArm upgrade was already fast enough to oversaturate the bus making such a thing pointless.
Around this time Win95 overtook Risc OS in terms of realistic UX/cost as well.
With hindsight the Risc PC existed so there was an upgrade path for people from the Archimedes for particular software before ports of that to PCs were completed. e.g. Sibelius. Acorn knew they didn't have a chance.
- I recall Yellow Dog, probably because of the PS3.
The big thing most people from outside the Acorn era of Arm are missing here is the Risc PC never had decent floating point support. For pure integer stuff the StrongArm upgrade was, at lauch, simply astounding, but floats . . . nope. (The StrongArm upgrade merely needed to be in the slot near the vents too, it had no active cooling or even a serious heatsink).
Oddly the later lower end A7000 came in a A7000+ variant which did have an FPU, probably because Arm needed to test their FPU out somewhere.
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- The one near me is always full of old people just hanging out. They use it in a similar way to many kids with starbucks, but they speak to each other instead of using laptops.
- Risc PCs were obscure machines, even then and compared to the original Archimedes (which itself was an oddity), so lacking support isn't surprising. A 710 model not upgraded to a StrongArm would have come from well outside the enthusiast sphere which is where all the dev work was happening. (So probably a school model from a time when schools were heavily moving to PCs).
Back in 1995/6 or so it seemed like half the Acorn employees at Acorn World had their Risc PCs running NetBSD. By 1995 if you were doing software dev on Risc OS your environment and tools were absolutely terrible compared to what existed on Mac/PC/Unix, which was a factor that contributed to people interested in programming abandoning Acorn hardware entirely.
- > Only under the EUs backwards idea that if it makes speech illegal it's not censorship.
The EU makes a lot more sense when you think of it as the neo-Vatican super state power. A core aspect of this is asserting things makes them true.
- They deliberately ignored an internal tool that started erroring out at the given deployment and rolled it out anyway without further investigation.
That's not deserving of sympathy.
- > I have never seen an Ops team being rewarded for avoiding incidents
That's why their salaries are so high.