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Comment Re: Time to give your money away! (Score 1) 54

These kinds of things always make me wonder a few things.
First, warren probably doesn't have much cash. He owns stuff, that on paper is worth money.

Now, if he were to sell everything... Is there enough money in the world to buy it all (at current valuation). I imagine banks are able to create mlney out of thin air, but what happens next after that?

It would be really interesting if a real economist tried to model what would happen if someone rich like buffet or musk converted everything they own into cash, and then randomly gave it away to people.

I suspect it's going to be utter chaos, bankruptcies and ultimately recession.

Comment Re: AI workloads? (Score 1) 54

The AI ecosystem is a mess, but Nvidia and Apple are probably the two best supported hardware platforms.

Sure, Mediatek, Qualcomm, Rockchip, Intel, AMD, Bob and Robs chips chips and fish, and every little CPU and SoC vendor do shoehorn NPUs into their products, but nothing supports them, the vendors might port a version of torch or something else if you're lucky, but by the time they're done the hardware is outdated and the software they ported is outdated.

Apple hardware seems to be very close to Nvidia in terms of actually being able to run the frameworks, software and models that people are tinkering and building with.

And, shock surprise, for once Apple isn't even the most expensive hardware.

I wish I had an apple machine.

Comment Re: Seems an odd fix for 'software issues'... (Score 1) 62

That was my thoughts too, all the issues relate to wireless. There are wireless and Bluetooth chips that are so bad no amount of software makes them properly interoperate with other devices.

My fix would've been to add a dummy key card or similar somewhere in the car and reboot/power cycle the computer whenever the wireless goes bananas and loses contact with the dummy. (It's what I do on my RPI5).

Comment Re: It's ending... (Score 1) 258

I believe EU has a system in place that (optionally) lets the seller automatically collect the Vat and tariffs on the destination country's behalf, the package will then just sail right through customs.

For sellers that don't do this, the package gets held by customs until the receiver has provided proof of contents and paid VATs and tariffs.

Comment Re: 20 years after.... (Score 4, Interesting) 43

Took until the N900 4 years after 770 before the "mobile Linux computer" line was bestowed with a cellular modem, not counting the WiMAX modem in the N810W.
  I remember using a fairly standard claws email client on both N810 and N900 and having no issues with the UI elements despite the approximately 4" screen. Today phones have 7" screens, UI elements are humongous yet I keep hitting the wrong things all the time. I wonder what happened.

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