It's modded funny because OpenCL is all but dead for new projects. It got weighed down by industry infighting to the point that the big feature of OpenCL 3.0 in 2020 was undoing everything added to the spec after 2011.

So the idea of using OpenCL as a CUDA replacement, rather than something like ROCm or OneAPI, is funny. It's like rewriting C++ programs to use Pascal.

Per TFA:

These adjustments stem from Sonyâ(TM)s ongoing efforts to manage backend services and data feeds that support enhanced guide features on its Google TV-powered BRAVIA lineup.

It sounds like Sony is losing (or is not renewing) the contracts with their data brokers who providing the listing services for their TVs? In which case this is not necessarily expected, but it is par for the course.

There is no truly free source of OTA TV listings and other metadata in the US. The stations themselves do not provide this data over the air as an adjacent data stream (which is what a rational person would expect), so the only way to get listings is from third party providers such as Gracenote. Which as a technical solution works, but it means someone is always on the hook for paying for that service. And no one wants to pay for OTA metadata services, since the hallmark attribute of OTA TV is that it's free.

This is a problem that goes back to the earliest days of TiVo. Someone needs to pay for TV listings, but TVs and other STBs last too long; hardware manufacturers eventually tire of paying for an ever-increasing bill - it costs them money they don't get to make back if they give away the listings for free. And thus you eventually end up with required a monthly subscription just to have an OTA DVR.

The eventual death of linear TV should finally put an end to this nonsense. But until then we're all going to keep experiencing the same non-free listings issues we've had since the late 90s.

Meh, sounds like a charge of Arson would be warranted, but not Attempted Murder.

Huh. I am surprised to hear that Microsoft SQL Management Studio doesn't run. The usual problem children are either programs that are using specific x86 instructions (e.g. games with AVX2), or programs that need kernel mode drivers. MSMS doesn't fall into either of those categories.

This is an especially bad example.

The SN850X has been rebranded multiple times as SanDisk has slowly split from Western Digital (taking all the SSDs with them). They still sell it as the SN850X, but the full model and SKU numbers have changed over the years. As a result, prices for the old models have been volatile, as some vendors treat the newer iterations as the same product while others don't. Which means that for the latter, they see the old models as an item they aren't getting more stock of, and raise prices on the remaining stock accordingly.

Oldest Model: WDBB9H0020BNC-WRSN (The original Western Digital WD_BLACK product)
Mid Model: WDS200T2XHE-00BCA0 (The WD_BLACK By SanDisk product)
Newest Model: SDSP81200TAH-000E0 (The current SanDisk product)

The SN850X has been a very long-lived product from a manufacturer who supplies their own NAND and controller, so I can see why The Verge would want to use that as a tracking point for SSD prices. But the brand/SKU changes make it a poor choice. Samsung's drives are probably a better point of comparison here.

Well, Hell, *I* can clone OSS in seconds via a pull. Jeebus. AI blah blah blah AI staff cuts blah blah blah paradigm shift....yawn.

Thank you, Baby Jesus.

Sure...certainly, I'll totally delete the source code....

Fucking clown shoes, y'all.

Think I'll be shorting Anthropic....

I wish I still had mod points for your post. Bwah ha ha ha ha.

Dusting off my copy of Apollo 13. Godspeed, crew.

Why not deliberately crash your "project" into other satellites, yours designed to turn LEO (low Earth orbit) into an un-navigable morass of space junk, an orbital and space-deniable attack? What's it cost, less than $100k to launch a denial-of-space attack with a 1U cubesat?

Oops, go to all the trouble of living "forever" only to find yourself assassinated.

Diabeetus!

Damn, now I won't be able to create Sora videos with lightsaber fighting cats or a mustachioed crusty old Wilford Brimley giving dire warnings of diabetes and crab people! What's this world coming to?

LMAO. Touché!

Why not shit on a company versus AI?

At least the latter doesn't have any adversarial designs against employees, unlike --- well, every corporation ever.