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Comment Re:Compiling - xckd (Score 1) 160

https://xkcd.com/303/

The 45 minute builds back in the 1990s .....

I was the NOC sysadmin, later, manager for Value added services.

The closest I was ti compiling was for verifone terminals before the telco job. The compiling on the PC was fast enough. Dumping the code into a POS to test because the simulator was shit was the real bummer.

That and the frequent defrag/optimization of the machine.

Comment Working in the late '90s to early '00s (Score 3, Interesting) 160

I would start working when I walked through the door, Since my machine was only mine, I'd turn it on on mondays, endure the 20min boot + Opening of apps (+ Memory dumping process*), and turn it off on fridays, ah, good times

* After booting and opening all your "workworse apps", you would call a script that would request 85% to 90% of the total RAM of the machine, forcing everything to SWAP. Afterwards, slowly, things would come back from swap, but only the really usefull stuff, all the flaff (codepaths seldomly used, if at all) stayed on the swap. Made a huge difference on Win2000 and XP, less so on latter editions, as the memory manager was slowly refined.

Comment tempest in a teapot (Score 1) 44

cue some enterprising developer hoping yo make a name for him/her-self making a FOSS to extract the old Icons from online installers and re-implementing them under coarse and fine grained control of the user in 3... 2... 1...

Comment Re:As a guy with a recent shoulder surgery... (Score 1) 35

Crypto? AI? AWS and AZURE falling over their own shoelaces? .... not so much utility there.

I suspect you actually do derive a lot of utility from AWS and Azure, you just don't realize how many of the services you use every day are running on them.

As an OpenStack technical trainer, I do not oppose the cloud per-se. but AWS and MS are "moar" interested in investing untold sums of money, effort, and grid energy to train AI models, than to bulleproof their instances...

I also oppose moronic companies that put all their cloud eggs in one basket...

Comment As a guy with a recent shoulder surgery... (Score 4, Interesting) 35

I derive a lot of utility from the helium used for MRI machines. As a guy who likes to eat potato chips, I derive much utility from nitrogen gas. As a scuba diver I derive much utility from Pure oxigen for my 32% and 50% stages. As a guy who had two ventral laparoscopic surgeries, I derive utility from pure CO2.

Crypto? AI? AWS and AZURE falling over their own shoelaces? .... not so much utility there.

JM2C
YMMV

Comment Here are my two cents: (Score 3, Interesting) 16

If you can not do inference (not training, inference) on the device (for any definition of device) or can not wait for the data to arrive to a Hyperscaler Data Center, doing said inference on the shelter at the bottom of a mast, or failing that, the DataCenter where the regional 6G core is incarnated is a perfectly cromulent position to perform said inference.

Since 4G, and even before, we had ML on Telecommunication Networks. I can distinctly name 4 and 5G SON (Self Optimizing Networks), some preemtive alarm detection and correction in the Nokia NMS Subsystem, and when I was teaching CEMoD 16, we also had many of those. Changing the name of all that to AI, and stoping doing it in a system agnostic way with OpenCL and SYCL, and start doing it in a propiertary way with CUDA/nVIDIA only is a great way to attract 1 Milliard of fresh money, so congrats.

Also, I guess that possing as an american company when the company is ~75% European is great for the press releases.

As for nVIDIA, we all know that AI is a bubble, the questios are will it burst? will it deflate? when will that happen? nVIDIA is using their inflated share price to buy something that will not deflate or pop, just boring organic growth, driven by 6G (the digital G that will last 2 decades, instead of all the other Gs, that lasted 1). Good for them to diversify with cheap/inflated money. I'd have done the same.

Their rivals must be thinking why didn't I think of this first? and rightly so. Is an easy way to achieve a solid win-win for BOTH companies.

Comment Re:Good idea. (Score 1) 196

Fantastically good idea. In the USA it would save tens of thousands of lives. Antivaxxers would disappear in nothingness.

Mod parent up.

Not only in the USoA. Worldwide too. I can vouch for this being good in Venezuela (my country) Spain (lived and did my Master's there), and Colombia (lived and worked there)

Comment Re: i'd review that number down (Score 1) 83

But yes, it's amazing how much the games do work under win(when you remove distro wine/mesa/etc and install latest stables) or proton. When steam stops supporting win10 like they F* overed win7, then my kids PC's will have mint xfce or possible popos or Manjaro Linux. Will let the kids pic I suppose.

Valve depends in great measure on google, as steam is an electron app, and therefore, dependant on chromium. Ditto for Epic store

Comment Re:The good games play fine... (Score 1) 83

And the piles of shit that require kernel anti-cheat software don't. Win-win situation!

one person's trash is another person's treasure.

I do not play games that require anti-cheat, you do not play games that require anticheat...

but plenty of peple do play those games, and they will not stop doing so just for the priviledge of running linux as their os. the os is there to enable you to do what you want to do, and not interfere.

Mac has frameworks/API calls that allow anticheats to work without residing on the kernel. windows is moving in that direction too.

for the sake of linux gaming, hope that Linux moves in that direction too, maybe taking inspiration from the mac framework, since mac is more unix like (BSD-ish one may say) than windows .

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