- opan>The CUDA Tile IR project is under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions
- GP's LKML link is very recent unlike your two links, implying something could've changed.
- I've never gotten along too well with virtualization, but would second the ThinkPad idea, or something similar. Old/cheap machine for tinkering is a good way to ease in, and I think bare metal feels more friendly.
I'd probably recommend against dual booting, but I understand it's controversial. I like to equate it to having two computers, but having to fully power one off to do anything* on the other one. Torrents stop, music collection may be inaccessible depending on how you stored it, familiar programs may not be around anymore. I dual booted for a few years in the past and I found it miserable. People who expected me to reboot to play a game with them didn't seem to understand how big of an ask that really was. Eventually things boiled over and I took the Windows HDD out of that PC entirely. Much more peaceful. (Proton solves that particular issue these days also)
That being said, I've had at least two friends who had a dual boot due to my influence (pushing GNU/Linux) who ended up with some sort of broken Windows install later on and were happy to already have Ubuntu as an emergency backup to keep the machine usable.
*Too old might be a problem these days with major distros not having 32bit ISOs anymore
- I had working IPv6 in the past, but currently I seem to have no working IPv6. Using Xfinity. I have access to some servers at a friend's place in another city, pretty sure he also doesn't have IPv6. Maybe some phone calls would sort it out, but when "everything" still works (with IPv4), it's hard to care.
- They just posted a progress report this month. Seems very much alive.
- CPU Monkey had some neat info like whether a CPU had AV1 hwdec/hwenc, then they redesigned their site and that info is gone for some reason. I think it was a year or less between finding their site and them ruining it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250616224354/https://www.cpu-m...
https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-amd_ryzen_7_pro_8840u
A nice reminder to stick any page you find useful in the wayback machine and/or save a local copy.
- Wow, they've been posting on the blog more often than I thought. For some reason I thought this was the first in a year or so. Will try to check back more often.
My takeaways:
- Upstreaming seems to be going quite well lately
- No USB-C display support yet
- Surprising amount of Gentoo talk, guess it's well-supported now and/or chaos_princess is a big fan of it
- While ICE vehicles need gas/diesel specifically to run, EVs can be charged from a variety of sources, including a diesel generator. Electricity is the great unifier. You could pedal a bike to make some electricity, but no amount of pedaling will create fossil fuels.
- I have a NEC P462 display with DP among other things. It's about that size you said, so maybe you're right, but my first thought is that there's gotta be bigger displays for digital signage, and why wouldn't they have DP if this one does? NEC and Samsung both make these types of displays, IIRC, not sure who else.
- While I'm not a fan of AI, as a lover of keyboards and vim, I found this to be a fun read. I occasionally try to explain the reduced friction / increased flow to people that comes with CLIs, keyboard navigation, and fast typing speeds, but I'm not sure I get it across well. So many people are quick to claim a fast typing speed is useless because typing isn't the bottleneck or whatever, but being able to type 150wpm+ means typing 100wpm is also much easier, and also that you've learned your tools well and can get around with little thought. It's just easiest to quantify raw typing speed, it's not the whole picture. I wasn't aware of the specific research covered in the article, but it kinda aligns with how I already felt, so it's cool to read about.
- I thought the more common mistake with dd was picking the wrong disk to write to (especially when using /dev/sdc type naming instead of /dev/disk/by-id/whatever naming). Flipping source/dest and overwriting data is a problem I associate with the tar command.
- I'm not buying or selling a SaaS. I don't like them. HN has more than one user and they don't all agree.
- I agree with your take here that he should care about the cut scenes/story if bothering to play, but this has gotten especially bad in newer games where they try to shove you right into the game before you can tweak settings. I never played through Bravely Default on 3DS because the opening scene used the English dub instead of the original audio, and I had to skip it to access the settings and change languages, then there was no way to rewatch that opening scene. I've similarly avoided their other games like Octopath Traveler as I suspect they have the same issue. It seems like an accessibility issue. I don't think they should ever stop you from getting to the settings first thing. I am not entertained by them trying to be overly cinematic. I don't think it would kill them to wait until you hit "start new game".
- It's a technique to temporarily make one or more duplicates of your body which can move independently and have your memories/abilities. A strong enough hit will dispel them, or the user can do it manually, after which the memories of what the clones did return to the user.
The usage here by GP might just be because everyone looks/is-dressed the same and is working in unison, and since they're Japanese, anime comes to mind. In the show, Naruto often uses shadow clones to pull off more complex techniques, throwing himself, having them take turns punching/kicking, or in the case of the rasengan he divides the work of controlling the ball of chakra since he struggled to do it successfully by himself.
- Hard disagree. The fact that they have customized their system to such a degree shows they do know how to use computers. I think you're trying to conflate that with other things like programming ability, which are orthogonal.
- Due to these sorts of quotes from them, I often say semi-seriously that programmers don't know how to use computers. Another thing in this vein I often recall is Notch saying he finds both vim and emacs too confusing/difficult (while many non-programmers can use them both without issue). It may be an over-specialization. With modern labels you could say they put everything into "Dev" and only the bare minimum into "Ops".
- Sounds like the revived Unity/Unity7 still has a global menu bar, and there's a version called UnityX with Wayland support.
https://9to5linux.com/unity-7-7-desktop-environment-to-get-a...
https://unityd.org/unityx-7-7-testing/
https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity-x/unityx#manual-instal...
- Especially on the Beta branch, I'm getting several system updates per week. I check for one every time I wake it up, along with checking for any available game update downloads. Originally moved to the Beta branch to get the new 8BitDo controller features (Mid-July maybe), but it's worked well enough I've never gone back to Stable.
- I hoped it was this one when clicking.
- I would say the X1 Carbon is not a real ThinkPad, and anything with Yoga in the name even less so. His brother's P series should be fine, though. Stick to X (but not X1), T, W, P series, and note that T is the "normal one". Also avoid s variants, e.g. T14s is not the same beast as a T14. Once you've filtered to this point you should rule out a lot of problems with build quality or soldered parts, though even then they don't really make 'em like they used to. Speaking of soldered parts, there was a bit of a dark age where even most of the normal ThinkPads had half or fully soldered RAM, but they're just starting to come back from that. T14 gen 5 is unsoldered, but gens 1 through 3 had soldered RAM, IIRC. Wikipedia has a table you can check for this. So, sadly the used market is gonna be full of the soldered models for a while.