No, it doesn’t make sense to do it.

I worked on platform enablement for armv8, bringing all the ecosystem to 64 bit arm. Was an everest, so much code was expecting x86, lots of secret asm and other assumptions like memory model.

But once it was done, we did it again for riscv in no time, all the work was done, it was basically setting defines, maybe adding tsc/rdcycle (now rdtime).

Architectures don’t really matter anymore, but also the overhead of architectures are pretty minor, riscv will probably win because it’s basically free and single thread performance isn’t as critical on client devices, lot of work goes to the GPU too, and servers do other heavy lifting. Qualcomm scared everybody too, and China is going their own way which means even more riscv.

Basically, nothing matters except cost now, we’ll figure out how to run things on a potato, we’ve gotten good at it.

Apple took all the old tricks Intel was always way too cheap to use, and turned them to 11.

Nothing magic, nothing special, just balls and the willingness to spend silicon.

It actually can, the thing we learned is that the unpleasant bits of x86 scale well, so we spent 30% of the die doing uop decode, but that’s now just 1-2% because we blow so much on more registers and cache.

Also we can play games like soft-deprecating instructions and features so they exist, but are stupid slow in microcode.

We used to think only risc could run fast at low power, but our current cisc decoded to risc works fine, Intel just got stupid lazy.

Apple just took all the tradeoffs Intel was too cheap to spend silicon on and turned them to 11, we could have had them before but all the arm guys were basically buying ip and didn’t invest in physically optimized designs, but now that tsmc is the main game in town (fallback to gf was nice for price), there’s a lot more room to rely on their cell libraries.

Intel got so insanely arrogant, just like Boeing and all the other catastrophic American failures right now, we just need to correct for that and we can be decent again.

They apply, the referendum is proof of political support, which is important for the Euc to move forward (if joining the EU is unpopular they don’t want to get involved), then more review and committees are formed.

If all goes well, a few years down the line a formal vote for accession happens, in the EU parliament, and often the country has to have another referendum before it can actually be finalized.

Takes a decade really, and that’s without Hungary being Hungary.

You should focus all your attention on the genocide of the horsemen of Rohan, and absolutely ignore the much larger genocide of the people of Gondor because they should have just surrendered to mordor in the beginning to have peace. Also mordor didn’t encourage that other genocide to distract from their genocide at all.

Signed

A concerned citizen from somewhere outside mordor like St. Brandywinesburg.

This is how history becomes a fluid AI hallucination.

One detail that bothered me with the finale (of an otherwise excellent season) :

Man I’ve gotten old, gotten stuck in debian with lxc containers (Ubuntu for work, arch for fun) underneath.

Warm and loving on the outside, kinky as fuck behind closed doors.

Bdsm, but real careful about the safe word.

Gentoo: no limits.

Nix is a brothel.

Just order off the menu.

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They already invaded a nuke-holding country, doesn’t seem to have been too much of a problem.

We had a thunder-run make it halfway to Moscow last year, and Putin just ran: Russia might be a nuke-holding country, but they’re unfortunately handicapped by being a country full of Russians.

Who in the fuck do you think developed those nukes for them anyway? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharkiv_Institute_of_Physics_and_Technology

You think Russia could make new ones or even maintain the old without Ukrainians? https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russian-missile-failed-during-test-researchers-imagery-indicate-2024-09-23/

All this is going to do is guarantee Ukraine is a nuclear state again by the end of 2025, which is fine with me, we promised their security in exchange for giving up the nukes they developed, might as well let them have them back considering what trash they have to live next to.

You do have to worry about russian AA, they have Buks everywhere, and even S-300s near the front lines, those have serious range.

Their Tu-22M3s fly far behind their own lines to launch missiles, as will their Su-34s from here out, so you’ll have to get closer and closer to threats in order to meaningfully intercept now.

This is the exact same bs that’s happened since the beginning: Ukraine gets a new toy, Russia hides behind their lines, Ukraine’s toy becomes less useful.

Finally, after the russian soil authorization is given, the F-35 can bring strike capability to Russian soil, which is the best way to win this war.

The fear is what matters.

These careers are everything to them, they will gladly fuck whoever they need to to survive, but if you make them more afraid of the community then they’ll actually try to listen.

There was a brief period back in the late 2000s/early 2010s when Google listened to people.

That died by the time I joined, but I worked with people from before and they clearly didn’t give a shit about the customers anymore, it was all internal politics for promotions, you’d never get in trouble for pissing off customers.

Make them afraid of you, make them fear doing anything to piss you off, otherwise they’ll sell you out for their bosses and shareholders every time.

They’re not, Jesus, what is wrong with you?

They’re greedy and ambitious, but also cowardly.

Saying ‘Nintendo’ doesn’t hurt much, the corporation is almost numb to criticism, it knows it will sell games.

Find the marketing moron responsible and destroy his career, that’s the only way you make a difference.

Do this enough times, and eventually they become more afraid of the community’s wrath than their ambition to get a promotion by kissing ass.

Take down a few VPS of marketing, you’re can start influencing them, because they’ll start community outreach before doing shit.

Corporations are a hard outer shell to protect the sensitive inner meat, don’t attack the shell, take down the inner bits.

China has an incredible spin on late-stage capitalism, it’s like they skipped all the decent stages and went straight for the dystopia bits.

Because I’ve worked with the marketing assholes who lead to these decisions, and if you don’t get why they make them and how to get them fired for those decisions, you’ll never change anything.

That’s the difference between being a child, and being effective.

Yeah, that shallow appreciation is why you can’t truly understand them, it’s like calling a shark evil when it eats a baby seal.

They are, but you need to understand the system so you can know how they get where they get, and how to counter them.

Don’t just be an angry mother seal.

Keep on answering those emails!

Heh, I agree, much like he contributed massively to Brexit.

But understand this: In this story, he’s the main character, he sees things a bit differently, for him re-uniting the Russian Empire is a matter of destiny and anything that helps was meant to be, while any setbacks must be sabotage of the natural way by the evil and petty western powers.

That’s just how things look at that level, it’s why dictatorships are bad, they reinforce narcissistic blindness.

I absolutely agree.

I just think we need to remember the emotional backdrop, we need to get them to chill the ever loving F* out, but this shouldn’t also be like “oh, god, I wonder why they would ever do such a thing!”

If the germans hadn’t been decent post-ww2 and jews started killing germans we’d be pissed and force them to stop by any means necessary, but we wouldn’t be like “this is unthinkable!?!?”.

We have to figure out how to build peace while appreciating the historical context.