marmarama

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by marmarama 10d ago
People still buy into "research" from Gartner and Forrester despite it being an open secret for decades that they are pay-to-play. These kinds of "research" companies are there to validate people's preconceived idea
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by marmarama 13d ago
LADSPA v1 is ancient and fundamentally quite broken, and that's what they dropped. Audacity 4 ships with LV2 (i.e. LADSPA v2) support. FWIW I don't think I've used a v1 LADSPA plugin for a decade.
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by marmarama 20d ago
"As effective as placebo" does not mean worthless. As you point out, placebo antidepressants are fairly effective. It's a terrible bind. Patients want a pill to fix things, but if they know it's just a sugar pill, it doe
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by marmarama 20d ago
That's where the fully automated weapons systems come in. Robotics and AI give the megalomaniacs of the world both a reason and the means to kill everyone with impunity. The rest of the 21st century is going to be really messed up.
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by marmarama 1mo ago
Night Sight appeared on the Google Pixel camera app in 2018. I think Nokia was doing it first on phones before Microsoft destroyed the remains of their phone business. The reborn Nokia/HMD was also doing multi-sensor image stacking bac
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by marmarama 1mo ago
In most countries with universal healthcare, the universal healthcare provider plays a major role in preventive medicine, nudging people towards healthier lifestyles and influencing government policy on a wide variety of topics, such as foo
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by marmarama 1mo ago
Bars, restaurants and supermarkets have glass fronted refrigerators and freezers the world over, and yes, most are double glazed. They're just less efficient and more likely to break. In a commercial environment that's worth it to
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by marmarama 2mo ago
Sure, but if you are a business in the US, you might not be able to use it legally. And, through the US exercising extraterritorial jurisdiction, businesses in Europe doing business with the US might not be able to use it either, for fear o
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by marmarama 2mo ago
Your "development build" is another person's daily driver. Case in point: GrapheneOS (or any other custom Android distro) is unlikely to be able to ever pass remote attestation, even a signed, secure boot build with the bootl
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by marmarama 2mo ago
I think you've misunderstood. It's not an app problem. The problem is that it makes Free Software OSes unviable. The copy of Android you compile and install yourself - or your copy of desktop Linux where you upgraded the kernel yo
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by marmarama 3mo ago
That's the standard Piagetian understanding of child development, yes. Humans do not start out with theory of mind, and are thus inherently solipsistic, but in most cases an understanding that there are other conscious beings with thei
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by marmarama 3mo ago
Then the slop merchants will simply move to controlling a DAW with AI and use the same software synths that everyone else does. It's a little more involved and slower, but far from hard. Ultimately this isn't really solvable witho
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by marmarama 3mo ago
I think Apple doesn't really have a choice. They've been very strongly encouraged by the current US government to move as much chip manufacturing to the US as possible, and particularly to make Intel Foundry work, or face... probl
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by marmarama 3mo ago
It's not so much ripping off the designs - nothing of what Apple Silicon is doing is particularly surprising and both x86 and Intel's microarchitectures are sufficiently different to Apple Silicon/ARM that knowledge of specif
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by marmarama 3mo ago
Sure there's an analogue. It's being the tech lead of a team of junior to mid level developers. You design roughly what the solution should look like, split it into reasonable sized tasks so they don't go off the deep end, ad
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by marmarama 3mo ago
Here's the neat thing: you don't. I've tried, and I feel like I've got closer with faster models, but ultimately the agentic loop excludes you. Even if you're asking the agent to do simple short tasks, it's sti
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by marmarama 3mo ago
So why doesn't the mouse pointer work that way on an Apple trackpad? Surely if that's the case then when you move your finger to the upper left then the pointer should move to the bottom right. Because that's how it would wor
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by marmarama 4mo ago
Umm, you can do basically all of this, today, with Home Assistant and a handful of add-on apps. I use a local LLM with it, but you can use a hosted LLM if you like. The core home automation stuff can run on a potato. The LLM just writes new
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by marmarama 5mo ago
> How did the UK and France solve it? Remove the fuel elements, reprocess what's useful, and store the reprocessed materials and nuclear waste somewhere "temporarily" that isn't really suitable for long-term storage.
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by marmarama 5mo ago
No need to bother maintainers, just package it up and upload it to the KDE store as a Plasma extension. Then it can appear for download in "Get New Widgets" in Plasma edit mode. Plenty of "lazy" widgets in there.
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by marmarama 5mo ago
Window previews when switching are also a nice thing when doing heavy multitasking. There are a few things MacOS X inherited from classic MacOS that I don't think work that well in the modern world, and application-focused task switchi
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by marmarama 5mo ago
Sure you can do it technically, but then you have a licensing compliance issue, so no reputable business will do it. You can run x86 macOS VMs in Windows or Linux too with a little bit of technical trickery, but again, you end up with a lic
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by marmarama 5mo ago
The problem with this is that "breaking the Nash equilibrium momentarily" is a spherical cow. "Momentarily" can mean years or even decades, and millions of people can suffer or die as a result.
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by marmarama 7mo ago
The problem is those self-same authoritarian strongmen are very successfully using sockpuppeting to change national discourses in ways that benefit them and are detrimental to the targeted countries. Hybrid war is real and has been ongoing
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by marmarama 7mo ago
The point is that if you convert away from COBOL to a more modern language, you can also move away from Z-series hardware to commodity x86 and ARM servers. That's why this announcement affected IBM's share price. IEEE 754-2008 de
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by marmarama 7mo ago
Not really, because only the OS core is swapped in this way. Apps and data live in their own partitions/subvolumes, which are mutable and shared between OS versions. The OS core is deployed as a single unit and is a few GB in size, pre
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by marmarama 9mo ago
In British English, rather than "very not bad", you might say "not bad at all", which is higher praise than just "not bad".
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by marmarama 10mo ago
I already run stuff that was very much not made with TBDR in mind, on TBDR GPU architectures, and the performance is perfectly fine. For sure, you can squeeze a few percentage points more out if you optimize for TBDR, and there are some edg
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by marmarama 10mo ago
Loads of GPUs with Vulkan support use TBDR. The Adreno GPU in the Steam Frame's SnapDragon SoC, for one. There is also a Vulkan driver for the M1/M2 GPU already, used in Asahi Linux. There's nothing special about Apple's
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by marmarama 10mo ago
It's not just Chrome, it's everything, though apps that have a large number of dependencies (including Chrome and the myriad Electron apps most of us use these days) are for sure more noticeable. My M4 MacBook Pro loads a wide ran

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