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Comment Re:Will this be for RISC-V, or ARM? (Score 4, Interesting) 7

Here's the trick...

RISC-V is ostensibly an open source ISA. So as designers build new implementations, they may be advancing the capabilities of the ISA and contributing to the RISC-V universe.

But history teaches us that despise licensing and such, open source advances often get locked behind commercial license forks, and it is a fight to get these outfits to obey the true license. ARM suffered from this occasionally, but not like I expect RISC-V to. This chip ISA has the potential to upend the whole business.

Unless the big stuff gets locked away.

Combine Qualcomm's IP and expertise with the RISC-V platform, a nearly blank slate, and we could see cool stuff. Giving back to the RISC-V community? Not Qualcomm's strength from experience.

But RISC-V could win, if the innovators aren't locked out or patent-trolled into oblivion.

Comment Re:It is football season (Score 1) 16

I don't follow the NFL that much, but don't they have some kind of subscription service where you can watch all of the games without having cable or satellite? MLB has had that for a while and if you just want to watch one team it may not be the best value, but it's great for anyone that wants to watch a variety of games on demand.

If there's a football game I really want to watch I can just go to a friend's place or a sports bar. Both are arguably better viewing experiences as well.

Comment That's nice Adobe (Score 5, Insightful) 15

That's nice Adobe, but why do I need any of your products at all if I can just use a LLM to generate the image I want or make the requested modifications to my existing image directly?

If AI manages to kill this shitty company and their shitty business model, I wouldn't shed a tear. GIMP has gotten surprisingly good over the years while Photoshop has tread water or regressed for completely bullshit reasons.

Comment Might have to ... (Score 2) 99

... give a little ground on the opensource drivers.

Valve strictly adheres to open-source drivers, but the HDMI Forum is unwilling to disclose the 2.1 specification. According to Valve, they have validated the HDMI 2.1 hardware under Windows to ensure basic functionality.

In my experience, some Linux systems still need binary drivers for stuff like WiFi or cellular. Just hold your nose while you download the Windows driver and load it with NDISWrapper.

Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 178

I just searched "trump coverage positive vs negative" on startpage.
(Note the effort to make search terms steelman the opponent's position rather than my own by listing his position first, and then usage of anonymizer to reduce bias from search history).

Then clicked on the first link.

You can do the same, and click on the rest of the links. Overwhelming majority of them give similar numbers.

Comment Re:Someone Ought to Stop It (Score 0) 178

What do you think happened to journalists who truthfully reported on Pakistani rape gangs in UK?

Saudis did their hit once. And have been desperate to demonstrate they got better since.

UK continues to aggressively prosecute anyone who dares to talk about what Pakistanis are doing to English right now. If anything, persecution is even more wide spread.

Comment Re: AI: Humanity's Worst Invention (Score 1) 81

The one guy concept has been around for a while. Sometimes they use consultants, sometimes it's the gig economy that gets them work that can be done on demand. The AI is going to be another one of those tools. But you don't need two people to have a corporation. I think that describing AI as" replacing the corporation" is really just scare talk. The AI is going to replace jobs, it's also going to make new jobs possible or attractive. As with most all technology that we've seen over the past century, we can't predict all of the effects. I don't think it's the end of anything, though. Monolithic tools that operate in virtually every facet of life bring with them the risk of singular failures. That'll be interesting to watch

Comment Re:Someone Ought to Stop It (Score 1) 178

Going by the number of arrest for speech offenses in UK, yes by a massive margin.

Makes me wonder if you picked the nation with most arrests for speech on this planet by a massive margin on purpose because it's the kind of censorship program you approve of, or you genuinely didn't know.

Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 178

You can use any of the couple dosen similar studies that all return similar numbers. Overwhelmingly negative coverage of Trump is a norm, has been a norm, and will likely persist as a norm.

Here's historic evidence from Pew:

https://www.pewresearch.org/jo...

Note the similar numbers. Only 5% positive for Trump.

This is really easy to individually comprehend too.

"What are five bad things Trump did. Are they talked about across mainstream right now and widely known on all sides of the spectrum?"

"What are five good things Trump did. Are they talked about across mainstream right now and widely known on all sides of the spectrum?"

Comment Re:Trump Trying to Silence CNN (Score 1) 178

Here's gold standard of such studies, Pew Research explaining why what you're asking for is unreasonable in their preamble of the old 2017 study:

https://www.pewresearch.org/jo...

They do in fact do a little bit better in terms of what they could gather and parse though, and results are even worse from "pro Trump propaganda", showing only 5% positive.

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