There is zero political will in Congress nor Whiteouse to bail them out.

They're fucked.

OpenAI needs to grease some palms via crypto, just like the numerous shady characters receiving (non-J6) pardons.

Or they could try to keep Republicans in power despite the voters not wanting them, like those that got J6 pardons did.

I should probably ask what experience do you have writing hardware drivers for the Linux kernel, but it's pretty obvious the answer is: none. I actually burst out laughing reading your comment, it's ridiculous.

My anecdotal experience interviewing big tech engineers that used Rust reflects GP's hunch about this astonishing experience gap. Just this year, 4/4 candidates I interviewed couldn't give me the correct answer for what two bytes in base 2 represented in base 10. Not a single candidate asked me about the endianness of the system.

Now that Rust in the kernel doesn't have an "experimental" escape hatch, these motte-and-bailey arguments aren't going to work. Ultimately, I think this is a good thing for Rust in the kernel. Once all of the idiots and buffoons have been sufficiently derided and ousted from public discourse (deservedly so), we can finally begin having serious and productive technical discussions about how to make C and Rust interoperate in the kernel.

When you say "base 10", is that "10"-er written in big endian or small endian?

It's as if there's a convention of sorts to how we write numbers (regardless of base).

If you don't state endianness in your exercise, one should assume the convention is followed.

That makes no sense. The value of two bytes as a single number is strictly dependent on endianness, and there's no "convention" that can be assumed.

You're saying you believe every Linux driver actually is a glorified while loop?

I guess it makes sense you're having trouble hiring qualified candidates.

He's arguing most drivers are mostly event driven --- which is true, trivially.

Nowhere did he argue that. What he actually argued--poorly and offensively--is that it's "pretty obvious" that bronson has no experience writing Linux hardware drivers.

That's remarkable, since his comment says nothing about events.

Still, it sounds like you're saying that Linux drivers are more than glorified do loops spinning on IRQs, right? If so, then I guess we agree.

This news story was read by investors and leadership inside of Microsoft.

That wouldn't have happened if they hadn't derided whatever idiot decision makers thought it was acceptable in the first place.

Derision is legitimate way to change behavior when other avenues fail.

A reasonable person that's acting maliciously can be reasoned to stop their behavior.

An unreasonable person that's acting in good faith cannot be reasoned to stop their behavior because they are stupid.

If after attempts to reason with the unreasonable fail, it is not an insult or ad hominem attack to explain the person is acting stupidly.

This line of reasoning is genuinely stupid, it deserves to be derided and mocked.

You can draw a straight line between these "mistakes" and these people violating traffic laws in such a way that they kill other motorists abiding by all traffic laws.

By your reasoning, I can burn your house down and kill your family, and it's absolved by apologizing.

What you don't understand is suicidal empathy eventually corrects itself with extremely violent vigilantism. And when (not if) that happens, you'll be begging for the state to come in to restore order, but they will be unable to. The state has already ceded legitimacy by not performing their duties, and what you're left with are violent gangs and warlords.

Dark triad sociopaths view this as a way to cease power. What they miss is real power comes from groups of armed individuals, not from a ballot box.

Making the same administrator error 17,000 times is not an accident.

Administrative error is when it happens once. Not 17e3 times!

This has been a pet peeve of mine for years. I call people out when they say this for the abuse of language and for being a time vampire.

Practically, it's far easier to simply ask this at your next all-hands when they are source for questions about AI. To make this a meta: use ChatGPT to ask this as a pointlessly-long-worded question to evade HR/marketing from filtering the question until it's too late ;)

If they had done this to Cassius Marcellus Clay, these criminals would simply be dead for their gross violation of civil rights.

This is correct.

The Democrats are in a new world. They've lost a cultural and information hegemony they had for 40 years, and thus, the playbook of the past doesn't work (for a variety of reasons).

The 48 years from 1932 to 1980, maybe. The US has been decidedly conservative since Reagan. SCOTUS hasn't been liberal since Nixon got Rehnquist as chief justice.

Economically "conservative", socially liberal. The richest among the right get what they want in gaining wealth from the rest, but they lose at preventing acceptance of interracial marriage, homosexuality, etc. because that social progress can't be stopped. But losing those causes is also a win for them in that they wield the fear of it to win votes to stay in power to stay rich.

>> SCOTUS hasn't been liberal since Nixon got Rehnquist as chief justice

The Rehnquist court made rulings that allowed burning the US flag, that made abortion even easier to get than under Roe, that upheld affirmative action, that struck down sodomy laws, and that ruled that political speech was not protected by the First Amendment.

The main conservative rulings it made were minor restrictions on the commerce clause.

Conservatism in the judicial branch began with the confirmation of Ed Meese as US Attorney General during Reagan's second term.

The only 40 year stretch on that chart is the House, from 1957-1997.

Congress doesn't give them an information hegemony.

The deals that are cut in Congress prior to votes are an imperfect information game for the public.

Try watching/reading less trash media? I'm not the one buying or paying attention to such magazines. I don't know why you are, especially if you apparently hate them so much. Or alternatively just get over whatever "wide stance" internal conflict you have, and come to terms with your own desires.

Wouldn't self-determination of individuals and magazines be at home both with progressives and libertarians?

I mean it'd be at home with lunatic asylums too depending on what you self-determine but yeah sure

Very little of that is true. We as a nation, just went through demonization of "woke" and spent a lot of effort getting rid of what DEI we had. "Woke", "DEI", "CRT", social justice and "BLM" are now officially and de facto anathema. We've had lawsuits over them, they lost.

On the other hand, movement conservatism is anathema as well. Free trade is out, state's rights abandoned, except maybe as the exception that proves the rule, governmental power concentrated in Trump personally, rather than small, local government, representative democracy, lower taxes, less regulation, rule of law. Freedom of speech reduced to conservative speech getting special treatment. All also gone. Weird.

Bitcoin miners have also been sitting on the sidelines waiting for this too.

Compute is a hard resource, inextricably linked to money, time, and energy.

The math doesn't work in Sam's favor, no matter how much smoke he blows up your ass.

It's going to be interesting when all these GPUs are repurposed to mine Bitcoin, and people try to forget falling for the hysteria that somehow you can arrive at AGI from a glorified markov bot.

Is there any difference in a GPU that's good at bitcoin mining versus one that's good for AI work? Or to ask another way is all the compute being built-out now able to be repurposed for mining?

> Is there any difference in a GPU that's good at bitcoin mining versus one that's good for AI work?

No GPU is good for bitcoin mining; that's all been ASICs for a long time. Even before anyone got around to making ASICs for it, FPGA-based designs had displaced GPU mining. Bitcoin mining is very, very simple.

Some altcoins use GPUs.